Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1902 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Dr. Francis L. Patton, former president of Princeton University, lias been nnanitnously chosen president of Prince* ton Theological Seminary. Andrew W. Ed son, the noted educator, was chosen by the New York board of education to succeed John Jasper as superintendent of public schools. Of the 300 candidates recently examined for the cadetships at the Naval Academy about one-half failed, many of them dropping out after the first day’s questions. Harvard College, in a recent circular, has formally offered the “A. B.” degree 'n a three-year course, beginning with the class entering in 1005. Hitherto no first-class college has adopted this policy. Tnkahashi Glanya of Tokio, Japan, has won high honors at Wesleyan University, having graduated at the head of his class In the law department, with markings of 88, 88 and 80 in three branches. Principal McAndrew, who has in charge the establishment this fall of a girls’ technical high school in New York City, has decided to add to the other courses planned a miniature department store, in which girls who desire it will be trained for saleswomen. A number of ■tore asahagers have declared they will take these girls in preference to all others.