The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-12-18
EDUCATIONAL.
Four Hundred Young Ladies' Unable
to Gain Admission to Vassar
coIlege-Miss Higgins.

High schools will be added to New
York city's public system.
1t is said that $4,000 Indians can read
English, and only 10000 can read their
own language.
Sixty.three students are now said to
be working their way through Yale Col
lege and paying all their expenses.
The scholarship which carries with it
permit TO live FIVE years in Paris on
5000 year was won the other day in
Boston by j. B. Potter.
Four hundred young ladies were un-
able to gain admission to Vasaar College
this season, the institution being filled
to its utmost capacity.
A fine ten-inch equatorial telescope in
Lawrence University at Appleton, Wis.,,
was made entirely by the colored pupils
in the School Of Mechanical Arts at
Nashville, Tenn.
The executors OF the Fayerweather es-
tate now say that the bequests TO the
various colleges named in the will and
the executors deed OF gift will be paid
over about January |.
The statistics OF university attendance
in Germany show gradual decrease.
During the recent summer term the total
was %, 1925, while last winter it was 49,
I'll, and one year ago it was 29,3l7.
The President Of San Salvador, Cen
tral America, has ordered that govern
ment schools be established for the free
instruction Of women who aspire to the
duties OF postotlice clerks, printers, te-
legraphers, etc.
Chancellor Snow Of the Kansas State
University has returned from the East.
lie brought with him the Spooner be.
quest to the university Of sol ,6l8.03. 1t
is said to be the largest gift ever made
to State institution by a private indi-
vidual.
The preparatory school for Yale, which
Mrs. Maria B. Hotchkiss gives $340 900
to found, will be established in Sails
bury, Conn. the most northwes tern
town of the State and in the foothills of
the Berkshires. The building is to be
Of an ideal school character.
The number Of American students in
Berlin this season Is unusually great.
AT the university alone the number is
20S out OF total Of 5.547. Then there
are many more than this attending pri-
yate clinics, studying Koch's methods,
acquiring the German language or pur-
suing studies in art and music.
The bonors Of entrance into the Uni.
versity OF London were recently carried
off over | 900 male students by Young
Scotch girl, Charlotte Higgins. Her ia
ther died when she was but 5 years old
and it Is through the efforts Of her
mother that she has been able at 20 to
be in possession Of her fine education.
A project for the introduction Of uni
versity course into Bostons public,echool
system is before the Boston Board OF Al
dermen. 1t provides that the course
shall be free to such scholars as exhibit
the necessary proficiency, and that all
the expense of it shall be borne by the
city. 1t is not unlike educational
schemes that exist in France and Ger
many.
Last year the University Of Michigan
had 1858 more students than Harvard
University, which had 2,2b2 but this
year Harvard has ll8 more than Mich
igan, which has 2,405. While Harvard
has gained 3Gl, Michigan has gained
only 70. These two Institutions Of learn
ing are the foremost in the country 80
far as their enrolment books are con
cerned.
A reference to the feminine students
in Sage College, Cornell University, is
made in the report Of President Adams,
who says; "a vast majority Of the
young women are not only earnestly de-
voted to the working out Of great and
noble purposes, but are also disposed on
every occasion to exert their influence
in behalf OF cultivated and refined So
cial liie."