Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-14

essentially al educational institution
Tor those sho are lot bountIfuliy en-
aoSed w.Lh worldly possessions. IL l.
a school saers the poor can receive
A aghsr education. TINS IS due
entirely 10 the nominal tuition
fees aud 10 the low cost OF Nv
ing at Ann AFbor. The Chicago
university, on the other hand, although
heavily endowed, Is a school for the
rich, and IS located IN a city where the
cost OF living IS high. Then. also. i
: seetarian, snlis the University OF
Mich gan Is for al. irrespective OF re-
lgious belief. Being state institution
i could hardly be otherwise. But
during the coming collegiate year, tho
university will not snifer. The accom-
modatlons are already taxed TO their
utmost. The large classes, particularly
Ia the literary department, are crowded
into rooms that will not hold them
comfortably and IL has been found
necessary, IN many instances, 10 divide
the larger classes. New buildings are
being continually erected for the pro-
fesslonai departments. IN order TO ac-
eommOdate the increase IN the number
of students The total number OF stu
dents Increased from 2, APO in ls90-9l TO
1892 n 1912. This is most signit-
cant indication OF the popularity OF
Miehigan's great educational lnsutu-
ton. Early last collegiate year Har-
ward proclaimed that 1t was the largest
university IN point of numbers in the
country, having 2,65S students, but
nothing was heard from Harvard when
il was announced that the University
of Michigan had eclipsed the Cambridge
university with total OF 1902.
OSE of the most commepdable pro-
lects ever advocated in Grand Rapids
IS that of the Free kindergarten circle
to establish a training school IN which
girls may learn to do house work.
The demand for good servant girls is
always greater than the supply. GOOD
girls" arc always At premium and
can command steady employment at
good wages the year around. There
are hundreds of poor girls who, If they
had any advantages, might make ad-
mirable housekeepers instead of the
Indifferent ones they generally be-
come. The plans of the society are ex-
cellent ones and deserve the utmost
encouragement.
FROM the wilds of oklahoma comes a
story that might we'll make strong men
weep. 1t is said that a negro baby was
lost N the Canadian river. A few days
later its father caught an immense
catfish and its mutllated body was
found in the fish's stomach. Yet there
are persons that deplore the COMPARE
lively inconsequent wickedness of the
campaign liar.
Hon. Z. D. KISSE, circuit judge for
the county of Washtenaw, is an
nounced as a candidate for supreme
court Justice on the republican ticket.
/ Judge Kline bears a high reputation
as jurlst. He is extremely popular
in his own district, which is demo-
cratic. There is plenty of material in
the republican party for their high
Office.
BEFORE the fight Mrs. Corbett ex-
pressed herself as sorry that her hus-
band was a fistlc gladiator, and that
she considered prize fighting detest-
/ able and brutal. When Corbett won
the battle and S45, 900 she exclaimed,
"Pm glad JIm's prize fighter" OF
course il was not the purse that changed
her mind.
If while on his western trip Bourke
Cochran, the great apostle of Cleve-
land issue would hold a joint debate
| with Bourke Cochran the anti-Cleve-
land Tammanyite, the halls would not
be large enough to hold the crowds.
GRovER refused to 90 fishing with
Governor Russell Monday, but staid at
home to work on bis letter of accept
ance. The rumor that he had just re-
ceived Il new edition of standard ency-
| clopaedias has not been confirmed.
!
THERE are people heartless enough
to wish that the striking locomotive
engineers may bring disaster upon thai
company as retribution for the high
price of coal brought about in part by
the Reading combine.
EXTERIOR WILLIAM Of Germany may
visit the worlds fair. II the emperor
does visit Chicago, apples TO peanuts
be viii take IN the stock yards and the
sausage factories before he goes near
Jackson park.
CoRBErr and Sullivan, not Sullivan
and Corbett now, will exchange few
love taps N a spsrring exhibition a.
/ Madison Square garden next Saturday
evening. sullivan gets the money this
time.
GRAvp RArr0s' wealth and beauty
are preparing for fair, the proceeds
from which are 70 be devoted to char
table purposes. The Festival of sea
sous deserves success.
| REctrRourv's champion in Maine to
bistwin brother, projections champ