Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Yxle's student choir ts to wear Testf*tv. ParttEouthTs new freshman class has ia*S ■iimfeiws. . ——-—■ West YltgsßiEa University will not issue hffliEocary degrees. Mnnaiuit Holyoke College began its new year with 5*12 students. Japan# has 3H)A»J*> schools, with 100, <#oo teachers and 3v.MMX.64M> pupils. Work has bee® cnwaweaced on the new frismt for the Tale Law School building. RadthflTe war'offers 130 courses for wosnae®. a® increase of fifteen over last year. BegomMasg this year bo charge for tuitte® as tw be mate at the Missouri State Uaivwfflty. Dwriag the last six years the value of the property of aiaetee® leading colleges has increased 37 per cent. Friends of the proposed national university huxpe to persaade Congress to pass their hill at the »ext session. Many of the stademts at Russian uni' versaries are ssseadscaints who solicit aims axd wear cast-off garments. The University of Pennsylvania has many st»4e®ts (boa South America ami has assrsed a catalog®* ia Spanish. Bags of ffoor and backets of water were emptied upon the freshmen at Lafhyette by the sophomores in spite of the fact that President Warfield had requested that there he no hazing. A great deal of interest is being taken am the fort®®** of the University of California and Stanford University. The respective patronesses off these institutions, Mrs. Phoebe Hears! and Mrs. Stanford, are vying with each other in bestowing gifts «p« their favorites. Harper* Weekly remarks that the orig anal EH. the honored founder of Yale University, while Governor of Madras, hanged a groxMa for riding a horse withA handing ia Litchfietd, Coon., has recently been identified as that in which the first law school in America was taught. It Is a one-story wvwden structure and has been occupied by negroes as a dwelling for swaae year* past- The Litchfield Law School eras foanded by Chief Justice Tapping Reeve about the end of the rovobaitenary war. 1.U24