The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-03-25
SCHOOL AND CHURCH

There are $50, sol Baptists in
Georgia, of whom 1873, 36S are colored.
President Harper of Chicago uni
versity graduated from college at the
age of fourteen.
Princeton raised more money for
religious purposes last year than any
other college in the country.
1t is quite safe to assume that the
oldest college student in the country is
Mr.. G. NJ. Heidi, a planter of southern
Georgia. He is sixtv-three years old,
and has just entered the agricultural
department of the university Of Georgia.
The Iowa supreme court has rem
dered a decision in favor of the Baptist
college at Des Moines, by which the in
s~titution secures city lots worth S25. 900
from the land company. which prom
ised the lots when the college was es-
ta%blished, but by technicalities has
sought to retain the property.
H. o. Havemeyer has just made ar
rangements with the trustees of the
Presbyterian church of Greenwich,
Conn.,, to purchase the church for 500
900 and lease it to the congregation at
a fair rental and give the people ten
years in which to buy it back. The
church has a debt of nearly SIS, 600.
The poor people of London who at
tended the West London mission last
year placed over IS, 600 in the various
savings banks" under the name of
goose clubs and slate clubs. With these
small sums the superintendent pur-
chased for the members articles rang
ing from a pair of shoe-laces to a niu-
steal cabinet.
Dartmouth college has justreceived
a gift of 5000, 600 from the residuary es-
tate of Mr.. Ralph Butterfield, of Kan
sas City. This gentleman graduated
from Dartmouth college in 1889. but as
he has lived a most obscure life, this
generous gift after his death was a sur
prise to everyone. Not only was his
life obscure, but for many years he has
been a recluse, and died in apparent
poverty.
The Roman Catholic church is grad
ually introducing congregational sing
ing into its services. The most notable
is the cathedral in New York. under
the charge of the Paulist fathers. The
members of the congregation have been
taught to sing hymns and psalms in
English at the vesper service, the Len
ten exercises, festival days and special
occasions. The people have taken very
kindly to the custom.
college marks, college honors,
college courses, college degrees-all
these things belong, with the college
cap and gown and laurel berries, to
the babyhood of culture. They are
part of our inheritance from the past,
from the time when scholarship was
not manhood. when the life of the stu
dent had no relation to the life of the
world" SO says President Jordan OF
Leland Stanford university.
One of the most popular and sue
cessful religious efforts in Boston this
winter is Miss Lucy Wheelock's large
class in the International Sunday
school lessons, held in fremont temple
on Sunday afternoons. Miss Wheelock
has been for many years a teacher OF
kindergarten in the Chauncey Hall
school, and she uses the kindergarten
methods to advantage in her training
for the Sunday school. The fremont
temple class, begun a year OIL two ago,
has now attained large numbers, and
is attended by an audience of all de.
nominations. Miss Wheelock was in
vited recently to expound her methods
before the Unitarian Sunday-school
union.