Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-04-21
EDUCATIONAL BREVITIES.

A $500, 900 building is to be erected for
the New York Teachers College.
The golden rod has been adopted as
the flower of the Chicago University.
1t is stated that 204 of the 365 colleges
in the United States are coeducational.
OF the students graduated at Yale
University since l70l, 1926 are dead and
1920 living.
The United States have 1882, 766 per-
sons of school age, of whom 1900, 100
are enrolled in school.
The cost of maintaining Girard College
last year was $40, 652. The Girard fund
now amounts to 1926, 23S.
BY the terms of the charter of the
University of Virginia tuition is free to
students residing in that State.
Harvard University has 294 teachers
and 1895 scholars-an increase over last
year OF forty-one teachers and 1903 schol-
ars.
Over 1000 schools in Pennsylvania
outside of Philadelphia are already sup
Piled by the respective boards with free
text books.
There are in the United States some
$500 women in colleges and graduates of
| colleges who are members of Greek let
ter fraternities.
fale unlversity's faculty has set its
| lace against gambling among the SIN
dents; so there is a possibility that even
football will have to be played simply for
fun.
Since l755 Harvard has filled high
places IN the government as follows
Two Presidents, two Vice Presidents,
hfteen Cabinet officers and thirty Minis
tiers Plenipotentiary.
Gossip has 1t that Queen Victoria will |
leave the bulk of her wealth, estimated
at S2o 900, 900, to the Duke of Connaught |
and Princess Beatrice, leaving the Prince |
OF Wales out in the cold.
Three of the building swindlers
OF London who robbed poor people of |
some millions of dollars OF their savings.
have been sentenced to penal servitude
two Tor twelve years each and one for
five years.
There are twentyfour freezing estab-
hshments in New Zealand, with a ca
pacity not far short of 1000 900 sheen a
year Nearly all the frozen meat ex-
ported from New Zealand and Australia
goes to England.
Last year witnessed the construction
OF l79 schoolhouses in Kansas Mt a COST
OF sl5l,620. There are in the State @ ia
organized school districts, and a school
population of 49S, sol.
There We're 1876 students at the Irpi. {
versity of Berlin last winter. the largest
number in the history of the institution !
This is about 1000 more than were in {
at Harvard.
40 ri |
y II nave thrown out the study of
rrencn ana German from the curriculum
u the hlgh school, on the ground that b
there should be no confusion of tongues il
lmong u.s." +
The Secretary of the Harvard Univer- b
ity says that student can complete a
ne college course there "honorahly and n
,,appliy" Tor $500 year, while Professor II
aiiner oelleves that an annual income G
i,2O0 is positive injury to student
1t costs 1925 per pupil to maintain g
ne rhiIadelphia schools during the past 81
ear. The total expense was a. 5oS h
5000, and the number of pupils l1S 53o a
which number 57,9ll were lovs ana k
o,S5S girls. To educate this army ,, SIS II
eachers, l26 OF them being men, were Sc
e9ulred, giving each teacher the over fe
ght OF forty-one scholars on an AVERAGE On
ne salaries paid teachers aggregated
|, 40, 1852, 1924 to each teacher. II h,
ost slo4 1922 to keep the schoolhouse. ~
can. The total number of school -,
ouses is 42S. 1t cost SOC. o2 to educate ~
,ch pupil at the Boys High school "
lille the misses attending the Normal y,
chool cost only 1929 each. Each of 70
he 6l9 pupils attending the manual "
aiming schools cost $l13.50, the expensa q,
tools and supplies increasing the per ~
lpita expense considerably. ~ ~