Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-09-30
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Estimate Of the Cost of an Education at
Harvard = Mrs. Logan Under
takes a Great Task.
India is starting technical schools,

India is starting technical schools.
The oldest English public school ia
winchester, founded in 1887.
Laundry work is now being taught in
some OF the schools of England.
The Queen OF Italy is at the head of
an industrial college for women, founded
by herself. o1
Providence is to have permanent ex.
nlbition of Rhode Island industries and
In connection school of technology.
The coming year at Harvard Uniyer-
slty new dormitory, costing $I50. .OOO.
Is to be built for the accommodation OF
students.
Miss Dora Miller, teacher in New
Orleans, has been offered 5000 for the
rlght IN a black board eraser she has
patented.
Among the additions to the faculty at
Amherst College this year will be the
nillng OF the chair Of romance languages.
which was endowed last year.
Daily papers are now published bv
seven universities and collepes--Har-
yard, Yale, Princeton, Brown. Michigan.
Cornell and the University of Wiscon.
sin.
James Richard Cooke, who graduated
from the Boston University school Of
medicine last June, is the first person
totally blind from infancy TO receive a
degree as physician.
There are 6S,963 pupils registered in
Boeton this year, OF whom 1928 ara
boys and 32,745 girls. The average coat
per pupil is $24.53, an increase Of 7 cents
over the cost last year.
The most idiotic college veil is prob-
ably that of the senior class Of the Kan
sas State University. It is: "Johnnv
take bite, Susie took a chew, Rocl
chalk, Jaw hawk, class of '92."--Minns-
apolis Journal.
Miss Brownell has been teaching Pima
Indian children at Tucson, A. T. IN
lour years her class increased from 4 10
l65. This is her verde !. 1T pays to
leach them, as they do Just as well as
white children
An English physician, who has made
study OF bronchial diseases. saws that
women teachers are subject to peculiar
throat affection. He recommends that
hey be taught in training schools how
70 manage the voice.
The cost of an education at Harvard
g estimated from 1912 (low) to 81 900
very liberal) year; at Princeton it is
rom s3ll to $645; at Cornell from $3.50
% 1890. The Lawrence University puts
ne yearly expenses as low as $l75.
The results of the midsummer exami-
latlons of the Royal University Of Ire
and have just been announced. The
uccesses OF the women students far ex-
eed the most sanguine expectations.
So fewer than 1872 have passed their
Mrs. John A. Logan has undertakan
0 raise $4,000 from the women ~
nls country Tor the American Univer-
lty, the national institution founded by
ne Methodists at Washington. The
niversity expects to secure $lO,0OO.O 900
Dr. buildings and endowment.
The following American colleges have
cen represented in the Office OF Presi-
ent of the United States: Princeton.
'owdoin, Williams, Dixon, Hampden'
ydney, Kenyon, University of North
arolina, West Point and Miami. Will
lm and Mary College has supplied two
residents; Harvard two.
In the death of Rev. John Wilder
ton has lost one OF its firmest friends.
lr. Wilder was Vice Provost and Eel
w OF the school. He was appointed
sslstant master at Eton about 1924. and
ad been connected with the school for
xty eight years. Mr.. Wilder was 4
lunificent benefactor to the school.