Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-11-17
EDUCATIONAL.
Twentv-Fiye Thousand Children With
out School Room in the City
Of New York.


Savannah has a colored college.
Harvard has 425 academic freshmen
this year and Yale but 264.
The University OF Michigan is encour-
aging women professors and lecturers.
1t is an interesting fact that OF the 100
colleges in the United States 204 are CO.
educational.
Cornell also has this year the largest
freshman Glars in her history. 1t num-
beers more than 800.
Twenty-Five Thousand children without
school room. And we think ours civ
ilized city !-New York World.
Sixty-three students are now said to
be working their way through Yale Col
lege and paying all their expenses.
Four hundred young ladies were I'M
able to gain admission to Vassar College
this year, the institution being filled to
it's utmost capacity.
Ont OF population OF $50, 000,00 in
India less than II 900, 600 can read and
write. The total number of scholars oil
all sorts is but / 4 per cent. OF all the
inhabitants.
A. A.. Parker of Fitzwlliam, N. H.,
claims to be the oldest living college
graduate in America. He graduated
from the University of Vermont in 1913
and is 100 years old.
The statistics of university attendance
in Germany show gradual decrease
During the recent summer term the to-
tai was 28,625, while last winter it was
28,71l, and one year ago it was 29,3l7.
Miss Cora Mcdonald occupies the
chair OF history in the Wyoming State
University, having been elected to that
place by the Regents OF the university
at 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 Che
| main building at Durham. The edifice
will be in Romanesque style, with tower
and clock.
Charles j. Capen, now master OF the
Boston Latin School and for forty years
a teacher there, says that in the day s
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 London School Board has taken 9
step in advance of the educational sys
tenn in this country. 1t has decided tc
establish in three convenient districts
classes of special instruction for the
mentally dull and physically weak on a
system similar to that of DR.. Klemm in
| Prussia.
The number OF American students in
| Berlin this summer is unusually great
At the university alone the number il
208 out Of total of 5,547. Then there
are many more than this attending pri-
vate clinics, studying Koch'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, 1865 children but, az
two temporary schools with places for
1904 children were closed, the net addi-
ton 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-
tons find an order of preference between
these two-fve choosing journalism
seven commercial pursuits, twelve engi-
neering, thirteen the ministry, eighteen
medicine and nineteen the law, while
the remainder are undecided.
Philadelphia is perplexed with 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
tor lack OF any accommodations at all.
yet the Superintendent of Schools re-
ports that l2s school rooms are empty.
The difficulty is due in part to the shift
ing of population common in anv large
city, but it is aggravated by the absurd
lnsistence upon ward lines as the limita-
tons of attendance, which NAV bar a
child out from school even if he lives
across the street from it and the schools
IN his own ward are crowded to over
flowing.