The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-20
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The faculty and students OF Penn
eylvania state college. at Bellefonte,
adopted resolutions of thanks to the
Legislature and governor for the appro-
priation Of $50, 900, just granted the in
etitution.
AS indicative of the amount of labor
performed under the auspices Of the
ton. there are sent out from there an
nually. exclusive of postal cards, some
thirty thousand letters
In the Railway mission the United
Kingdom missionaries. colporteurs and
evangelists have constituency Of over
100000 military men. Multitudes Of
devoted Christian women are giving
their lives to this work.
According to official reports the
number of Jews in the nine old prov
inces Of Prussia who became Christians,
between the years 1875 and 1855. was
2.l0l. During the same period 135
Christians went over to the Jews
This is the way the Wellesley girls
masqueraded on one of the class days:
The freshmen were sailor lads, the
sophomores were gnomes. the juniors
were in the costume of King Arthur's
knights and the musicals went as choir
girls.
Prof. John Stuart Blackie, OF Scot
land, and Prof. w. $. Tyler. of Amherst
college. have been teaching Greek for
more than fifty years. And what is
more, they are still pretty lively. though
close on eighty, for people whose spe-
cialty is handling dead languages.
Rev. J. Hudson Taylor, OF the China
inland mission. says that in response to
the appeal of the Shanghai conference
for one thousand missionaries in FIVE
years, one hundred and eighty have ar
rived during the ten months since the
appeal, SO that in all proba bility the
first years quota will be secured.
The car has sent to the Stanford
university in California magnificent
collection of rare minerals valued at
S35,OOO. There are more than 500 speci-
mems in the collection. In return for
this liberal gift Mrs. Stanford intends
to present a collection of California
precious stones and minerals to the St.
Petersburg National museum.
The Baptists certainly hold high
place for practical philanthropy. John
d. Rockefeller. who gave nearly two
millions to found the Chicago univer-
sity; Charles Pratt, who established the
Pratt institute in Brooklyn, and James
i. Colgate, who has just given million
dollars to Colgate university, have been
devoted followers to the Baptist faith
All three gave their money while liv-
ing.-Philadelphia Ledger.
A young graduate from Vassar had
read the following paragraph: ut
must be disinterested benevolence
which leads the sweet young things
who 60 to Vassar college to plant trees
on commencement day. They can't
ever expect to climb them" She didn't
like it, and in reply wrote: ut is sure
~ better to plant trees at college, even
If debarred the questionable privilege
of climbing them, than to SOW wild
oats, from which no one ever yet failed
10 reap harvest"
An agreement has been reached be-
tween the executors of the estate of
William i. Ogden and William Il. Har-
per, president Of the new Chicago uni
versity. which insures to that institu-
tion gift of a large amount of money,
to be devoted to establishing scien-
titic school. The new department is to
be called the Ogden scientific school,
and the endowment will not be less
than 100000, and may reach 500. 900,
the result depending upon the outcome
of the litigation still pending over Mr..
Ogden's will.--N. Y. Tribune.
The old boys of old Yale have been
reading with awe the announcement
that the entering freshman class of
Yale university numbers five hundred
and eleven. This includes. of course,
the Sheffield scientific school and other
departments. At Princeton university
the entrances number something over
three hundred. Not to go too far back
to the region of antiquity. in the days
when Jimmy Hustled and Chauncey
M. Depew were at Yale, the graduating
class in the school of arts there was
no science about ii them numbered
about one hundred. At Columbia the
class averaged between thirty and forty
in the academical department., which
was then regarded as the college proper.