Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-04-16
EDUCATIONAL.

Another 500, 900 for the Baptists has
fallen from John d. Rockefeller's pocket.
This is TO the Education Society.
West Point is 50 years old. Probably
no other military school has graduated
in the same length of time so many dis
tinguished soldiers.
After two years search for president
the trustees of Oberlin have chosen a
man from their own faculty. William
G.. Ballantine. professor of Old Testa-
ment languages and literature, was unani-
mously elected to the place at the recent
annual meeting.
There is to be another theological
seminary. 1t is to be located at Omaha,
and is intended for the Central West. 1t
is expected that the seminary viii be
opened in September next Twenty two
acres of ground in Seymour Park have
been offered as a site. 1t will be Presby-
terian.
The new minister of public instruction
in Greece recently dismissed the in
structors in the Athens Seminary and in
stalled new corps, whereupon the young
ladies crowded into the minister's Office
and plainly told him that if the old
teachers were not reinstated there would
be no students. They won. When
Greek meet Greekesses, etc.
1t is shown by the ninth annual report
of the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens that most of those who
have been connected with the school are
now engaged as teachers in our higher
institutions of learning. For this class
of students the directors emphasize the
importance of mastery of modern
Greek and thorough study of the topog-
raphy and antiquities of Greece.
The Sisters of st. Joseph propose to
erect new college at St. Paul that will
stand first among the colleges and uni
versities in the West. 1t will consist of
strictly collegiate department, where
young women will be able to find in
struction in the most advanced branches.
The first building, the construction Of
which viii be begun soon, will cost at
least 100000. Thirty acres will be re-
served for the college grounds.
The tendency of young girls carrying
their school books under their arms, or in
bags or portfolios hung from their arms,
is said to be to distort the figure. Ger
man doctors are exhorting parents to
provide young girls between the ages of
ii and IA with knapsacks for carrying
their school books. In many parts of
Germany this equipment is already in
use, and to the unaccustomed eye of the
stranger nothing is more comical than
suddenly to come upon crowd of little
girls tr ,oping out of school, each pro-
vided with a knapsack for the march.
President Eliot of Harvard College,
who has returned to Cambridge, expresses
his qualification over the rapid educa-
tional development which he noted
during his visit to the West. He says:
Il was particularly impressed with the
rapid strides which all the State universi-
ties have made. They have advanced
wonderfully. and have become broader
and more generously equipped in every
way. These Western colleges have been
able, owing to the great scientific i'm
provements of the last 90 years, to make
an advance which it took our old Puritan
fathers couple of centuries to COM
plete.
Indiana teachers, some 30,O0O in num-
Der, are required by a State law to attend
teachers institutes for the study of vari-
Gus subjects. The american Naturalist
points out that so far as science is con-
cerned this is made useless by selecting
as text books two works, books without
single redeeming feature, conspicuous
examples of how not to do it. The
method adopted is as bad, that for
botany in the current year being ridicu-
lously faulty in plan and purpose. Yet
this useless work is required and made
compulsory on 10000 teachers, each of
whom adds to the profits of publishers
by buying two books pronounced worth
less by sound judge. Philadelphia
Press.