Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-30
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Three Characteristic lnstrumentalltlss VI
Modern OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
St. Mark and the Blind.

The University OF Leipsic is worth
nearly $40, 900, goo.
There are thirty-one colored schools IN
Iberville parish, La, and only twenty
white.
The English Privy Council has decided
that Manitoba need not MAINTAIN sep
arate schools for Roman Catholics.
For two wears in succession girl stu
dent has carried off the Sargent prize Tor
A metrical translation OF an ode OF Hor-
ace. omen TO all the students of Harvard
College.
There is not at the present moment IN
the whole length and breadth OF the Ger
man fatherand a university which al
mits women as a matter OF right TO its
lectures.
Queen Mary's College is the only col
lege for women in Scotland that fits them
lor university degrees. 1t was founded
about iteen years ago, and has 20o stu
dents in art, science and medicine.
Eng and with ninety-four universities
has 2,723 more professors and 81 ,Sl4
more students than the 800 universities
IN the United States. The revenues OF
Oxford and Cam1r dge represent CAPT
tai OF about 10000
The only dental departments that ad-
nit women to the study OF dentistry are
those of Ann Arbor and Pennsylvania
College. The first woman dentist, Nine.
Hirschfeldt, who afterward became dent
ist to the family of Emperor William,
graduated from the Pennsylvania school.
Thomas Walton of Philadelphia says
there should be law forbidding a
teacher to teach after reaching the age
OF 3d." William Geuder OF Milwaukee
recommends change in the rules which
will insure permanent tenure of office
to competent teachers" Let the other
cities speak. " In the multitude OF coun-
selors there is safety"
The gospel of st. Mark, printed on
raised letters at Philadelphia in Novem-
Der, 1888, was the stepping stone to the
education of the blind. 1t was printed
in the old French type invented by Hauy,
but now Roman letters without capitals,
to save space) are used, and the Bible is
printed in eight volumes, each a little
larger than Webster's unabridged die
tionary.
The new catalogue OF the University
of Pennsylvania shows l,764 students,
or twenty less than Yale, while the Uni
versity OF Mich gan has 1858, or just
twenty less than Harvard. In the num-
Der of teachers Harvard now comes first
with 253, the University of Pennsylvania
second with 237, Columbia third with
220, Yale fourth with 1853 and Michigan
fifth with las.
The three characteristic instrumental
ties OF modern civilization are the rail
road, the newspaper and the common
school. The common school means the
acquisition on the part of each boy and
girl, whether rich or poor, OF the neces
sary knowledge required to read the
newspa er and make use of the railroad
to exchange the products OF their own
industry for share in the products Of
the worlds industries. The consequence
OF the use OF machinery and the steam
eng ne is the TRANSFER OF p >pulation from
the country to the city and the substi-
tuition of educated directive power over
machines in place OF mere hand labor
Hence everywhere education is in the
ascendant. After the Franco Prussiar
var Austria increased its school attend
ance until it has now Ii per cent. of it,
population in school. France has in
| creased its school attendance to 10 pc
cent. OF its population, where it haC
only per cent. before the battle OF Sc
dan. About the same time England re
modelled her own system, and following
the example of France in 1881, Englan'
n 1889 has made her schools rec to al
her pupils. Italy and Spain have deveI
oped their schools until 1917 per cent. q
their respective populations are i'll th
schools.