Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-10-12
Educational Gossip.

Ann ARBoR high school graduated
ninety one pupils this year.
President TUTTLE, OF Wabash Col
eye, has retired from service, after
holding Office thirty years.
THE BoarI of Education Of st. Paul
has decided to continue the teaching OF
6 German In all the grades.
IL st. Paul, Mimi, the salaries Of the
women teachers in the public schools
are equal with that of the men.
TIE bill before the late Texas Legis-
lature providing for State uniformity ID
text books failed TO become law.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has honored
t. X. Kochler and Prof. E. K. Morse of
Boston with the degree Of Master o.
Arts.
DURING the last thirteen years lat
public school bu ldings have been
cree ed in Montgomery County. Pa.
These now number 4SO.
QUEEN MARGUERITE has bestowed
her patronage upon a girls college
which Prof. Ruggero Bonghi has lately
succeeded in establishing near Rome.
THERE were 6S9 graduates from the
Michigan University this year, this be-
ing the largest number ever graduated
cludes all the departments Of the Uni
versity.
THE new technical schools attached
to the University College, Nottingham.
England, have received the sum Of
s. 900 from the master and wardens OF
the Drapers' Company OF London. to be
sp7nt in their equipment when com
pleted.
The University of Ohio has conferred
he degree of Doctor Of Philosophy
upon Mrs. 4. E. W. Robertson of Mus
cogee. 1. T., in recognition of her schol-
arly attainments. She translated the
New Testament from the original Greek
into the Creek language.
TIE gifts to Yale College this year
amount to about 100000. Mrs. Wash
burn OF Guilford gave S25, 200 for the
; Divinity School, and Mrs. Oliver S.
Winchester Sl0D 900 for the new build
ing of the Scientific School. Mrs. Os-
borne's splendid building Is the pride OF
the College.
A NOVEL divinity school has been es-
tabllshed at Boulder. Col. 1t is to be
non -sectarlan, not only in the sense of
being under the control OF no particular
denomination. but also in the actual
| ItpIcbcuAd vi ltp-
| resentative5 of several different denomi-
| nations in it's direction and teaching.
THERE is a wise rule at Rugby forbid
ding the boys to wear party emblems OF
any kind The head master does not
consider it desirable either that the evil
of partisan bitterness should be intro
/ duced into school life or that English
schoolboys should be converted into
pocket editions of British politicians,
demolishing that fellow Balfour" or
| odd Gladstone" in the intervals OF Latin
grammar and Greek roots.
THE examining board OF the Treasury
Department at Washington, D. c., have
voted unanimously to grant gold medal
to Miss BERTHE o. Burr, of Arkansas,
! for rescuing two young ladies from
drowning in the Blue River, near Crete.
Neb., last summer. Miss Burr was the
only swimmer in the party Of six, but
plunged boldly in. and rescued the
drowning girls. She had learned to
swim at Laselle Female Seminary al
i Auburndale. Mass, and it is through
Prof. Bragdon of that seminary that
| the matter has been brought before the
| Treasury officials. This Circumstance
| is likely to give a stimulus to the sub
iect OF athletics at girls colleges.