Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-10-14
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
PENNY Savings Banks Connected With
the Public Schools of Belgium
University of Oxford.

The sixty-eighth year OF Mimi Uni
versity has just begun. :,
Wellesley College has opened it's faii
term with 1874 students.
The New York public schools opened
September IL with 5000 pupils.
The University of Oxford has sppii-
ances for printing 100 different languages.
The Atlanta Constellation announced
the other day that a new college was
soon to be COMMISSIONED.
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 APP
propriated last year by the Russian gov
eminent for common schools was only
| 2,s92, 900.
Louisville, KY, has raised by dona..
tons the sum OF 100000 for manual
training high school, to be maintained
by the city.
Rev. DIR. M. Wolsey Stryker, pastor Of
the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chi
CaRO, mas u6Glu6u W dCCcpt tAO AAOo-
idency of Hamilton College.
The oldest college in North America
was founded in 15sl-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 Pres .dency OF the Uni
yersity OF Idaho, situated at Moscow.
| 1t is stated that the recent bequest OF
1890, 900 from Mrs. Stewart Of New York
makes Princeton Theological Seminary
the richest Presbyterian seminary in the
country.
The Friends School OF Providence, R.
I is now over century old, and among
the Ii, 900 names enrolled on the regis
tiers may be found those OF many distin.
guished people.
Elton, or the collection OF schools which
constitutes what is popularity known az
Eton, has 1000 scholars. This great
preparatory school has just celebrated
| It's four hundred and fiftieth anniver-
sary.
Penny savings banks are connected
with the public schools OF Belgium, and
17O, OOU of the primary pupils have de-
posted over gl00, 900. 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 5000, 900. The building
is OF brick and brown sandstone, with
granite underpinning.
The first dental college in the United
States was established in 1870 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.
i Indiana University has had some
what remarka lie experience in having
its 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 nc
money at the various colleges for women
Vassar has twenty-five scholarships
Smith FIVE, Wellesley twenty-five. eact
the interest on 5000. Harvard Annex
has two scholarships supported by its
Students Aid Society. The Students
Aid Society at Wellesley disbursed il
gifts and loans during the last year the
sum of 1871.
There are at present maintained il
Massachusetts 1929 public schools
taught by 9,227 teachers, which allows
one teacher for every forty eight pupils
The schools are supported by yearly
expenditure OF more than $500, 600
Nearly 80 per cent. of all the children il
the State Of scho j age are in regular at
tendance upon these schools. Included
in the above are 244 schools, with al
average attendance of 1924 pupils.