Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-13
Educational Notes.

The University of Paris holds the record
for attendance, the summer session hav-
ing 1909 students and 25 professors and
instructors. Until this year the University
Of Berlin was In the lead.
The age record for students is probably
that of Miss Sarah p. Morrison, who has
just entered the University of Indiana at
the age. Of rs. She was a member of the
class of SO, and has now entered for a
post graduate course In Greek and laws of
VersificatiOn.
BY the will Of william Barr, founder OF
one OF the largest department stores in st.
Louis, Washington university receives
Sl00, 600 to be devoted to the support of its
manual training department, and to be
known as the William and Jessie R. Barr
fund.
BY the will Of the late Curtis S. Brain
IS provided for Norwich university at
Mortified, VT. The money Is to be used
by the university trustees lin such a man
ner as the best interests of the university
may demand"
DR.. Samuel A. Barrett Of the University
of California, who has been connected with
the department OF anthropology for two
years and has conducted a series of in
vestigations of the languages and habits of
the Indians OF. California, has Just left for
the interior of Ecuador and Peru, where
he will take part in archaeological explora-
lions in that country.
At its recent commencement Purdue uni
yersity, at Lafayette, Ind. conferred the
on Angus Sinclair of New York. Mr.. Sin
clair is the editor-in-chief of Railway and
Engineering. Purdue university
has for about twenty years devoted atten-
ton to railway engineering, especially to
motive power and rolling stock.
DR.. Edmund j. James, president of the
University of Illinois, who has been com
missioned by Governor Deneen to make a
study OF recent educational developments
in Germany and other European countries,
has sailed to fulfil his mission. The re-
suits of his inquiries will serve as a basis
of a report to the State Educational com
mission of Illinois, recently appointed by
the governor.
Thu number of graduates from New York
Clty's elementary schools is this year only
l2.S0S out of a school enrolment OF 534 254.
Manhattan. with a school population 1000
In excess of Brooklyn, falls behind hat
borough In the number Of pupils graduated.
finished the primary and grammar courses
out Of a total of 23S,3s4 enrolled, while
Brooklyn schools, with an enrolment of
l9,0B, have $500 graduates.
The paper read by Miss Nancy Frye. aged
q, before the Iowa Teachers association
the other day Is declared to have been the
most notable, incident Of the. convention.
schools for more than fifty-seven years
and had only so much education as she
school in Ohio before 1850. Her theme was
Teach Truth and the wit and wisdom
Of her paper were such that at the close Of
the convention, amid great enthusiasm, a
rising vote OF thanks was rendered her.
President E. c. Bigger Of the Lincoln
Business college is on his vacation. He
will visit relatives at Cairo, Neb., and the
remainder of his time will be spent at his
home in Lincoln.
The new catalog OF the Lincoln Business
college Is in the hands of the printer and
will be from the press In a few lays. It
will be n beautiful piece Of work and will
have fifty-six pages.
Indications are that the fall term Of the
Lincoln Business college, which opens Au-
gust 81, will have a large attendance.
Chicago has opened fifteen summer vaca-
ton schools.
Teachers from New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Maryland will unite in
teaching the children of n model school
which will he a part of the work of the
summer school Of the University of Penn
Sylvania this year. The purpose Of the
school will be to prepare the pupils for
the next terms work in the public schools
and to give teachers an opportunity to
study pedagogy under the best conditions.