The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-10-27
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

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Cornell has 5l2 free scholarships, which
aggregate $lh0,OO0.
Italy in 1887 had 70, ,507 schools, IS, 400
teachers and 81 900 attendance.
Joseph Pulitzer has given 100000 to
Columbia College, New York city.
This country has iiity-two law schools,
with Si5 teachers and S,9O6 students.
New York opens five evening high
schools for the use OF advanced pupils
employed during the day,
The first normal school ever estab-
lished for women was that opened in
July, 1889, at Lexington, Mass,
There is probability that there will be
no schools held in the Chickasaw nation
this year on account OF lack OF funds,
Religious teaching in public schools
was declared absolutely necessary by the
Church Of England Synod in Canada.
OF fifty-three young ladies who grad
uated this year from a famous female
educational Institution not one has q pet
name.
The Brooklyn Board of Education has
decided to increase the school hours in
that city over an hour day for the sake
OF physical culture.
The French Minister Of Public Instruc-
tion has issued a circular which will have
the effect of greatly stimulating the
study Of the English language.
Miss Lillian Stephenson is the Repub-
lican nominee for School Commissioner
in the First Oneida IN. Y j district. Her
Democratic competitor is Miss Laura r.
Mayhem.
At the end OF the second week the
Missouri State University had enrolled
475 students. This is forty more than
the number enrolled at the same time
last year.
The Mechanic Arts High School in
Boston promises TO be so much OF sue
cess from the ruah of pupils that more
land and larger building are impera-
lively needed.
Oxford is to have another college for
women. st. Hilda will soon be opened
under the auspices of Miss Dorothea
Beale, q worker in the cause OF higher
education in England.
There are now 800 students at the
University OF North Carolina, and at
least 100 more are expected. The num-
Der Of students at the opening is the
largest in thirty-three years.
The new Searles scientific building at
Bowdoin College will cost sl50,0O0 in
stead Of $4,000, as was first planned
when Edward F. Searles, husband Of the
ate Mrs. Mark Hopkins-searles, an
nounced the gift.
]. Grant Cramer OF Orange, n. j., son
lf q former United States Minister to
Switzerland and q nephew Of General
Grant, has been appointed instructor Of
French and German in Lehigh Univer-
'ity, and has entered upon his duties
there.
There are dozen colleges of more or
ess importance in Kansas, and so far
every one that has opened reports an in
,reased attendance this year over last.
This is one OF the best possible indica-
ions that Kansas is all right.
Women belonging to Baltimore cook
ng school have offered to train in the
science 100 girls attending the
grammar schools OF the city without
:harge, hoping thereby to demonstrate
The utility OF establishing cookery de-
1artment in connection with the public
schools.
Dr. G. G. Grandson, colored man
ind late President OF Bennett College,
ireensborough, n. G., who spoke at the
'ecent memorial exercises at Hampton
Institute, is described as one Of the fore
most orators, not only of his race, but Of
he day. His address was eloquent in
.he extreme, and he has command of all
he resources Of the public speaker. He
Las dash Of Indian blood in him.