The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-09-24
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
Estimate of the Cost Of an Education a
Harvard - Mrs. Logan Under.
takes a Great Task.

India 10 starting technical schools.
The oldest Enelish public echool i,
Winchester. founded In 1887.
Laundry work 10 now being taught il
some Of the schools OF England.
The Queen Of Italy 10 1t the head o
an industrial college for women, foundes
by herself.
Providence 10 to have . permanent ex
hibition Of Rhode Island industries anc
in connection . school Of technology.
The coming year At Harvard Univer
sity . new dormitory. costing $3.50. 900
il to be built for the accommodation O
students.
Miss Dora Miller. . teacher in New
Orleans, has been offered 5000 for thu
right in . blackboard eraser she ha.
patented.
Among the additions to the faculty q
Amherst College this year will Be the
filing OF the chair OF romance languages
which was endowed last year.
Daily papers are now published BY
seven universities and colleSee-Har,
ward, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Michigan
Cornell and the University OF Wiscon,
sin.
James Richard Cooke, who graduated
from the Boeton University school o.
medicine last June, is the FIRST person
totally blind from infancy to receive &
degree - physician.
There are s. ,9hS pupils registered in
Boston this year, OF whom 81, 2lS are
boys and 81, 74S girls. The average cos
per pupil is Sass, an increase Of cent:
over the coet last year.
The most idiotic college yell is prob
ably that OF the senior clsss OF the Kan
sas State University. 1t is: Johnny
take bite, Susie took = chew. Rock
chalk, Jaw hawk, class Of a."-Niane-
apolis Journal.
Miss Brownell has been teaching Pima
Indian children at Tucson, A. T. In
four years her class increased from 4 to
l65. This 10 her verdict: 1T pays to
teach them, ~ they do just ~ we'll As
white children"
An English physician, who has made
. study OF bronchial diseases, saws tina,
women teachers are subject to q peculiar
throat affection. He recommends that
they be taught in training schools how
to manage the voice.
The cost Of an education ut Harvard
is estimated from 1872 dow to 1900
very hberal) . year; at Princeton it is
from $3ll to $64S; At Cornell from 1850
to $500. The Lawrence University puts
the yearly expenses as low a. $l75.
The results OF the midsummer exami.
nations Of the Royal University of Ire
land have just been announced. The
successes OF the women students far ex-
coed the most sanguine expectations.
No fewer than 1872 have passed their
Mrs. John A. Logan has undertaken
to raise $1,000, 600 from the women of
this country for the American Univer-
slty, the national institution founded by
the Methodists at Washington. The
university expects to secure 0,0OO 900
for buildings and endowment.
The following American colleges have
been represented in the office OF Presi-
dent OF the United States: Princeton.
bowdoin, Williams, Dixon, Hampden,
Sydney, Kenyon, University OF North
Carolina, West Point and Miami. Will
lam and Mary College has supplied two
Presidents; Harvard two.
In the death OF Rev. John Wilder
Eton has lost one OF its firmest friends.
Mr.. Wilder was Vice Provost and Eel
low OF the school. He was appointed
assistant master at Eton about is24, and
had been connected with the school for
sixty eight years. Mr.. Wilder was a
muniticent benefactor to the school.