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...will of Mr. Augustus Van Wickle, a graduate of Brown University, twenty five thousand dollars was bequeathed to build gateways on the Princeton campus in honor of Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, who gave the ground on which the college was originally built. Another important gift is the Charles Ewing Green Memorial Alcove in the Chancellor Green Library. The photographs of the University Library have been chosen by the American Library Association to form part of the collection at the Paris Exposition, exhibiting the most thoroughly equipped libraries in America...
When the Americans came into Cuba at the close of the war they found the school system, such as it had been, entirely destroyed. The schools were in great disorder, and, though probably fifteen thousand children were enrolled, there were only about four thousand in actual attendance. The teachers were provided with dwelling houses by the municipalities and were expected to devote one room to school purposes. They had not been paid their salaries for thirty-two months, and had to depend solely upon the subscriptions of the wealthier parents. Many of the schools devoted all their time...
...thirty-one systems, one centralized system was instituted with a board of education in Havana, under which there was a similar board in each municipality. An appropriation of $3,000,000 has been spent in building up the system. As a result, in place of the original four thousand there are now over one hundred and thirty thousand children in school, and in place of the original two hundred teachers there are now thirty-five hundred...
...directly felt in every quarter of the island. The instruction here will be carried on in Spanish, as only about five per cent of the teachers understand English. Excursions will be taken to places oi historical interest, and numerous social diversions will be planned. The original number of one thousand has been increased to fourteen hundred,--the capacity of Sanders Theatre where most of the lectures will be held...
...plan for the Summer School, as worked out by President Eliot and Mr. Frye, provides for transporting at least one thousand, and possibly two thousand teachers to this country, receiving and caring for them while here and giving them three months instruction. The government has consented to bring the teachers from Cuba, and four steamers will be used for the purpose. Upon their arrival in Cambridge the women will be placed in homes near the College, and the men in the dormitories. Memorial Hall, and, if necessary, Randall Hall, will be kept open all summer for their exclusive...