Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-26
EDUCATIONAL.
Education of the Rising Generation
for Useful Employments One
of the Greatest Needs.

Among the many proposed additions
to Columbia College Is new school &c
be known as the school OF pure science
The winter term OF the Ohio Wesleyan
University has opened with the largest
enrolment in its history. The attend
ance for the year will between ], 100 and
| 1900.
1t is stated that the recent beauest Of
500, 900 from Mrs Stuart of New York
makes Princeton Theological Seminary
the richest Presbyterian seminary in the
country.
The first feminine candidate to pass
the Alabama State medical examination
said to have been an unusually severe
written examination--is Mrs. IL. I. Dill
lon, colored woman.
The University OF Michigan is to have
school of music. Sufficient subscrip-
tions have been made to secure it. The
new school will raise the attendance at
the university TO over 5000.
BY tue will of Richard Berridge, who
lately died in England, 81 ,000, 900 were
bequeathed for educational purposes,
one-fourth of which amount Cor $3.50, 0OO)
is 70 be employed exclusively in the
teaching OF cookery in voluntary schools
of England and Wales.
There are at present maintained in
Massachusetts 1924 public schools,
taught by 9,2T teachers, which allows
one teacher for every forty. eight pupils.
The schools are supported by yearly
expenditure of more than IS, 500 900.
Nearly 30 per cent. of all the children
in the State OF school age are in regular
attendance upon these schools. Included
in hn "a ,.al
an average attendance of 26, pol pupils.
Gradually and slowly women are be-
ing employed rs teachers in the public
schools OF Germany. From the official
statistics OF Saxony it appears that the
teaching force in the elementary Prot
estant schools, ALI in number, with an
attendance of 575, $50, consists of 2s5
directors or principals, Z 1923 male teach
ers and 226 female teachers. The Cath
Ollie public and private schools, l25 in
number, with an attendance of 1871,
have teaching force of directors ll2
male teachers and IL female teachers.
In the high schools of the kingdom there
are 1920 pupils, among them only ,482
girls.
The growth of the educational system
of New York State is interestingly set
forth by Hon. A. s. Draper, Superin-
tendent OF Public Instruction. The num-
Der of children of school age in the State
in 1861 was 1898, l67 and in 1891, l ,s2l,-
773. In 1861 there were 423,n7y school
children in the cities and OILS, 0SS in the
towns; in 1891 the number in the cities
had grown to .074 $50, and in the tow s
had fallen to 7i7 las. The cities increased
l6I per cent, and the towns declined is
per cent. The increase of attendance in
the cities in the thirty years WAS from
27o, 1925 to $4,000. or Sc per cent, while
in the towns the decline was from 6Ot,-
DPS to 5i0,97o, or a fraction of 10 per
cent.
One Of the greatest needs of the age is
the education of the rising generation
Tor useful employments On the one
hand we have a vast army of people de
pendent for heir subsistence upon tn.
provided by Others and vet
receiving poor pay for their labor when
hey get employment at all On the
other side is an army of employers who
are willing to paw good wages for skillfu
work, but who find it difficult to obtain
he competent, conscientious help the,
need. Those who thoroughly understand |
vocation and give an honest days worl
'or an honest days pay are the ones VIII,
keep their positions, and it is the ineffi- |
.lent and the shirks and those who slight |
heir work who are dismissed as soon az
their services can be dispensed with.