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EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Three Characteristic Instrumentalltes Of
Modern CiviIization-Gospel Of
St. Mark and the Blind.

The University OF Leipsic is worth
nearly $40, 0,O00,O 900.
There are thirty-one colored schools in
lberville parish, La, and only twenty
white.
The English Privy Counci has decided
that Manitoba need not maintain sep
arate schools for Roman Catholics.
For two years in succession a girl stu
dent has carried Off the Sargent prize for
A metTical translation OF an ode OF Hor-
ace, open to all the students OF Harvard
| College.
There Is not at the present moment in
the whole length and breadth OF the Ger
man fatherland university which ad-
mits women as matter OF right 10 its
lectures.
Queen Mary's College is the only col
lege for women in Scotland that fits them
lor university degrees. II was founded
about fifteen years ago, and has 200 stu
dents in art, science and medicine.
England with ninety-four universities
has 2,723 more professors and 5l,8l4
more students than the 800 universities
IN the United States. The revenues OF
Oxford and Cambridge represent capi-
tai OF about $75, 5,000, 900.
The only dental departments that adj
init women 10 the study OF dentistry are
those OF Ann Arbor and Pennsylvania
College. The first woman dentist, Nine.
Hlrsch(eldt, who afterward became dent
ist TO the family OF Emperor William,
graduated from the Pennsylvania school.
H. o,,a. IVoItn. It Dl;Ia4oInL:o o..-s
there should be a law iorbidding a
teacher to teach after reaching the age
OF So" William Geuder of Milwaukee
recommends change in the rules which
will insure permanent tenure of office
to competent teachers" Let the other
cities speak. I'm 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 bind. 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 1888, 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 l45.
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 Jer 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 population 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 Prussian
war Austria increased its school attend
ance until it has now Is per cent of its
population in school. France has in
creased its school attendance to 10 per
cent, of its population, where it had
only 8 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, England
in 1889 has made her schools free to all
her pupils. Italy and Spain have devel-
oped their schools until 101a per cent. of
their respective populations are in the
schools.