Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-03
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-The free schools for colored cnll- dren in Virginia for the past twenty years have cost nearly six million dol lars.
 The estimate for the maintenance of the public schools of New York for the ensuing year is $4, 627, s32. which 1n- cludes $5, 900 for an exhibit at the worlds fair.
 Two graduates from Harvard An mex" will open d school at Menlo Park, San Mateo county, Cal, to prepare young women for college, with special reference to Stanford university.
 Frances E. Willard wants to have a professor of total abstinence connected with the new American university in Washington, and proposes to raise fund to support such a professorship.
 The imperial university at Tokio, Japan, is probably the largest in the world, having an enrolment of two thousand scholars, and a faculty of forty members. It is under govern ment control.
 The number of students seeking admission into the St. Vladimir univer- sity at Kiev, Russia, is four hundred and sixty. Of this number one hum dred and sixty are Jews. According to the prevailing laws only thirty Jews can be admitted.
 The chapel in the sequestered AuGustinian convent at Heidelberg, in which the monk, Martin Luther, had preached during the convention of the order in 151S, has been given for place of worship to a newly-organized Lu- theran congregation in that reformed city.
 The summary of the work done by all the Christian denominations in Utah is about as follows: Eighty-fve mission Christian schools in seventy eight diff ferent towns, employing one hundred and seventy two Christian teachers and educating about six thousand five hun dred pupils, three .fourths of whom are from Mormon families.
 The Icelandic version of the New Testament was printed in Denmark in 154O. The three hundred and fftieth anniversary of this event was celebrat- ed with much rejoicing by the Iceland CTS resident in and near Winnipeg They are good Lutherans, and show their faithfulness by earnest study and obedience to the Word
 -The oldest college graduate in America. so far as is known, is Amos Andrew Parker, of Fizwilliam, N. H. He is also the alumnus who has been graduated the greatest number of years from an American college. He graduated from the university of Yer mont in 1913, and recently he celebrat- ed his one hundredth birthday. He is a finely preserved old gentleman. does l not look to be more than seventy-fve, and reads, writes and gets about like a man of fifty.
 According to Practical Electricity, electrical instruction is now to be added to the other studies in the course provid. ed for young men in the evening classes of the Young Mems Christian association of Boston. MT. A. P. B. Fisk. gradu. ate of the Massachusetts institute o1 technology, and at present engaged with the Thomson-H Houston Electric Co.,, will deliver course of twenty four lectures on successive Friday evenings, and the course will be illus trated by numerous experiments.
 One of the aids offered to prospect | i've students of Vassar, not well-to-do is the scholarship of $500 awarded by the Vassar Students Aid society. It i: loaned to a student who passes the en trance examinations without condi tions and covers half of all the ex penscs for one year. Examination. are held in nearly dozen of our lead ing cities. The chairman of the com mittee managing this scholarship il
 Miss Jessie r. Smith, of South Wey mouth Mass