Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-10-30
EDUCATIONAL.
University Extension Makes Good
Start in Kansas City = Free
Education in London.
Salvador has a telephone school.

Salvador has telephone school.
No fewer than 10000 children learn
Dutch as well as English at the Cape OF
Good Hope schools.
The Indianapolis Journal has motto:
TIE public schools must not be
plunged into politics."
The latest estimates from Harvard
University are that the freshman class
will number about $50.
The Bricklayers' Union OF Boston is
the first trades union in the country to
countenance trade schools 1t has
agreed that apprentices shall be in
structed in trade schools in that city.
England is very gradually approach
ing system OF public elementary
schools. The educational bill, which
has just passed the House OF Commons,
is Il long step in the direction Of such a
system.
Mrs. Anna e. Graves, recently elected
a member OF the Battle Greek, Mich,
School Board, is the wife Of former
Chief Justice Of that State She has
been President for thirty years OF the
Ladies' Literary Association Of Battle
Creek.
Yale University will put $780, 900 or
5000, 900 OF its big bequest from the
Fayerweather estate into new build
ing for the Sheffield scientific school. A
feature will be the mechanical depar,-
ment supplied with l00-horse- power
engine.
Prof. Dudley Allen Sargent, the Har-
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better known in the far West than any
other instructor at Cambridge. TO his
summer school in gymnastics there
come students from Texas, Dakota,
California and also England.
The one hundred and thirty-sixth
session at the University OF Pennsyl-
vania opened October Y, with an in
creased attendance in all departments,
the total being $50 students, q gain Of
40 over last year, and the largest num-
Der ever In attendance a. the institu-
ton.
At Yale, we are told, the proprietors
OF boarding-ho and the owners oil
houses containing rooms TO let have en-
tered into an internal conspiracy to tax
all students to such an extent that they
can by no means obtain board and lodg-
ing at less than $40 week.
OF the ten college graduates who have
been Presidents of the United States,
Ave were alumni Of William and Mary
College, two Of Harvard, two Of Prince
ton, and one was an alnmnua OF Union.
OF members OF Congress 1880 were gradi-
ates Il Yale and 1853 OF Harvard.
Miss Florence Bascom will enter
Johns Hopkins University at the begin
ming of the current year. She will en-
ter the department OF geology and will
give special attention TO photography.
Miss Bascom is daughter OF Rev. John
Bascon, late President OF Wisconsin
University.
Tie honors Of entrance into the Uni
yersity OF London were recently carried
of, over 900 male students, by u young
Scotch girl--Charlotte Higgins. Her
father died when she was but eight
years old, and 1t is through the efforts
OF her mother that she has been able AT
twenty to he in possession OF her fine
education.
University extension has made good
start In Kansas City. A society has been
organized there in behalf OF the move
ment, composed largely OF college gradu-
ates and OF members who are heartily in
sympathy with the work and who will
give II their active support. The Mis-
souri and Kansas universities, not Ia
speak OF other established institutions
OF learning in the two States, will fur
nish an able corps of lecturers, and
everything appears TO favor a higher ed
ucation In Kansas City. The system has
been tested elsewhere with the most sat.
isfactory results, and that is sufficient
warrant that II will not fail.
The establishment OF free education
In London has given considerable slim
illus 10 private schools. A number oil
parents belonging to the lower middle
classes have withdrawn their children
from the board schools, either on the
ground that they object to take educa-
tion free or that they think that free ed
ucation will bring an inferior class oi
children into the schools. They have
sent their children 10 those schools foi
young gentlemen and for young ladies
which abound in all parts OF London
and the private schoolmaster, who has
recently had hard time of II, is now
reaping considerable harvest.