Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-01-15
EDUCATIONAL.
oberlin Gets Request Ct sci. ooo
"A chautauqua Glass Of TO-
600 Students.


600 Students.
| There are eaS students from North
America at the Berlin University.
There are 4s7 schools In Irkutsk. ST.
IBERIA. The population OF Siberia IL
nearly 900. 900.
oberlin College recently received be-
quest OF tai 600 by the late William b.
Spooner.
Trustees Of Wabash College, Craw-
forievilie, Ind. have practically de-
cided against co-education.
Twenty. three students OF the State
Normal School At Cortland, N. Y, have
been suspended for haxing.
The entering Chautauqna class, which
is to pursue three-years' course, COM
prises 10 .oOo students.
The University Settlement Society Of
New York has formed permanent or
ganixation with President Seth Low OF
Columbia College. President.
The stock dividend OF 20 per cent. re-
Gently declnred by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company will net 10 the
John Hopkins University about $50, 4
900.
The Woman's College Of Baltimore IL
10 have two new buildings, one for gem
eral college instructions, the other for
dormitories. The cost will he si5), 900.
Among the great teachers in Univers.
tty Extension occur the names OF John
Ruskin, Dante Rosetti, II. J. Furniyal,
Prof. Y. Maurice and Thomas Hughes.
II Is said that Professor Charles James
Capen, principal or master oil the Boston
Latin School, has not missed being at
bis post on account OF sickness single
day In forty years.
The memorial. signed by nearly three
thousand representative Inhabitants OF
New Zealand, praying Cambridge Uni
versity 70 confer Its degrees upon
women, 10 attracting good deal OF at
tention In England.
There are this year 1850 students In
the various departments OF the Uni
versity OF Michigan at Ann Arbor.
There Is no institution Of lerning In the
United States that has as large num-
Der OF students enrolled on its books,
and the University OF Mithigan 10 very
proud OF the fact.
According TO the latest statistics, to
every 10000 Inhabitants there are In
Russia 90 professional scholars; In Ger
many, 4S.l; In Austria, $3.50; In Italy,
5l.S; In France, 428; in Belgium, SO 5 !;
In Holland, 45.4; In sweden, 50.4 men
and b.2 women; In Denmark, AZ L; In
Norway, 1915; In Switzerland, 57.4.
The northwest provinces OF Canada
have made bountiful provision for the
Of the multitude OF people
who are expected to some day occupy
this now somewhat lonesome OK panse OF
territory. Saskatchewan has set apart
3,64S, 100 acres OF land for the mainte-
nance Of public schools; Assinaboia, 81
0s0 600, and Alberta, 3,3D0,0O0.
They have been holding bazaar in
Philadelphia for one Of the particular
institutions OF the city, the Teachers
Annuity Fund. The fund was only $780,
900, but 100000 In expected from the
bazaar II will become operative In 1894,
when worn-out teachers will be PEN
are members OF the fund asso-
citation and pay 2 per cent. Of their sal
aries TO IL.
The public schools of Boston are the
pride OF that city, and there is no dispo-
sition 10 complain at the expense. The
estimate OF the school committee for
this year is &2,ll8,407, an increase OF
si00, 1881, 81 over last year. This in.
crease Is TO cover the cost OF larger at
tendance, the introduction Of manual
and physical training and u few minor
expenses.
The cost OF an education at Harvard
Is estimated from 1872 dow, to 81 900 |
very iiberaD year; ut Princeton IL is
from 1911 10 s64b; at Cornell from $3.50 |
to 5000. The Lawrence University OF
Kansas puts the yearly expenses as low
Ne $l76. Expenses ut Vassar are given \
rs 1900 a year. at Wellesley $3.50; at |
Mount lIolyoke 1900. At Ann Harbor
and Oberlin many Of the students are
There are AXIS teachers In the public
schools Of New York. When Normal |
graduate gets her appointment she does
substituting Tor the muniticent sum of |
20 day~-regular day laborer's pay.
When she gets school her salary is
f4OS a year, and at the expiration OF |
ourteen years OF meritorious service
here shall be paid salary OF not less
han $3.50. The fidelity OF these women
. best illustrated by the following ex-
ract from the educational schedule for
he year ending June. 1891; Number
II teachers employed--ten to twenty
ears, $40; twenty TO thirty years, 800
hirty to forty years, 1888; forty to fifty
ears, 50; fifty to sixty years, 4--and a
Hack swan is not rarer bird than a
ich schoolmarn.