Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The percentage, bf ti'omen nt Cornell is increasing rapidly. Tliere are 2,178 Japanese students in American colleges. Roman Catholics are laying plans for a woman's college ?n Washington, D. C.i The total real estate belonging to Yale University is valued at. over $11,000,000. Columbia University has received a total of $32,000 as anonymous Christmas gifts. .. _ Amherst students have petitioned the trustees for practical courses in Italian and Spanish. The> Cornell register sliows an enrollment of 2,240 students, compared with 2,038 last year. ' The eburse in the medical department at Bowdoin College has been changed from three to four years. , Johns. Hopkins University has a novelty in a new course in the Malay lan gudge by Prof. Hanpt; j|t the Woman’s College at Mount Holyoke a new department for. teaching journalism has been started. William A. Bogers of Buffalo, N. ¥., has given'‘ss,ooo for a scholarship in S,h*’® < ‘hl Scientific School. f- jl*r. ;Henry i Vid Dyke is to lecture at (tAt 1 {Western , Reserve University, this winter on Fnfelidh literature. Dartmonth College te- to- have-4 . new dormitory, built in .colonial style, capable of accommodating sixty students. > At Cornell University the percentage of college graduates in the professional schools 1s the largest'ini their history.’ • ./"'*• ‘C R i if-* *<■ • - '. N ' :*« ;