New-York tribune., 1873-07-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There has been an attempt TO put the cas-
the public schools OF Wilmington, Dell aud 1t
has failed
A chair of Ethics and Christian Evidence
has been endowed in syracuse University. Prof Cod
dington is its incumbent
1t is stated that the presence of lady stu
dents in the Missouri state University has always been
advantage, means OF refinement, aud promoter
of good conduct.
The City Counsellor of Detroit gives the opin-
ion that Constitution OF the state does not permit
any language but English be taught the schools.
Therefore German will probably be excluded unless
some special provision can be made for it.
The chief trouble in the schools of Con-
recticut appears TO be what IL a good many other
places-lack Of competent teachers. Byandby It will
probably the heads OF this generation that the
to get such teachers people with the special
gift Of instruction and educate them expressly for the
work.
There is talk of using the United States
frgate California nautical school There will be an
effort made 10 keep the school reputable possible,
in order that boys graduating from the San Francisco
High School and desiring be fitted for the positions
OF mate or master of sail steam vessels may be
preiudiced against entering IT,
A Rochester mother proposes that the
weekly holiday schools be changed from saturday to
Monday, because the urchDs play Saturday spoils
Sundays church-gOing in making them 50 tired.
change would probably bring a complaint from the
teachers Tuesday that the play OF the day before
had tired the pupils too much for their lessons.
The University of Michigan won't obey the
mandate of the Legislature to up homeopathic pro
fessOrsbip in its medical department The anopathc
professors utterly refuse live in peace with the home
opaths they brought in declaring that they will
resist even TO the destruction Of the department We
have nothing say to the merits Of the two schools,
but considering that homeopathy is 1rmly believed in
by large part OF the world this conduct seems too
petty aud contemplate to be tolerated.
Dr. James A. yelling. President of COlum
bau College states that educational appliances IN the
City OF Washingo worth sOOOOOOO have been offered
the College nominal COST including the Smithsonian
Institute, with It's rare advantages to the student of
natural history the Congressional Library, having
2OOOOO volumes the National Observatory. having one
Of the largest telescopes the world the Agricultural
and horticultural Gardens, the United States Coast Sur
vey Department the Medical Museum, the COrcOran
Gallery Of Fine Arts, and other institutions.
These are the not untrue assertions of a
German observer: In many OF our Engii'h-American
schools the teachers cOnne themselves entirely too
closely with text books. What in the text book they
endeavor teach. have the scholars 70 learn it in
some way, and more. They sit behind the desk,
olaspng the text book with both hands not "to
lose place. aud look neither TO the right nor TO the
left upwards. while the scholars are standing before
them reciting what they really have studied
learned, but what they committed to memory or per
chance found IN some pony"
An editor discussing colleges" mentions
an instance where ga far-seeing parent proposed TO
make q great international lawyer OF his son, aud at
Harvard and Heidelberg his whole attention turned
in that direction. He studied law IN the best schools in
Europe and America graduated with the highest hon
OTIS and is wealthy and successful machinlst, and
I .1oxs NNan Min
| able remainder OF his German schooling. The final
product OF all this legal and linguistic lore ia gentle
man. a mechanic aud a musician active in all the bet
ter paths Of te ripe scholarship, but not at all
| lawyer"
| At a recent commencement of young ladies'
seminary in Chicago two damsels discussed tho some
what ambitious subject "Are to anticipate the Inn
provement of the newspaper Press in the future T. The
result was not very 6aterng TO believe this
| summary OF the discussion:
Aiirmatve-when the millennium arrived, and nation
ceased to rise up against nation and neglected the study
Of war reservng its industries for the conversion Of the
then useless Of into the latest and most
approved patterns agricultural implements, the impu
dence OF the interviewer" Of the local staff would
become inOlerable and his discharge would be OF
the earliest indications Of journalistic reformation.
Negatye-Ihe Press possessed no inherent power Of
sefmprovement evidenced by Ugh rates OF adver
Using and publication OF Sunday editions The tone
OF the Press OF to-day much lower than that OF a
century ago and 1t TO the Bible and not to the
usr Press that society owed the arrival OF the Pilgrim
Fathers upon Plymouth Rock. Editors would continue
10 be very bad men long there existed any differ
ence between the religious and the secular Press, and
the change for better could only be accomplished by
imbuing them with the love OF Christ STILL when the
millennium did arrive. Of there would be some
hope for tie condition Of those dangerous crea.
! lures.