Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Bryn Mawr offers a course in law to young women. Two-thirds of the Yale freshmen are church members. * Free evening drawing schools are maintained by the city of Boston. Dr. Ernest G. Sihler is writing a history of New York University. The Chicago Y. M. C. A. evening classes number 1,000 students. Amherst has a course in modern governments and their administration. Students govern their own dormitories at the University of Pennsylvania. Ground has been broken-. for a new infirmary building at Vassar College. Johns Hopkins University now offer* instruction n conversational Spanish. Columbia University has added two professors to its German department. Denmark has over eighty public schools for adults beyond the usual school age. New York University has a new collection of antiquities collected in Mexico. Only seven of the 101 freshmen at the Connecticut Wesleyan College are women. The Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons has a new building costing SOO,OOO. Francis T. White of New York haa given $25,000 to Earlham College, Richmond, Ind. The endowment of Birmingham (England) University has been increased to $2,500,000. Only three colleges were represented at the meeting of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association. The Wagner Club, formed at Wellesley to study the composer's work, has a membership of 200. Vienna will soon celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Its medical school. Boston University students protest the suspension of five sophomores who took part In a cane rush The number ofvstudents at the College of Cordell University, has beoonn so targe that new quarters must be ir i lack of accommodations hi every school district in Boston, sad about thirty outside places have been leased. - -\ - The freshmen class at Vsssar Is so . large that the campus will not hold It, snl si! of the available cottages ar* crowded.