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formity into the numerous private institutions. 

 The adopted standards are maintained and en- 

 forced by the state through an efficient sys- 

 tem of inspection. Lagging institutions are 

 threatened with the withdrawal of their sub- 

 sidies, while efficient work receives recom- 

 mendation. The public is kept informed of 

 the entrance requirements, work, aims and 

 discipline of the schools through the systematic 

 publication of complete catalogues. Every in- 

 dustrial school, from the lowest trade school 

 to the technical high schools, annually issues 

 its courses of study, entrance requirements, 

 tuition fees, final examination regulations, 

 disciplinary codes, and all other matter of 

 interest and importance to those who con- 

 template sending their sons or daughters to a 

 trade school. Where a strict discipline is 

 maintained, and no academic freedom per- 

 mitted, as in all the lower trade schools, the 

 catalogues invariably contain all the school 

 statutes regulating the conduct of students in 

 attendance. Special notice is given to parents 

 that by sending their son to the school they 

 imply an agreement to abide by the dis- 

 ciplinary code of the institution which, while 

 not oversevere, is generally quite rigorous and 

 keeps the young student within strict bounds 

 of life. 



THE JOENSTON SCE0LARSHIP8 OF THE 

 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVEJ^SITY. 



These scholarships, of which there are three, 

 known as the Henry E. Johnston, the James 

 Buchanan Johnston and the Henry E. Johns- 

 ton, Jr., scholarships, were founded by Mrs. 

 Harriet Lane Johnston, of Washington, for- 

 merly of Baltimore, in memory of her hus- 

 band and her two sons. They are awarded 

 annually by the trustees on the recommenda- 

 tion of the academic council. The stipend 

 of each scholarship is the income of thirty 

 thousand dollars. They are offered primarily 

 to young men who have given evidence of the 

 power of independent research. The holders 

 will be expected to devote themselves to study 

 and to research in their chosen subjects, 

 though they may be required to do some teach- 

 ing. Candidates for the scholarships must 

 make application in writing, to the president 



of the Johns Hopkins University before the 

 first of May. The application must be ac- 

 companied by such evidence of the candidate's 

 fitness as he may be able to present. The 

 president will refer the papers to the academic 

 council, by whom the nomination will be made 

 to the board of trustees, at their meeting in 

 June. Holders of the scholarships may not 

 engage in teaching elsewhere. The scholars 

 will be appointed for one year, but if their 

 work should prove satisfactory, they will gen- 

 erally be reappointed. Applications for the 

 present year will be received up to January, 

 1905. 



THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



On November 2 the president of the New 

 York Historical Society announced the gift 

 of about $200,000 towards the erection of the 

 new building of the society, on ground al- 

 ready owned by them at Seventy-sixth and 

 Seventy-seventh Streets and Central Park, 

 West, New York. The foundations for the 

 central portions of the new building are al- 

 ready constructed, costing some $70,000, and 

 with the money in the treasury, $92,000, avail- 

 able for the new building, work has now been 

 begun to erect a thoroughly modern building 

 for the housing of the treasures of this society. 

 The donor desired his name to be withheld, 

 but the papers announce that it is Mr. Henry 

 Dexter, who was one of the founders of the 

 Metropolitan Museum, and his gift, $150,000 

 in cash and about $50,000 worth of granite, 

 is in memory of his son, Orrando Dexter, who 

 was killed in the Adirondaeks. The society 

 is one hundred years old on November 20, 

 and this gift places it in a position where it 

 can progress in its work in a more satisfactory 

 manner than before. Eew people know that 

 this society possesses one of the finest art gal- 

 leries in America, and a collection of Egyptian 

 antiquities which Miss Amelia B. Edwards 

 pronounced as the finest outside of Egypt and 

 surpassing them in some lines. Of old New 

 York history they are unsurpassed, but work- 

 ing quietly, their collection is overlooked ex- 

 cept by the expert. 



