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EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Last Years Total School Enrolment for
the United States - Munifcent
Gifts Of Mrs. Hotchkiss.

Canada has l3, ,4Z0 Indian children OF
school age, OF whom 1874 are in attend
anee.
The income OF the English University
OF Oxford for 1891 was 1884, 900, and the
expenses 1924 900.
Some possibly prejudiced person says
that they do not teach German In any OF
the young ladies' boarding schools in
France.
The biggest university in the world is
at Cairo, Egypt--a country which 10 not
mentioned at all in the statistica-and
has II 900 students.
The total school enrolment for the
United States last year was l4,200, 900.
This included universities. Private and
parochial schools have 100000.
The teachers and School Superintend-
ents OF the United States receive $780,
000, 900 annually. This amount increases
$500, 900 each year, or 81 per cent.
Senator Stanford has divided the $l25,.
900 received for Arion into l25 equal
portions, 10 be given TO that number OF
destitute boys TO educate them at his
new university.
The muni6cent gifts OF Mrs. Hotch-
kiss, the widow of the inventor Of the
machine gun, to Yale College include a
building fund OF $3.50, 900 and an endow-
ment OF 100000 for the establishment
OF preparatory school.
Hulda Freidrichs, a young German
woman, has been engaged by the Pail
Mall Gazette to make tour OF the United
States for the purpose OF writing up the
educational institutions OF the country,
especially in their effect on woman's
conditions.
The university students OF the United
States have received formal invitation
from the students OF Trinity College,
University OF Dublin, TO send delegates
to the celebration OF the 300th anniver-
sary OF the founding Of the college, to
occur in Dublin July TO 8.
1t seems to be settled that a Roman
Catholic summer school after the Chau.
tauqua plan is TO be establish tempora-
rily and perhaps tentatively at New
London, Conn. The project is to hold
the fret session at that place during
three weeks OF next August, with the
expectation that before another year
enough capital will be obtained to en-
able stock company to purchase site
to be occupied permanently. The per-
manent situation for the camp most gen.
orally favored is Carleton Island, one of
the Thousand Islands of the st. Law
renee lying, within the boundaries Of
New York.
There are three colleges in New York
Columbia, the so-called University
and the college supported by public tax
alton. All three OF these colleges are
now proposing to renew and extend their
educational plant at an enormous ex-
pense to each. Columbia has purchased
for $4,000 the greater part Of the
property OF the Bloomingdale Asylum.
Recently the so-called University con-
tracted for the purchase of a site beyond
the Harlem, at Two Hundredth street,
at the price of 1851, 900. The free COL
lege in Lexington avenue will go to the
next Legislature asking for an appropri-
alton of a great sum of the peoples
money to buy for it new site and put
up for it new and more commodious
buildings. All told, something like $l0,-
100000 will be required to carry out
these plans for expenditures in land and
bricks and mortar alone.