Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1905 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

Marquis Ito of Japan holds a Yala degree. Dr. Edward Everett Hale is one of the Trask lecturers at Yale this year. Stuart Culin has sent a carload of Indian relics from Zuui, N. M., to the Brooklyn institute. Alfred Beit’s offer to found a professorship of colonial history at Oxford lias been accepted. 807. a Kleniewska, a Polish countess, is a student at the lowa State college and is taking a course iu agronomy. <4 The son of Gov. Ahumada of Jalisco one of the most important States of Mex ico, has entered Harvard as a student. The death of Dr. Thomas M. Drown, president of I.ehigh university, removes one of tfffi ablest educators the Middle States have produced. Dr. Albrecht Penck, professor of physical geography at the University of Vienna, advocates the construction of, a uniform_niajp of the globe. The Inipeitial Academy of Sciences of Vienna lias voted $4,000 to Prof. Julius Weisner, who will study the light rela tions of the flora in Yellowstone Park. Alfred Beit, the South African Croesus, promises an amount of money for educational purposes that threatens < to rival tfie stuns given away by Ai-drew Carnegie. The Rev. Albion W. Knight, the newly chosen bishop of Cuba, is well tihed for this important post. He was bora in Florida in 1859, and is a graduate of thd University of the South, at Sewaaee, Tenn.