Moonlight schools, so called because conducted during moonlight nights, are meeting with success in various communities in Kentucky, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
Having just observed its second anniversary, the Lincoln Highway—the 3,384 mile transcontioncntal road dedicated to Abraham Lincoln—begins its third year with much construction work completed.
Agricultural or farm schools are urgently needed in the Philippine Islands, according to the director of education, who says that at least one such school should be found in every province, and that equipment should be purchased and capable teachers employed to put not less than one special course in farming in every one of the 300 intermediate schools now in existence.
The attorney-general of the United States has issued the following statement on the subject of the proposed combination of independent steel companies:—
Connecticut College for Women, at New London, the first institution of its kind in the state, opened this fall with an entering class of more than one hundred students.
The most radical reconstruction of New York city's school system ever recommended by a city official is contained in a report made to the board of estimate by Comptroller Prendergast, who is also chairman of the board's committee on education.
President Wilson, on recommendation of Secretary Lane, recently eliminated about seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land from the Cleveland national forest, Cal.
During the last decade the forest service has classified as agricultural and opened to public entry more than 15,500 individual scattered tracts of land in the national forests, comprising more than 1,700,000 acres, says an article by the chief forester, published in the year book of the department of agriculture, just issued.
