Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-07-23
PRICE ONE CENT
EDUCATIONAL.

II costs the teachers of Kansas $200, 900
Q year 10 attend the normal institutes.
There are $50 normal schools, with an
attendance of $1,000 students, in the
United States. wEN
The Kansas Agricultural College library
contains IL 900 volumes. For lack OF
room about 1000 volumes are practically
inaccessible TO the students.
In the past 10 years the number Of stu.
dents in Chicago Theological Seminary
(CongregationaD has increased from 10 TO
i67; and the faculty from six to IA.
In America we have IL, ,0O0, 600 children
enrolled in the pnl lic shools alone. Our
public schools require S47, ,292 teachers.
and cost annually $l2e, ,455, ,s52-or did
two years ago.
There is falling of in the number OF
young men entering the ministry Of Eng
land, and it is said in explanation that
the intellectual movement in the uni
versities is unfriendly TO the clerical pro-
fession.
Pennsylvania is to have q compulsory
educational law, but difficulty will be ex-
perienced in putting it into full effect, for
in various parts of the State, especially
IN Philadelphia, schoolroom accommoda-
6ons are lamentably deficient.
Columbia College is the richest institu-
ton of the kind in existence. Its landed
estate includes about 90 acres of the best
part of New York city, the value being
now $10,OO0,000, with a prospect OF
doubling during the next decade.
Coeducation has been in force at tho
Kansas University for IS years, and there
has never been even a suspicion of scan
dal among the students. AS for hazing
and other forms of college ruffianisn, il
is absolutely unknown City
Star.
The Oxford University income amount
ed to e65, 900 last year, of which $50, 900
came from fees and other internal
services, degree fees alone coming TO just
10000. The university draws about
el6,OOO from various external sources,
5000 from trust funds, So 900 from the
colleges, and the profit from the Claren.
don press was 81, 1000. 1t speaks well for
the administration of the university
property that agency and management"
cost only $3.50. Professors take about
e1O,OO0, university officers $4,000, ex-
aminers 81, 900, and readers G., 500. The
Bodleian cost 81 ,500 the museum "a, 800,
the Taylor institution g., 900, and the boz
tanical gardens, e1,100, while H6,OOO
went in various internal expenses, and
interest and sinking funds in loans ac-
counted for e5,50O. The university in
come does not now vary from year to
year, except in quite small amounts.
The value of the kindergarten as a
means of preparation to schools Of manual
training has received interesting recog-
milton in the recently announced bequest
of the late Brooklyn philanthropist,
Charles Pratt. Among schools Of in
dustrial training the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn has long been renowned for its
manual features, pursued in connection
with the studies ordinarily carried on in
schools. It's agricultural department,
unique in city institutions, has been a
peculiar characteristic, and this will be
strengthened by bequest for large green
houses and for flower gardens, TO be cul-
tivated by institute students. Other
courses have an equally practical bearing.
Recognizing that the principle which
governs the institute is the application
to the pupils of more advanced years of
the ideas on which the kindergarten is
based, the founder determined upon q
logical development Of his system and
left bequest for the purchase and inn
provement Of the Froebel Academy. The
kindergarten will be feeder" TO the
institute, and win prepare pupils by a
systematic course of study and manual
training in the Froebel.