Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-11-01
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Total Membership at Yale University This
Year--Numbcr of Schoolhouses
in the United States.

About Ito new students are registered
at Vassar College this year.
The golden rod has been adopted as
the flower OF the Chicago University.
OF the students graduated at Yale Uni
verslty since l7Ol, 1925 are dead and
1870 living.
During the last year Harvard Univer-
sity has received in gifts and requests
over $500, 900.
The Constitution of Louisiana permits
women to hold any Office connected with
public education.
One hundred and two girls were en-
rolled at the opening OF the Allentown
Female College, Pa.
Baltimore proposes to open school Of
pedagogy, with principal drawing a
salary OF VI, 100 at its head.
Thirty young women students have
entered Yale this fall. The Yale males
are said to be in quite stew about 1t.
II Is expected that 900 students will
attend the new Chicago University this
term, fully one-third Of them being
women.
The enrolment this year at the Uni
versity oil Illinois at Champaign Is 1928,
last year.
England with nlnety-tour universities
has 2,723 more professors and 81 ,Sl4
more students than the 800 universities
OF the United States.
New York city is to introduce the
kindergarten as part Of the public
school system. The appropriation for
the first year Is $50. 600.
The name Of Rutherford B. Hayes
stands ut the head OF the Chautauqua
class roll for 1895. General Hayes en-
ters ON the four years. course at the age
81 70 yeare.
Prussian education 10 more thorough
than that Of any other country. Every
child is In school from to IA years OF
age. Parents must obey the law, pay
fine or go TO prison.
An electrical laboratory that shall have
no equal In the college world is what Le-
high University proposes to build. II
will be 240 feet long by sixty feet wide
and will be four stories high, with q
basement, and will cost 1900, 900.
The total membership Yale Univer-
sity this year will be about 1,0)0. Last
year 1t was ,7s4. The faculty list mum.
bers over 100. The increase in the aca-
demic freshmen class has necessitated
Its separation into ten divisions, instead
OF six as heretofore.
The "Faribault plan" OF Archbishop
Ireland was the issue Mt the annual
school election at Faribault, Mimi, on
October l. The town decided in the
negative. the ticket OF those supporting
the plan Of nuns teaching in the public
schools being defeated by majority o
30.
Education in private schools of high
class costs about 81 900 from October TO
early June. For this sum young wom-
an IL housed in an elegant home in A
fashionable locality, is fed on choice
fare, served by well-trsined maids and
looked after morally, socially and phys
ically by refined and well- bred women.
The only college In Scotland for the
university education of woman is Queen
Margaret College, founded In 1883. The
buildings are the gift Of Mrs. Elder.
These and the endowments will be re-
served for the exclusive education of
women, but the college will he incorpor-
ated with Glasgow University rs its de-
partment for women.
The number OF schoolhouses in the
United States is 2i6, $50. The estimated
value OF all puhlic-school property is
1928, OCT, $50. The total rsvenues OF the
public schools are: From permanent
endowments, 1885, 1877; from taxes,
State, s25,l77,067; local, sSs, s2s, ss5-
sllS,505, 4l2; from other sources, S.
7s4, 4si. Total revenue, sls5, 1875. 0lo.
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 ay
erage OF nearly thirty FIVE pupils to each
teacher. Deducting for County and City
superin,endents, say 1900, would give
an average OF forty pupils for each
teacher. OF these teachers 227 200 are
females, and 125. 900 are males. The av-
erage wages are for males $42.43; for
females, SAT- per month.