Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
Education.

have been asked to contribute each a
penny for the purchase of library
for the batt1eship Kentucky.
Prof. Henry W. Farnam, of Yale, is
member of the civil service board
recently appointed in New Haven
under the provision of the new city
charter.
An effort is being made by the Fed
Grated Woman's Clubs of Michigan tc
raise SO, 900 the sum needed to com
p1ete the Woman's Building of the
University of Michigan.
Col. John Lambert, vice president
and manager of the Consolidated
Steel and Wire Company, has present
ed the city of Joliet, ILL.,, with $4,000
for library building fund.
The Rev. William F. Lewis, of Viii
1 ming ton, DEL, has been called to the
professorship of Hebrew and OLD
Testament Scripture in the Presby
terrain Theological college at Ba1a
Wales.
The government, in the state Of
Neuvo Leon, Mexico, has ordered that
the pupils of all official schools shall
be taught writing and all manual
ia SKIS with the left hand as well as
the right.
The fifty-one members of the fresh
man class of Beloit College, who were
suspended for going out of town to a
banquet on Thanksgiving day, have
been re-instated. They have ali
promised sincere loyalty to college
law.
Nikola Tesla, the inventor, an
nounces that he has perfected vacuum
tubes of such high illuminating power
that they may be used in lighthouses,
and that they will enable the pho
tographer to work by night as well
as by day.
| Miss Rose c.. Swart, who has been
connected with the Normal School at
Oshkosh for twenty-six years, has
been elected president of the Wiscon-
sin State Teachers Association, the
first time that honor has been accord
ed a woman.
| A bill has been introduced in the
state Legislature, of Georgia, in regard
to the eligibility of women for en-
trance into the state university. The
chancellor of the university declares
himself, it is stated, as unequivoca11y
in favor of the bill.
Girard College, at Philadelphia, Pa,
completed the half century of its ex.
istence on January 3, and celebrated
the event with appropriate ceremonies.
Nearly six thousand young men have
been educated through the munifcence
of the late Stephen Girard.
A chair is to be founded at the var
ious universities of Russia for the pur-
pose of having the Hindustani tongue
talked to officers. The pupils are to
be sent to India to complete their
studies if they attain certain degree
of proficiency, to be determined by
examination.
The school board of Iron Mountain,
Mich, has passed the following reso-
luton: "A1l teachers are hereby re.
quested to refrain from attending
dances, parties and other social enter
tainments held upon evenings pre-
ceding days upon which school is to be
in session.
The encouragement and state
school superintendent of Kansas have
decided that two hundred schoo1houses
in the depopu1ated districts in West
ern Kansas may be sold at public
auction. These buildings have stood
for years unoccupied, the homes of
bats and owls.
A university for women is to be es-
tablished at Toxic, Japan. The plan
has the support of the principal Off
Gals and mobiles of the empire, and the
Emperor and Empress have contribu-
ted money toward it. 1t will cost, &C
cording to the estimates, about $175,-
600 to start it.
AT the session of the Academic des
Sciences, held at Paris on December
13, the Cuvier prize of $500 francs
was awarded to Prof. o. C. Marsh, of
Yale University. This prize is
awarded every three years for the
most remarkable work either on the
animal kingdom or on geology"
The Georgia legislature has passed
bill for the establishment of a tex
tile school as a branch of the state
school of technology in Atlanta. The
sum of $4,000 is appropriated for the
purpose, on condition that a like sum
be raised. The school will be the first
of its kind in the South.
State Superintendent Inglis, of I1li-
nois, is about to begin an investipa-
ton of the way in which the law re
quiring the teaching in the schools of
the effects of alcohol on the human
body is carried out. A vote was taken
at Belleville as to whether it should
be complied with, and the nays were
largely in the majority. The mem
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