Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-12
EDUCATIONAL.
Higher Education of Women Acts 10
Reinforce the Education OF
E Their Children.

The freshman class Of the Detroit Med
ical College has member who is 6f
years old.
The Columbia College has dropped
eleven OF the participants in the recent
cane-rnshing melee. They go early &C
a. 70 avoid the next rush.
There are 10000 women studying in
the various colleges In America. and vet
1t 10 only twenty-five years since the first
college In the land wasopened to women.
There are now colored women law
yers, "a doctors, . civil engineers, 10
photographers and 81 artists. There are
also II colored women pursuing studies
abroad.
The Congress Of Nicaragua has or
dered ten young men, 70 be selected
from the different piovinces OF the Re-
public, be sent TO Europe 10 be educated
at the expense Of tho State.
The Chattanooga Tradssmsifl has been
making canvass OF the South. and finds
that 2. 100 ,946 Southern children were at
school January |, lSQ2, against l,3gl ,743
al the corresponding date of 1880. The
schoolmaster Ia getting to feel very much
at home In the Spntii.s &
The peasant women Of Russia an as
ignorant to-day ~ they were in the time
OF Peter the Great. but girls Of the up
per and middle classes receive a better
edncstion than the women In Austria
and Germany.
In Great Britain penny banks have
been connected with the public schools
In the hope that the children will. de-
poeit therein the penny that was former
~ paid for each weeks tuition. La Bel
giuul. which has 600 900 primary pupils,
10000 Of these have deposited In all
more than 100000.
There are In the world iA7 educational
institutions called universities. The
largest ID In Paris, with 9,2i5 students !;
the next In Vienna, with I, 30 the third
In Berlin, with 5, S27 The smallest lie a
branch of Durham University. Fourah
Bay College, In Sierra Leone, with twelve
students and five professors.
The University OF Wyoming, located
at Laramie, was founded in 1886 by Ter
ritorial Legislation and a $76 900 building
erected. In 1888 preparatory school
and college OF liberal arts was opened.
Beside Its academic department and col
iege OF liberal arts there il normal
school, agricultural college, school OF me-
chanical engineering and II mines and
metallurgy. II has fine laboratories. Its
faculty numbers thirteen professors, all
young, active and able men, and the in
stitution 10 growing rapidly under the
Presidency OF A. A. johnson, ID. d, the
founder and late President OF Forth
Worth University, Tex. The institution
Ia thoroughly equipped in all depart
ments, Is entirely out OF debt, and has
an annual income for current expenses
oil over t35 900.
sDr. Harris, chief Of the bureau OF ed
ucation In Washington, says In his re-.
cent report that "a the higher education
81 the women acts powerfully to rein
force the education OF the children ia
following generations From the same
report we also learn that Sweden has for
twenty years opened its universities to
women, and gives them all the privileges
accorded to men. Finland has since 1883
adopted coeducation in many OF lis
schools. Italy for years has had notable
women connected with its university
life. Switzerland in THE Governmental
Council Of Zurich has decided that no
distinction can be made between men
and women In university privileges, and
In Russia. where great Opposition to the
higher education Of women has been de.
veloped, new DEGREES now permit them
70 study medicine.
The total number OF graduates from
Harvard since its organization In 1886 is
now ~ 400 and at Yale since 1901 10 $50.
Comparing these two American univer-
sites with those Of Oxford and Cam
bridge, the number on the books in the
Oxford calendar Ia Il 1871 and Cambridge
1850. The assessed vaiue OF college
property at Harvard Is 100000 and
at Yale $5,00a000. The income in the
twenty-one colleges which constitute the
the University OF Oxford Is $DI9, S25;
and that oil the seventeen included col
leges at Cambridge, 81 $50, 9a5; from
which figures II Ia plain that we In Amer
lea deal more literally with educational
institutions than do the English people.
In Oxford there are 3, l45 students and
In Cambridge 1920, Harvard musters
q goodiy roll OF 2,27l and Yale .635.
While the number oil institutions In
Great Britain and Ireland classed as
universities sonly ten, the United States
has no fewer than fifty four such insti-
tutions scattered all over the countrv