Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-07-22
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Yale University Determines to Enlarge
the Educational Opportunities for
Feminine Students.

| About 80, 000, 900 is appropriated eacl
year to the New York city schools.
The total school enrolment for tn
United States last year was IA, 200, 900.
The teachers and School Superintend
ents in this country receive $50, 0O0, OOt
annually, and the money is we'll earned
Applicants for certificates to teach |,
the schools Of Birmingham, Ala, are re
CURED to pay an examination fec of 81
which is applied to the library fund.
A few years ago there were but two Of
three advanced schools in this countr,
that were open to students of both sexes
There are now said to be 204 of the S6l
colleges which are coeducational.
Queen Margaret's College is the onl,
college for women in Scotland that fit.
them for university degrees. II wa,
founded about fifteen years ago, and ha,
200 students in art, science and medi
cine.
President Angel of Ann Arbor has
| written that graduates OF the Leaven
worth High School will be admitted tc
the Michigan University without further
examination, which is no mean compli.
ment.
President Gilman conferred degrees
upon seventy-four students of the grad
uating class at Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity week before last. He appeared in a
gown and hood, and graduates all wore
caps and gowns.
There is every reason to believe that
the coming season at Chautauaua will be
the greatest in its history, not only in
the number of visitors, but in the extent
OF its courses Of study and the variety
and ability OF its lecturers.
The Women's College of Ba timore re.
ceived last month gilt OF $25O, 900, of
which 100000 is to pay for one Of the
new buildings in process OF erection, the
remainder OF the sum to be used to ad-
vance the general interest of the college.
The Iowa State University is located
at the old "has- been" town of Iowa
City, and is not commonly spoken OF
with Harvard and Yale, but it has 900
students, and its late commencement
was the greatestest it ever had. Univer-
stiles can grow west Of the Mississippi
river.
James Richard Cooke, who was grad
uated at the Boston University school Of
medicine at the head of his class last
week, is the fret person totally blind
from infancy to receive the degree OF NJ
d. He has been dligent student and
reader of anatomy for eight years past
and obtained 9S per cent. on his exami.
nation.
Helen A. Keller, who is a pupil in the
school for the blind where Laura Bridg
man was taught, is according to all ac-
counts most remarkable child. She
lost sight and hearing W hen mere babe.
and was sent to the school to be taught
finger speech. Although only IL years
Did, she liz an intellectual wonder. Sh,
learns with wonderful rapidity, has &C.
quired oral speech and manifests men
tai power and grasp that would be phe
nomenal in child in full possession o.
her senses.
The news of the determination OF Yale
University to enlarge the educational
opportunities for feminine students cam,
almost simultaneously with the news
that the ancient University OF st. An.
irews in Scotland had decided to admit
women to the departments OF theology
the sciences and the arts. All of the fou,
universities OF Scotland have within
'ew years past adopted very broad pol |
icy in regard to the admission OF wcmer
As students. In this respect they are in |
advance Of like institutions in any other |
country of Europe.