The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-11-26
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Athens Has a Magnificent Academy
Building OF Pentelican Marble
Chili's Primary Schools.

Kentucky has State colored teachers
association.
In Japan they teach children to write
with either hand.
There are 465, 600 school children in
England's metropolis.
The enrolment OF girl students in the
Harvard annex this year ia ever 800.
Egypt has an elaborate school system,
the annual reports Of which are full OF
interest.
France has %, 900 school buildings and
one OF the best systems Of normal schools
in the world.
In the twenty universities OF the Ger
man Empire the medical students for
last summer numb ered S,SSS.
A practical Indiana farmer the other
day gave $35, 900 to help the pursuit OF
the study OF scientific farming at Purdue
University.
The oldest college in Chill is the I'm
stituto Naclonal," which received its
charter from the King OF Spain more
than LOO years ago.
Tufts College, Massae IL sets, now ad-
mits women on An equal footing with
men in the divinity school as well a. in
the academic department.
The United States now spends over
$laO, 100, 900 year on its schools, not in
Guiding over $l0,UOO,O 900 annually spent
in its colleges and universities.
One OF the features of instruction in
the Laselle Seminary, Massachusetts,, is
a three years course in cooking. 1t il
free OF extra cost to the pupils.
The Sheffield Scientific School is the
beneficiary in Connecticut OF the Con-
gressional appropriation for the supper,
OF agricultural schools and colleges.
George f. Vincent, Vice Prime pal OF
the Chautauqua system, has last re-
snrned from England, where he has been
securing attractions for the next season
OF Chantauqua.
The average expenses OF the tuients
ct Yale were: Freshm IN, 1886 81 soph-
ignores. SS3l.S4; juniors, $SS3.ll; SEN
Tors, S9l97 10. The largest expense re-
ported Vas g., 9OS.
Without including the recently estab-
lished training colleges there are now in
England and Wales forty-one lustitu
tions at which candidates tor the ele-
mentary school profession are trained
and boarded.
A London superintendent lately pro-
nouneed the schools of New Zealand
among the best in the world, ami the
reports from the schools OF that till
lately barbarous country show phenom-
en- al changes.
Athens has lately completed magnii,
icent academy building OF Penteilcan
marble, costing $l,0OO,0Oo given by a
wealthy Greek merchant, Sina by name,
and has well-equipped university with
complete school system beside.
The Committee on Evening Schools Of
the New York Boari OF Education has
made provision for a course OF free lect-
ures. There will be ten places in which
lectures will be delivered on each Mon
day and Thursday evening during the
season.
The eight Russian universities, named
IN the order OF their foundation, are
Moscow, kazan, Charkov, st. Peters
burg, ktev, Odessa, Warsaw and Tomsk
All OF these are endowed by the State,
and have to great extent been org m
ICED after the German system.
W. ii. Sims cosored) vas admitted 10
the Kansas Medical College some time
ago, his naturalization fee being acce pied.
tie vas recently mott ded BY the faculty
that his fee will be returned, as his pres
ence Is creating unpteasantness. He re-
fuses to accept his fee, and declares that
he will remain.
Bowdojn College opened this fall under
the most favorable conditions in its his
tory. Within two years this me morable
and successful institution has received
over $500 in gifts. A Few art build
ing Is approaching com pletion, and plan,
are being drawn for &C en.itic building.
The new freshman class is the largest
ever received
There are 500 primary schools in Chill
with an average attendance Of i7O, 900
children. About ten years ago Congress
appropriated sl50, 900 10 introduce the
best method Of teaching, and to that end
sent learned professor to the United
States and various parts of Europe to
study the systems OF those countries and
decide upon the IN ret successful.
Mrs. F. VI. Atkinson OF the W1man'.
journal says The year Of 1892 marks
an epoch in the history OF the higher
education of women. Six noble institu-
tons this year open their doors TO wom-
en-. -Four OF these-hoary st. Andrews,
Brown, Tufts and young Chicayo-admit
women to all their courses and honors;
two-fale and the University OF Penn.
sylvania-o pen the postgraduate courses.
Alas, Fair Harvard ."