The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-08-13
EDUCATIONAL NOTES,
Puhlic-Sehool Teachers Not Paid a Fixed
Salary in Observation-Disclosures
Largest Graduation.

The total gifts to Yale for 1912 have
been about $6N,0oo
Chicago has forty married women
publie-sehool teachers.
Prof. John X. Lord has been elected
acting President of Dartmouth.
1t is estimated that 5000 teachers " Ill
teach their first school in Missouri this
year.
Four OF the School Commissioners in
the State of New York are women, and
lilo are men.
Oxford University according to Mr..
Gladstone has good reason TO reckon
Dante among its former students.
Kansas has school for every 80 in
habitants, n Sunday school for every ~
and only five criminals for every 10000.
requests for religious, educational and
charitable purposes under l20 of the
wills reported in this country last year
amounted to about s. 900, 900.
According to the census Bulletin on
educational statistics there were II, So
ri pupils enrolled in the public schools
II the country in 1890, as against 1881 :
COS in 1850.
The graduating class at Harvard was
divided as follows: Episcopalians, 81
unitarians, A., Cong egationalists, tt
Baptists. 10; Roman Catholics, : Meth
odtsts, Is Presbyterians. d: Jewish, /
Free Thinkers, /; unclassitied, ID.
The first dental college in the United
States was established in 1910 at Balti-
more, and even as late as Sol there were
rt,t ~ ,,,t =,
Philadelphia and one in Cincinnati
There are now about twenty six OF these
schools in the United States.
RUFUS b. Kellogg has given Amhers' A
fellowship OF $500, running seven
years. This is the most munifeent N
the annals OF American fellow ships. The
occupant is to study abroad three wears
after which he is to lecture one term
each for tour years at Amherst.
The Eqaity. a weekly paper 81 Chica
20, says; In Chicago education has kept
pace with the material progress OF the
aty. We had in 1880 seventy-threv
ouo ic schools, which have since grown
10 2AI, with an increase in the mum be
OF pupils from 81 900 to IL Geo.
In Kentucky the pub ic- school teach
.rs are not paid fixed salary, bat re-
celve 50 much for each pupil. This plar
mas one good effect, that OF stimulatin.
eachers TO SECURE scholars and thus rx
lend the benefits OF education; but some
nave been found making false returns
North Carolina spen. lat year 1871
-. ~ on her schools, and OF thi. amount
S2D, 041.U was spent Tor the coore,
children. The average monthly stlar,
Tor males in the white schools was s25, t
and for females S2222.95: in the cplorp,
schools, for males. $2!..2, and for f.
males, 40. So per month.
Harvard's largest class graduated thi,
year at its two hundred and tiitieth com
mencement. The gifts and bequests IL
the year were more than 500 900. In,
first steps have this year been taken 10
ward tne complete organization OF tA,
univers ~ as large body OF strong
Teil-organiz+ secondary schools. Tn,
ompletion ot the scheme requires ter
years.
BY the death of Mrs. Fayerweatne
the whole OF the wealthy leather mer
chants fortune will now be divide,
among colleges and charitable institn
tion.. In all five hospitals and twenty
one colleges will finally reap the benei
81 this mum ticence. II is not often tina
IN one man we meet both the ability an,
the inclination To leave behind him >,
strong and lasting an aid 10 the cause 0
charity and education.