Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-02
EDUCATIONAL.
Germany is Exporting Teachers to Africa
and Paying Them High Salaries.

The school population of Kansas is
500,614.
There are about 400 music teachers in
Philadelphia.
Michigan University is to add women
professors and lecturers to its faculty.
Harvard is 255 years old, and has grad
uated 1900 students. A little more
than half of them are living.
The ensuing term at Oxford will, it is
said, see larger number OF American
students there than ever before,
Germany is exporting teachers to AT J
RIGA and paying them 81 900 annually
high salary for German teachers,
Yale's freshman class this year shows
an enormous increase over that of last.
1t promises to be nearly 200 greater.
The number of students in German
! universities during the past summer was
q 625, of whom the evangelical students
of theology were 4.273-m0re by far than
in any other single line of study.
Deacon Price of Manchester, Mass.
has had longer experience as a school
teacher than any man on record in this
country. He is SO years old, and in his
:. time has taught more than l 200 pupils.
,e A "school for domestics," the first of
its kind, is to be opened in St. Peters
: burg. The object will be to teach poor
y women all kinds of household work
=, cookery, mending and sewing linen; also
" dress and shirt making.
II Eugene Davenport, professor of agri-
n culture in the Michigan Agricultural
te College, has been appointed professor of
9 the college which is to be established in
Brazil. He is to receive $4,000 a year,
y with house and living expenses.
~ The students of the Kansas State Uni
W versity have organized German eating
" club. The object of the society is not
to cultivate an appetite for sauerkraut
n and blood pudding, but to perfect the
A. Teutonic pronunciation of its members.
l La DIR. w. R. Harper, President of the
y new Chicago University and for some
years Principal of Chautauqua College
Sc of Liberal Arts, has been appointed
~ Principal of the entire Chautauqua sys-
IN TEN. Bishop Vincent retains his posi-
ton as Chancellor.
rn Official reports of the great manufact-
OF uring centers of Russia show that q ,8lC
ne persons are employed in the various fac
tories, and of this number only IS pei
as cent. are able to read and write, 93.2 per
ne cent. being illiterate. One-thrd Of the
is educated laborers are foreigners.
10 The Russian Ministry of Education
proposes to make primary education
e. compulsory in such villages as are pro-
a vided with public schools. Free circu-
of ating libraries will be established in all
tie such village schools under the manage
ment and supervision of the clergy.
lit Three additional public-school build
re ings are to be erected in Richmond Va,
We at a cost of $60,0 Two of these are
TT for white pupils and the other for colored
Of children. 1t is said the public schools OF
Richmond will bear favorable compar-
is ison with those of much larger cities.
lie Mrs. Flora Mather of Cleveland, O.. a
ly daughter of Amasa Stone, has given
r SIS, 900 to the college for women Of the
tie Western Reserve University. A part OF
this sum will provide a college home,
81 and the remainder will be added to the
sc endowment fund. Mrs Eliza Clark has
a given this college a recitation hall.
ID The University OF Zurich is considered
g one of the best places in Europe for a
woman to study medicine, and has many
American students. 1t has the usual
e four faculties, viz: law, medicine, the
a. ology and philosophy, that of medicine
IN being the best equipped. Zurich also
le offers fine opportunities for the study OF
OF modern languages.