Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1891-12-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The free schools for colored chill
dren in Virginia for the past twenty
years have cost nearly six million dol
lars.
The estimate for the maintenance
Of the public schools of New York for
the ensuing year is S4, ,G97, sS2, which in
cludes $1,000 for an exhibit at the
worlds fair. l9aD .fe. 'BS .Hg
Two graduates from Harvard "An-
mex" will open a school at Menlo Park
San Mateo county, Cal, TO prepare
young women for college, with special
reference TO Stanford university.
Frances L. Willard wants to have a
professor of total abstinence connected
with the new American university in
Washington, and proposes to raise a
fund to support such a professorship
The imperial university at Toxic,
Japan, is probably the largest in the
world, having an enrolment Of two
thousand scholars, and a faculty of
forty members. 1t is under govern
ment control.
The number Of students seeking
admission into the ST. Vladimir univer.
sity at Kiev, Russia, is four hundred
| and sixty. OF this number one hun
.dred and sixty are Jews. According to
the prevailing laws only thirty Jews
can be admitted.
The chapel in the sequestered
Augustinian convent at Heidelberg, in
which the monk, Martin Luther, had
preached during the convention of the
order in 1918, has been given for place
ofAworship to newly-organized Lu-
| theran congregation in that reformed
city
| : The summary of the work done by
all the Christian denominations in Utah
is about as follows: Eighty-hve mission
Christian schools in seventy. eight diff
ferent towns, employing one hundred
and seventy two Christian teachers and
educating about six thousand five hun
dred pupils, three fourths of whom are
from Mormon families.
The Icelandic version of the New
Testament was printed in Denmark in
1910. The three hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of this event was celebrat-
/ ed with much rejoicing by the Iceland
ers resident in and near Winnipeg.
They are good Lutherans, and show
their faithfulness by earnest study and
obedience to the Word.
The oldest college graduate in
| America. so far as is known, is Amos
Andrew Parker, of Fizwilliam, N. II.
He is also the alumnus who has beer
graduated the greatest number oi
years from an American college. He
graduated from the university of Yer
mont in 1918, and recently he celebrat
ed his one hundredth birthday. He is {
finely preserved old gentleman, does
not look to be more than seventy-flve
and reads, writes and gets about like ;
man of fifty.
According TO Practical Electricity
electrical instruction is now to be added
to the other studies in the course provid
ed for young men in the evening classes
of the Young Mems Christian association
of Boston. Mr.. A. p. B. Fisk gradu
ate of the Massachusetts institute o
technology, and at present engaged
with the Thomson-Houston Electri
Co., will deliver course of twenty
four lectures on successive Frida,
evenings, and the course will be ILLUS
trated by numerous experiments
Il --One of the aids offered to prospect
/ i've students of Vassar, not well-to-do
}. is the scholarship of $500 awarded b,
the Vassar Students Aid society. 1t j
loaned to a student who passes the en-
trance examinations without condi
tions and covers half of all the ex
penses for one year. Examination
are held in nearly n dozen of our lead
ing cities. The chairman of the com
mittee managing this scholarship
Miss Jessie +. Smith, of South Wey
month Mass