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EDUCATIONAL.
Twenty-Five Thousand Children With
out School Room in the City
OF New York.
SAVANNAH has a colored college.

Harvard has 42b academic freshmen
this year and Yale but 2BI.
The University Of Michigan IL encour-
aging women professors and lecturers.
II ia m interesting TACT that OF the 800
colleges in the United States 20l are CO.
educational.
Cornell also has this year the largest
freshman class In her history. II num-
bers more than 600.
Twenty-Five thousand children without
school room. And we think ours civ
ilized city = Nem York World.
Sixty.three students are now said 10
be working their way through Yale Col
lege and paying all their expenses.
Four hundred young ladies were un-
able % gain admission 10 Vassar College
this year, the institution being filed TO
It's utmost capacity.
Out Of population Of 251 ,00O00 in
India less than II ll,0O0,000 can read and
write. The total number OF scholars Of
all sorts is but | /. per cent. OF all the
inhabitants.
A. A. Parket Of Fitzwilliam, n. H.,
claims 10 be the oldest living college
graduate In America. He graduated
from the University Of Vermont in 1873,
and is 100 years old.
Tie statistics OF university attendance
in Germany show gradual decrease
During the recent summer term the to-
tai was 2S,625, while last winter ii was
2s,7ll, and one year ago it was 20,3l7.
Miss Cora Mcdonald occupies the
chair OF history in the Wyoming STATE
University, having been elected 10 that
place by the Regents of the university
at a salary Of 81 800, equal TO that re-
ceived by men for similar rvice.
The Trustees OF the New Hampshire
College Of Agriculture and the Mechanic
Arts have accepted plans furnished by
Dow 4 Randlett for the erection OF the
main building at Durham. The ediiice
will be in Romanesque style, with tower
and clock.
The London School Board has taken Il
step In advance OF the educational sys-
tenn in this country. II bas decided TO
establish In three convenient districts
classes OF special instruction for the
mentally dull and physically weak on a
system similar TO that of DIR. Klemm in
Prussia.
Charles j. Capen, now master OF the
Boston Latin School and for forty years
a teacher there, says that in the davs
when Phillips Brooks and Edward Ev-
erett Hale were pupils there the boys
had TO commit TO memory the entire
Greek and Latin grammars.
The number Of American students in
Berlin this summer 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-
vate clinics, studying koeh's methods,
acquiring the German language or pur-
suing studies in art and music.
The London School Board during the
last year have erected five permanent
schools, ten have been enlarged and
twelve temporary schools were opened,
giving places for II, 1866 children; but, as
two temporary schools with places for
1854 children were closed, the net addi-
tion is more than 5000 places to meet
the growing wants of London.
OF the 1856 students who were grad
mated from the four colleges in Maine
this year only one has chosen farming
for an occupation-about the usual pro-
portion in such cases-while thirty-three
are to take up teaching. Other occupa-
tions find an order of preference between
these two--five choosing journalism,
seven commercial pursuits, twelve eugi-
neering, thirteen the ministry, eighteen
medicine and nineteen the law, while
the remainder are undecided.
Philadelphia is perplexed with a Gu
rious problem with reference to accom-
modations for her public school children.
Some school rooms are greatly over
crowded, several thousand children are
obliged to be satisfied with half time,
and thousands more are on the streets
for lack Of any accommodations at all,
yet the Superintendent of Schools re-
ports that l26 school rooms are empty.
The difficulty is due in part to the shift
ing OF population common in any large
city, but it is aggravated by the absurd
insistence upon ward lines as the limita-
tions of attendance, which may bar a
child out from u school even ii he lives
across the street from it and the schools
in his own ward are crowded TO over
flowing.
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