The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-07-16
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Yale University Determines 10 Enll-g-
the Educational Opportun ties for
Feminine Students.

About 5000, 900 is appropriated eacl
year TO the New York city schools.
The total school enrolment, for TN,
United states last year vas IL 20, 600.
The teachers and school Superintend
ents L this country receive go 300 ,DOt
annually, and the money Is well earned
Applicants for certificates 10 teach il
the schools OF Birmingham, Ala. are re
CURED To pay an examination fee Of 81
~hich Is applied to the library fund.
A few years ago there were bu. two o,
three advanced schools in this conn,r,
that were open to students Of both sexes
There are now said to Re ~ Of the D.
colleges which are coeducaslonal.
] Queen Margaret's College Is the only
college for women in Scotland that fit.
them for university degrees. t. wa,
founded about fifteen years ago. and ha.
2O students n art, science and med.
cine.
President ANGEL Of Ann Arbor ba.
written that graduates OF the Laaven.
worth High School will he admitted to
the Michigan University without further
examination, which is no mean compll-
ment.
President Gilman conferred degrees
upon sevsnty-four students OF the grad.
uasHng class at Johns Hopkins rniyer-
sity week before last. He appeared in a
gown and hood, and graduates all wore
caps and gowns.
There is every reason to believe tina.
the coming season at Chautaudna will he
the greatest in its history, not only in
the number of visitors, but in the extent
Of lts courses Of study and the variety
and ability OF its lecturers.
The Women's College Of Baltimore re-
ceived last month a gift OF $3.50 600 Of
which klW,oo is to pay for one OF the
new buildings in process Of erection. the
remainder OF the sum TO be used to adj
vance the general interest OF the college.
The Iowa State University il located
at the old "has- been town OF Iowa
CITY, and is not commonly SPOKEN nj
with Harvard and Yale. but it has 900
students, and its late commencement,
was the greatestest it ever had. Uniyer.
sities can grow west OF the Nississippi
river.
James Richard Cooke. who was grad
mated at the Boston University school al
medicine at the head OF his class last
week, 10 the first person totally blind
rom infancy TO receive the degree Of NJ
d. He has been a diligent student and
reader OF anatomy for eight years pas,
and obtained % per cent. on his exami.
nation.
Helen A. Keller, who is pupil in the
school for the blind where Laura Bridy.
man was Taught, is according TO all ar-
counts most remarkable child. She
lost sight and hearing when mere babe,
and was sent TO the school 70 he taught
finger speech. Although only II wears
olf. she is an intellectual wonder. She
learns with wonderful rapiditv, ha. a. |
lnIred oral speech and manifests a men. |
,al power and grasp that would be phe- |
nomenal in child in full possession of
her senses.
The news OF the determination OF Yale
University TO enlarge the educational
opportunities for feminine students came
almost simultaneously with the news
hat the ancient University OF St An
irews in Scotland had decided To admit
women 10 the departments OF theology.
he sciences and the arts. All Of the four
OF Scotland have within a
ew years past adopted very broad pol
cy in regard to the admission of women
= students. In this respect they are in
dvance Of like institutions in any o,ber
ountry Of Europe.