The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-09-25
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Point the South HAS Four.
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Out Of 25O,ooO,OOO people in all India
less than II, 1000, 900 can read and write.
The receipts at Chautauqua this sea-
son were % per cent. above those Of last
year.
Ahigh schools to beestablished at Cas-
sadaga Lake, n. ", in connection with
Spiritualistic views Of education.
The gain in school enrolment in New
Mexico in 1890 is 2s3 per cent, while the
gain in population is only 2S per cent.
Throughout France gardening is prac-
tically taught in the primary and ele-
mentary schools. There are about 2S,000
OF these schools.
About l,400 members Of Cambridge
University, England, have signed reso-
lutions protesting against the admission
Of women to the university.
The University Of the City Of New
York has just added school Of the sci
enee Of education to itself, and hereafter
will confer the degrees Of Master and
Doctor Of Pedagogy.
The school census Of Louisiana shows
that out Of total school population Of
SIC, ,226 only $4,000 children attend the
public schools. and many Of these attend
two months in the year.
The University OF Upsala in Sweden
during the present term has an attend
ance of 1858. Of these 954 are in the
theological department, 74O in the philo-
|sophical, 443 in the law and 22l in the
medical.
OF the five highest graduates at West
Point four come from Southern States,
counting Maryland as Of the South, and
the fifth is from Pennsylvania. Charles
d. Hines, who stands the highest in tac-
tics, is also from the South, being Vir-
ginian.
Eight institutions have each an enroll
ment Of over 1000 students, and seven
report from 800 to 1000. Nor is it the
old colleges in the East alone which draw
their pupils by the hundreds, but Har-
wards 2,27l students and Yale's 1,645
are paralleled by Ann Arbor's 2, 1853 and
Oberlin's 1,709.
The head mistress of the high school
for girls in Birmingham, England, sug-
gests that parents who are anxious as to
the career and future of their daughters
should train them to be teachers Of cook
cry. She finds from the Liverpool cook
cry school that there is a constant de
mand for qualified teachers, and that
more applications were received than
could be satisfied. The remuneration
varies from $3.50 to $l5 week--excel-
lent wages for England.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is authority
for the statement that there is project
to build in Rochester, N. ", a new uni |
versity, which will be co-educational for
the sexes. Miss Anthony says: There
are many wealthy people in Rochester
who think it is shame that daughters
Of workingmen cannot obtain college
education. The wealthy people can send
their daughters to Cornell, University Of |
Michigan, Wellesley, any Of the State
and nearly all Of the sectarian colleges
in the West. II is the East which is
in closing the doors to girls. |
Even the wealthy, however, prefer to
have the university training at home"
A plan for furnishing a technical edu-
cation to the boys who have to work is
to be put into operation by the trustees
Of Bell-street chapel, Providence, the
free-thought institute which James Ed
iy's money founded. The scheme is
after that in use in England, the science
classes, which are carried on under the
direction Of the government and the
guilds in London, and which are doing
/ large work in providing proper tech
meal education. James Tribe, mechan-
cal engineer, graduate Of the science
:lasaes and Of Central Institute, will be
instructor, and there will be committee
% overlook the work, consisting Of Isaac
Robert Grieve. ]. Bowie and
ieorge Whitehead. The first course will !
,pen Tuesday, October 2, students being I
equired to pay only IS for fifty-two
essons.