The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-29
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Total Membership at Yale University This
fea--Number Of Schoolhouses
in the United States.

About lis new students are reyistsres
at Vassar College this year.
The golden rod has been adopted a
the flower OF the Chicago University.
OF the students graduated at Yale Uni
versity since l70l, 1926 are dead ane
1920 living.
During the last year Harvard Univer
sity has received in gifts and beuuest.
over 100000.
The Constitution of Louisiana permit.
women to hold any Office connected witt
public education.
One hundred and two girls were en-.
rolled at the opening OF the Allentown
Female College, Pa.
Baltimore proposes to open a school Of
I pedagogy, with principal drawing q
salary of $500 at its head.
Thirty young women students have
entered Yale this fall. The Yale males
are said to be in quite stew about it.
| 1t is expected that | 600 students will
attend the new Chicago University this
term, fully one-third Of them being
women.
The enrolment this year at the Uni
versity OF Illinois at Cham paign is 500.
compared with 1873 on the opening day
last year.
England with ninety-four universities
has 2,723 more professors and 81 .SI4
more students than the 800 universities
OF the United States.
New York city is to introduce the
kindergarten as a part of the public
school system. The appropriation for
the first year is $50, 900.
The name of Rutherford B, HAYES
stands at the head of the Chautau1ua
class roll for 1896. General HAYES en-
ters on the four years course at the age
4 20 years.
Prussian education is more thoronub
than that OF any other country. Every
child is in school from ) to IA wears Of
age. Parents must obey the law, paw a
tine or go to prison.
An electrical laboratory that shall have
no equal in the college world is what L.
high University proposes 10 build, Il
VIII De 40 feet long by sixty feet wide.
and will be four stories high, with a
basement, and will cost 800, 900.
The total membership a Yale Cniyer-
sity this year will be abou. 1870. Last
year 1t was ,7S4. The faculty list num-
oers over $50. The increase in the aca-
lemic freshmen class has necessitated
Its separation into ten divisions, instead
'f six as heretofore.
The Faribault plan" Of Arch bisbon
Ireland was the issue at the ANIMAL
chooi election at Fsribault, Mimi. on
october l. The town decided in the
negative. the ticket OF those suppor. ing
he plan OF nuns teaching in the public
chools being defeated by q majority o.
0. I
Education in private schools OF high .
lass costs about 81 900 from October n
ariy June. For this sum a young wom- :
n 10 housed in an elegant home in a !
locality, 10 fed on choice
re, served by well-trained maids and
'oked after morally, socially and phyr q
ally by refined and well-bred women.
The only college in Scotland for the !.
education of woman 10 Oueen =
argaret College, founded in 1883. The
illdings are the gift OF Mrs. Elder.
hese and the endowments will be re-
rved for the exclusive education of :
omen, but the college will g incorpor-
ed with Glasgow University as its de !.
Irtment for women.
IT., b
The number OF schoolhouses in the n
nited States il 2l6, 33). The estimated
lue OF all public-school property il q
=, b65. 532. The totsl venues OF the !.
lblic schools are From permanent 7,
f9.s25,l27 from taxes, q,
ate, t25, ,O67; local, s3s. 3ls. 3s52 n n
l3,5o5, 4l2; from other sources. a. y
ABB. Total revenue, sl25, l25, OiO. a. "a
Three hundred and ffty-two thousand a
o hundred and thirty-one teachers Are
lployed in the public schools Of the T.
lifted States. This would give an ay- re
we OF nearly thirty FIVE pupils 20 each Al
'cher. Deducting for County and CITY b,
perin'endents, say 1000, would give We
average Of forty pupils for each At
cher. OF these teachers 227, 200 are il
nales, and 125 900 are males. The ay- A,
ge wages are for males f42.43; for BI
lales, $34.27 per month. On