The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-04-29
Educational Intelligence.

E~ducational Intelligence.
Oxford University consists Of twenty
two colleges.
The students Of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity are not permitted to publish any
periodical.
The Washington State Board Of Edu-
cation, as announced by Governor Rog-
ers, is w. J. Hughes, H. B. Walker, j.
III. Morgan and Mrs. Rice.
The new bell and clock for Mount
Holyoke College Is to be provided by
the gift Of 81, 900 by George Cutler, Jr,
in memory Of his sister, Mrs. Susan
Cutler Jones.
The Indiana House has passed a com.
pulsory education bill, with the SMALL
maximum Of twelve weeks required
schooling annually for children be-
tween the ages Of eight and fourteen.
Nine juniors of Yale University were
last week brought to account by the
faculty for sending a letter to Corbett,
the pugilist, extending Yale's best
wishes. The signers Of the letter an.
nounced their willingness to retract the
Objectionable sentiment.
The new library at Princeton viii.
cost 100000 and will accommodate
1900, 900 volumes, besides a large num-
Der of recitation rooms for such classes
as require special library facilities.
This structure, Gothic in architecture.
will be one Of the finest buildings of its
kind in this country.
The Educational Club Of Philade,-
phia, has unanimously adopted a reso-
luton. offered by Public School Super
intendent Brooks, urging the Phiia-
delphia members Of the House and
Senate to vote for House bill No. 53, in
creasing the minimum school term in
the State from six 10 V months.
Prof. Jebb, NJ. P, has been nominated
by the crown a member OF the Sen
ate Of the University of London. This
is a very happy nomination, as although
the Senate of the University of London
contains many specialists. Prof. Jebb
will be a distinguished addition to the
few members who are cognizant Of the
subject Of education generally.
Many business men and educators are
signing a petition to the Pennsylvania
Legislature to repeal the compulsory
vaccination law, or to amend it SO as
to have it infict less hardship upon
those school children who are not sus-
ceptible to the virus. Under the present
law a child that is not susceptible to
the virus has it's arm kept in a state of
irritation because of the constant and
| repeated attempts to make the vac
cine take.
One of the most interesting features
Of the last report Of the President Of
| Johns Hopkins University is the state
ment that about 800 of the University's
| graduates. nearly one-half Of the total
number Of graduates, have become
teachers. Chicago University has en-
| ployed %; University of Wisconsin. 16;
Bryn Mawr College, 1S; Leland Stan
ford, Jr., University, II; University of
| Pennsylvania, IS; Cornell, IA; Column
bia, ID; Harvard, 10.
The Des Moines Summer School OF
Methods will hold it's eight annual ses-
| sion at Drake University. July 9Th to
3Oth. 1t is the largest and Oldest sum
| mer school in Iowa. During the last
| seven years it has given training during
the summer vacation to hundreds OF
teachers Of Iowa and ten other States.
| It's corps of instructors are selected
from among the best specialists of five
different States. 1t Is not only a great
school of methods, but it offers oppor-
| tunities for the most thorough instruc-
ton in the common and high school
branches and provides for an examina-
| ton for State certificates at the close Of
the session.