The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-31
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
Dutsh as well as English at the Cape of
Good Hope schools.
The indianapolis Journal has motto
The public schools must not be
plunged into politics."
The latest estimates from Harvard
University are that the freshman class
will number about 450.
The Bricklayers' Union of Boston il
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
member of the Battle Creek. Mich.
School Board, is the wife of 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 $15O.00O or
100000 of its big bequest from the
Fayerweather estate into a new build
ing for the Sheffield scientific school. A
feature will be the mechanical depars-
ment supplied with 100-horse-p power
engine.
Prof. Dudley Allen Sargent, the Har-
Vard 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 thirtv-sixtb
session at the University of Pennsyl-
vania opened October j, with an in
creased attendance in all departments.
the total being l $50 students, gain of
27O 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 az
houses containing rooms to let have en-
ter@d into an internal conspiracy to tax
all students to such an extent that they
can by no means obtain board and lodo-
ing at less than $40 a week.
Of the ten college graduates who have
been Presidents of the United States.
tve were alumni of William and Mary
College, two of Harvard, two of Prince
ton, and one was an alumnus of Union.
VI members of Congress 189 were gradu-
ates OF Yale and 1853 of Harvard.
Miss Florence Bascom will enter
ohns Hopkins University at the begin
ming OF the current year. She will en-
ter the department of geology and will
give special attention to petrographv
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 900 male students, bya voung
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
The establishment of free education
In London has given considerable stim-
ulus 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 free or that they think that free ed
1cation 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.
md the private schoolmaster. who has
recently had a hard time of it, is now
'eaping a considerable harvest.