p. 20 | News and Miscellany

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 30, 1916

News and Miscellany

Notes and clippings from the daily and weekly press

— Our government owns fourteen national parks, with a total area of nearly five million acres, all under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior.

— By means of a golden key, presented at the White House, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the President, formally opened the American Woman’s Exposition at Cleveland, Ohio, March 6.

— In the Imperial University at Tokio, a state university of Japan, there are seventeen Christians among the teachers, and more than three hundred professed Christians among the students.

— The Dutch government has taken over the distribution of all coal in Holland. Distribution is under the control of a body known as the State Coal Distribution and Advisory Committee. Importers of coal must dispose of it subject to the instructions of this body.

— The oldest workable automobile in existence was made by the Haynes Company, of Kokomo, Ind., in 1893-94. With the use of gasoline it made a successful trial trip of six to seven miles an hour, July 4, 1894. It is now on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

— Secretary of the Treasury William McAdoo, and United States Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida, left Washington March 7 for Buenos Aires, to attend the International High Commission on uniformity of laws relating to foreign trade, to be held in Latin America.

— During the past year there were 11,888 students enrolled in Columbia University, 10,555 in the University of California, 7,968 in the University of Chicago, 7,404 in the University of Pennsylvania, 6,810 in the University of Wisconsin, 6,684 in the University of Michigan, 6,351 in Harvard, 3,572 in the University of Texas, and 3,303 in Yale. Princeton had 1,615 students, and the University of Virginia, 1,008.