Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1883 — College Curriculum. [ARTICLE]

College Curriculum.

An article in a magazine asks: “What instruction should be added in our colleges?" Well, some persons thinks pool and draw-poker should be adde I to the curriculum, which already embraces base ball, boat-racing and, peneeble; but we’d draw the line at poker. A young man is generally proficient in that science before he enters college. Herald. Nevada has, according to the tenth census, G 2.266 population, 151 printers, and thiity-six newspaper publications, fourteen of which arc daily and twentytwo weekly, making it in every item the smallest State in the Union. Date palm trees have been successfully grown in California. They are of very slow growth, and do not come up until the fourteenth year. Thebe is no suck thing os a great state built up out of a people not great