The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-11-30
SCHOOL AND U r

MIR. Mark Strass, a wealthy citizen
of Elyria. O., has presented to Oberlin
college an entire block valued at fifty
thousand dollars.
Rev. DIR. Samuel Shute, for thirty.
six years professor of English litera.
ture at the Columbian university in
Washington. has resigned He desires
to retire from active work.
Prof. Howard B. Grose, registrar
and assistant professor of history in
the university extension department.
of Chicago university, has resigned his
position to take up editorial work on
Boston paper.
1t is said that the only hymn ever
written by an American Indian is that
beginning 'Awaked by Sinai's Awful
Sound" It's author was Samson Oc-
cum, an Indian preacher of ability,
who lived in the seventeenth century.
Charles Robinson, who until last
February was assistant editor of the
North American Review. and who was
mentioned as the possible successor of
Josiah Quincy when the latter resigned
as assistant secretary of state, has de-
cided to enter a Franciscan monastry.
During the middle ages the con-
troversial spirit was so high among
scholars that students under them car
ried arms and fought on meeting each
other. This was customary at Oxford,
and it is thought to be the origin of
the still surviving ane rushes and
other forms of mob and anarchial vio-
lence which characterize certain insti-
tutions of learning.
The eighteenth anniversary of the
establishment of the Pacific Garden
Mission, Chicago, was celebrated re-
Gently. This is the mission established
by Col. George R. Clark, who for
fifteen years left his office every day at
five o'clock, and from that hour until
ten o'clock each night worked in the
mission. Since his death in 1892 his
wife and Mr.. Harry Monroe have car
ried on the work.
Vienna has elected an anti-Semitic
municipal council by a large majority,
on a programme including the separa-
ton of Jewish and Christian children
in the public schools, the exclusion of
Jews from Office, the unemployment
of Jewish contractors, and the cancel
lation of existing public contracts
with them. The Jews form one-tenth
of the population of Vienna and pay
One-third of the taxes.
At the recent session of the South.
ern California conference Rev. George
W.. White, presiding elder Los Angeles
district, was appointed president of the
University of Southern California, To-
Gated at Los Angeles, by unanimous
request of the board of directors and
the conference. Mr.. White is a grad
udte of Cornell college, Mt. Vernon,
Ia, class of 'sS; transferred from Upper
Iowa conference to Southern California
in 1884; has been three years presiding
elder of Los Angeles district, and for
six years a director in the institution
of which he now becomes president.
Presbyterian missions in Persia,
including the eastern and western Sec
tions, report the following statistics
for last year: Stations, 6; o~ut-stations,
81; ordained missionaries, II; medical
missionaries, men, S; women, 4; lay
missionaries, 1; lady missionaries, in
Guiding wives. Ss; total. 63; ordained
natives, 45; licentiates and teachers,
pa; total of native laborers, 2s9;
churches, 80; communicates. 2,S3s;
added during the year, 17S; students
for the ministry. IL; total of pupils in
AL schools, $40; hospitals and dis
DenSarieS- !. D~atientS treated 20 7S5
native contributions, S23, 500.