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EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Many DIseouraging Features In the Edu
eatIonal Situation In the United
States--YaIe University.

Chicago schools will cost 81, ,00B, ,0S4 for
1892.
The new fourth class at West Point
has 2O6 members.
Forty.three electrical engineers were
graduated from Cornell this year.
The University OF Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Ind, has just completed It's forty.
eighth year.
The total gifts to Yale during the last
year have leen 100000, while Harvard
received but 100000.
Yale University has just celebrated
her one hundred and ninety.Arst birth.
day. Old age IL honorable.
The pupils OF the Doylestown PA. }
public schools have about 81 400 10 their
credit In the national bank.
Over $4,000 volumes have been added
TO tho library OF Columbia College
within the last twelve months.
The commencement OF the University
of Michigan was held June 30. Six hun
dred and eighty-nine students were
graduated.
Philadelphia pays school teachers $420
for first year, increasing $50 u year for
live years, when the maximum OF $50
is reached.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb In the United States, and
there is also college for them located at
Washington, d. q.
AT the recent commencement exer-
cises Of the Ohio Wesleyan University,
Delaware, o., a class Of precisely 100 was
graduated in the various courses.
The American Society for the Exten.
sion OF University Teaching has decided
To establish a university extension sem.
mary for the training OF lecturers and
organizers.
The University OF Pennsylvania has
this year | ,764 students, which makes it
fourth in the list OF great educational in
stitntions. The three greater are Yale,
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
Cheese.making in Canada has enor-
mously improved within recent years as
result OF the method OF instruction
which has been promoted by the govern
ment in sending competent instructors
among the cheesemakers.
The National Educational Association
recently in session at Saratoga, resolved
to hold no meeting in 1898, but instead
10 take part in the Worlds Educational
Congress to be held in Chicago during
the Columbian Exposition.
The Ohio University at Athens enjoys
the unique distinction Of being the old.
est institution of collegiate rank in the
Northwest territory and Of antedating
all similar institutions in that region by
nearly quarter OF a century. One OF
its Presidents was DIR. w. II. McGufley,
whose series OF school readers have been
IN exteneive use for more than a genera
ton. LIS recent commencement closed
the most successful year of it's history,
both numerically and financially.
There are many discouraging features
in the educational situation in this coun-
try, but there are also many signs OF
progress. Education is weakest in the
secondary schools and strongest in the
universities and in the primary schools.
That which many OF our intermediate
schools-the public schools especially
lack in freshness Of spirit, vitality OF in
terest and variety OF method the kinder
gartens and colleges and universities are
developing in a remarkabl, degree.
The spread OF the kindergarten and the
enthusiasm with which the spiritual idea
OF education behind IL Ia being re-
ceived promise notable results In the
near future.