New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-25
NOTES on EDUCATION.

A College of Science, 10 cost f61,00o, Is
proposed Leeds, England 1t is to be hoped that so
noble and valuable idea will not remain simply a
matter OF pleased or pompous TAX The very PROPOSE
English women have excellent educational
opportunities on the whole. aud they improve them
The regular Winter of lectures in London for the
instruction of science and art was recently
opened me 1 EOuse o % and me World
Planet" then Prot Carey Foster on Physlcs,' and
Der OF ladies attends these lectures
The State University of Alabama is not flour
ishing spite the S2 which the people taxed
to furnish annually. It's expenses far exceed its in
come and the authorities are troubled. To remedy this
it is proposed tuition fees which abolished
shall be restored and the number OF professors be made
smaller and their salaries cut down BY doing this
there might be hope OF completing the unfinished
University buildings buying needed scientific apparatus
aud adding to the library, 1t is recommended that the
University should have "a law department, wherein
learned lawyers would take the tuition fees of the stu
dents as their sole compensation, without tax upon the
University funds.
The San Francisco Board of Education has in
creased salaries Of in accord
ance with state law decreeing that masculine and fem
niue teachers shall receive equal pay for equal labor
The Board has adopted the following rule of school
government: Corporal punishment shall DO resorted
To only in extreme cases, when other means fail TO
secure obedience No cruel or unusual punishment shall
be allowed, and no corporal punishment shall be inflicted
in the high evening schools nor upon girls IN gram
Register each case OF corporal punishment the name
age and oensc Of the pupil and report the number OF
cases monthly TO the superintendent"
A recent Educational Convention in Mis-
souri, recommended among other things, that music and
inventive drawing should be thoroughly taught in the
common schools and that the study of English grammar
by pupils before the average age OF 10 years should not
be encouraged but that systematic teaching OF language
should exist III all departments OF schools The ConVen
ton also declared that made excellent teachers
and that they ought TO get the same pay as men do for
as one of the many pebbles which lifting the pleas
ant draft TO the Top OF the Jar-where II should have
been long ago. The bitter injustice OF unequal pay "
competent feminine teachers is fast ceasing 10 be.
The Directors Of the London Crystal Palace
have very wisely established classes in practical eng
neering The rudiments OF both civil and mechanical
engineering be taught with tho manipulation of
materials which rendered easy by the mechanical
OF the Institution. In the of instruction
there are three terms, extending II months. One
devoted 10 the drawing Office, to the pattern
shop and foundery and one to the smiths hitting and
erecting shops The students win be constantly engaged
in mechanical drawing. estimating and calculating,
pattern and constructing machnory for MARKET
Shops and offices have been nted up and supplied with
the best engineering machinery There viii be e1amina-
lions and lectures by eminent professors The school
Will open with the new year
Prof. Buckham of the Buffalo Normal School
has some very practical ideas concerning the model
teacher" which he is good enough give to the world
In the first place. he thinks the model should have an
attractive personal appearance, and next he must have
good manners He should MT act II he apoogfz
ing for his occupation, should he shut himself up In
little castle OF Charity and constant obserya
Common Sense the most abused and most valuable OF
ideal teacher person Of angelic sweetness of
temper but OF goodness OF heart good sense and good
stony conservative, Juggernaut ways OF teaching
worn We want the good that will apply the
perments ana the charity viii teach the teacher
10 sometimes put himself in the pupils place. D D