Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-08-25
Educational Gossip.

ANN ARBoR high school graduated
ninety one pupils this year.
PRESIDENT FUTILE, of Wabash Col
holding office thirty years.
The Board of Education of ST. Paul
has decided to continue the teaching of
German in all the grades.
In st. Paul, Mimi, the salaries of the
women teachers in the public schools
are equal with that Of the men.
The bill before the late Texas Legis-
lature providing for State uniformity in
text books failed to become law.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has honored
T. r. Kochler and Prof. E. r. Morse of
Boston with the degree Of Master Of
Arts.
DURING the last thirteen years 147
public school buildings have been
erected in Montgomery County, Pa.
These now number 48O.
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
from an American college. This in
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 Diapers Company of London, to be
spent in their equipment when COM
pleted.
The University of Ohio has conferred
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
upon Mrs A. E. w Robertson of Mus
cogee. l. T., in recognition of her schol-
arly attainments. She translated the
New Testament from the original Greek
into the Creek language.
THE gifts to Yale College this year
amount to about 100000. Mrs. Wash
burn of Guilford gave SIS, 900 for the
Divinity School, and Mrs. Oliver S.
Winchester SO, 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-
tablished at Boulder, Col. 1t is to be
non sectarian, not only in the sense of
being under the contro! of no particular
denomination, but also in the actua!
represen alton and cooperation of rep
resentatives Of several different denomi-
nations in its direction and teaching
THERE is wise rule at Rugby FORBID
ding the boys 10 wear party emblems of
any kind. The head master does not
consider it desira BILE 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
"o.d 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,
TOR rescuing two young ladies from
drowning in the Blue River, near Crete,
Neb., last summer. Miss Burr was the
oniy swimmer in the party of six. but
plunged boldly in, and rescued the
drowning girls. She had learned to
swim at Laselle Female Seminary at
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 stimulus to the SUBJ
lect OF athletics at girls colleges.