Idaho semi-weekly world., 1892-01-22
EDUCATIONAL.
Turning Made Compulsory In All Girls
Schools in Cassel and Berlin,
Germany.

1
Reading (Pa.) ~orkingmen have pro
tests against the introduction OF cook.
Ing into the public schools.
In the universities O! Germany there
are 800 foreign students. Among them
are 430 Americans, 33l Russians, 29s
Austrians, 225 Swiss and Il7 English.
/ The rev Harvard catalogue shows her
whole number of student. to be 1858,
and that she has l2i professors and In
structors in the faculty 81 arts and sci
ences.
| The Mount Holyoke Alumnm Associa-
ton OF Hew York has raised t45 900 for
an educational project in memory OF
Mary Brigham, the first President Of the
college.
Vassar's share OF the Faycrweather
bequeets ($50, 600 Ia to be used in build
ing the new dormitory, which the in
creaso in the number OF students has
made necessary.
The Brokaw memorial Mt Princeton
College ie TO take the form OF q recrea-
tion field, and the plans as decided npon
contemplate one Of the finest series OF
such grounds in this country.
Thomas "A. swope, wealthy resident
Of Kansas City and graduate OF Center
College At Danville, KY, has sent that
Institution check Tor ~, 900 to be used
fcr any purpose designated by the fac
ulty.
Seven girls have passed examination
at Brown University, and will take up
the freshman studies under the privilege
Of the co-education law recently enacted
by the corporation. The class will num-
Der over 120 members.
There are at present 1873, 900 colleges
and schools In India for men, with 8. .828..
500 students, but there are only to be
found few hundred schools OF low YER
nacular standards and half a dozen col
leges for women. with 294.26l students.
In Cassel, Germany, turning has been
made compulsory in all the girls schools
The dosaler school reform bill. which
will be up again for discussion In the
Prussian Landtag, proposes that turning
shall be compulsory In every girls, school
in PrussiS, as it is In Berlin.
The decadence Of university educat-
ors is shown by the fact that at the col
lege convention at Ithica but one paper
on the opening day was devoted 10 col
iege athletics, the rest being on such an
tediluvian topics as mathematics, scien-
tiHc philosophy, scope Of languages and
the Hike.
In keykIavik. the capital OF remote
Iceland, q charitable lady has erected on
her own land high school for Iceland
girls. Needing more funds for teachers
salarieH, books, etc. than her private in
come would cover, she has sold her fam
lily jewels, many OF them heirlooms 700
years old, In order TO obtain the money
for her enterprise.
In Denmark and Sweden it has been
the custom Tor many years to weigh and
measure the school children every year
Out OF 10, coo boys and 1900 girls the re
suits were AZ follows: In the seventh
or eighth year Of life boys grow consid-
erably in height and in weight, after
which delay sets In, which reaches its
maximum in the tenth year ard lasts
till the fourteenth year, when consid-
erable acceleration OF growth suddenly
sets in This acceleration lasts till the
end of the seventeenth year. Its maxi
mum is In the fifteenth year. Its accel-
Grafton is at first in height and later on
In weight. gaining it's maximum in the
latter in the sixteenth year. At the end
OF the nineteenth year bodily develop
ment OF youth seems to end. In girls
the course OF development is quite dif.
ierent. The decrease in growth after the
eighth year Is not 80 great as in boys,
and yields in the twelfth year to rapid
increase In the height. The acceleration
In the increase In weight comes later,
but outstrips 1t in the fourteenth year.
In the seventeenth or eighteenth year
the increase Is but slight. The increase
In weight, however, sinks to zero almost
In the twentieth year, when the growtk
In women may be regarded as ended.r
A remarkable thing Is that boys grow
faster than girls, in weight and height
I'LL the eleventh year, then more slowly
tili the sixteenth, and then faster again.
With slight variation these relations OBJ
tain all over Sweden and Denmark.