The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-10-20
SCHOOL AND cHURcA.

Miss Elizabeth Campbell MacMer-
tin, the director of the Lasell seminary
gymnasium, has in charge during the
summer the open-air gymnasium on the
Charles river, near Boston. This has
been in existence four years, and in .
pronounced success.
President Eliot of Harvard, who
has become SO conspicuous before the
college world of late, especially on ac-
count of his attitude toward athletics,
is credited with the following utter
ance: s'The Greeks, who knew more
about athletics than we shall learn in
a hundred years, held their olympic
games once in four years, while to-day
the college students want at least four
contests every year.
Yale students mourn the destruc-
ton of the oldest dormitories, which
are full of associations. TWAS erected
in 1900 and known as berkeley hall,
being named named after Bishop Berl<e-
ley. With the erection of White, Van
derbilt and Berkeley halls. the three
new dormitories at Yale, the older
buildings were doomed, and South, the
Atheneum and North Middle will have
disappeared by the opening of the fall
term.
The old Cherry Valley academy,
which was recently destroyed by fire,
was nearly a hundred years old, and it
was there that many of the most IA
nous men and women in New York
state received their early education.
DIR. Eliphalet Mott, later president of
Union college, was at one time prin-
cipal of this academy, and its first head
was Rev. Solomon Spaulding, after
wards the alleged author of the Book
of Mormon. The building was a re-
marl<ably fine specimen of colonial
architecture.
Women students in the Chicago
university take course in domestic
science. In the first term is considered
house sanitation, embracing the sub
jects of the location, ventilation, heat
ing, draining, plumbing. and proper
furnishing of a house. In the second
term the study of water, food and cloth
ing from a scientific point come up for
attention, the subject of diet is con-
sidered. and food authorizations are in
vestigated. The third term is devoted
to domestic economy. when students
give their attention to the administra-
ton of the household.
The pope's physician, Prof Lap
porte. has declared to the correspond
emit of the Berliner Tageblatt that Leo
NH. is in excellent health. His diges-
tive organs function with the greatest
regularity, and his sleep is excellent.
The pope is tough ever he was: he
can even be called robust. He takes
pleasure in lifting from the bookshelves
and laying on his desk heavy folios of
ST. Jerome weighing ten or twelve
pounds. While he makes use of a sedan
/ chair, did his predecessors, to &c
about the gardens, he often walks or
stands for hours. His intellectual
faculties are entirely fresh.
America is honored in having the
| first worlds secretary of Young WON
ems Christian associations chosen from
| among her daughters. The incumbent
| of that responsible position is Miss
Annie NJ. Reynolds, of North Haven
Conn.,. a Wellesley graduate, special
| student at Yale, an accomplished lin
! guist, an active worker in various
philanthropies, and sister of Prof
| James b. Reynolds, the successor OF
Stanton Colt in the University Settle
| lnent in New York. Miss Reynolds
| headquarters will be in London, but
| her duties will require extensive travel
| on the continent, where she has already
resided at different times. Her frs
official work will be in connection with
the August conference of Young Won
| ems Christian associations in Neuf
| chatel, Switzerland.