The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1893-04-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Every northern state west OF the
Alleghanies has state university
The first prize for the best entrance
examination to Chicago university
during December was taken by col
ored young lady.
Warrington and Lee university has
graduated thirty-seven governors, eight
United States senators and thirty-one
college presidents.
The new president of Hamilton
college, DIR. Melancthon w. Stryker, is
the first one of the alumni OF that IN
stitution 10 hold such position in his
alma mater, although fourteen of her
graduates have filed presidential chairs
in other colleges.
-Vassar college students lately
dressed three hundred dolls and sent
them to the college settlement in New
York for contribution among poor chill
dren. A collection of the best poems
published in the Vassar Miscellany is
to be vassar's representation at the
Worlds fair.
Prof Martin Kellogg, the newly
elected president of the university OF
California, has been living on the Pacific
coast forty years. and been active in
educational work there most OF that
time. He went thither directly from
his studies In the theological depart
ment at Yale.
"A steady increase in the number of
Roman Catholic clergy in England is
shown by the statistics in the new
Catholic directory for 1898. They now
number in England and Scotland 1850.
In Ireland there are 3,059. A consid-
cradle number of foreign priests. chiefly
members of the religious orders, are,
however, included in the Anglo-Roman
clergy.
DIR. Henry j. Van Dyke, pastor OF
the Brick Presbyterian church, New
York, follows in the footsteps OF DR..
Briggs, of Union theological seminary,
and of Prof. Smith, of Lane theolog-
zeal seminary, and declines to accept
the doctrine of the inerrancy of the
Scriptures. DIR. Van Dyke is one of the
most eminent of the younger school OF
Presbyterian divines.
The late Bishop Paddock of Massa-
chusetts had a salary of So, 900, and
Phillips Brooks, as rector of Trinity
church in Boston, received IS, 900. When
the latter was elected to succeed the
former there was an attempt to make
his salary in the new place at least as
large as it was in the old one. But
when DR.. Brooks heard what was going
on he requested friend to offer an OBJ
lection, which led to an indefinite post
ponement of.the plan.
Gen. Booth has so far succeeded in
raising only some e16,000 of the $685.
600 he wants to carry on his Darkest
England" scheme of social regenera-
ton, though he has made remarkable
efforts to secure subscriptions Some
what acrimonious controversies have
also lately taken place between Gen.
Booths aides and the officers of other
charitable organizations concerning al
legged undertaking the market" by the
generals people in disposing of the
products Of his rescued" labor.
Twelve hundred beds at a penny a
night each are offered to London's
homeless poor in new Salvation Army
shelter erected on the bank of the
Thames near Blackfriars bridge. A
shelter with four hundred beds was
opened a year ago. mainly to ''clear
the embankment of its destitute" but
this was always more than crowded,
with dozens of applicants for beds
turned away nightly. If a man has
not even the necessary penny he can
earn his bed by half an hours wood
| chopping.