Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-09-27
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Estimate of the Cost Of an Education a
Harvard - Mrs. Logan Under
takes a Great Task.


India Is starting technical schools.
The oldest English pubic schooi Is
Winchester, founded in 1887.
Laundry work is now being taught IN
some of the schools OF England.
The Queen OF Italy is at the neao Q,
an industrial college for women, ioundeo
by herself.
Providence Is to have permanent ex,
hibition of Rhode Island industries ana
in connection a school OF 'echnoioey'
The coming year at Harvard univer-
sity new dormitory, costing *lo,,VoV:
Ia to be built for the accommodation Oh
students. N...
Miss Dora Miller, teacher In New
Orleans, has been offered $4,000 Tor me
right in black. board eraser she mas
patented.
Among the additions to the faculty AZ
Amherst College this year will be the
filling OF the chair OF romance languages,
which was endowed last year.
Daily papers are now published by
seven universities and co.leges--liar-
ward. 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 q
degree as physician.
There are So 1858 pupils registered in
Boston this year, of whom 1921 are
boys and 32,745 girls. The average COST
xO iv,n n cents
over the cost last year.
The most idiotic college yell Is prob
ably that OF the senior class Of the Kan
sas State University. 1t is: johnny
take bite, Susie took chew. Rock
chalk, Jaw hawk, class Of '02."-Minne'
dpoiis Journal.
Miss Brownell has been teaching Pima
Indian children at Tucson, A. I. La
tour years her class increased from 4 to
1855. This is her verdict: ut pays to
teach them, az they do just as we'll al
white children"
An English physician, who has made
a study OF bronchial diseases, says that
women teachers are subject to peculiar
throat affection. He recommends that
they be taught in training schools how
| to manage the voice.
The cost of an education at Harvard
is estimated from 1872 dow to 81 ,O0t
very liberal) year; at Princeton 1t If
from 1911 to $645; at Cornell from $685.
to $500. The Lawrence University puts
the yearly expenses as low as $40.
The results OF the midsummer exami.
nations of the Royal University of Ire
land have just been announced. The
successes OF the women students far ex
coed the most sanguine expectations
No fewer than 1872 have passed thei
matriculations.
Mrs. John A. Logan has undertaken
to raise $l,000,G00 from the women o
this country for the American Univer
sity, the national institution founded b,
the Methodists at Washington. Th'
university expects to secure SlO,0O0,OOl
Tor buildings and endowment.
The following American colleges hav,
been represented in the Office OF Presi
dent of the United States: Princeton
Bowdoin, Williams, Dixon, Hampden
Sydney, Kenyon, University of Nortl
Carolina, West Point and Miami. Will
lam and Mary College has supplied TIVE
Presidents; Harvard two.
In the death of Rev. John Wilde
Elton has lost one of its firmest friends
Mr.. Wilder was Vice Provost and Eel
low of the school. He was appointe'
assistant master at Elton about 1924, an,
had been connected with the school 70
sixty eight years. Mr.. Wilder was
munifcent benefactor to the school.