The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-08-28

IL SHOW bIstU UuSio was Io color line in
Matthew Vassar's mind, Providence
paper reprints apropos of the recent STOW,
of colored graduate of Vassar. wba+
Vassar wrote: sit occurred to me- that
woman, having from her Creator a.
same intellectual constitution 40 w.,
has the same right Us man to intellectnai
culture and development. 1t is INV bor'a
to be the instrument in the hand of pro,1i
dence of founding an institution which
shall accomplish for young women what
our colleges are accomplishing for voung |
men,
W. E. B. Du Bots, colored man
has been appointed professor of economics
and history in Atlanta University, an in
stitution for advanced education of men
of his race. After two years of post-orad-
uate study at Harvard, the latter conferred
on him the degree of Phi. d., one of the
few that Institution has given for work in
economics and history. From Harvard
DR.. Du Bots went to Germany and spent
two years in study Returning, he tanpbt
two years in Wilberforce Seminary. Ohio
and later was employed by the Uniyersity
of Pennsylvania to undertake Statistical
investigation among the negros of Phila-
0ClH1l6. 1lC 10 VuO duUbOI vi "A His
tory of the Suppression of the Slave Trade
in the United States" which has been
published by Harvard University as the
first volume of it's historical series. He
is a regular contributor to the s"Annals
of the American Academy of Social Sci
ence'' and other periodicals.
1t is reported in California that Gov
ernor Budd intends to make Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst, widow of the late Senator
Hearst, regent Of the University of Cali
fornia, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Colonel Crocker. Mrs. Hearst
takes a great interest in the university
and intends to donate large sums for its
improvement. She is noted for her phil
anthropy, and has already given millions
to the cause of education.
The Political Equality League of New
York city have organized societies for the
instruction of women in politics in
twenty of the Assembly districtS. Parti-
cular attention is given to political
machinery, beginning with the primaries
and moving on through nominating con-
ventions, registration and voting.
Wesleyan College at Macon, Ga, in
1910 conferred a diploma upon Mrs.
Catherine Brewer Benson. 1t is claimed
puoo uuiS COIlc}56 WAS uIe LT5b Ill UQ6 WOrlQ
to confer a diploma upon woman.
A French writer, wishing to quote bit
of English in the Revue DIES Debats, does
SO evidently from memory,
and speaks of Gladstone rs the great old
man Grand and great are evidently
interchangeable in his vocabulary.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Reed of Chicago, in
honor of her valuable work in Persian
and Hindu literature, has been elected a
member of the Royal Asiatic Society of
London.
Chauncey NJ. Depew is intensely fond
of the Scotch as a race, and thinks that
the only State in the Union which re-
sembles Scotland is Vermont.
J. Pierpont Morgan puts 500 in the
contribution plate every Sunday morn
ing, and has given 81, 0OO,o 600 to the New
York Lying-in Hospital. His benefac-
tons are said to reach $50, COO year
George Peabody's fad was the promotion
of education. His gifts amounted to
more than $4,000, 600. Asa Packer had
the same fad his benefactions amounting
to about 81 100000. He founded Lehigh
University.
Edward Scott Marble. the veteran actor
and dramatist who has hitherto been
free thinker and follower of Colonel In
gersoll, has been converted to the Roman
Catholic faith. rs
Judge Wellhouse is called the apple
king of the world. His orchards in Kan
sas consist Of $3.50 acres, containing 1OO,-
900 apple trees.
Chauncey.M. Depew has before him the
task of signing 10000 new bonds of the
New York Central railroad He will
in eight months. 81 guess I'll know
how to write my name blindfolded when
get through with this job, he says.
Archbishop Keane, now in Rome, will
soon visit the Catholic University in
Washington, of which he was formerly
rector. He will be present at the meet
ing of the University Board of Directors
in October, and will return to Rome
about November l. His friends say that
if he be chosen Archbishop of New Or
leans he will accept the office, but that
he would prefer to remain in Rome.
Most Rev. Napoleon Paul Bruchesi,
who was consecrated Archbishop of Mon
treal recently, has under his Jurisdiction
2S5 churches, university a theological
seminary, two preparatory eminaries,
seven seminaries of religious orders, "a
colleges and high schools for boys, 40
academies and high schools for girls,
1000 parochial schools, 10 orphan
asylums, IL infant asylums, four reform
asylums, 20 asylums for old people, two
deaf mute institutes, three reformatories
for women, IS hospitals, an institute for
the blind. a lunatic asylum and resi-
dence for aged and infirm priests.