The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-06-10
Educational Intelligence.

Educational
The Sheffield scientific school Of Yale
University receives $4,000 by the will
of Mrs. Sarah Won Nostrand.-Science.
The Alcalde.
Mrs. Josiah NJ Fiske has given $14U,-
900 to Barnard College. The money is
to be used in building west wing to
be known as ''Fiske Hall"
The department of natural history OF
Vassar College will receive about $685.
600 through the settlement of the will
of the late Jacob P. Giraud.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
compulsory education law, providing
that every child between the ages Of
{ and IA shall attend school sixteen
weeks each year.
About $4,000 have been contributed
toward student home in Berlin. About
forty students of theology are furnish
ed with lodging and board for period
Of three years free of charge.
The law school at Yale will inaugur-
ate a new custom this spring in having
a doctors Grafton at commencement.
Each year the orator will be chosen
from the graduate or fOurth-year cf3ss.
Chicago has a total public school en-
rollment of 1850. with an average
attendance of 17S,901. The number of
high school pupils is 7,781; grammar,
56,233; primary, 125,355. There are
4,475 teachers.
Ex-Governor RObie, of Maine, who
at the time of the erection of the Cor
ham normal school building generously
donated $4,000 for that purpose, has
now given s., 600 additional toward the
erection of the new normal school dor
mitory.
The Massachusetts House has reject
ed the bill providing for the school
teachers retirement fund in Boston, on
the ground that it is unjust to tax the
many for the benefit of a few-cOmpel-
ling many teachers to join an insurance
company in which they really have no
interest.
Minnesota teachers object TO being
taxed one per cent. for the creation of
a pension fund for the retirement of
men teachers after twenty-five years,
and women teachers after twenty
years of service. 1t is thought proba-
BILE that the bill before the Legislature
will not become a law
There is truth in the remark of Prof.
Bailey. of the University of California.
who in a recent address said that il
was not so much the studies which
children pursued as the individuality
of the teacher, which makes the last
ing impression. The teacher should
try to educate by bringing out right in
stincts and developing the natural ap-
titudeS OF those under his charge.
In the public schools of Boston 1 1.6OG
scholars are daily provided with hot
lunches The food is prepared at cen
tral kitchen. whence it is distributed
by expresses TO the various schools
This system is found to be entirely sat
isfactory. The variety of food is quite
large, and the prices very moderate.
For cents choice of dishes is offered,
while for 10 cents the sum of all local
epicureanism may be reached.
\ cooking school has been a part of
the regular school system Of Spring
field. Mass. for three years. There are
now sixteen day classes in the school
besides six evening classes and one
for married women held Saturday af-
ternOon Pupils are taught the charac-
ter of various foods, how to prepare
and serve them. as well as canning and
The girls when at work
are dressed in white aprons. white
sleeves and little white caps