1893 - Education

Education

New York City's Woman Teachers' Association petitions the state legislature to place them "on an equal financial footing with men," who receive $3,000 per year as compared to $1,700 for the women.

A survey of Brooklyn, New York, schools reveals that 18 classes have 90 to 100 students each, while one classroom is jammed with 158 (see 1867).

The Field Museum is founded at Chicago with $1 million contributed by Marshall Field, who will add a second $1 million and leave the museum an additional $8 million in his will when he dies early in 1906.

Hampton Institute founder Samuel Chapman Andrews dies at Hampton, Virginia, May 11 at age 54; Notre Dame University founder Edward F. Sorin at South Bend, Indiana, October 31 at age 79.