The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1891-10-30
EDUCATIONAL.
University Extension Makes Good
Start in Kansas City Free
Education in London.

| No fewer than 10000 children learn
Dutch as well as English at the Cape of
Good Hope schools,
The Indianapolis Journal has motto
sThe public schools must not be
plunged into politics.
The latest estimates from Harvard
| University are that the freshman class
will number about 450.
The Bricklayers' Union OF Boston is
the first trades union in the country 10
countenance trade schools. 1t has
agreed that apprentices shall be in
structed in trade schools in that city.
England lie very gradually approach,
ing a system Of public elementary
schools. The educational bill, which
has Just passed the House OF Commons,
is q long step in the direction ofsuch 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
| Greek.
Yale University win put sl5O,OO0 OF
$200, 900 OF its big bequest from the
Fayerweather estate into a new build
ling for the Sheffield scientific school. A
feature will be the mechanical depar.-
ment supplied with l0O-horse- power
engine.
Prof. Dudley Allen Sargent, the Har-
ward expert in athletics, is said to be
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-six.h
session at the University of Pennsyl-
vaRia opened October J, with an in
creased attendance in all departments,
the total being $50 students, gain Of
40 over last year, and the largest num-
Der ever in attendance at the institu-
tion.
At Yale, we are told, the proprietors
Of boarding-houses and the owners OF
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 a week.
OF the ten college graduates who have
heen Presidents Of the United States,
FIVE were alumni OF William and Mary
College, two OF Harvard, two Of Prince
ton, and one was an alumnus OF Union.
OF members OF Congress 1Se were gradn-
ates Of Yale and l6S 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 Basc0m is daughter Of Rev. John
Bascom, late President Of Wisconsin
University.
TIE honors Of entrance into the Uni
versity Of London were recently carried
off, over 900 male students, bya young
Scotch girl-Charlotte Higgins. Her
father died when she was but eight
years old, and it is through the efforts
Of her mother that she has been. able at
twenty 70 be 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 it their active support. The Mis-
souri, and Kansas universities, not to
speak of other established institutions
Of learning in the two States, will fur
nish an able corps Of lecturers, and
everything appears to favor q higher ed
ucation in Kansas City. The system has
been tested elsewhere with the most sat-
iaiactory results, and that is q sufficient
warrant that it will not fail.
The establishment Of free education
in London has given considerable stim-
ulus to private schools. A number Of
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 Of
children into the schools. They have
sent their children TO those schools for
young gentlemen and for young ladies'
which abound in all parts Of London,
and the private schoolmaster, who has
recently had q hard time Of it, is now
reaping considerable harvest.
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