New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-30
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE 4
VANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.
MORNING SEssros-9i A \

MORNING SRssios-9i III
About seventy-fve persons assembled yesters
morning in the Chapel of the University at the ne
ing of the Association, which was opened with 1.
customary exercises-grace and a song.
little routine business was followed by the disss
sion Of Chancellor Tappans paper on Colleges.
Prof PIERCE expressed his profound sense Of y
great value of the paper, and hoped that the Assoc
ton would request copy for publication. lie vli
favor of the entire abolition of degrees, OF gsD4
them only after a very rigid examination, rs ia .
Lawrence Scientific School. They gave them u
"cum laude," "magna cum laude," and "rna
cum laude.' When this graduation of degrecr
came known, the effec, was instantaneous. WhoH
students found that the examinations were sorRf4
more than nominal, they began really TO apply&s
selves. The places Of education should not hiTi
falsebood upon their faces, and the American sy:r
Of education must be tTIe even IL its truth WERE
rowed from Prussia. Prof PIERCE stated lady M
bany had given Sc 900 to purchase an astronomi,s5
s'rument which was necessary for some expenI
led TO by The Coast Survey The name Of Ds1
would be hereafter, he said, as renowned in Ans
as in England
We are indebted for description of this insturs
to Prof. PIERCE.
The instrument is heliometer Of great peculis
its object glass being divided into halves so that y
half gives distinct imsge of every star TO the
server BY separating the halves, Therefore,
image Of one star may be made to coincide WIN
Of any other, and the distance OF the halves 81
ohiect-glass will be the measure Of the sngulis
lance Of the two stars. The sams instrument may
applied, as IFS name indicates TO the eun. lb Iaas
oily about degree. The construction OF sncn
strument requires the incest exercise oil skiu III
nomcal instrument making. There are but TWO ~
instruments in Europe, one at honlgsDeIg, eSes
Bessel in the measure Of the Sun and the trIsnguSs
of the Peiades; tie other, which i sun NOR :.
nifeent instrument recently made by Repsoa w.
Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford, has not ye. 80
in use. Ii il with this instrument that beesei oe
monstrated that the stars have parallax ana meeg
its amount. His instrument reads 10 hunofe''n'
ecopd of an arc and is accurate TO less ths a'e~
a second.
The Rev Henry BaRsARD defended the Ame@
ystem of Education. What We wanted nc 'a'-
hat every child should learn to read the b'oe'
rom that 20 on as far as he could. Inc sjsS~
New England was common, not because IL "s
menterv but because il was common az the Oh y
lieht TO ALL He almost thought that the III
OF Colleges was fatal gift. When a Proee'eJ u
comfortably indicted into fat salary, - r., u
though be thought there was nothing mofc y"
TO do. 81
Chancellor TAPPAs, in explaining that 'neie "" !.
difference between himself and NJ. Barnard '
casion 10 recspitulate his ten-colu M lecture !"
day afternoon He said that If reporter h'a nV.s "a
il from him. he would have read s0ms R''eo a ~
it 10 prove that there no sucn omerSad "a efs
Barnard spprebenoed. Mr.. Tappan PrcceeoTYr oTsrsa
history Of the origin and progress OF u,o miouisF
of Michigan, aud concluded by RAM. .ra IIInyenp
scription of the manner of teaching 10 - The AZ
Of Berlin. He said that Ki-s the artist " ssbsps
zoD, in that University, was insuuc'I's -
Of the city.
After a recess Of three minutes, IN re',
The Rev. E. b. HUsTHGTos read p'P. hknts
tai and Physical Activity. He adsecsfea "
Of the two taking as his text the seldom rs. ..ss
Of sound mind in sound body. he M r. the tie v
late Dr. IS Arnold a. remarkable example o.
rnonious union Of the two. .,<r Oh NJ
The Rev. CHARLES BROOKS res' p'T ~