The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-09-26
EDUCATIONAL.
or ~" Five Highest Graduates nj West
Point the South Has -Four.

or III" Five Highest Graduates ut Yves
Point the South Has Four.
Out OF 100000, 900 people In all India
less than Il 100000 can read and write
The receipts ut Choutauqua this sea
son were % per cent, above those Of lasl
year.
A high school isto bc established at Cas-.
sadagn Lake, y. Y, In connection with
Spiritualistic views Of education.
The gain In school enrolment In New
Mexico In 1890 is 2s3 per cent, while the
gain In population IL only ~ per cent.
Throughout France gardening In prac-
tically taught in the primary and ele-
mentnry schools. There ARE about ~, 900
Of these schools.
About 400 members Of Cambridge
University, England, have signed reso-
lutlone protesting against the admission
OF women 10 the university.
The University Of the City OF New
York has just added II school Of the sci.
encc OF education 10 itself, and hereafter
will confer the degrees Of Master and
Doctor Of Pedagogy.
The school census Of Louisiana shows
that out OF total school population Of
37O, ,226 only 5000 children attend the
public schools, and many Of these attend
two months in the year.
The University OF Upsala in Sweden
during the present term has an attend
ancc OF ,65S. OF these 25i are in the
theological department, 7i0 in the philo.
sophical, II3 in the law and 22l in the
medical.
OF the five highest graduates at West
Point four come from Southern States
counting Maryland as Of the South, and
the nth is from Pennsylvania. Charles
u. Hines, who stands the highest IN tao.
ties, IL also from the South, being Il Vir-
ginian.
Eight institutions have each an enroll.
ment OF over 900 students, and seven
report from 500 TO 600. Nor IL il the
old colleges in the East alone which draw
their pupils by the hundreds, but liar.
wards 227l students and Yale's .G45
are paraleled by Ann Arbor's 2,l53 and
Oberlin's l,7O9.
The head mistress Of the high school
''i klA0 III lllllkllhIit IllBlhltl, HuH-
gests that parents who are anxious as 10
the career aud future OF their daughters
should train them 10 be teachers Of cook !
cry. She finds from the Liverpool cook |
cry school that there is constant de- |
mand for qualified teachers, and that
more applications were received than |
could be satisfied. The remuneration
varies from $3.50 to $l5 Il week-excel- |
lent wages for England
4 plan for furnishing technical edu-
cation to the boys who have to work is
TO he put into operation by the trustees
Of Bell-street chapel, Providence, the
free e-thought institute which James Ed
dy's money founded. The scheme is
after that in use in England, the science
classes, which are carried on under the
of the government and the
guilds in London, and which are doing
4 large work in providing proper tech
meal education James Tribe, mechan-
zeal engineer, graduate of the science
classes and OF Central Institute, will be
instructor, ana there will be Il committee
10 overlook the work, consisting of Isaac
Robert Grieve, j. Bowie and
ieorge Whitehead The first course will
open Tuesday, October 2, students being
'equired TO pay only So for fifty-two
esaOns.