New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

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The freshman Class at Trinity College l has !
"a members IN. sl.-s lnr Mon ri u.unas9,
| II il said that the scholastic population oil
| TENNESSEE Az more than 10000. ylun0' ~ i'a
latin and German are to be taught IN No.
| Public School in wilmington DEL .,. %.
| IN. Worcester .(hiass.) Spy notes the very
oh Increased attendance this term at all our scno0'
| eo,,or Debating Society has been formed
IA, erst subieet OF discussion Ia, we are gau 70
900 ,hs practical one the farmers controversy WIZ"
| the railroads. .....r...
A Conservatory OF Music has been estap-
a., - connection With the Northwestern UniyerSiy
pnanston Prof Oscar Mayo Is " be the Director VI
the new Department
ube Rev. j. II. w. Stuckenberg, A. NJ, pas
nd Msss,an Evangelical Lutheran Church IN Pats-
eron has accepted the Professionally of 'sacred PM
looevp in wlttenburg College, Springfield ohio
The additional $4,000 acres of school lands
q, which IL has been discovered that Michigan is emu
Had arc now being selected and will add 100000 to the
urinary school fund Of the State the lands being hed
for sale at per acre
The Syracuse (N.Y College of Physicians
and Surgeons recently entered upon Its second term
The Dean OF the Faculty Prof Hyde, advocated IN his
opening address, the establishment of hospital in that
c1ty--an eXcehen1 proposai.
The School Board of Springfield, H., has
stricken the word "white" out OF the regulations and
thrown open the public schools to applicants OF any
color 1t liz said that the very heightened people oi INC
city will withdraw their children. .
Mr.. Arthur Q. Fisk, formerly instructor III
Greek at Harvard has taken position in the Pnpho
Latin School Boston. Ernest Young OF last years
graduating class is Master Of Geography aud Hsory
the Boston Latin School, and has also been appoh 1eu
Instructor In Roman Law at Harvard.
The Niagara County Teachers lnstit lte ad-
ysnced during its recent these excellent propo
stions among others: That geography should not oe
made dry study as IL Is usually fourm 10 DC '"V
etiquette should taught common schools ana
that moral suasion better than corporal punishment
Phillips Academy, Andcyer, has tins yea
graduated students, and sent upward oil Az 70 COZ
eee This Institution for Is years, ending Win l~i'
sent over 1000 college; while 1t took the Boston 'h
scboo 4G years ending with the same date to send OO
nearly twice AS long to send little more than hall as
many.
The people of Georgia are paying new anu
active attention TO education tax of One-ha OF one
r cent Il, levied upon the real OF the city OF
Atlanta for educational purposes alone The conse-
oeuce ia that large numbers OF the best citizens III tue
State move to Atlanta obtain the benefit Of her we'll
N guated public free schools.
The Harvard Telegraph C0mpany's lines
have been connected with those OF the western ouoh
in the Cambridge Office Mr.. Burgun the author OF the
article in the October old and Ne,o. has been elected
President of the Company Prof. irving mas peeh ap-
pointed Acting Professor OF English language ana Liter
azure in Michigan University the current year, at
salary Of 5000.
A writ OF court has commanded the reluctant
Board Of Regents Michigan University 10 appoint
and maintain two Homeopathic professors In the hedl
cal Department There $50 applicants Admitted 10
the Freshman Glass this The French Academy 0f
Science las given medal to Prof Watson OF the UNI
versty Observatory an Acknowledgement OF his val
HI bic scientific work.
AT the recent session of the Niagara County
Teachers Institute, Mr.. Brown. one Of js conductors
related teacher in OF our western states was
prohibited from teaching the rotundy OF the earth OF
that itrevolvcd its axsos in other words, turned
over az the trustee said For proof that such teaching
WAS a dangerous error, WIN. LirkiD sat ny AL night
aud never saw any such thing"
Professor Marsh has purchased for the Yale
College cabinet the Z,ltner collection Of Central Ameri
can antiquities by Mr.. ZItner during period
of several years services French Consul at Panama
The collection embraces very fine series OF gold I'M
ages from the Chrqui graves, as weiias abont bund
red pieces Of pottery which constitute the originals OF
the illustrations OF Zeuer in his work the antiquities
OF Chriqul.
Let us mention admiringly the great pracii-
cal sense Of Maine county School Committee. young
teacher has been trying interest her pupils in botany
and uneraogy by explaining to them the nature OF the
plant or stone gathered by them during Saturday ram
hles in the woods Recently OF the Committee for
maly forbade her TO this any because filed
the cbdrens heads With nonsense and prevented their
studying" On wise Committee!
Two young coored boys recently passed
with credit the usual for admission to the
Ii Oh School Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio. The Board Of Eiuca-
ton however refused to allow them 20 enter the School,
and took refuge the expensive alternative OF hiring
preceptor for the sole exclusive benefit OF these two
youths This arstocratic provision Of private tutor
did not content the colored people Of GAINESVILLE who
have held an Indignation meeting on the subject The
Ohio School Law permits this proceeding Of the Board Of
Education.
The Harvard authorities have made the fol-
lowing appointnents Frederick d. Allen. A b. Phi D.,
tutor in Greek for three years from Sept l. 1873 William
Cook ABB, Instructor in German for the current AGA
demic year Thomas Waterman. IT., MD, instructor in
anatomy and physiology for the current academic years
John LathroP, Lib lecturer .torts for the current
academic year; Edward Aug. Bogue, Md, and Ira
Allen Salmon, d. Ds.. lecturers in the dental school
during the current academic year; William Caleb
Lorug AB and Francis ogden Lyman, ABB, proctors.
Mr. Henry Z. Hayne, the colored Secretary
OF state OF South Carolina, has entered the Medical
School Of the state University. The Charleston Meas and
Courier which says anxious that the coored peo
pie should have every facility for acquiring educa
on, says that Mr. Haynes entrance TO the Unver
sIty marks the beginning Of the end Of institution
within whose walls Of the purest and abest
in the State lived daring the quiet OF their student
life" 1t does MT approve Of admitting coored students
to the State University while there is University
dowed by the State exclusively for their benefit
In reference to our present educational sys-
tenn The W,R,dmsport PENN Register says that the ma