Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-12-15
EDUCATIONAL.
The King of Siam viii Send Six
Youths to Pennsylvania to be
Educated.

Boston has class in Volapuk.
Two hundred and four OF the 1856 col
leges in the United States are coeduca-
tional.
The one hundred and forty-ffth cata-
logue OF Princeton College, just issued,
shows $50 students enrolled.
The University Of Michigan will erect
Grecian temple as her contribution TO
the Worlds Fair at Chicago.
The twelfth annual report OF the In
dian Training School in Carlisle, Pa,
girls.
The Superintendent OF Schools in
Dickinson county, Kan, is in favor OF
the rivival OF the American whaling in
dustry.
The Board OF Trustees OF the new
Chicago University IL composed OF -four
teen Baptists, one Israelite and six
Christians.
Ann Arbor (Mich.) University this
year graduated go students. This sur
passes in numbers that OF any institu-
ton Of learning in the United States.
In the last seven and twenty years the
number Of students attending Scotch
universities has more than doubled, for
in 1851 the number was $3.50, and in
1880 1t was 1000 odd.
Work on the new building for the
Sheffield scientific school OF Yale Uni
versity will begin at once. II will cost
500 900 and be devoted TO the mechan-
ical engineering department.
Oberlin TO- College recently received
the largest single endowment it has ever
receved-t9l .6lS.03-given it by the
will OF William 3. Spooner Of Boston.
The University OF Kansas receives a like
amount.
A college item is to the effect that in
the three Connecticut colIeges--Yale,
Trinity and Wesleyan---atten at
morning prayers is made obligatory upon
the students.
Colorado College has the largest enter
ing class in its history, numbering over
forty. This 10 especially encouraging TO
its friends, az the standard OF admission
has been raised to the same as that OF
Eastern institutions.
The University at Chicago has bought
the library OF s. Simon OF Berlin, which
Iui.ains @oo'v" uoiuihso anu .1V,oVo
~ ~ r.a.'o"s III III iansnaeos. among
mem tnefe are zuu nanuscripts from tie
eiRhtp 70 the nineteenth century.
The King OF Siam will soon send six
youths from his kingdom to Pennsylvania
20 be educated. They are all to become
physicians. The young men are chosen
from the poorer classes, and the expense
Of their tuition, about IS, 900 a year each,
~ 10 pe borne py the oiamese govern
'hen''
The New York Eye and Ear lnfirmary,
which Ia the oldest institution OF the
kind In the United States, proposes to
open a regular school OF instruction, in
which every branch OF knowledge per-
tanning 10 the eye, ear ana throat wili DC
US Ihorousnly taught as IN nerHh' VI
emma or faris.
The twelfth annual report OF the Har-
ward annex for women has been issued.
There are now over 200 students at the
annex, and the report SAYS that they are
women with purpose" They are
from twenty. States OF the Union, but
the great majority OF them are from Mas
sachusetts.
Tho c,.ss AZ ,os ,,a,araI,v ss 30 ho
an un,,suall,, lar,,. ,',,, ~ ~ Eas,r'
COLLEGES W;il;aS,s hos ios irash'na,, =
Amherst 40 Hawai- ano No VIZ r,ona,
than 5oo Waslauan N p,;naa,an aoE
Rrnwn ia c,;tb oso Goi,,ata ~ H. 49,
lion AZ Rochastar to opJ Ifnlon On
Yale onanad u;th / son o,,,dants d.; oa'
ton win ! 600 ''o'o ''''e"''' '''''e
u, 'ooe
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