A new athletic house for Harvard is being built on Soldiers' Field. The University of Wisconsin has a course in singing college songs. Absences are not reported at the University of Chicago until the end of the year. A student having more than thirty is required to take one extra course for the next year. The McMinnville Oregon College has one of the largest and most complete telescopes in the country. Japan has two national educational associations with a total membership of over 10,000. The majority of the members are university graduates. A thesis in course of preparation at the Leland Stanford University, by Sherrill B. Osborne, of Los Angeles, Cal., will deal with "The Economic Significance of Advertising." Teachers in Baden and other parts of Germany 100 years ago were so poorly paid that they used to go about singing in front of the houses in the evening to earn a few extra pennies. President Coppee of Lehigh University has announced the senior class roll of honor. The appearance of a man's name on this roll indicates that he has made an average mark of 8 or more on a basis of 10 in all his studies and work during the first three years and a half of his course in the university. The smallest university in the world is in Africa. It has five students and twelve instructors. 44. Solve, "Two boats leave a wharf at the same time for the same point; it takes one boat 10 hours to reach it and the other boat sails 5 times as fast going and 10 times as fast returning, when do they meet? SOLUTION: The second boat will reach its destination in 2 hours while the first boat sails only one-fifth the distance; of the remaining four-fifths of the distance the second boat will sail ten elevenths or forty-fifty-fifths, or eightelevenths of the whole distance, requiring eight-elevenths of an hour, hence the boats will meet in two and eightelevenths hours from the time of starting. J. M. P. QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED. For larger salaries or change of location, address Teachers' Co-Operative Association, 70 Dearborn St., Chicago official capacity during his impeachment? Orville Brewer, Manager. 46. Can the President of the United States act in his T. J. M. 47. A and B were engaged by a Pennsylvania farmer to dig 100 rods of ditch for $100; and since the part which A was to dig was more difficult of excavation than that which B dug, it was agreed that A was to receive 10 shillings per rod, and B 6 shillings per rod. They each received $50 for their labor. How many rods did each dig? 48. Analyze, Mt. Marcy is not so high as Mt. Washington. LITERARY AND SOIENTIFIC Teachers' Drudgery-Savers As a premium for one one-year cash subscription to this periodical we will send free of charge a copy of the first book named below. For two cash subscriptions we will send free of charge a copy of NUMBER TWO, named below. 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With nearly a thousand persons liv. ing in the school dormitories and cottages, many of the products of the farm and gardens can be utilized in the school kitchens. Moreover, a considerable area of land is desirable for the best success of the other practical trades and industries that go to make up the industrial side of life and instruction at such a school as Tuskegee. Thus it happens that one portion of the land affords extensive beds of clay, and the students have made all the bricks that have been used in the construction of several new school buildings, beside making brick for sale to outside purchasers.From Albert Shaw's article, "Negro Progress on the Tuskegee Plan," in the April Review of Reviews. Jane Goodwin Austin was bore at Worcester, Mass., in 1831, the daughter of Isaac Goodwin, of that city. Just after her graduation from school in Boston in 1850 she was married to Loring H. Austin, of Cambridge. 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