The Van Buren press., 1895-01-05
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


pal churches.
There are eight Methodist congre.
cations in Salt Lake City.
The Bible depository at Shanghai,
China, issued 133,525 volumes during
the months Of July and August.
The sum of $4,000 has been given
by Thomas Dolan, of Philadelphia, to
the fund of 100000 for the dormitory
system Of the iversity of Pennsyl-
vania.
Rev. R. A. Thompson, scotchman
of New Britain, Conn. who has been in
Japan eleven years, has given $4,000
for a mission steamer to be used in that
country.
The will of the late J. Porter
Woodbury., of Lynn. Mass, gives to the
American board and the American
Home Missionary society, $500 each;
to the First church of Lynn. 81, 600; to
the American Missionary association,
$500; to home for aged men in Lynn.
if ever established, $500.
The will Of the late Edwin j. Leis-
enring, Of Philadelphia, gives to St.
Luke's hospital, South Bethlehem, and
the Presbyterian hospital, Philadel-
phia, $4,000 each; First Presbyterian
church and Sabbath-scheol of Mauch
Chunk, $1,000. and the Young Mems
Christian association of tMauch Chunk,
s., 900.
Miss Harriet Chedie Conner was the
first woman to become member of the
congress for orators at Cornell univer-
sity, and she won the Woodford prize
for oratory, the greatest ever offered
for that purpose in this country. It
has always, heretofore, been won by a
man; and this fair Iowa girl captured
1t in contest with five masculine com.
petitors.
Mrs. William e. Vermilye has pre-
sented to st. Bartholomew's Protestant
Episcopal church in New York an altar
and cross for the new baptistrt, In
memory of her late husband. The altar
is Of white marble in the byzantine
style, and in the same design is the al
tar cross, which is wrought in gilded
brass and studded with jewels, con-
tanning one hundred and nine of them
diamonds, topazes, amethysts, car
buncles, garnets and crystals.
The new senior parlor recently
opened at Vassar is said to be more
charming now than ever before. Il
has been enlarged to twice its former
size, and is furnished in harmonious
tones of green. Toits furnishing each
senior student pays a certain amount.
and the parlor is further enriched by
the loan of certain possessions of the
various seniors. It is in this apart
ment that the seniors do their reading
and sewing, receive their callers, and
enjoy the social life that makes the
college homelilxe.
The Teachers club OF Cincinnati
is of the opinion that there are q NUM-
Der Of persons deprived OF the opportu-
nifty Of attending college who would be
glad Of the chance Of attending even
ing courses in college studies. They
have, therefore, issued circular of in
quiry, asking those who would like to
take such lessons to indicate whether
they would take a regular course lead
ing to the degree of B. A. or B. L., or
b. S., or special course. There would
be regular courses for those who are
prepared for college, and special
courses for those who have not de-
gree in view. 1t is the opinion of the
club that universities and colleges do
not at present make satisfactory pro-
vision for the large number of persons
who are both desirious and qualified to
pursue college studies, but whom cir
cumstances compel to be otherwise en-
gagged during the hours of the day. y
and that university extension does not
offer an adequate course to this class.