Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

One-third of the college graduates now are women. Chicago now pays her superintendent of schools SIO,OOO a year. Oat of 468 permanent lecturers at the Berlin university 170 belong to the medical faculty. The truntees of Baldwin Unfrvenity, at Berea, Ohio, have elected Prof. G. F. Collier acting president Nineteen men in this year's class at Yale <and fully as many at Harvard and Columbia earned all thedr expenses. The rural schools of New York average twenty seven pupils each. In each es 3,208 schools there are ten or less. The proportion of university student* increases in the United States at (the rate of 5 per cent per annum; in GerBany8 any the rate la 6 per cent, while Great ritaia It stationary. Samoa! Capples, the St Louis millionaire, who has just sailed for Europe, states that upon his return he Intends to enlarge the Washington university and make tt the largest school of engineering and technology in the world. The College of Confucius, the oM university of China, has for 3,000 yean borne the name of Kwotaseiier. Its main building, the finest temple of Confucius in Chins, has 300 volumes in its count ou which are engraved the names of its 60,00® graduates. . The Leeds City Council has resolved to cordially support the application of the Yorkshire Collage for the establishment la Leeds es the Victoria University es Yorkshire, and, la tfe* event of a Aarter for purpose being gnntedjto in addition to the £1,860 from the local taxation account. w— , President Roosevelt has pardoned Mi Cummins, a 17-year old colored boy who is serving a three yean’ sentence for robbing the peetoAce at Birds Peiad, Mat ~