Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Boston public schools are overcrowded. Rowing is unusually popular at Harvard University. Russia is to establish a system of compulsory education. The largest school in San Juan, Porto Rico, occupies only one room. J Ninety-five kindergarten teachers wgre licensed in New York in one week. The Northern Indiana Normal School has a brass band composed ot students. Edouard Rod says American universities require too much of their professors. EVery child of school age can now be accommodated by the New York City schools. ' _ During the month of July 102 Heidelberg stndents were arrested for disorderly conduct. Nearly all of the conductors of chapel exercises at Yale under the new regime will be laymen. Harvard has 304 instructors; Yale, 245; Pennsylvania, 245; Michigan, 167, and Chicago, 175. A score of students from Cuba and nearly half as many from Porto Rico are at Notre Dame, Ind. Mayor Hoos has put an end to political influence in the appointment of teachers in the Jersey City public schools. In future Russia will punish disorderly students by requiring them to aerve in the army from one to three years. Princeton’s new freshman class contains 289 members, a slight decrease, due to higher scholarship requirements. Chicago Theological Seminary’s determination to grant degrees to women has led to much comment by the religious press. Friends of the higher .education of women take great pride in the appointment of Miss Lillie J. Martin ns professor of psychology at the Leland Stanford University. It costs a girl S4OO to go to Vassar, S4OO to go to Smith, $420 for a year at Wellesley, and between $450 and $750 to spend a year at Radcliffe. Since Yale was established, nearly 200 years ago, the president has always conducted the devotional exercises, but President Hadley will not do so. Princeton seems to have gotten the best year, Princeton gets six from La wren eevllle and Yale two; three from Andover, while Yale gets one. Exeter senda one gets St. Paul’s quarterback.