Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-22
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
The aree Permanent State School Fund
of Kansas-Politieai Complexion
of Harvard Graduates.

The FIRST kindergarten in America was
established in st. Louis in 1878.
II is stated that 2O4 Of the $50 colleges
in the United States are coeducasiohni'
Colored students OF both sexes are 70
be admitted into the Chicago University
In the University OF Michigan there
are five Chinese students--two girls and
three young men. :,
The Ohio school teachers have peti
toned the Board Of Education Tor the
prompt payment Of their salaries.
The slow progress OF the thirty female
students at Yale is very disc)uraging.
Thew have not learned the yell yet.
The applications for admission to the
Baltimore Woman's College are une-
oualed in the history OF that institution.
Lincoln University, the colored college
at Lincoln, Chester county, ra;, mas re-
opened with 250 students enrolled.
The number of schoolhouses in the
United States is 2l8, 800. The estimated
value Of all public-school properly is
1895, 500, 532.
Electricity, theoretical and applied, is
being taught in the evening classes at
several scholastic and similar lnstitu-
tions in Boston.
Returns show that about 40 per cent.
Of the alumn@ oil Vassar College, New
York, marry, most of the remainder De-
coming teachers.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb in the United States,
and there is also a college for them To-
Gated at Washington, ID. o.
OF the LII graduates Of Harvard in
the classes from 1885 to 1891 inclusive
who expressed their political preferences
7l2 were Republicans and 1856 Demo
| Gratis.
The University OF Pennsylvania has
this year l, 764 students, which makes II
| fourth in the list of great educationa
| institutions. The three greater are Yale
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
Queen Margaret's College is the only
college for women in Scotland that fit
them for university degrees. 1t wa.
founded about fifteen years ago, and hal
200 students in art, science and medi
cine.
Kansas has a permanent State schoo
fund of So, 900 900, which draws Interest
at an average rate Of per cent. The
semi-annual dividend from this schoo
fund for the past two years is $1,000
514.04.
The total revenues OF the public schools
OF the United States are: From perma
nent endowments, 1895, 1877; from
taxes, State, $25, III ,067; local, $8s, 1923,
385-$113, 500, 4l2; from other sources
1874, ADJ. Total revenue, $i35, l25 ,010
The Board of Education OF Detroit
Mich, has decided that hereafter teach
ers in its public schools must have re
ceived their entire education within thu
public and high schools Of Detroit. No
only this, but their right to teach Their
ia forfeited if they attend a university
afterward.
Three hundred and fifty-two THOUSAND
two hundred and thirty-one teachers arr
employed in the public schools of thu
United States. This would give an av
erage of nearly thirty-fve pupils to eacl
teacher. Deducting for county and cit.
superintendents, say $4,000, would Civ
an average Of forty pupils for eacl
teacher. OF these teachers 227 200 ar
females, and $4,000 are males. Thu
average wages are for males $42.43; TO
females, $S4.27 per month.