The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-01-27
scHc0L AND CHURCH.

-Colu.nbia 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 Ycsna-
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
ton at the celebra ton of the CEN
tenary of Bowdoin college, Maine, in
June next.
Lord Aberdeen's requested addition
to Rideau ball proves to be a 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 Il
place as chaplain on a yacht, and only
five for n curacy of hard work in the
slulns.
Mr.. Gladstone has appointed Prof.
Ingram Bywater to succeed the late
Prof. Jowett as master of lsalliol col
lege, Oxford university. Prof. Bywatcr
was the highest European reputat ton
as a Greek scholar.
AT the beginning of the century
the Bible was accessible to but one
Now it may be read by nine-tenths of
the people of the globe, SO rapidly has
its translation been carried on.
In the United States the Methodist
church stands first in point of num-
bers, having 81 200 organizations and
1895, 900 communicates; the Baptists
are second. and have 43, 900 organiza-
tionS and 5, 7i3, 600 communicates: the
Presbyterians are third, with Is, 500 Or
ganizations.anl 1, 2S1 900 communicates
the Roman Catholic org anizations num-
Der 1920, with 6.25S. 600 individuals
in them; the Lutherans have s,595 Or
CARNATIONS and commandment mem
bership of 1.231 900.
The annual report of the Yale cor
poration, recently submitted. shows
an addition of SOS, ?1O to the uni
versity during the last year, the largest
dona ton in any department being $685.
900 in the theological school. One
new professorship has been founded in
the last year-the Washburne in the
Coroline Washburne gave SOS, 900. Nc
allusion is made to the new Wander
bilt dormitory, as the doncr will pre-
sent the building when completed. in
, stead of advancing funds. a fund Of
81 900 has been presented by !. c. Ben
nett, of New York, for a prize for
excellence in English.
Ara bia is country that. notvith
standing it's sacred associations, has
been sadly neglected by the mod
ern missionary churches. Orga lied
missionary work was begun by Ion
Keith Ealconer, of the Free Church Of
Scotland, in 1855 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 Ara bians, 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 tiers at Yale uni
versity show a presence of J, 100 stu
dents--:l gain of 234 over last year.
The academic department gains 11s,
Sheffield scientific school 1o2. law
school II, theological and medical
schools 5 each, while the art school
! and department of philosophy and the
arts show Il small loss. Connecticut
i sends 6SS students, New York 500
| Pennsylvania 1856. Massachusetts 100
| Illinois 1O2, Ohio %, 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
! one each from six other institutions.