The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-08-10
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

M. Suares. a Jewish banker. has
given 100000 to the French arch:eo-
Logical! school at Cairo.
r. Christian Endenvor society has
been formed in connection with the
blind asylum in Glasgow, Scotland.
The past year has been a prosper
ous one in the Baptist churches in this
country. There has been gain OF
40, 4:;3 members, while the increase in
the number of ordained ministers is
nearly 1000.
There is flourishing society of
Christian Endeavor on the island of
TaIaofO i'll the South sea, which has
ffty-Six members, the entire Popula-
ton of the island being only two hum
drcd and siS:y-four.
From Sitl<a, Alaska, comes the re-
port of a Christian Endeavor society
in n past orlcss church, which takes
charge of the Sunday evening service
and conducts "A weekly prayer meeting
in an outlying Indian village.
The oldest church in the United
States is the church of san Miguel, at
Santa Fe, n. NJ. 1t was erected seven
ty-scven years before the landing of
the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock, TWEEN.
ty years before the founding Of st.
Augustine, Fla, and tifty-thrca years
after the landing of Columbus.
1T is announced that it is ques-
ton whether the university Of Jena
can be maintained. 1t is the highest
educational institution of the little
state of Thuringia, and the statement
has recently been officially pu blished
from the capital city, Weimar. that the
house of representatives does not know
whence to secure funds for the con-
tinuall Embarrassing needs of the school
In theology and philosophy Jena has
been the exponent of liberal and even
radical thought for many wears.
-Lofca do IIenrn relates that there
was a remarkable identity of ideas and
expressions in the compositions writ
ten by his Japanese pupils on a single
theme. But it is not necessary to go
to Japan to discover the like. There
is commonly just such a similarity of
thought and expression in most school
com positions on the same subject. 1t
seems merely that immature minds in
Japan, as in American, note the obvi-
Gus. with the difference, perhaps, that
the training of the Japanese child in
tenSifies his cGnvcntiona1itics OF
thought and expression.
An Englishwoman, Miss Grace
Chisholm, has taken the degree of doc
tor of philosophy at the university of
Gottingen, with the express pernlis-
sion of the Prussian minis ter of cduca
ton. This is the first degree ever
taken by woman since Gettingcn be-
came a Pruss!an university. The cln-
peror has hitherto opposed the admis-
sion of women to the imperial universe
ties, and it is supposed that the con-
ferring of the degree upon Miss CHS
holm indicates a change of policy and
the beginning of further concessions
in regard to the higher education of
women. The new departure has
caused much stir in the German acadc-
mic world.
leipzig university has just lost its
two best known medical professors in
Friedrich Thicrsch and Karl Ludwig.
who died within two days of each
other. Thiersch was one of the great
est surgeons of his generation, and
during the war with France was sur
geon-in-chief of the Twelfth army
corps. Ludwig was one of the fore
most psychologists of the century, and
pioneer in modern methods OF in
vestigation. He had to sustain vio-
lent attacks from the anti-viviscction-
lists, and for long time one Of the
sights of Leipzig was a little dog he
owned in whose breast was set Il glass
plate allowing the beatings of the
heart to be seen. Ludwig's daughter
married DIR. Bowditch, of the Harvard
medical school.