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EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Estimate Of the Cost Of an Education a
Harvard - Mrs, Logan Under.
takes a Great Task.
India Ia starting technical schools.

India Is starting technical schools.
The oldest English public school /
Winchester, founded in 1887.
Laundry work is now being taught II
Bome OF the schools OF England.
The Queen Of Italy ls at the head o
an industrial college for women, founded
by herself.
Providence In to have n permanent ex
hibition of Rhode Island industries anc
IN connection school Of technology.
The coming year at Harvard Univer
gity q new d0rmitory. costing $4,000
II to be built for the accommodation oil
students.
Miss Dora Miller, a teacher in New
Orleans, has been offered $1,000 for the
right In Il black. board eraser she has
patented.
Among the additions 10 the faculty at
Amherst College this year will be the
llling OF the chair OF romance languages,
which was endowed last year.
Daily papers are now published by
seven universities and colleges liar.
yard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Michigan,
Cornell and the University OF Wiscon-
sin.
James Richard Cooke, who graduated
from the Boston University school Of
medicine last June, liz the fret person
totally blind from infancy TO receive
degree as physician.
There are 68,06J pupils registered in
Boston this year, OF whom 36.2l8 are
boys and 32,7i5 girls. The average cost
per pupil ia s2i.53, an increase OF cents
over the cost last year.
The most idiotic college yell is prob
ably that OF the senior class of the Kan
sas State University. 1t is: Johnny
take bite, Suse took a chew. Rock
chalk, Jaw hawk, class OF '91."-Miane.
dp0lts Journal.
Miss Brownell has been teaching Pima
Indian children at Tucson, A. T. In
lour years her class increased from 4 to
lB5. This is her verdict: at pays to
teach them, rs they do just as well as
white children"
An English physician, who has made
a study OF bronchial diseases, says that
women teachers are subject 10 peculiar
throat affection. lie recommends that
.hey be taught in training schools how
% manage the voice.
The cost of an education at Harvard
3 estimated from 1912 dow to 81 900 |
very liberal) year; at Princeton il is
rom S3li TO S6i5; at Cornell from $3.50 |
o $500. The Lawrence University puts
he yearly expenses as low rs $l75.
The results OF the midsummer exami-
nations OF the Royal University of Ire
and have just been announced. The |
ucceeses oil the women students far ex-
eed the most sanguine expectations.
10 fewer than 1872 have passed their
natricuations.
Mrs. John A. Logan has undertaken
o raise sl,000,000 from the women of
his country Tor the American Univer-
ity, the national institution founded bv
he Methodists at Washington. The
expects to secure $4,000, 900
)r buildings and endowment.
The following American colleges have
cen represented in the Office OF Presi-
ent Of the United States: Princeton,
Williams, Dixon, Hampden,
ydney, Kenyon, University Of North
arolina, Weet Point and Miami. Will
sm and Mary College has supplied two
residents; Harvard two.
In the death of Rev. John Wilder
ton has lost one OF its tirmest friends.
Ir. Wilder was Vice Provost and Eel
w of the school. He was appointed p,
sslstant master at Eton about 1924, and :,
ad been connected with the school for
xty eight years. Mr.. Wilder was
unifcent benefactor to the school.