Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-29
Educational.

| DR.. Nansen, the explorer, has beer
presented with gold medal by the St
Louis Pedagogic Society, of ST. Louis
Mo-, in appreciation of his work in be
half of science.
| Miss Alice L. Gould, of Boston
Mass, at the session of the National
Academy of Sciences, held November
II, gave $40, 200 for astromicaI and
mathematical research.
The new agricultural building in
connection with Booker T. Washing
toms normal and industrial institution
at Tuskegee, Ala, was formally
opened on November 80, with impos-
ing ceremonies.
The board of education of Minneapo-
lis, Mimi, has issued an u1timatum
stating that it has no money and no
legal right to borrow, and therefore
the public schools will close on March
1, 1898.
The private moral schools of Ne
braska, which are possessed of prop
erty valued at 500, 900, have now the
privilege of granting life certificates
to teach, by bill that passed the last
Legislature.
The board of education of Richmond,
Va, has ordered the public schools to
be closed from December II to January
| 5, for lack of funds. The school fund
has been reduced in accordance with a
general plan of retrenchment recently
adopted.
Miss Este1le Reel has been success
full as superintendent of public in
struction in Wyoming. She has charge
of the leasing and selling of the school
lands, and under her administration
the income of the state from this
source has grown from 500 to ST. 900 a
week.
The National Educational Associa-
ton will meet next year in July at
kWashington D. c. The executive
Committee of the association is COM
posed of the following national direc-
Tors: James M. Greenwood, Kansas
City; Allen G. Lane, Chicago; Irwin
l6hepard, Winona, Mimi; I. C. Nc
seii1, West Superior, Wis; Charles R.
I Yale University will have for the
first time in its history japanese
woman as a student. Miss Yoshi
Yamaguchi and her brother, Leiichi
| Yamaguchi, have come from Kiota for
the purpose of completing their educa-
ton. Both have studied at the
Doshisha University, and one of the
| leading colleges in Japan. Miss
Yoshi intends to make a speciality of
English and music.
The college of history, in connection
with the American university at Wash
ington, marble building, l76 feet
long and go feet deep and SO feet high,
is just completed. Among the first
articles of furniture to be placed in the
new structure will be table and set
of chairs, once the property of Charles
Sumner; wardrobe that belonged to
George Bancoft, and the war desk of
Edwin M. Stanton, all of which have
recently been acquired by the univer-
sity.
| Mr.. p. A. B. Widener, of Pennsy1-
/ vania, has announced his intention to
present his magnificent residence to
the free library of Philadelphia. The
building is to be held in trust forever
by the city as an integral part of the
free library system, under the name of
the Josephine Widener Memorial
branch, to commemorate the deceased
wife of the donor. A low estimate of
the value of the residence when equip
ed for library purposes, is 5000, 900,
and the donor will expend $500, 900 ad-
ditional in placing therein a gallery
OF choice specimens of purely Ameri-
can art.
Some figures relative to education
and crime were read by Sir John Lub-
book at the sociological congress re-
Gently held in Paris. They are essen
tally as follows: Since the act of
1870, the number of children in Eng
lish schools has increased from 1,S0O,
600 to 5000, 900, and the number of per-
sons in prison has fallen from 1900
to 5000. The yearly average of per-
sons sentenced to penal servitude for
the worst crimes, has declined from
5000 to 500, while juvenile offenders
have fallen from 1900 to 5000. Sir
John Lubbock sees in these figures a
confirmation of Victor Hugo's saying,
that che who opens school closes a
prison.
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