The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-08
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Penny Savings Banks Connected With
the Public Schools Of Belgium
University Of Oxford.

The sixty-eiehth year Of Miami Uni
versity has just begun.
Wellesley College has opened i.a fall
term with 7S4 students.
The New York public schools opened
September II with Z75, 600 pupils.
The University of Oxford has appli-
ances for printing $50 different languages.
The Atlanta Constitutioa announced
the other day that q new college was
coon to be corner-stoned."
The public school is not universal in
the old world. There are 10000 parishes
in England with only church schools.
There will be about A 900 girls going
to college this year, and twenty-sev
years ago there were not seven Of them.
Free Russia states that the amount APP
propriated last year by the Russian gov
eminent for common schools was only
*2.saa,O0o.
Louisville, KY, has raised by dona-
tons the sum OF 500, 900 for q manual
training high school, to be maintained
by the city.
Rev. DR.. NJ. Wolsey Stryker, pastor Of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chi
idency of Hamilton College.
The oldest college in North America
WAS founded in l5sl-the College Of st.
Lidefonso in the City of Mexico. The
next oldest is Laval College, Quebec.
F. B. Gsult, formerly City Superin-
tendent OF Schools At Tacoma, WASH,
has accepted the Pres .dency of the Uni
versity OF Idaho, situated at Moscow.
Ii is stated that the recent bequest Of
$sO, 900 from Mrs. Stewart Of New York
makes Princeton theological Seminary
the richest Presbyterian seminary in the
country.
The Friends School OF Providencs, R.
is now over . century old, and among
the 5000 names enrolled on the regis
tiers may be found those Of many distin-
guished people.
Eton, or the collection OF schools which
what is popularity known As
Eton, has 1000 scholars. This great
preparatory school has Just celebrated
its four hundred and tiftieth anniver-
sary.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools Of Belgium, and
l7O, 0OU OF the primary pupils have de-
posted over fl0O, 900. Great Britain
has also established penny banks in
schools.
One Of the finest school buildings in
New England has just been dedicated at
Worcester, Macs. The total cost OF land
and buildings is 500, 900. The building
is Of brick and brown sandstone, with
granite underpinning.
The first dental college in the United
States was established in 1910 at Balti-
more and even as late ~ 1854 there were
but three others in the country, two in
Philadelphia and one in Cincinnati.
There are now about twenty-six Of these
schools in the United States.
Indiana University has had q some
what remarka lie experience in having
its professors called to other institutions.
In the last two years ten full professors
have been called from the faculty to pro-
iessorships in Johns Hopkins, Cornell,
Stanford and the Northwestern.
The road to Learning is made smooth
to many young women with little or no
money at the various colleges for women.
Vassar has twenty-five scholarships,
Smith five, Wellesley twenty-five. each
the interest on 5000. Harvard Annex
has two scholarships supported by it's
Students Aid Society. The Students
Aid Society at Wellesley disbursed in
gifts and loans during the last year the
sum of s11, sll.
There are at present maintained in
Massachusetts 1888 public schools,
taught by 9,227 teachers, which allows
one teacher for every forty eight pupils.
The schools are supported BY yearly
expenditure of more than $S, 500. 600.
Nearly 80 per cent. of all the children in
the State OF school age are in regular at
tendance upon these schools. Included
in the above are pa schools, with an
average attendance OF Is ,294 pupils.