Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Harvard has a brass band and a rifle dab. Plumbing is taught in the Boston Trades School. Pennsylvania has a new banking and business course. The class of 1903 at Harvard contains over 500 students. “Coeds” at the University of Wisconsin wear short skirts. The proportion of female to male teachers is increasing in England. Class crews and basket ball teams are being organized at Wellesley. The proportion of Latin students in elementary schools has increased. An astronomical observatory is to be built for the University of Maine. Eight thousand children in Philadelphia cannot find room in the public schools. Bowdoin’s entering class of seventy is the largest in the history of the college. Work has been commenced on Robinson Hall, the new scientific school of Tufts College. * Yale’s divinity school has a decreased attendance, due to the raising of the standard. y Edward Tnck of the class of *O2 has given $300,000 to Dartmouth in memory of his father. Yale shows increases in the entering abases of scientific, academic and law departments. ■ The National Association of Collegiate Alumnae will make an exhibit at the Paris exposition. * Graduates of fifty years gathered re> cently at an alnmnl reunion of the Springfield (Mara.) High School. An attempt is being made to remove the role providing that London University shall hold toot more titan $50,0001 worth of property. Harvard University receives a bequest ofab^sl^)oo < b L t he,wUUf abeyance since his death in 1883, and bra