Omaha daily bee., 1895-06-02
academy. Notre Dame, Ind, will be held
EDUCATIONAL NOTES

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The New York school board has purchased
sites for twelve additional school buildings.
Five million dollars have been appropriated
for grounds and buildings.
The number of schools the accredited
list of the university of California is now
forty-eight. Nearly every section of Call
ifornia is represented.
The first woman to be graduated from st,
Andrews university, Scotland, is said to bs
Miss Blackadder, the daughter Of Dundee
architect She is 10 years old.
In the name of the overseers of Harvard,
President Eliot has offered site for the pro-
posed college infrmary. 1t is intended ia
make the intrmery a memorial to the lats
DR.. Peabody.
The new register of the university of Call
ifornia shows the total number OF students
enrolled at the colleges at Berkeley to be
1,124, Of which 399 are women. This is an
excess over the sister university at Palo Alto
of twenty-four, they having increased 13 per
cent, while the State university increase is
SO per cent. Including those enrolled in the
affiliated colleges In San Francisco, the grand
total amounts to 1,7S1.
1t has been decided by the senate of the
University of Michigan to hold elaborate ex-
ercises a year from this coming commence
ment to celebrate the successful cose Of DR..
Angels first quarter Of century as presi-
dent Of the university. committee was
| appointed consisting of the deans of the vari-
GUS departments to take the matter in charge
and prepare a plan for the celebration. II
| similar committee to Join in the under
| taking
Germany has adopted the system of separat-
| ing the bright pupils from the stupid ones
in the public schools The sorting is to be
done not by the teachers but by medical
men.
Miss Nellie Temple, a graduate OF Vassar
with high honors in 1882, has been engaged by
the University of Lepsic to assist DR.. Ratzel.
its American professor of history, in the prep
aration Of a work on the United States. Miss
| Temple 1t is said. was pushed for pro-
| fessorship In the university, and only the
rules Of the institution prevented her election.
The University of Pennsylvania will hold
examinations for entrance TO the college next
June in over a score OF cities located in diff
ferent parts of the country. AS the university
draws students from almost every state in
the union, these local examinations will en-
able many applicants living at a distance
| from Philadelphia to avoid the expense OF
long Journey for the purpose of an examina-
| tion. The examinations will be held June II
and IS, and will all be of the same character
as those held upon the same dates at the
university in Philadelphia
| The Philadelphia school board has abolished
June examinations in all grades below the
| twelfth. Promotions in these grades will be
made on term averages.
The board of regents of the University
| of Michigan recently took the first steps
toward the reorganization Of the homeopathic
medical department. The department was
declared by resolution to be distinct and
independent Of every other department, and
a committee TO draft new set Of rules and
| regulations for II was appointed.
Luther academy, located at Wahoo, Neb..
has issued its twelfth annual catalogue, Civ
ing detailed information regard ng the college.