. Review of reviews and world's work. winter wheatlast month as , the best average in an entiredecade. Statisticians figure out that this shouldmean a total crop of nearly 480,000,000 unseasonable cold weather of mid-April hasprobably done some harm to truck farming andpeach orchards in the South, but seems to havelet off the Northern and Eastern States withcomparatively little damage. In the field of higher education, one A Few Notes on of the interesting developments ofEducation, ^-[^g |g^g^ £g^ weeks was the announce-ment by Mr. Andrew Carnegie of his intentionto bestow his
. Review of reviews and world's work. winter wheatlast month as , the best average in an entiredecade. Statisticians figure out that this shouldmean a total crop of nearly 480,000,000 unseasonable cold weather of mid-April hasprobably done some harm to truck farming andpeach orchards in the South, but seems to havelet off the Northern and Eastern States withcomparatively little damage. In the field of higher education, one A Few Notes on of the interesting developments ofEducation, ^-[^g |g^g^ £g^ weeks was the announce-ment by Mr. Andrew Carnegie of his intentionto bestow his bounty, in the future, on smallcolleges rather than on libraries. Generousgifts to the endowment funds of several of thesmaller colleges of the middle West have alreadybeen reported. In some cases, Mr. Carnegieconditions the gift upon the securing of anequal sura from other sources. This is in linewith the principle adopted some years ago byDr. D. K. Pearsons, who has just announced hispurpose to aid a number of struggling institu-. ANDYS OTHER LEG. The Small Colleoe: This leg is shorter than it reallyou^ht to be.—From the Journal (Minneapolis). 526 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REFIEIV OF REVIEWS. tions in the South. Dr. AUlonnans inauguration as president of tlie University of Vir-ginia, on Jeilersons birthday, brought togethera group of eminent educational leaders. Pro-fessor Brown Ayres. who has been a member ofthe faculty of Tulane University, of Louisiana,for the past twenty-five years, was installed aspresident of the University of Tennessee on April26. The Souths profound interest in educationhas been manifested of late in many ways. Theeighth annual meeting of the Conference for Edu-cation in the South will have been held at Colum-bia, S. C, before these pages are read. The sum-mer school that has been maintained for someyears at Knoxville, Tenn., greatly to the benefit ofSouthern schools and teachers, will be open dur-ing the coming season. In the country at largethere is p
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