The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-18


is .vsrss to the restoration Of o'uny suPeitsndenoy
and suggests
Nravatou Of tie office of Superintendent Of Common Schools
from that Of Secrdayy 81 Stafe
rs recommended that provision be made by Law for
the election in the same way tnat tne y as
Thai he hold his Office for years that he have power
TO appoint deputy and necessary clerks that he
ali tie powers and discharge oil the duties and trusts
di,harssA BY the Secretary Of State in his Official
Character Of Of Common Schools and that
~. operations Of al incorporated Institutions
OF learning throughout the State and mako such report
thereon to the legislature as he shall deem expedent
Our Religious Ercrciss in Schools.
has been ths uniform custom Of ths superintendent
Of Common Schools 10 declare the prr splss Of law ap
colleges and Academies.
10 believed that ost serious defect does exist in
both Of these classes OF institution In the manner in
which the public money Il applied for the benefit of
pupils It Is obvious ut glance that however fair may
be that application in theory In prac,e It Goes not re-
moneys to the seple More than half Of the popu
ton Of the State cudec by verify, compare
tive property from recsvns any direct advantage from
give higher learning to their children receive IT. and
they receive 1t in part at least half Of It, from the pro-
its benefits To thepoorest in the State much
to the richest belongs every acre Of the public domain
and every dollar .,, the public fund.- Wren ss.on
commerce, and many other objects, 1t confers greater
individual benefit on the rich than on the poor
This necessity Inherent in the nature Of things But
exits for it where the benefit, far the
action Of the State is concerned IL purely personal one,
vidual and where legislation, therefore, finds OBJ
atacle to strict equalization Of individual benefits
The academies and colleges have bssn in part founded
funds is beyond the public control But when the stat,
gives 1t has right to prescribe the conditions The
s made 81 h@
shal be hereafter received BY academies and colleges
shall be- that they devote the moneys thus received in
atuitousy educating such pupils IS the STATE through
the officers appointed FOR that POSE shall designate
he again recommends that the school distris OF the
or may hereafter be academies that each academy be
required to annually receive from tho common schools Ia
Its district and gratuitousy educate pupil for every s.
the State and that colleges be required to
Give pupils from suoh free departments In prescribed
number Of academies, the same footing The pupils
town superntsndens the basis OF selection being
tain grade OF educational qualification, ability as mani
tested rapid nso :sInns and general merit
The last Legislature incorporated institution called
he Peoples College," the object Of which to educate
pupils only in literature and science but in the prac
ticAl pursuits Of life. An experiment Of similar kind
made by NJ Feenbourg, in Switzerland resulted
in such decided princes sought for
with eray apartments are now In successfu opera
tion in England, France, and Germ any The question
whether this is the most rapid method Of impArting
intellectual education, industrial training
is not the to be considered In matng the probable
that the health pupils in our purely literary nsttu
tons ia often sacrificed by the want Of bodily ose
and thar the ssdentary habits which
tnued through the years devoted to study beget
aversion to active labor and pursuits which Is a.
forwards overcome
The Peoples College seeks to avoid these results by
making daily and systematic cou rse Of exercise part
Of tn pupils prescribed duty and a. the time to
male that exercise conduce to scientific and practical
knowledge Of the pursuits which the pupil is to folio In
after life The plan certainly excellent In theory, and
suac ssfuy carried out will mplish beneficial
srated good reason perceived why such instu
ton should not equally With Others share In the bounty
State Normal School-7e Teachers Departments in Academies
The of the state Normal School has Of
uninterrupted growth and prosperity during the past
The undersigned the mendAton to e8ta b.
hsh another Normal school the plan and scale
with present one, In the part OF the State II
is eveo that the cannot supply teachers
rapidly the public interest the schools
anxious to employ those Of the grade hch edu
Gated in it.
The undersigned recommends that teachers depart
ments in iemes DO continued their present oo ~
Indian Pupils.
The Undersigned suggests the xpediency CT placing
experiment Of educating this interesting people
the schools Of the whites somewh hat broader basis
this END ne m that the 70 so1.
able twenty Indian youths to be kept constantly In
demies But the annual trouble Of seeking and AKIN
terms with institutions willing to receive them and tn
Injurious affects resulting the pupils from being a
nuay changed from institution to another sugges
the propriey Of mshns definite arrangements in
this partie ulay lie recommended that estab-
shrg teachers apartments In academies be far
dined that NO academy shall be paid from the public
Of which shall decline, the reputation Of the Sopern
tentent CO Emon Schools and In consideration Of 500
received thers - ADMIT and educate for academic
year. An Indian pupil appointed BY the superintendent Of
Common Schools, and 10 provie the necessary books,
stationery, board lodging Washing fuel and lights for
such pupil Wetaa's Dictionary.
The whole Of the second instalrent Of the due
TO hessra g. h G. Merriam Of Springfield, Mass for die
ons res supplied to school districts the contract
made with them by superintendent Morgan by auth ority
Of law passed in 1851 has not been paid to the county
tre.sureIs owing TO the fact that the library
portoned the year 10 the districts from which it IL
due did not equal their share OF such rsalment 1t Ia
recomn ended therefore that the Superintendent be
horizse to retain from the library money apporoned to
each town, sufficient TO meet the balance due
them for Fuch dictionaries.
While the undersigned cheerfuly bears witness to the
marked fidelity and promplness with which the Msssrs
have fulfilled their contract with the State he
would respectfully suggest the avoidance Of any ega-
ton in future which shall make the State purchaser
Of books other article for the of schools Aside
om the questionable proprety Of the States assuming
to decide between the merits Of the Of the
different authors, such laws convert State department
into book publishers agency, and lead to the oonsump.
ton in petty transactions and Details Of State officers
time (which might be much proHtaby devoted the
legitimate duties Of his ONCE. HESRYS RANDALL.
superintendent OF Common Schools.