Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-01-30
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


The Woman's college of Baltimore
has over 600 students this year.
The American Wing and Cliosoph-
zeal societies of Princeton have chal-
lenged the Yale union to joint de-
bate. Yale has accepted, and the time,
place and subject will be announced
later. The place will probably be New
York
Mr. Emerson cambridge, a Yves
leyan Methodist layman of Sheffield,
England. has given $50, 600 for the cree
tion in that city of shelter building"
to supplement the work of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill
dren.
New York City shows good record
in the matter of suspensions in the pub
lie schools. Last year there were but
thirty-five of these $50 schools that ex-
perienced such an extreme measure of
discipline. The number suspended
was only fifty-one in an attendance of
nearly 100000.
The M. E. church has lost but one
Of its bishops by accident, Bishop
Emory, who was fatally injured by be-
ing thrown from his carriage. In all
their railway travelling in this country
they have escaped accident and death.
Two of them, however, have died
abroad-Bishop Wiley in China, and
Bishop Kingsley in Beyrut.
1t has been left to resident of
North Carolina to discover the most
novel way to eDdow a college. His
proposition is to insure the lives of
fifty men, between the ages of 40 and
so, for $1,000 each, and then, as the
policies are collected, convert them
into fund for the college in question.
This would mean a clear $500,0O0
Women are steadily working their
way into all desirable places among
medical circles. At the last meeting of
the British Medical association it was
voted to accept them as members. Ger
man universities are likely soon to give
them equal privileges with men, and
the governors of the Edinburgh Royal
| infirmary have agreed to admit female
students to two wards-an entering
wedge which will IN time give them ac-
cess to the whole institution.
"A papyrus manuscript found in the
1 den of an old hermit near Jerusalem in
the year 1850, and which experts have
all along believed to have been the
handiworl1 of st. Peter, the friend OF
| Christ" was submitted to the Biblical
society of London in 1890. They have
arrived at the conclusion that the work
is in reality exactly what it purports tc
be-the last literary work of the great
apostle. 1t has not been ascertained
exactly who has charge of the relic,
but it Is said that a society of British
literary voluptuaries" has offered 6
hundred thousand dollars for the docu
ment.-St. Louis Republic
Complaint comes from all demon
linations of Nonconformists in England
that there are too many candidates fol
the ministry. The output of ministers
is steadily increasing, while there is NJ
corresponding increase in the demand
for their services, and the Nonconform
Ist branch of the clerical profession i
lgetting grievously overstoclzed. This
it is. asserted, does not mean a spread
ling of rationalistic ideas, but that alto
Igether too many young men make tn
mistake of imagining they hear a cal
to the ministry. Churches and chapel
are as plentiful and as we'll filled u
ever. The profession, some of tn
heads of the church say, is becoming
demoralized by this overplus of minis
ters. The clergymen are advert isinI
themselves, craving for notoriety Il
Saying smart things" and otherwis
1 moving bad effects of being crowded