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EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
The Large Permanent State School Fund
Of Kansas-Polit.caI Complexion
Of Harvard Graduates.

The first kindergarten in America wal
established in st. Louis in 1873.
IL is stated that 204 Of the 1856 colleges
in the United States are coeducational
Colored students OF both sexes are tc
be admitted into the Chicago University
In the University Of Michigan there
are five Chinese students--two girls anC
three young men.
The Ohio school teachers have peti
toned the Board OF Education for the
prompt payment Of their salaries.
The slow progress Of the thirty female
students at Yale is very disc)uraging
They have not learned the yell yet.
The applications for admission TO the
Baltimore Woman's College are une
qualed in the history Of that institution
Lincoln University, the colored college
at Lincoln, Chester county, Pa, has re-
opened with 250 students enrolled.
The number OF schoolhouses in the
United States is 2l6 $50. The estimated
value Of all public-sChool property il
1928, ,565, ,532.
Electricity, theoretical and applied, ia
being taught in the evening classes al
several scholastic and similar institu-
tions in Boston.
Returns show that about 40 per cent.
OF the alumne OF Vassar College, New
York, marry, most of the remainder be-
coming teachers.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb in the United States,
and there is also college for them To-
Gated at Washington, ID. G.
OF the III graduates OF Harvard in
the classes from 1885 to 1891 inclusive
who expressed their political preferences
7l2 were Republicans and 365 Demo
Gratis.
The University o! Pennsylvania has
this year 1,764 students, which makes il
fourth in the list OF great educational
institutions. The three greater are Yale,
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
Queen Margaret's College is The only
college for women in Scotland that fits
them for university degrees. 1t was
founded about fifteen years ago, and has
200 students in art, science and medi-
cine.
Kansas has permanent State school
fund Of $500, 900, which draws interest
at an average rate of per cent. The
semi-annual dividend from this school
fund for the past two years is $l,000,-
5l4.04.
The total revenues OF the public schools
OF the United States are: From perma-
nent endowments, $9,S25,127; from
taxes, State, $25, ,l77,067; local, $S8, $685.
3S5-$l13,5O ,5O6, ,4l2; from other sources,
1874 ,43l. Total revenue, $l35, l25, ,010.
The Board OF Education OF Detroit,
Mich, has decided that hereafter teach
ers in its public schools must have re-
ceived their entire education within the
public and high schools OF Detroit. Not
only this, but their right to teach there
is forfeited if they attend university
afterward.
Three hundred and fifty-two thousand
two hundred and thirty-one teachers are
employed in the public schools of the
United States. This would give an av-
erage OF nearly thirty-fve pupils to each
teacher. Deducting for county and city
superintendent, say $4,000, would give
an average of forty pupils for each
teacher. OF these teachers 227, 200 are
females, and l25,000 are males. The
average wages are for males $42.43; for
females, $34.27 per month.