Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-07-16
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, JULY
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

America has AL educational insti-
tutions with the right to confer de-
grees,
Vienna university had last term
400 regular and l,S11 irregular stu
dents S,249 young men We're there to
study medicine, and 2l6 to study the
ology.
Mrs. Charlotte b. Richardson has
left thirty thousand dollars to the Mas.
sachusetts Institute of Technology, the
income to go to the department of in
dustrial chemistry.
German professors and university
authorities have natural cause for
their great dissatisfaction at the kaisers
ridiculous advocacy of dueling in the
large increase of duels.
The university of Upsala, in Swe-
den, during the present term has an at
tendance of loss. OF these 254 are in
the theological department, 74O in the
philosophical, 443 in the law, and 221 in
the medical.
Harvard has decided to count work
done in the summer schools as regular
term work for the A. b. degree This
makes the summer schools an integral
part of the university. This concession
makes it easier to get degree in three
years
There are forty-fve Lutheran
churches in Philadelphia. Only one
other city in the country has more; that
is Chicago, with sixty-three. Next af-
ter Philadelphia comes Baltimore, with
thirty three, while New York has only
twenty-five.
"A Baptist m visionary tells of 1871
persons being baptized in one place, be-
tween the hours of 1880 and p. m, by
three ministers. This is an average of
more than one hundred to the hour for
each officiating baptizer-more than
three in every two minutes.
The university of Pennsylvania
talks of lengthening its medical course
to four years. This calls for an endow-
ment fund of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, to which, on certain
conditions, Provost William Pepper is
willing to subscribe fifty thousand dol
lars.
Harvard has enriched its resources
by addition of a Semitic museum, its
collection the gift of Jacob Schiff, of
New York. 1t is composed of originals,
photographs and plaster casts. Among
the originals are clay tablets with
records dating as far back as 1900 b. c.,
Babylonian and Assyrian seals curious
ly carved, and manuscripts, Syriac,
Arabic and Hebrew.
The London board of education has
appointed six women, at a salary of four
hundred dollars each, to visit schools.
Heretofore lady visitors have been reg
ularly employed but without remuner-
alton, the position being honorary. The
visitors will be expected to put in as
many hours work as the teachers, and
to furnish weekly reports to the board
accounting for every hour of service
during the session. School Journal,
The Catholic missions in Bengal
under the conduct of the Belgian Jesuits
have been very successful. Commencing
in 1881, the first year for which we have
exact figures. we find the converts
amounted to 16, $40. In 1886 their mum
bers had increased to 20, 900, and in 1885
these had advanced to 53,2S1. In 1881
baptisms numbered 37S; in 1886 they
had increased to 1924, while in 1888 they
reached the total of 35,0 00.-Chicagc
Times.
Prof. Harper states that the build
ing fund of the new Chicago university
has been enlarged recently by $500, 600
making total of 1850, 900. In add
ton to its building fund is the endow
ment fund of So, 600, 900 for the supper
Of professors, scholarships, etc. Thu
trustees have decided to purchase add
tional land The Morgan park thee
logical school isto be made part of tn,
university. The erection of buildings
for the academical department will b,
begun at once, and the classical. scien
tific and theological departments will b.
open in 1892.