Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-10-14
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Penny Savings Banks Connected With
the Public Schools Of Belgium
University of Oxford.

The sixty-eighth year of Miami Uni.
versity has just begun.
Wellesley College has opened its fall
term with 734 students.
The New York public schools opened
September IL with 275, 900 pupils.
The University OF Oxford has appli-
ances for printing $50 different languages.
The Atlanta Constitution announced
the other day that a new college was
soon 70 be corner-stoned."
The public school Is not universal in
the old world. There are 10000 parishes
in England with only church schools.
There will be about Al, 900 girls going
to college this year, and twenty-seven
years ago there were not seven Of them.
Free Russia states that the amount ap-
propriated last year by the Russian gov
ernment for common schools was only
~, ,e92, 900.
Louisville, KY, has raised by dona-
tons the sum Of 5000, 900 for a manual
training high school, to be maintained
by the city.
Rev. DR.. M. Wolsey Stryker, pastor Of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chi
cago, has decided to accept the Pres
idency OF Hamilton College.
The oldest college in North America
was founded in 158l-the College of st.
Lidefonso in the City of Mexico. The
next oldest is Laval College, Quebec.
F. B. Gault, formerly City Superin-
tendent Of Schools at Tacoma, WASH,
has accepted the Presidency Of the Uni
versity of Idaho, situated at Moscow.
1t is stated that the recent bequest OF
$500, 900 from Mrs. Stewart of New York
makes Princeton Theological Seminary
the richest Presbyterian seminary in the
country.
The Friends School OF Providence, r.
l., is now over century old, and among
the IL, 900 names enrolled on the regis
ters may be found those of many distin-
guished people.
Eton, or the collection of schools which
constitutes what is popularly known as
Eton, has 1000 scholars. This great
preparatory school has just celebrated
its four hundred and fiftieth anniver-
earv.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools of Belgium, and
l70, ,0OU OF the primary pupils have de-
posted over 100000. Great Britain
has also established penny banks in
schools.
One of the finest school buildings in
New England has just been dedicated al
Worcester, Mass. The total cost OF land
and buildings is $500, 900. The building
is of brick and brown sandstone, with
granite underpinning.
The first dental college in the United
States was established In 1840 at Balti-
more and even as late as 1854 there were
but three Others in the country, two in
Philadelphia and one In Cincinnati.
There are now about twenty-six of these
schools in the United States.
Indiana University has had a some
what remarkao ole experience in having
it's professors called to other institutions.
In the last two years ten full professors
have been called from the faculty to pro-
fessorships in Johns Hopkins, Cornell,
Stanford and the Northwestern.
The road to learning is made smooth
to many young women with little or no
money at the various colleges for women.
Vassar has twenty-five scholarships,
Smith five, Wellesley twenty-five, each
the interest on 5000. Harvard Annex
has two scholarships supported by its
Students Aid Society. The Students
Aid Society at Wellesley disbureed in
gifts and loans during the last year the
sum of s1l,S ,Sl1.
There are at present maintained in
Massachusetts, 1888 public schools,
taught by 1927 teachers, which allows
one teacher for every forty-eight pupils.
The schools are supported by yearly
expenditure of more than $500, COO
Nearly 80 per cent. of all the children in
the State Of school age are in regular at
tendance upon these schools. Included
in the above are 244 schools, with ar
average attendance OF 26, ,294 pupils.