Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-08-12
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Many Dlscouraging Features in the Edu
eatlonal Situation in the United
States-Yale University.

Chicago schools will cost s., 1916, 0Si Tor
1892.
The new fourth class at West Point
has 306 members.
Forty-three electrical engineers were
graduated from Cornell this year.
The University OF Notre Dame, Notre
Dame, Ind, has just completed its forty
eighth year.
The total gifts to Yale during the last
received but 100000.
Yale University has just celebrated
her one hundred and ninety first birth
day. Old age ia honorable.
The pupils OF the Doylestown pa. }
public schools have about VI 400 to their
credit in the national bank.
Over 1900 volumes have been added
TO the library of Columbia College
within the last twelve months.
The commencement of the University
OF Michigan was held June 80. Six hun
dred and eighty-nine students were
graduated.
Philadelphia pays school teachers $42C
for first year, increasing $50 year fol
| live years, when the maximum OF $57C
is reached.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf snd dumb in the United States, and
there Is also college for them located al
Washington, d. Q.
| At the recent commencement exer.
cises OF the Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, o., class of precisely 100 wa,
graduated in the various courses.
The American Society for the Exten
sion OF University Teaching has decided
to establish university extension sem
mary for the training OF lecturers and
organizers.
The University OF Pennsylvania ha.
this year ,764 students, which makes il
| fourth in the list OF great educational in
situations. The three greater are Yale
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
| Cheese-making in Canada has enor
mously improved within recent years a,
result OF the method OF instruction
which has been promoted by the govern
ment In sending competent instructor
among the cheesemakers.
The National Educational Association
1
to hold no meeting in 1893, but instea,
to take part in the Worlds Educationa
Congress to he held In Chicago durin,
the Columbian Exposition.
The Pennsylvania College, with Tn,
Ohio and Ann Arbor Dental Colleges
are the only ones that admit women I,
study dentistry. Madame Hirschfeldt
who was dentist to the family OF the lat,
Emperor William, was graduated iron
the tirst-named institution.
The Ohio University at Athens eniov
the unique distinction OF being the old
est institution Of collegiate rank in tn,
Northwest territory and OF antedatip,
all similar institutions in that region h.
nearly a quarter OF century, One q
Its Presidents was DR.. w. Ii. McGuffey
whose series OF school readers have beel
in extensive use for more than genera
ton. Its recent commencement clos 3,
the most successful year OF its histor
both numerically and financially.
There are many discouraging feature
In the educational situation in this couu
try, but there are also many signs q
progress. Education is weakest in tn
secondary schools and strongest in tn
universities and In the primary schools
That which many OF our intermediat
schools-the public schools especially
lack In freshness Of spirit, vitality OF in
terest and variety OF method the kinde,
gartens and colleges and universities ar
developing in remarkable degree
The spread OF the kindergarten and III
enthusiasm with which the spiritual iie
: OF education behind it lie being re-
: ceived promise notable results In til
linear future. -