St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-07-11
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

eAUVO SUvOV0s"
Since 1871 the Congregational
churches in England have increased
from 3, O69 to 4, 80.
Mrs. J. h. Lippincott has given ten
thousand dollars to endow the J. H.
Lippincott Alcovc of American and
English literature in the library of the
university of Pennsylvania
"A paper has been signed by four
hundred and seven German university
professors declaring that the education
now given in high-schools affords a
poor foundation for scientific and med.
ical studies
In India and Ccylon the results ol
missionary work are most satisfactory,
the native Christians in the schools
alone numbering 7s,3s6. though the
number OF the missionaries is less than
three hundred.
The principal relic belonging to the
church of Sainte Gudule, in Brussels.
consists of thorn which is said to have
formed part of the SaviOur's crown.
"FlOrent ILL.,, count of Holland, brought
It to the Netherlands in the times of the
Crusadcs.-
An English North Country church
has published scale for contributions
expected for the collection plate. The
church will be content il it receive two
pence for every five shillings income. or
three per cent A man in receipt Of
thirty pounds a week is expected to
give a sovereign.
In Spain eighty-four cloisters were
erected between 1874 and 1890. at a cost
of ~. .OOO, 600 pesetas (abOut IS, ,OOO, 000),
for building and maintenance. The
Spanish monks have in recent years
established s92 places of business. As
.hey use their religious position and
piety in advertising their wares. they
are the ruin of all their competitors. 1t
is stated on good authority that l.s92
firms have been compelled to give up
their business on account of the monks
President Warren of Boston univer-
sity combats the prevalent impression
that the age of students on entering coll
lege is gradually becoming more adj
vanccd. On the contrary. comparisons
afforded by his own university show
that the present average of age is lower
than fifteen years ago, and President
Capen makes similar statement as re-
CARDS Tufts college. At the university
Of Michigan in the decade 1S5O-lS the
average age on entrance was from nine
teen to nineteen and half years. Last
year it was eighteen years
A striking table of the college
population of the country is presented
BY the Congregationalist, the list in
:luding fifty of the leading institutions
Of the country, and embracing 80, 13S
students. 1t is noticeable, says the
congregationalist, that the drift toward
great educational centers is as marked
as is the tendency of population toward
the cities. Eightinstitutions have each
an enrolment Of over one thousand stu
dents. and seven report between five
hundred and thousand. Nor is it the
DID colleges in the east alone which
draw their pupils by the hundreds, but
IIarvara's e.s7l students and Yalc's
ly645 arc paralleled by Ann Arbor's
., 153 ard Obcrlin's LOO.
The claim advanced by some col.
lege professors that the study Of music
while developing the emotional facul-
ties of the student does SO at the cx-
pense of the mind is warmly contested
by Carl Wittig in the Philadelphia
Times. My only advice to these gen.
tlcmen, he says, is to take up the study
Of musical composition in its various
branches, such as harmony, counter
point, fugue and Instrumentation, and
pursue them to their finish, and I will
vouch. If in the eager pursuit of these
studies their hair does not turn gray at
least ten years before its natural time.
it surely will not be for want OF
sufficient brain work, but may rather
be regarded as proof of the sOundncsa
of their bodily constitution.