New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


! enter crow for the Spring races.
Prof Carmichael of Bowdoin College has
\ been appointed state Assayer OF Maine.
| Six hundred and twenty teachers attend the
| drawing lessons in the Boston free schools.
The teachers in the Memphis schools have
been alIo we'd full pay for tho time lost during tho cpl
! demic.
The second year of Alcon University Is
sai 10 have been successful IN every way. 1t Las hal
| l7g Students
| Rochester University has begun the publ
cation Of an UndcrGraduates monthly called The UA1'
rers,ty Record
Mr.. Thaddeus Fairbanks has just given to
the 81. Johnsbury, VI, Academy handsome buldlns
costing $1,000.
Mr.. Charles c. Perkins has been appointed
university Raphael and Michael Angelo lof
! the current academic year at Harvard.
Prof. Bascom, Williams College, is to deliver
| q course OF lectures English literature before tho
| Lowell Institute, Boston.
! A School of Design in connection with the
| Buffalo Academy OF Fine Aria Is TO be mmediateV
| opened for term Of six months.
Prof. Silnan has taken Prof. Bankers place
at the Yale Medical School. He 10 now delivering lee
| lures to the medical scholars.
! Inc new COucpc DuuulHE "a tnc piVuiN"i ~
partment OF the University Of Wooster, at Cleveland
! Ohio has just been formally dedicated.
The Harvard College reading room, which
IL sustained by the students, has nov u daes u week
lies, II monthlcs, aud quarteriies on its tables.
| The Charleston Ne,rs and Courier thinks that
s5OOOO added to the present school tax, would give
south carolina all the educational facilities her coiored
! citizens need.
The Governor of Alabama declares that the
benefits which their present system Of education has
conferred on youth Of the not in proper
| ton to the great expense which attends H.
According to The Philadelphia Press. The
Cambria County Scientific Institute grayely inquiries
whether you was" 10 allowable, and whether punesua-
ton sbould be taught in the common sehoo!sl
The Yale catalogue has appeared, giving y
total Of os5 students the University, OF whom Oh are
I'm the Academical Department ga N the Scientific
School 90 graduates aud smaller numbers IN tho various
! other departments.
Mr.. Hancock Superintendent Of the Cincin-
natl Public Schools, says the duty Of every
community 10 educate > much its pccuniary re-
sources will warrant aud on that point tue community
/ must be It's own judge.
The Trustees of the Indiana State Uniyer-
sits have recently purchased the Ward cabnet, which
when added TO celebrated owen cabinet purchased
some three years ago. WILL It s salI make tho largest
! and best cabinet in the United states.
| Work upon the new building for the Epis-
copal Academy Cheshire, will tis expected, ogsn soon,
! and viii continue throughout tho winter 0pon
weather tai the is completed Il IS Intended
10 have the building ready for occupancy Spring
speaker at Teachers Institute in Penn
yyaula says that J ioar too much study bnt TOO lit
e that harms seholIrs aud that TIE time in school OF
close study does not amount to more man four hours
! q.
! trciscs.
The Young ladies of Wheaton Seminary re-
Gently met aud after comparing uctas tae causes
and extent OF the panic passed series OF resolutions
70 the effect that hereafter, they would keep them-
selves informed business matters ana fCT tho pres
ent would abstain from all unnecessary c1psndl-
| lures
/ The Catholic University is declared the su-
preme 81 at OF Education In Ireland, and 70 have ann
ata 90 itevcry College. Diocesan School College, and
primary school ander ecclesiastical control in the king
dom Catholic Training College IL to DO established IN
connection with the University the committee charged
With il establishment being Bishops DJtriun Conro.,
! Lynch, and Moran.
An Evangelical Lutheran Feminine COLLEGE
and Normal school IS % De established NJ Spring lid,
H. IL will especially, beside tno usual brinches, III
struct teachers thoroughly Ia German, that they may be
able ~ teach IT, An excellent corps VI professors and
teachers will be selected from those attached 70 the
Missouri German Lutheran synod to which body the
/ institution Will belong.
Al the Portland, Maine Teachers institute,
Professor Allen said that no chad never seen much
Christianity grow out OF set rp.Grc lessons AL the
Christianity that Is taught grows ont OK the Christian
character OF the teacher. The teacher who expects 10
teach words school must BE- christian herself 10
would eiyo more for a cool Christian teacher with
on. Bible than for Ordinary teachers with 300 Bibles.
Mr.. Gerrit Smiths letter declaring that, in
his opinion the ate should not DO mtrustci win th3
control OF education any han religion, l. reviewed
with Gisapprobation II some quarters, especially BY
The IfbQnI EnyTeSs which says: 1--WE give mul credlt
FOR good and worthy motives, but really believe that his
ambition 20 TIC martyr 70 public opinion often runs
away With his better judgment and leads him seriously
| astray."
Somebody writing to The Cincinnati Gazette
objects 10 the verse in Sunday .choo singing books,
observing that tho Psalms OF David R)usc's version,
would be infinitely preferable 81 the nambypam5y airs
inflicted on the children Of this generation In the ge
OF Sunday school songs. He says that boys from 10 10
H. brmmug with life, and fnn, and activity and aiyo
with darug ambition to do something in tie world 60
| do come good on earth before they die and become
angels arc singing twaGdle about Watching FOR the
| current OF life 10 cbo away, aud Listening for the
pashing Of the boatlnan's distant oar Watching Cor
tho angels aud listening for tue music OF the skies"'
| writer in The Boston Transcript says that
q huderance 20 successful teaching, by TO be
overlooked, the sprnkng all through oar schools Of
snowy teachers. Hardly building escapes without
or two They DO not teach their pupils to thi-k but
they have a marvellous facility OF gliding every
hard point IN school hfe they acknowledge df
ncufy TO 10 met conquered, their pupils revel IN
elevated percentages, and they meet you always with
the serenity VI May morning dazzling you with Won
derfu specimens OF drawing. and exhibitions in music,
and ignoring always the existence of anything their