The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-02-14
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The free schools for colored chill
dren in Virginia for the past twenty
years have cost nearly six million dol
lars.
The estimate for the maintenance
OF the public schools of New York for
the ensuing year is S4,627, S32, which in.
cludes $4,000 for an exhibit at the
worlds fair.
Two graduates from Harvard San.
mex" will open school at Menlo Park,
San Mateo county. Cal, to prepare
young women for college, with special
reference to Stanford university.
Frances E. Willard wants to have q
professor of total abstinence connected
with the new American university in
Washington, and proposes to raise Il
fund to support such u professorship.
The imperial university at Toxic,
Japan, is probably the largest in the
world, having an enrolment of two
thousand scholars, and faculty of
forty members. 1t is under govern
ment control.
The number of students seeking
admission into the St Vladimir univer-
sity at Kiev, Russia, is four hundred
and sixty. Of this number one hun
dred and sixty are Jews. According to
the prevailing laws only thirty Jews
can be admitted.
The chapel in the scoucstered
Augustinian convent at Heidelberg, in
which the monk. Martin Luther, had
preached during the convention of the
order in 1918, has been given for place
of worship to a newly-organized Luz
theran congregation in that reformed
city.
The summary of the work done by
all the Christian denominations in Utah
is about as follows: Eighty-fve mission
Christian schools in seventy eight diff
ferent towns, employing one hundred
and seventy two Christian teachers and
educating about six thousand five hun
dred pupils, three +fourths of whom are
from Mormon families
The Icelandic version of the New
Testament was printed in Denmark in
1910. The three hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of this event was celebrat-
ed with much rejoicing by the Iceland
ers resident in and near Winnipeg.
They are good Lutherans, and show
their faithfulness by earnest study and
obedience to the Word.
The oldest college graduate in
America, SO far as is known, is Amos
Andrew Parker, of Fizwilliam, N. RI
he is also the alumnus who has been
graduated the greatest number of
years from an American college. He
graduated from the university of Yer
mont in 1918, and recently he celebrat-
ed his one hundredth birthday. He isa
finely preserved old gentleman. does
not look to be more than seventy-five,
and reads, writes and gets about like q
man of fifty.
According to Practical ELECTRICITY.
electrical instruction is now to be added
to the other studies in the course proyid
ed for young men in the evening classes
of the Young Mems Christian association
OF Boston. Mr.. A. p. H. Fisk, n pradu-
ate OF the Massachusetts, institute of
technology, and at present engaged
with the Thomson-I Houston Electric
Co., Will deliver course of twenty
TOUR lectures on successive Friday
evenings, and the course will be ILLUS
trated by numerous experiments.
-one OF the aids offered to prospect
i've students Of Vassar, not well-to-do.
is the scholarship of $500 awarded by
the Vassar Students Aid society. 1t is
loaned to student who passes the en-
trance examinations without condi-
lions and covers half of all the ex-
penses for one year. Examinations
are held in nearly a dozen of our lead
ing cities. The chairman of the com.
mittee managing this scholarship is
Miss Jessie F. Smith, of South View
mouth, Mass