Show educational excerpts twenty five per cent of the lady students atthe at the new york normal college are Jew esses in morocco schools the koran only is taught and the pedagogue receives fifteen cents a month for teaching it springfield mass is to lla have e an industrial indu industrial d du school at last it will begin in a email small way but it is hoped that it will soon grow to greater dimensions mies bliss louisa 31 alcott is ill from overwork and entirely to finish her book jos boys and how they turned out among those named for the vacant position of principal of edinburgh university are prof Il huxley matthew arnold and mr lecky at the university of virginia there is is no prescribed course of study no eit entrance trance examination no ya vacation cation except the th summer one and but six holidays the gift of th elate ezra abbotts library of volumes to the harvard divinity school has placed the school in an embarrassing position while the gift is most welcome there is absolutely no room for iland the authorities of the school are out with an appeal for funds to make a new fireproof fire proof library building the st louis globe democrat has this to say about the proposition to havo have a federal minister of education A superintendent whose field shall be the republic Ite public will find that field already preempted pre pro empted and will will abe fortunate if he succeed in even so much as gaining an advisory power in a single state such jealousy lias has been manifested by bv the states of every section of federal in w ter ference in their local affairs that the effort to give a federal superintendent of education any real au aus dhority in regulating the state schools would bo be met medby by a unanimous howl of indignation from every school district in tile land even the bills for national aid to education the roost most obnoxious of which provide forthe for the distribution to the qualified officer of each state of its proportion odthe of the appropriated fu fund nd havo have not escaped bitter itter adverse aLverse criticism and the lie tendency toward centralization has been brought brou glit forward as a most effective vi capon to prevent action being taken on any such bill |