New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-22

NOTES ON EDUCATION.

term, - have chosen Churc's Analytical Geometry In
preference TO Loomis's.
Prof. Tyndall has been elected to preside
the next meeting OF the British Association, to be
| held at Belfast. beginning on Aug. o. 1874.
| An effort Is making in England 20 meet by
sulr crpoD the expenses OF tho rooont action brought
by the excluded lady students aanst the University Of
| Edinburgh.
Pupils going through the regular course of
the Atlanta Ga public schools study Latin and French.
Bows who preparing enter college tako Greek and
| omit French.
The School Committee % Chelsea, Mass,
| has ordered that teacher shah nnict punishment
upon pupil unrll after consulting with the ubcOmmit
| tee for his school.
Education in 0hio--h we are TO believe Mr..
Harvey, speaker at late Teachers Instiute-needs
three things: State Normal School, county supern-
tendency, aud the " townshIp-district system.
The Chandler scientific department, at Dart
mouth was awarded the highest prizea silver medal
for collection OF mechanical and freehaud drawing,
and herbarums at the recent state fair held at Man
chester
| IL is q pleasure to note the recent Teachers
Institute at Rome, ". Y. wherein all the lectures and
lessons tended toward tho new and bitterly longed for
systen of teaching pupils understand ami reflect and
| not merely to remember
| The Worcester, Massachusetts, Academy,
which has recently been reInodeed aud enlarged has
received subscriptions o its endowment fund 10 the
amount OF this sjocs7 remains 90 be col
| Ieete or put in substantial form.
Tom Brown has taught American as well
"a English boys to have kndDess for Rugby school
| and many one win be sorry tn know that Dr. Hay
man The present headaster has 80 involved the school
in petty troubles quaels that tho attendance has
! grown sadly smaller
The Bureau of Education is preparing an
! extensive review Of education ia foreign counries
based on authoritative reports from the same. Among
the features Of the report VIII he an account Of the
Introduction Of the German Language into the PROV
! lnccs Of Alsace and Lorraine.
The Laurence (l<ansas) Republican journal
j. indignant because what 10 calls the poOfIdrn con-
vention passed resolutions recommending the abolition
Of the office Of County superintendent OF Schools and
opposing further legislative appropriations TO the state
| IJuyetsity and other State schools.
Prof Max Muller says that there exists Tar
more dIsed culture and interest aoout science and IT.
erature IN England especially among women. than even
in learned and scientific Germany tho reason being that
the English enjoy perennial supply Of science made
easy in popular lectures and readable periodicals.
Professors La Borjc, Talley, and Gibbes OF the
South Carolina diversity have resigned their positions
in consequence of the eDtrauce there as medical stu
dent OF the eolored man, Henry T.. Hayne. The Board
OF Trustees accepted these designations IN resolution
which likewise stated bst It ddnt regret the proceed
ing Prof La BOrde had nllen aA cbar I'D INC CoNeso
! for more than thirty years.
The Teachers Institute of Peoria, H., has
been discussing question OF punishment III schools
! One teacher thought that whipping was beneficial;
another believed that the higher natures OF children
should be appealed TO- aud then said that corporal pun
i.hment was better than expulsion from school; and
! another mentioned with appreciation Glance OF Dis
pleasure in the eye OF the teacher
Alexander Agassiz haS received the grand
| Walker urize from the Boston Society Natural His
tory as q reward for Mia investigations in the natural
history Of the Echinoderms THIS prize il awarded but
once in I've years and for the most important nyest
cation ~ natural history within that period the results
of which have Published IN the United States one
wear previous tho award. Two sums are nj the eou
mand Of the Council 500 and $1,000 the letter Of which
was In this unanimously voted.
President \. ID. White Of Cornell University
made the day speech in defense OF scientific
education before the Teachers Institute BUghamton.
While praising agricultural colleges ana scientific iatD'-
ING he stated that little Cortland County during te
pa wear had received FROM the sale OF butter alone tho
u,n Of 0OOo which speaks well for learned and IN
,egeut management Of daires. 10 IefcreDce Z" reS'o
and science he eaid that religion has been made ernder
and deeper by the triumph OF science
According to the repOri OF Senior Flores,
unis,er from Ecuador, there ia that republic i've
national colleges with 757 students There are siN em
nine semirores undcr the control Of Catholic Sisters
having III students. At Quito. t1e capal, there Is
polytechnc school, with professors besides there
arc colleges or law medicine, and school OF trades
be after model Of the Catholic Protectofy at
Westchester " ". in which il American mechanics are
engaged as practical Instructors good elementary
! education IL also furnished
The South has not taken aniably the speech
Of Dr. McCo,h al the National Educational Convention
IL naturally disnkes any intDaton thai outside OF IT.
large towns. not much interest felt III education and
this is what Dr. MoCOsh is charged with saving Pro
Jaynes of Virginia in letter of doenfe 10 The Dart
,,o,th lnpiI presents hs State IN educational
represeutaive OF the South lie finds IA the report Of
sQ an aggregate OF 395 public seh0Vl an Increase of
CAS- with 1857 pupils, or an increase VI 3o2S9 There
we're 2Oi97 pupils ut private schools, 17Oi AT hlgh
schools aud 1905 at universities colleges and technical
schools.
The Hon. John ID. Philbrck Of Boston says
that he was surprised al the interest the excellence.
and tho extent educational institutions generally in
Vienna some of these higher schools for extent ana
magpidcence were not surpassed for horoughness
One school that he saw extended entirely around the
soupre and even hall large and superbly
enished as one " our churches The great superiority
that he found tho mode OF teaching by practca1 IL
lustrntons, and by tho teacher working with his class
the text books being subordinate and recitations being
nc discount tic thoroughness OF special PREPARATION
on the part Of teaches and the extent OF the apparatus
provided and actually used WAS Que reason OF The sn-
perlorty Of Vienna schools this system running down
even into the lowest schools
The Finance Committee of Michigan Uni
ver-ity has reported rs follows: Total receipts s2''
.5s 6o toni disbursements, fl2aiss 81 The estimates
| for tho y,ar ending June 80, 1874, Receipts
so7 OIL n; disbursements siO6OS7 &c. This estimate Is