Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
EDUCATIONAL.
University Extension Makes a Good
Start in Kansas City - Free
Education in London.
Salvador has a telephone school.

Salvador has telephone school.
No fewer than 10000 children learn
Dutch as well as English at the Cape OF
Good Hope schools.
The Indianapolis Journal has motto:
plunged into politics."
The latest estimates from Harvard
University are that the freshman class
will number about $50.
The Bricklayers' Union of Boston is
the first trades union in the country to
countenance trade schools. 1t has
agreed that apprentices shall be in
structed in trade schools in that city.
England is very gradually approach
ing system of public elementary
schools. The educational bill, which
has just passed the House of Commons,
is long step in the direction of such a
system.
Mrs. Anna E. Graves, recently elected
a member of the Battle Greek, Mich,
School Board, is the wife of a former
Chief Justice of that State She has
been President for thirty years of the
Ladies Literary Association of Battle
Greek.
Yale University will put $150,00O or
100000 of it's big bequest from the
Fayerweather estate into a new build
ing for the Sheffield scientific school. A
feature will be the mechanical depart-
ment supplied with l00-horse-power
engine.
Prof. Dudley Allen Sargent, the Har-
ward expert in athletics, is said to be
better known in the far West than any
other instructor at Cambridge. To his
summer school in gymnastics there
come students from Texas, Dakota,
California and also England.
The one hundred and thirty-sixth
session at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania opened October !, with an in
creased attendance in all departments,
the total being $50 students, a gain Of
270 over last year, and the largest num-
Der ever in attendance at the institu-
ton.
At Yale, we are told, the proprietors
OF boarding-houses and the owners OF
houses containing rooms to let have en-
tered into an internal conspiracy to tax
all students to such an extent that they
can by no means obtain board and lodg-
ing at less than $40 week.
OF the ten college graduates who have
been Presidents OF the United States,
five were alumni OF William and Mary
College, two of Harvard, two of Prince
ton, and one was an alumnus of Union.
OF members of Congress 1S9 were gradu-
ates of Yale and 1913 Of Harvard.
Miss Florence Bascom will enter
Johns Hopkins University at the begin
ming of the current year. She will en-
ter the department OF geology and will
give special attention to Photography.
Miss Bascom is daughter OF Rev. John
Bascom, late President OF Wisconsin
University.
The honOrs of entrance into the Uni
versity Of London were recently carried
oil, over 500 male students, by a Young
Scotch girl-Charlotte Higgins. Her
father died when she was but eight
years old, and it is through the efforts
OF her mother that she has been able at
twenty to be in possession of her fine
education.
University extension has made good
start in Kansas City. A society has been
| organized there IN behalf OF the move
ment, composed largely of college gradu-
sympathy with the work and who will
give it their active support. The Mis-
souri, and Kansas universities, not t.
speak of other established institutions
of learning in the two States, will fur
| nish an able corps of lecturers, amt
everything appears to favor a higher ed
ucation i'll Kansas City. The system has
been tested elsewhere with the most sat
isfactory results, and that is sufficient
warrant that it will not fail.
The establishment OF free education
in London has given considera BILE slim
illus to private schools. A number OF
parents belonging to the lower middle
classes have withdrawn their children
from the board schools, either on the
ground that they object to take educa-
ton fee or that they think that free ed
ucation will bring an inferior class Of
children into the schools. They have
sent their children to those schools for
young gentlemen and for young ladies'
which abound in all parts of London,
and the private schoolmaster, who has
recently had hard time of it, is now
reaping a considerable harvest.