Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1900 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The severe strain of university duties has compelled President Hadley of Yale to take a rest of a month in the South. Mrs. Caroline S. Tilden of New Orleans has given $50,000 to Tulane University of Louisiana for a library building. The School of Political Science at Columbia has opened a course to fit young men for the Government service, particularly in the new colonies. At the University of Nebraska a tabulation of the churches represented among 2,005 students was made recently. There were found 155 Baptiste, 60 Catholics, 220 Congregationalism, 102 Episcopalians, 70 Lutherans, 458 Methodists, 802 Presbyterians, and smaller numbers representing other denominations. Two hundred and fifty gave no Information regarding their church relationship and seventy were not adherent# to any church. Dr. John Guitcras has been appointed to the chair of intertropical pathology, which has Just been crested in the University of Havana, Cuba. Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Jr.', of Union College Is to take the place of Prof. Frank H. Stoddard In the hiatorical department of the New York University summer school this year. President Sierra of Honduras ha# conceded to Harvard University the charge of the ruins of Copan and Its islands tor a period of ten yeans; with the right to make excavations and remove ausy interesting things discovered to Cambridge.