Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-08-19
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Public-School Teachers Not Paid FIXED
Salary In kentucky-HarVard's
Largest Graduation.

The total gifts to Yale for 1912 have
been about 100000.
Chicago has forty married women
pu c-tchool teachers.
Prof. John X. Lord has been elected
acting President Of Dartmouth.
1t is estimated that 3 1000 teachers will
teach their first school in Missouri this
year.
Four OF the School Commissioners in
the State OF New York are women, and
I, 10 are men.
Oxford University according to Mr.
Gladstone has good reason to reckon
Dante among its former studenta.
Kansas has school for every 1856 in
habitants, Sunday school Tor every 40
and only five criminals for every 10000
Beqne.ts for religious, educational and
| charitable purposes under 100 of the
| wills reported in this country last year
amounted to about " ,000, 900.
According to the census bulletin on
educational statistics there were IL. 592,. !.
| 72l pupils enrolled in the public schools
~ the country in 1890, as against 8, ,05l, :
80S in 1850.
The graduating class at Harvard was
divided as follows: Episcopalians, 81
unltariaps, ~; Cong egationahsts, Al
Baptiats. 10; r Iman Catholics, T F.; Meth.
olists, q; Presbylerians. 8; Jewish. 4
Free Thinkers, A; uuclassitied, rs.
The first dental college in the United
states WAS established in 1910 AZ Balti.
more, and even as late as 1864 there wer,
but three others in the C uutrv, two iu
Philadelphia and one in Cincinnati
There are now about twenty-six OF these
schools in the United States.
Rufus B, Kellogg has given Amherst {
fellowship OF 81 ,S0A, running seveI
years. This is the most munitcent II
the annals OF American fellow w4hips. Tn,
occupant is to study abroad three wears
after which he is to lecture one tern
each for four years at Amherst.
The Equity, weekly paper OF Chica
go, Gays: In Chicago education has kep
pace with the material progress OF tn,
city. We had in 1880 seventy-thre,
pub ic schools, which have since growr
To 207, with an increase in the numbe
OF pupils from 81 900 to l27 GOO.
In Kentucky the public school teach
ers are not paid fixed salary, but re
ceive 80 much for each pupil. This plai
has one good effect, that of stimuatini
teachers to secure scholars aud thus ex
tend the benefits OF education; but SOM
have been found making false returns
North Carolina spent last year 1891
22o,4n on her schools, and OF this amour
$!4u,oiI71 was spent for the colore,
children. The average monthly salarr
for males in the white schools was 1926. si
and Tor females S22.ab; in the c)lore,
schools, Tor males, S22.72, and for fe
males, S20.36 per month.
Harvard's largest class graduated thi
year at its two hundred aud tittieth com
mencement. rne gifts and requests { ,
the year were more than $500, 900. tn
fret steps have this year been taken to
ward the complete organization of tn
university as a large body of strong
well-organised secondary schools. Tn
completion OF the scheme requires tel
years.
By the death of Mrs. Fsverweathe
the whole of the wealthy leather mer
chants fortune will now be divide,
among colleges and charitable institu
tions. In all five hospitals and twenty
one colleges will finally reap the benefi
OF this unifcence. 1t is not often tina
in one man We meet both the ability an,
the inclination to leave behind him 4,
strong and lasting an aid to the cause O
hearty and education.