Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1900 — KHOOLS AND COLLEG [ARTICLE]

KHOOLS AND COLLEG

London spends $l4O a year on the education of each child in the public schools. In the Danish high schools the cost of educating students, including everything except clothing, is $65 a year. The Yale faculty and corporaltiou are considering the advisability of opening a bank for the use of college students. Massachusetts imposes a tax of 5 per cent on bequests coming to universities and colleges from outside the State limits. Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Conn., may found an annex for women students on thespian now in vogue at Harvard and Brown Universities. In the University library at Ithaca, N. Y., there has been placed a memorial tablet to Clifton B. Brown, a student who fell in the charge of San Juan. At Amherst College thirty-eight States are represented among the students. Massachusetts loads with 171, New York has 79, Connecticut has 23, and Pennsylvania 15. 5 The women's department at Cornell University will be rendered more democratic next year. An effort vyil- he made To get two womvninosrfidormitory room by increasing the price of a room accupied only by one. ■■ '