Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-19
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
A Colored Girl Carries Off the Second
Honors at the Graduating Exer-
cises of High School.

Boston schools will teach shorthand.
Chicago University is rounding up a
big herd OF instructors.
There are about 8 900 school children
in New York unprovided with school &C
commodations.
The School Board of Council Bluffs has
appropriated money to purchase flags
for all the schools.
The prescribed course OF medical in
struction in the Mexican National Uni
versity is seven years.
President Low OF Columbia College,
New York, will make an effort to stop
hazing at that institution.
The common-school childrenof Athens
are taught ancient and modern Greek,
French and sometimes English.
Mrs. Hiram Kelly Of Chicago has given
$50 100 Tor one OF the proposed buildings
Tor women at the Chicago University.
At the graduating exercisesof the high
school at Jacksonville, H., the second
honors were carried off by colored girl.
Forty-two women have just received
the degree OF Doctor of Medicine at the
tort eth annual commencement of the
Woman's Medical College at Philadel-
phia.
The school Board OF st. Paul has de-
cided to make no distinction OF sex in
the matter of teachers salaries, women
receiving the same as men for the sane
work.
Germany takes the lead for compul
sorry school attendance. In 1888 out of
5000, 900 children OF school age, from 6
to Ia, but 5.l45 were absent without
cause, or 900 in every 1000 were in
school.
A friend of Barnard College, the fe-
male annex to Columbia, has offered
100000 for building if the site be
chosen near the new uptown site of
Columbia itself. Heretofore Barnard
has existed In Madison avenue DWELL
ing house.
There are at present 123, 1000 colleges
and schools in India for men, with
1925, 800 students, but there are only to
be found few hundred schools of low
vernacular standards and half dozen
colleges for women, with 294,26l stu
dents.
Miss Adelina M. Iveson, one of the
first graduates OF the first normal school
in Massachusetts, and probably the first
professionally trained teacher to enter
the work in the public schools of Cam.
bridge, finished term OF fifty wears
this month as teacher in the Wash.
ington school, Cambridge, and dozen
citizens, headed by Governor Russell
and Andrew 7. Peabody. are arranging
fitting testimonial to mark the event,
1t is, we suppose, quite in accordance
with the tendency OF mankind to be al
ways in extremes, which philosophers
have deplored, that we have now
alighted upon time when in many a
university athletics have usurped the
place of honor, and the highest amb-
ton OF the average student Is to get
place in some team OF players or rowers
Alas for the day which has seen the
amusements of the playground raised
to the dignity OF profession, and col
lege mines" or other numbers furnish
ing choice material for the trade OF thu
gambler. But there is some reason
hope that the pendulum, having swung
to the farthest limit of it's arc, is now OH
the return. Toronto Globe.
An experiment we'll worthy of imita-
ton is that of the Boston merchant
Eben Jourdan, who has opened a gym
nasium for his female employees, and
gives them the benefit of professional
instruction in the art Of physical exer
else. The classes are fres to all who
choose to avail themselves of the privi-
iege, and daily instruction is given be
tween the hours of and 8 o'clock In
the afternoon. Six hundred girls have
already begun course of exercise, and
Upon the success of the trial depends
the accession Of nearly thousand OF
their associates. Those who have
Joined the classes are delighted witt
heir experience, and say that the tire
'eeiing caused by close confinement In
he store soon gives place to one OF elias
ticity and freshness. Mr.. Jourdan ex
oects to see in the near future gymns-
sum attached to every large business
establishment where women are en-
York Post.