Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-09
EDUCATIONAL.
Sweden Stands Behind No Country in
Popular Education.

OF 351 towns and cities in Massachu-
sets 24S have free public libraries.
The average salaries of the mistresses
In the London board schools is 1850.
1t costs the teachers of Kansas $780,
OOO a year to attend the Normal Insti-
tutes.
There are 23O Normal Schools, with an
attendance Of $4,000 students, in the
United States.
Philadelphia turns out more medical
students In year than any other city
III the country.
: President Warfeld of Lafayette Col
lege, Pa, is taking vigorous measures to
stamp out hazing.
Pittsburg is trying industrial courses
in the public schools, and their success
is reported to be marked.
Albert c. Lane has been chosen Su-
perintendent of the public schools of
Chicago, vice Rowland resigned.
The Kansas University is good deal
set up because a Harvard graduate is
sending his son to Lawrence this year.
The number Of students registered
this year in Sibley College of Mechan-
ical Engineering, Cornell University, is
something like 450, including a consid-
cradle number OF graduates from other
colleges.
Superintendent Anderson of the Mil
waukee public schools is talking about
getting up a procession of children of
school age who are denied an education
from the lack Of school room in that city.
They number about 1900.
1t is said that Miss Mary Z. Holmes
OF Rockford, ILL.,, proposes to invest from
$75, 900 to $l00,0 in establishing in
Missouri a colOred women's literary and
industrial school to accommodate $50
pupils as a memorial to her mother.
The fall term of Oberlin College has
opened very auspiciously, there being
nearly 1900 students enrolled. Prof.
James Craig Of Lane Seminary and Miss
Lothrop of Harvard Annex have been
added to the already efficient corps OF
teachers.
Within recent years the rush into the
professions has been so great in Ger
many, Denmark, France and Greece that
these States can utilize only small per
cent. of the university graduates. Since
1870 the growth of the attendance at the
German universities has increased from
$4,000 to 29,267.
According to an educational journal
the number of illiterate persons in Rus
STA, Siberia, Roumania and Bulgaria
form so per cent. of the population, in
Spain 63, Italy 4S, Hungary 43, Austria
80, Ireland q, France and Belgium Is.
Holland 10, United States s, Scotland Z,
Switzerland p . and in the greater part
of Germany only | per cent.
Sweden stands behind no country
not even the United States-in popular
education. To this may perhaps be due
the superiority of the Swedish emigrant
to this country over emigrants from
other European countries. The number
Of school children per 900 inhabitants
IS 40. Technical instruction, especially
of woman, is a great feature. The diff
culties in the way of school attendance
are very great, not only because of the
severe Northern winters, but also because
the people live to large extent on iso-
lated farms.
Prof. Michaelson has just returned to
Boston from California, where he has
spent a large portion of the summer.
He has been working at Lick Observa-
tory, experimenting there with his recent
inyention-the refractometer. This he
attached to the smaller Of the telescopes
at the observatory, and during the sum
mer he made numerous measurements
OF the bodies Of the solar system, partic-
ularly Of the satellites of Jupiter. The
results OF this work were highly satisfac-
tory, and the mean OF the measurements
made varies from the maximum and
minimum measurements by but ! or ,
per cent.-a variation many times less
than is obtainable by other methods.
The refractometer will be used by the
staff at Lick Observatory during the com
ing year, and in that time Prof Michael
son hopes to perfect his invention still
further, The refractometer bids fair to
he an instrument of great importance in
future astronomical work.