The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-07-20
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

Ont of %. 900 students matriculateo
- German universities this semeter
2 f50 are foreigners, the largest num-
Der on record, and over ~ per cent. OF
the total.
Miss Jane Harrison. an English Ia
dv who has been connected with
Newman College for the last twenty
wears, is now an LII. D. by grace OF tho
University of Aberdeen.
1T may not generally be known
that Arch Deacon Farrar, OF Westmin-
stcr who has just been appointed Dean
of Canterbury, has been. since 1890. the
chaplain of the House of Commons.
pr. Edward J. James, of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, is about to re-
tire from the presidency of the Amer
lean Society for the Extension OF Uni
versity Teaching. He has been at the
{ head of the work in Philadelphia for
four years, or practically from It's IN
ception-
There are loose-tongued ministers
ip England also. At the Liverpool AS
sizes recently the vicar of st. Marga-
rets Anfield was sued for SANDER ana
compelled to apologize for describing
the Liverpool Junior Reform club as
| nothing but drinking-shop and
gambling hell
| Pope Leo NILS hands are nearly
| useless and cause him much suffering.
When he writes he must hold his righs
| wrist with his left hand, and what he
writes is almost illegible. This is due
not to age, but to an attack OF ague
twenty-five years ago, when he was
| Bishop of Perugia.
/ Cornell has tested the principle OF
co-education twenty years, and proved
| il a success. 1t is stated that the num-
| her of Young women attending the
university has increased, so that the
accommodations in Sage Hall, the WON
ems dormitory, have become insufi-
Gent. The trustees have decided to
enlarge the dormitory at an expense OF
about $50, 600
j Great changes have been made IN
the library of the convent on mount
Sinai, where the newly discovered syr-
lac Gospels are kept An addition mas
been built, a room fitted up for stu
dents, and the books and manuscripts
taken out of the baskets into which
they were thrown and arranged on
shelves and catalogued. Care is also
taken that the manuscripts are not
stolen.
The Diocese of Maryland OF the
Protestant Episcopal church has re-
ceived legacy of $4,000 from the ess
tate.of Mrs. c. Spraight Keerl, mem'
bef of Grace church. Baltimore, who
died in Baltimore one year ago last
! January. Mr. Keerl was the widow OF
Thomas NJ. Keerl, who was promi-
nent lawyer of Baltimore. The legacy
1 will go toward the Baltimore endow'
!. ment fund for the new diocese.
Another candidate for the ministry
. in the Methodist church has refused te
: answer the question, DO yor refuse tt
!. abstain from the use of tobacco?" THAI
e question is put to all seeking to entel
4 the ministry of the Methodist Episco
: nal church. This candidate. Mr. DilloI
y bronson, refused to answer the SAM
' question year ago. He did say, how
n ever, 81 have never been user OF to
/. bacco in any form; neither do ! ev
Il er expect to be-" and this answer wa
= received instead of the pledge. Bishol
= Merrill, in speaking OF the matter
= plainly indicated his opinion that tn
question was one which had perhap
"A better be unaSked.