The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-11-19
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
The Large Permanent State School Fund
Of kansas-Political Complexion
Of Harvard Graduates.

The 6Fst Undertakes In America was
established In st. Louis in 1879
1t il stated that 3O4 Of the SIS colleges
In the United States are coeducational.
Colored students OF both ssxes are to
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 petit
toned the Board Of Education for the
prompt payment OF their salaries.
The slow progress OF the thirty female
students ct Yale Is very discouraGing.
They have not learned the yell yet.
The applications for admission to the
Baltimore Woman's College are une-
qualed in the history Of that institution.
Lincoln University, the colored college
at Lincoln, Chester county, Pa, has re-
opened with 80 students enrolled.
The number OF schoolhouses in the
United States is PIG. $50. The estimated
value Of ell public-school property is
$S23, SIS, 5S2.
Electricity, theoretical and applied, 10
being taught in the evening classes at
several scholastic and similar institu-
tons in Boston.
Returns show that about 40 per cent.
Of the alumne oil VAssar College, New
York, marry, moet Of the remainder be-
coming teachers.
There are now seventy schools for the
deaf and dumb in the United States,
and there Is also college for them To-
Gated at Washington, d. c.
OF the LII graduates OF Harvard in
the classes from 1885 to 1891 inclusive
Who expressed their political preferences
7l2 were Republicans and S65 Demo
Gratis.
The University Of Pennsylvania has
this year ], 764 students, which makes it
fourth in the list Of great educational
institutions. The three greater are Yale,
Harvard and Michigan Universities.
Queen Margaret's College is the only
college for women in Scotland that fits
them for university degrees. 1t was
founded about fifteen years ago, and has
300 students in art, science and medi-
cine.
Kansas has permanent State school
fund Of 500, 900, which draws interest
at an average rate of & per cent. The
semi-annual dividend from this school
fund for the past two years il 81, OOO,-
5l4.O4.
The total revenues Of the public schools
Of the United States are: From perma-
nent endowments, $685., l27; from
taxes, State, $25, III ,067; local, $Ss, S2S,-
SS5-sll3, SOC, 412; from other sources,
1874 .43l. Total revenue, $lS5, l25 ,OlO.
The Board OF Education of Detroit,
Mich, has decided that hereafter teach
ers in it's public schools must have re-
ceived their entire education within the
public and high schools OF Detroit. Not
only this, but their right 20 teach there
is forfeited if they attend a university
afterward.
Three hundred and fifty-two thousand
two hundred and thirty-one teachers are
employed in the public schools of the
United States. This would give an av-
erage Of nearly thirty-ive pupils to each
teacher. Deducting for county and city
superintendents, say $1,000, would give
an average Of forty pupils for each
teacher. OF these teachers 227, 100 are
females, and $4,000 are males. The
average wages are for males $42.43; for
females, s34.N per month.