Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-09-25
EDUCATIONAL.
OF the Five Highest Graduates at Wesi
Point the south Has Four.

Out Of $50, 900, 900 people in all Indis
less than ,000, 900 can read and write
The receipts at Chautaugua this sea
son we're rs per cent. above those OF last
year.
A high school is 10 be esta blished at Cas-
sadaga Lake, N. Y, in connection with
| Spiritualistic views OF education.
The gain in school enrolment in New
Mexico in 1890 il 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-
nentary schools. There are about $4,000
Of these schools.
About 400 members OF Cambridge
University, England, have signed reso-
lutions protesting against the admission
Of women 10 the university.
| The University OF the City OF New
York has Just added school OF the sci
ence OF education 10 itself, and hereafter
will confer the degrees OF Master and
Doctor OF Pedagogy.
The school census OF Louisiana shows
| that out Of a total school population oil
370, 226 only 900 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 25i are In the
theological department, 740 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 Ia from Pennsylvania. Charles
-. Hines who stands the highest in tao.
tics, Is also from the South, being Vir-
ginian.
Eight institutions have each an enroll
ment OF over 900 students, and seven
report from 500 to 900. Nor il it the
old colleges In the East alone which draw
their pupils by the hundreds, but Har-
wards 2,27l students and Yale's ,64E
are paralleled by Ann Arbor's 2, 1853 and
Oberlin's I 100.
| The head mistress OF the high school
| for girls In Birmingham, England, sug
gests that parents who are anxious as tc
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 il n constant de.
nand for qualified teachers, and that
more applications were received than
could be satisfied. The remuneration
varies from $3.50 to $l5 week--cxcel
lent wages for England.
! Miss Susan h. Anthony il authority
for the statement that there Ia project
to bald in Rochester, N. T., new uni
versity, which will be co-educational fol
the sexes. Miss Anthony says; "Thers
are many wealthy people in Rochester
who think it is shame that daughter,
of workingmen cannot obtain collcg,
education. The wealthy people can sent
their daughters 10 Cornell, University o
Michigan, Wellesley, any OF the Stat,
and nearly all of the sectarian colleges
in the West. 1t Is the East which il
conservative in closing the doors to girls
Even the wealthy, however, prefer :,
have the university training at home.
A plan for furnishing technical edu
cation to the boys who have to work il
to be put into operation by the trustee
OF Bell street chapel, Providence, tn,
lree-thought institute which James Ed
dy's money founded. The scheme i
after that in use In England, the scienc,
classes, which are carried on under tn,
direction Of the government and TIN
guilds in London, and which are doin,
n large work in providing proper tech
meal education. James Tribe, mechan
zeal engineer, graduate of the scienc
classes and of Central Institute, will b.
instructor and there will be commits
to overlook the work, consisting OF Isaa
Whitehead, Robert Grieve, J. Bowie an,
George Whitehead. The first course vii
open Tuesday, October 2, students bein
required to pay only IS for lifty-tw
lessons.