Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES [ARTICLE]

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES

The schools of Bloomington. 111., take great pride in their flower culture. In Sweden the school children, led by their teachers, plant GOO.UOO trees annually. Of thirty-seven county superintendents in the State of Washington, teu are women. ' .- ■ • The New York City schools use yearly -I.dOO.MJO pounds of pads, blank books and paper. Emerson G. Taylor, nn instructor at Yale, has resigned to devote himself to literary work. The teachers of New York City will give a per cent of their salaries in aid of those in San Francisco. A fully equipped Teachers' College of high profcsawnul grade yvi.ll be opened at the Ohio State University, probably in 1907. Many Georgia school districts and counties have voted to supplement the State school fund by local taxation. This is done under the local taxation law passed iast~y?rfrr- —— __ ’ The “reptlris of the Republic of Cuba show for the month of December last, 3,600 teachers, of whom were women and 1.404 men; jl.4tj2 were white and 208 colored. To'wa cditßty miperlntynderitA must here after hold certificates to teach. Their salary has been raised $240 a year and they are required to visit all tM schools of their counties. J. Pierpont Morgan is an alumnus of -the old t'heiliiru u.lmol —in—Hartford. Conn., which has trained many a Wall street man since the financier was graduated With the- class of 1850.