Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-08
EDUCATIONAL.
Kansas to Have Quaker College,
A School of Special lnstrue-
ton for Dull People.

Young. women are not allowed to grad
uate from German universities.
The students OF Brown University, are
to try the experiment of running dally
college paper.
Texas learning has been made the
target for many shaft, yet the state
has school fund Of 800, 000,0 900.
In Eucador and several other South
American nations, primary education, al
least, is compulsory.
The University OF Michigan had last
wear 1853 more students than Harvard
University. This year Harvard has llo
more than Michigan.
Washington, Kas., is to have Quaker
college. When $25, 900 shall have been
raised a start will be made on the found
alton.
At Harvard 2l0 courses are offered IN
the liberal arts and sciences. 1t would
take a student forty years to pursue all
these courses.
Mrs. M. H. Hotchkiss Of Lakeville.
Conn, has given sevea3y-five acres OF
land and 1915 900 to found q preparatory
school for Yale College,
That is a pleasant innovation OF the
trustees of Columbia College whereby
the public is TO be allowed to attend
many OF the courses of lectures.
Professor lotion, in military lecture
at Yale, remarked that the average age
OF the 10 men in the class was twenty
one, and he added: upon graduation
you will have before you about forty
eight years apiece"
There are at present $4,000 colleges
and schools in India for men, with 81
026 800 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. !.
At the gathering OF Catholic clergy in
St. Louis to celebrate The jubilee of
Archbishop Kenrick, it was observed
that the predominating number OF
bishops and priests present we're gradu-
ates Of Maynooth, one Of the greatest
Catholic colleges in the world.
The London School Board has taken a
step in advance of the educational sys-
tenn in this country. 1t is decided to es-
tablish in three convenient districts
classes Of special instruction for the
mentally dull and physically weak, on a
system similar to that of DIR. Klemm in
Prussia.
Three thousand women of Greece have
signed petition to the government ask
ing that public schools OF art and in
dustry be established for women, and
claiming that the failure of Greece to
meet the expectations OF its well-wishers
is due to the backward condition of its
women and their onparticipation in
public affairs.
University extension is producing a
good effect, not only upon its students,
but also upon its lecturers and teachers
and upon the student body of the uni
versities. College presidents are al
ready finding that the men who go out
as lecturers in the university extension
courses are doing better work in their
own classes. The effort to please and
instruct promiscuous and popular
audience reacts upon the university
classroom; the individual needs of the
students are more carefully studied; the
teaching is modified to meet them, and
professor and student come into more
sympathetic relations. All the large
universities report increased numbers !;
and experience is proving that uni
versity extension tends to create uni
versity influence, and that university
extension means university intension.-
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