Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-10-09
EDUCATIONAL.
Germany is Exporting Teachers 80 Afsies
and Paying Them High Salaries.


The school population Of Kansas Is
5oo.6l4.
There are about 400 music teachers in
Philadelphia.
Michigan University is to add women
professors and lecturers to its faculty.
Harvard is s55 years old, and has grad
nssed 1900 students. A little more
than hall of thsm are living.
The ensuing term at Oxford will, ii Is
said, see q larger number OF American
students there than ever before.
Germany is exporting teachers TO AT.
RIGA and paying them II 900 annualiy--a
high salary Tor German teachers.
Yale's freshman class this year shows
an enornocs increase over that of last
II promises TO be nearly 200 greater,
The number OF students In German
universities during the past summer was
~ .6s5, OF whom the evangelical students
of theology were 4,27s--more hy far than
in any other single line of study.
DEACON Price al Manchester. Mass.
has had longer experience as a school
teacher than any man ON record in this
country. He IL So years old, and in his
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A sschcol for domestics.. the first Of
lis kind, is to be opened In st. Peters
burg. The object will he 10 teach poor
wagnen all kinds of household WORK,
cookery, naending and sewing linen; also
dress and shirt making.
Eugene Davenport, professor OF agri-
culture in tho Michigan Agricultural
College, has been appointed professor OF
the college which is ts he established in
Brazil. tie is 10 receive $4,000 a year,
with house and living expenses.
The students OF the Kansas State Uni
yersity have organized German eating
clnh. The object OF the aoeiety is not
10 cultivate an appetite for sauerksaui
and blood padding, but 10 perfect the
TeetOnic pronunciation OF its members.
n-. w. r. Harper, President Of the
new Chicsgo University and for some
years Principal OF Chartauqus College
Of Liberal Arts, has been appointed
Principal OF the entire Chautsulua sys-
tenn. Bishop Vincent retains his posi-
ton As Chancellor.
Official reports Of the great manufaet-
uring ceniers OF Russia show that q sit
persons are employed in the various fac
tories. and OF this number only 6S pei
cent. are able 10 read and write, 93.2 pei
cent. being liiterate. one-third OF the
educated ishorers are foreigners.
The Russian Ministry OF Education
proposes to make primary education
compulsory in such villages as SIRE pro
vided with public schools. Free cireu.
lating libraries viii be established in al
such village schools under the manage
ment and supervision OF the clergy.
Three additional pnblic- school build
ings are TO be erected in Richmond, Va.
at a cost of So, 900. Two of these arr
for white pupils and the other for coloret
children. Ii is said the public schools o
Richmond will bear favorable compar
ison with those Of much larger cities.
Mrs. Flora Mather Of Cleveland, o..
daughter Of Amasa Stone, has givei
| SIT, 900 to the college for women OF tn,
| Western Reserve University. A part o
this sum will provide a college home
and the remainder will be added 30 tn
endowment fund. Mrs Eliza Clark ha
given this college 3 recitation hall.
The University of Zurich is considere,
me of the best places in Europe for
woman TO study medicine, and has man,
American students. Ii has the usus
four faculties, viz. law, medicine, the
ology and philosophy, that of mediein
being the best equipped. Zurich ais
offers fine opportunities for the study 0
modern languages.