The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-12-19
EDUCATIONAL.
Four Hundred Young Ladies Unable
TO Gain Admission to vassar
College-Miss Higgins.

High schools will be added TO New
York city's public sys'em.
1t ia said that $4,000 Indians can read
English, and only 10000 can read their
own language.
Sixty three students are now said to
be working their way through Yale Col
lege and paying all their expenses.
The scholarship which carries with II
permit TO live five years in Paris on
500 a year was won the other day in
Boston by j. 3. Potter.
Four hundred young ladies were uE-
able to gain admission to Yassar College
this season, the institution being filled
to its utmost capacity.
A fine ten-inch equatorial telescope in
Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis,
was made entirely by the colored pupils
in the School OF Mechanical Arte at
Nashville, Tenn.
The executors OF the Fayerweather es-
tate now say that the bequests to the
various colleges named in the will and
the executors deed of gift will be paid
over about January |.
Ihe statistics Of university attendance
in Germany chow a gradual decrease.
During the recent summer term the total
was 28 ,625, while last winter it was 2S,-
I'll, and one year ago it was 29,3l7.
The President Of San Salvador, Gen.
trail America, has ordered that govern
ment schools be established for the free
instruction OF women who aspire to the
duties of postofiice clerks, printers, te-
legraphers, etc.
Chancellor Snow of the Kansas State
University has returned from the East.
He brought with him the SPooner be-
quest to the university of s9l ,618.03. 1t
is said to be the largest gift ever made
to State institution by private indi-
vidual.
The preparatory school for Yale, which
Mrs Maria B, Hotchkiss gives $340, 200
TO found, will be established in Sails
bury, Conn. the most northwestern
town of the State and in the foothills OF
the Berkshires. The building is to be
OF an ideal school character.
The number of American students in
Berlin this season is unusually great.
At the university alone the number is
2O{ out OF a total of 547. Then there
are many more than this attending pri-
vate clinics, studying Koch's methods,
acquiring the German language or pur-
suing studies in art and music.
The honors OF entrance into the Uni
versity OF London were recently carried
off over 800 male students by young
Scotch girl, Charlotte Higgins. Her IA
ther died when she was but 5 years old
and it is through the efforts of hel
mother that she has been able at 20 tC
be in possession of her fine education.
A project for the introduction of uni
versity course into B0ston's public schoo
system is before the Boston Board OF A |
dermen. 1t provides that the course
shall be free to such scholars as exhibit
the necessary proficiency, and that al
the expense of it shall be borne by th'
city. 1t is not unlike educationa
schemes that exist in France and Ger
many.
Last wear the University of Michigan
had 1853 more students than Harvard
University, which had 2,252; but thi
year Harvard has 11S more than Mich
igan, which has 2,495. While HarvarC
has gained 36l, Michigan has gainec
only rs. These two institutions of learn
ing are the foremost in the country q
far as their enrolment books are con
cerned.
A reference to the feminine student
in Sage College, Cornell University, !
made il the report of President Ada ms
who says: ga vast majority OF tn
young womenAre not only earnestly de
voted to the working out of great 9k
noble purposes, but are also disposedor
everv occasion to exert their influences
in behalf of cultivated and refined SO
cial life."