San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-06
SCHOOL AND CHURCH,

ladies on its board of education. and
one of them, Mrs. Alice IIaldeman. Is
president.
AT Suva, in the Fiji islands the
cornerstone of a Roman Catholic ca.
thedral has just been laid. 1t is to be
built of stone and dedicated to st. Paul.
The educational course at st. John,
n. H., will include the following sub
jects: Practical electricity, French,
singing, mechanical drawing and book
keeping. There is also a Chautauqua
circle.
Foreign commercial travellers in
Russia besides paying a tax, must
henceforth he provided with properly
attested papers of Identification; their
passports must state the limit of time
of their permission to travel in the EN-.
pire, and must distinctly tell the reli-
giOus profession of the traveller
The students at Rutgers college
have agreed to cooperate with the
faculty in the scheme for self govern
ment proposed by President Scott. A
standing committee, composed of per-
sons chosen from the faculty and the
students, is to investigate all breaches
of discipline and recommend action
thereon to the faculty.
The Baroness Langenau, of Wen
ma, has been much prosecuted by GER
tain Lutherans because she is a Meth
odist. She recently spoke al a meeting
of the West London mission. which is
conducted by Methodists, and pre-
scented it with necklace worth ten
thousand dollars, to be sold for the
benefit of the mission.
The university of Chicago an
| nounces in its department of compare
| tive religion special opportunities for
| those intending to be missionaries
| For the winter quarter of the present
year it offers Il three months course
in Hindu under the direction Of Rev
| Fulton J. Coffin, who was engaged in
practical mission work among the peo-
pie of India for several years. This
course is an addition to those on the
religions of non-Christian peoples
AT Athens the Greek government
has recently declared the whole region
lying between the Thesciou and the
monument of LySicratcS archaeological
ground, thereby compelling the pro-
prietors to sell at prices to be fixed by
a commission of sworn experts. 1t is
believed that the American and Ger
man schools and the Archaeological So
ciety of Athens can easily raise the
funds needed to buy it up. The latter
society, in its excavations at Epidau-
roS, has brought to light the stadium.
which is apparently intact. On sink
ing trenches across the area to a depth
of five yards or more, the rows of mar
bic chairs, each with its inscription,
which ran completely around the stadi-
um, We're found in their proper places.
1t will be the first Greek stadium yet
known in its original state.
An appeal for help has recently
been made by the BOdleian library at
Oxford, which is the largest university
library in the world, and is surpassed
by only five national libraries. the
Bibliotheque Rationale at Paris, the
British museum, the Imperial library
at St. Petersburg, and the royal
libraries at Munich and Berlin. 1t re-
ceives for all purposes $4,000 a year,
and needs money to support its staff;
to prepare its catalogue, which is now
years behind the times: to heat the
portrait gallery; to repair the build
ing, the finest public cditice of the time
of James l.. and to provide shelves for
books in the AshmOlcan museum.
which has just been put at its disposal.
The BodIcian containing over 100000
volumes, the separate titles in the
catalogue amounting to 1,5OO, 600; the
new acceSSiOnS of books ami pamphlets
are nearly CO.. 600 a year; it has the sec
Ond largest numismatic collection in
the British empire. Books and coins
are declared by the librarian to be in
state of chaos owing to the lack of
funds; the library needs at least S75, 900
to be kept efficient. ard he calls on the
public for assistance, as Oxford, owing
to the agricultural depression, is too
poor to support its own library.