Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-01

ship is worth $500 a year for four years, the
income OF an endowment fund. The
scholarship is open 10 western boys only,
The Philadelphia Times announces that
the contest OF the will of the late Dr..
Thomas w. Evans, the noted American VINO
accumulated a fortune i'm Paris, is about to
De- settled BY the terms of the will
S7Qo 900 was left to found a dental college
in Philadelphia.
In only nine states of the union does the
reading of the bible as a part of school
exercises rest on a legal basis, plainly
written In the state constitution or in the
sChool law, These states are Massachusetts,,
georgia, Mississippi and North and South
Dakota
The University of Michigan has begun
what promises to be the record year in its
history In the matter of attendance, Those
who, have followed the registration closely
freely predict an attendance of not less
| than $500. the largest increase showing in
the law department where the enrolment
The win of DR.. Calvin S. Ellis leaves
SSS'gVo TO pay tuition and room rent for any
of his descendants going to Harvard. This
sixteen years contest, the testator having
died in 1883. Meanwhile several descendants
are now none left to profit by the WILL
| Miss Eva Johnston has been elected TO
succeed DR.. John NJ. Burnam as assistant
professor Of Latin in the University Of
MISSOURI. She is graduate of the uni
| versty, served two years as teaching fellow
| took postgraduate course in Latin for
NlIe Sdlne tlIne ana nelu 1Or 1Our years tne
chair of Latin in the Columbia High school
The superintendent of public schools in
| Indianapolis says that prosperity does not
| have the effect of increasing the number
Of children IN the educational Institutions
| THE fact is" he says, that prosperity de-
| oreases the number of pupils-in the high
! schools Observation-Disclosures there is work
! to be had, and the boys from IL years up
| turn their backs on school and take Jobs
| offered"
| Prof. Barrett Wendell of the English de-
partment of Harvard university says the
institution is slowly drifting into co-educa-
ton, and he wants 1t stopped, because he
thinks at least one great school should be
maintained exclusively for men, a place
where men would not be on the defensive.
He thinks there are plenty of other place
where women are not debarred from the
higher education.
The attorney general of Minnesota has just
made public an opinion that the law passed
by the last legislature providing a tax of
schools is unconstitutional. The only rem
edy must come from the legislature, which,
by recent constitutional amendment, can
pass no special legislation. The deporable
result of the affair is that more than 10000
children will be thrown out of school about
April |, 1900, when the schools will be closed
on account of the exhaustion of the regular
appropriation.
fessor of gynaecology in the University of
Pennsylvania, is u native of Indiana, a
little more than 30 years old. a graduate in
arts art OF Earham college and in medicine of
honor man of the class of 81. His hospital
service has included the Children's and
st. Agnes hospitals, Philadelphia; Bellevue
New York City, and special service as ward
assistant and postgraduate instructor ir
Johns Hopkins hospital, under Prof. Kelly
He has also spent a year and half in spe'
Of Leipsic. Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Paris
| and London.