The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-08-06
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Many Discouraging Features in the Flu
cational Situation in the United
States-fale University.

Chicago schools will cost -, 995, OS4 ior
1892.
The new fourth class at West Poin,
has DO members.
Forty-three electrical engineers were
graduated from Cornell this year.
The University OF Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Ind, has just completed it's forty
eighth year.
The total gifts to Yale during the last
year have been 5000 900, while Harvard
received but 5000
Yale University has JUS. celebrated
her one hundred and ninety-first birth
day. Old age is honorable.
The pupils Of the Doylestown PA. }
public schools have about u 400 to their
credit in the national bank.
| Over 1000 volumes have been added
to the library Of Columbia College
within the last twelve months.
The commencement Of the University
| OF Nichigsn was he'd June 80. Six hun
bred and eighty-nine students were
graduated.
Philadelphia pays school teachers s420
Tor first year, increasing $50 a year Tor
i've years, when the maximum Of 1870
is reached.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb in the United States, and
there is also college for them located at
Washington, D. G.
At the recent commencement exer-
, cises OF the Ohio Wesleyan University,
Delaware, o., class Of precisely 100 " a.
graduated in the various courses.
The American Society for the Exten.
sion OF University Teaching has decided
TO esta olish university extension sem
mary for the training OF lecturers and
organizers.
The University OF Pennsylvania has
this year ,764 students, which makes il
fourth in the list OF great educational in
stitutions. The three greater are Yale.
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
heese-makinx in Canada has enor-
| mously improved within recent years as
result OF the method OF instruction
which has been promoted by the govern.
ment in sending competent instructors
among the cheesemakers.
The National Educational Association
| recently in session at Saratoga, resolved
to hold no meeting in 1898, but instead
70 take part in the Worlds Educational
Congress to be held in Chicago during
the Colum bian Exposition.
The Pennsylvania College, with the
Ohio and Ann Arbor Dental Colleges
are the only ones that admit women 10
study dentistry. Madame Hirschieldt
who was dentist to the family OF the late
Emperor William, was graduated from
the first-named institution.
The Ohio University at Athens eniovs
the unique distinction OF being the Old.
est institution Of collegiate rank in the
Northwest territory and Of antedating
all similar institutions in that region by
nearly quarter OF century. One OF
its Presidents was DR.. w. II. McGuffey.
whose series OF school readers have been
IN extensive use for more than genera
ton. Its recent commencement closed
the most successful year OF it's historv.
both numerically and financially.
There are many discouraging features
In the educational situation in this conn
try. but there are also many signs of
progress. Education 10 weakest in the
secondary schools and strongest in the
universities and in the primary schools.
That which many Of our Intermediate
scbo )ls-the public schools especially
lack in freshness OF spirit, vitality OF In.
terest and variety OF method the kinder.
gartens and colleges and universities are
developing in a remaf bl, degree.
The spread Of the kindergarten and the
enthusiasm with which the spiritual idea
OF education behind it 10 being re-
ceived promise notable results In the
peay future.