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EDUCATIONAL NOTES,
Penny Savings Banks Connected With
the Public Schools Of Belgium
University Of Oxford.


versity has just begun.
Wellesley College has opened its fall
term with 73i btudents.
The New York public schools opened
September IL with 276,o0O pupils.
The Universty OF Oxford has appIi-
ances for printing l6O 6Odillerent languages.
The Atlanta Constitution announced
the other day that Il new college was
soon 10 be corner-stoned."
The public school Ia not universal In
the old world. There are 10000 parishes
in England with only church schools.
There will be about AZ 900 girls going
to college this year, and twenty-seven
years ago there were not seven OF them.
Free Russia states that the amount APP
propriated last year by the Russian gov
ernment for common schools was only
&,S02,0 900.
Louisville, KY, has raised by dona-
tlona the sum OF $3O0,0O0 for n manual
training high school, 10 be maintained
by the city.
Rev. DR.. NJ. Wolaey Stryker, pastor OF
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chi
cago, has decided TO accept the Pres
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.
+. Il. Gault, formerly City superin-
tendent OF Schools at Tacoma, Wash.
has accepted the Pres dency Of the Uni
versity Of Idaho, situated at Mosc)w.
II il stated that the recent bequest Of
$500 900 from Mrs Stewart OF New York
makes Princeton Theological Seminary
the richest Presbyterian seminary in the
country.
The Friends School OF Providence, r.
is now over century old, and among
the Ia, 900 names enrolled on the regis.
ters may be found those OF many distin-
guished people.
Eton, or the collection OF schools which
constitutes what is popularly known as
Eton, has 900 scholars. This great
preparatory school has just celebrated
It's four hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools OF Belgium, and
40, 200 Of the primary pupils have de-
posted over Ei00000. Great Britain
has also established penny banks in
schools.
One of the finest school buildings in
New England has just been dedicated at
Worcester, Mass. The total cost OF land
and bu ldings is 100000. The building
is OF brick and brown sandstone, with
granite underpinning.
The first dental college in the United
States was established in l840 at Balti-
more and even rs late as 1864 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 some
what remarka le experience in having
| it's professors called TO other institutions.
In the last two years ten full professors
have been called from the faculty TO pro-
fessorships in Johns Hopkins, Cornell,
| Stanford and the Northwestern.
The road TO learning is made smooth
to many young women with little or no
| itIOHt1 ~ lllb NdIiO NpllCEVC iOi "'ilVh'
Vassar has twenty-five scholarships,
Smith FIVE, Wellesley twenty-five, each
the interest on 5000. Harvard Annex
has two scholarships supported by its
Students Aid Society. The Students
Aid Society at Wellesley disbursed in
gifts and loans during the last year the
sum of $ll,S1l.
There are at present maintained in
Massachusetts, 7,239 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,500,00
Nearly 90 per cent. of all the children in
the State OF scho i age are in regular at
tendance upon these schools. Included
in the above are 244 schools, with al
average attendance Of 1924 pupils.