The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-12-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

-Columbl bla college has SIX hundred
graduate students. the largest number
in attendance at any college in the
United States.
I'm Count Tolstoi's school at Yesna-
va Polyana all the children were per-
mitted, on principle, to do exactly as
they pleased, but only two arms were
broken.
-Chief-Justice Melville w. Fuller of
the supreme court is to deliver the ora.
tion at the celebration of the cen
tenary of Bowdoin college, Maine, in
June next.
Lord Aberdeen's requested addition
to Rideau hall proves to be chapel
for family worship, and it is also re-
ported that he proposes to build it at
his own expense.
"A small scandal arises in British
church circles from the fact that there
were five hundred applicants for a
place as chaplain on a yacht, and only
five for a curacy of hard work in the
slums.
Mr.. Gladstone has appointed Prof.
Ingram Bywater to succeed the late
Prof. Jowett as master of Balliol col
lege, Oxford university. Prof. Bywater
was the highest European reputation
as a Greek scholar.
AT the beginning of the century
the Bible was accessible to but one
fifth of the population of the world.
Now it may be read by nine-tenths of
the people of the globe, so rapidly has
its translation been carried on.
I'm the United States the Methodist
church stands first in point of num-
bers, having 1000 organizations and
4,59S, 900 communicates; the Baptists
are second, and have $4,000 organiza-
tions and 3,743, 600 communicants; the
Presbyterians are third, with 13, 500 Or
ganizations,an1 1, 1881, 900 communicates
the Roman Catholic org anizations num-
Der 1920, with 6,25s, 900 individuals
in them; the Lutherans have S,595 or
CARNATIONS and communicate mem
bership of 1921 900.
The annual report of the Yale cor
poration, recently submitted, shows
an addition of s2O5,9 to the uni
oersity during the last year, the largest
donation in any department being $685.,
300 in the theological school. One
new professorship has been founded in
the last year-the Washburne in the
theological school, for which Mrs.
Coroline Washburne gave s25, 900. No
allusion is made to the new Wander
bilt dormitory, as the doner will pre-
sent the building when completed, in
efa Of olx ~
$1,000 has been presented by ]. G. Ben
nett, of New York, for prize for
excellence in English.
Arabia is country that, notwith-
standing its sacred associations, has
been sadly neglected by the mod
orn missionary churches. Organized
missionary work was begun by Ion
Keith Falconer, of the Free Church of
Scotland, in 1885 The American mis-
sion was organized five years later.
Its headquarters are at Busrah, and it
has three ordained missionaries, with
three native helpers. Altogether,
among the million of Arabians, there
are only seven missionaries and four
native helpers. These people are
rightly called the Anglo Saxons of the
orient, and in themselves, quite aside
from the history of their country, are
well worth winning.
The official regis ters at Yale uni
versity show presence of 2,19O stu
dents-a gain of 234 over last year.
The academic department gains 11s,
Sheffield scientific school 102, law
school II, theological and medical
schools 8 each, while the art school
and department of philosophy and the
arts show a small loss. Connecticut
sends 6sS students, New York 500,
Pennsylvania 156, Massachusetts, 12O,
Illinois 102, Ohio 80, and New Jersey
81. Thirty women have registered in
the post graduate department. Last
year at this date there were twenty
three. Of the thirty who have regis
tered this year ten are from Smith,
five from Wellesley, six from Vassar,
shree from Cornell, six from Bates, and
one each from six other institutions.