The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-03-03
SCHOOL AND ctsURcss.

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The principal Protestant misssons
In South America are those of the Tres
byterian church, north and SOUTH the
Southern Baptist church, the MethodiAe
Episcopal church, north and south.
and the South American Missionary
society.
Now that the rod is practically oue
of date as an educational implement.
it surprises and pleascs people OF mid
die age to observe the friendlinesa
that their children often show for
their teachers The younsters go to
school willingly and stay after hours
to chat with the teachers.
-Inthe free night-schools of Cooper
Union, New York, there are two se0-g
tions, the scientific and the art. each
having course OF i've years.
time he oleases, but if he or she is abb
sent three times without satisfactory
excuse, the privileges of the school are
withdra wn. In some classes the num-
Der of applicants is greatly in excess
of the accommodation.
The Maryland Episcopalians arc
talking of dividing the diocese. making
the city of Washington one diocese and
the state of Maryland the other: Some.
however, object to this. on the ground
that the future bishop of Washington
ought to have some outside missionary
up. They say he might get to calling
himself "Washington,' after the En-
glish fashion,; and If his front name
should happen to be George the result
would be awkward.
AT the annual meeting of the board
of trustees of the American university
| in Washington, the chancellor, Bishop
Hurst. announced gift of 800. 600
| The site is valued at $500, 900, and
! pledges towards buildings aud endow-
| ments amounting to $500, 200 had been
received before the last donation of
1 1oo, 90 was received. The university.
; therefore, has, in property and pledges.
| s7OO, 900. No department. of the uni
versity has yet been organized and
opened. When sufficient funds are Sc
cured to warrant it, buildings will be
y! erected, and the work OF organizing
the teaching of the university will be-
! gin.
| Col. Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son, who has just celebrated his seven
tieth birthday, recently gave interest
ing testimony to the decline of drink
ing among the students of Harvard
university. He used in his younger
years to see students reeling down
North avenue, in bridge, from Por-
ter's tavern, where they had INDUCED
in the potent Zip" which nowhere
else was made SO strong. and instances
of intoxicated students careering
through the college yard Were not un-
common, 'swhile nowadays" says the
colonel, ~ am sure no student would
willingly be seen staggering across
Harvard square. 1t would be consid-
cred poor form, and any man who did
such thing would lose caste.
An Odessa correspondent says that
the RussianorthodoN missionaries have
SO failed in their proselytizing efforts
among the Khirgese that the missions
will probably be shortly withdrawn.
Nearly the w hole of the steppe tribes.
; generally described as ''heathens." ara
now adopting, almost en- masse, the
. Mohammedan faith. which is spread
among them chiefly by Tartar teach
ers. The NIohammedan Tartars have
I always enjoyed the right Of free prose
lytism among the natives of the
kirghese steppes. According to a re
! port just issued Ivy the All-Russia,
, Orthodox Missions society, during ths
, last p years its missionaries, have
, made IS converts among the heathen'
, of Asiatic and European Russia ant
Japan. The cost of these missions dur
= ing the quarter of a century amount
y | tn g 40 763 rubleS