Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Frederick IV. Vanderbilt of New York has given $500,000 to erect a dormitory for Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University. The Registrar of Princeton University announced Wednesday that twenty-two students from Phillips Academy. Ando ver. Maws., were debarred from admission to the university on the charge of cribbing in the entrance examinations. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has decided to establish a course in what is called insurance engineering, the purpose of which will be to instruct students in the selection and- constructive use of materials with a view to minimising the risk of destruction by fire. President Rcmscn of Johns Hopkins announced the completion of a $1,000,000 endowment fund by the citizens of Maryland, which will enable the university to move to the new site presented by Baltimore citizens. This places the university on an assured financial basis. Princeton University bait voted to give former President Patton $-UXH) a year to continue in the chair of ethics. Additional subscriptions were taken lip to the amount of $30,000 to be used to increase the salary to SIO,OOO for a period of live years. This will be the same as he drew as president. The report of the New Orleans School Board for the past year shows that there has been a loss of 10 per cent in the attendance of the colored schools, and 25 per cent in the last two years. The negro average in that city is about one in seven of the children of school age. The board hns decided to substitute negro for white teachers in the negro schools. This figure disappoints those who expected.thnt the State suffrage amendment requiring voters to know how to rend and write would act ns a stimulus to the ue« groea. Patronise those who advertise,