Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Bducational Matters. [ARTICLE]

Bducational Matters.

Colorado shows the highest average paid to women teachers. The New Jersey teacher’s reading circle has a membership of 1,955. West Virginia pays as mu«li to women as to men teachers. The National Education Association will meet at Washington Feb. 14 6 Harvard College received $3,000,000 in gifts during the past five months. A very large majority of all cases of near sightedness have their origin during the period of school life. Miss Alice M. Longfellow has been elected’a member of the school board of Cambridge, Mass. A building for the Ramona Indian girls’ school, at Sante Fe., N. M.. commemorating Helen Hunt Jackson, will cost $30,000, and will accommodate 150 ptipils. The University of .Pennsylvania has been presented with the law library of Benjamin H. Brewster. It consists of 8,000 volumes, and is one of the finest in the country.