New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-15

endowment fund OF this Dsttuton " now soVVV anu ~
is steadily increasing.
The new principal of the New-Hampshire
State Normal School Is Prof Horato Ladd, lately OF
ollvet Mich) College.
Denver, Col, is growing rapidly in the di-
reet,on of education. Two excellent school bald
| ings are now being constructed
The Iowa State Teachers Association if
much OF the opinion that the classical education more
valuable than the socalled practical education"
One-third of the 80 members Of the last SEN
Tor Glass in Hamilton College already engaged as
teachers editors with salaries ranging from s. 800
to $780,
The normal schools of the country supply
only trained teachers per annum while the annual
deficiency estimated by the Bureau OF Education at
over $4,000
! Prof. Long, one of the founders of the Lon
don University and for many years Professor OF Latin In
the institution, has been granted pension Of aOO by
Queen Victoria.
The Troy Board of Education has decided
that the city orphan asyums shall receive from the gen
educational fund the rata per scholar
the other schools
1t is said that for fifteen years only one
person among all who had been instructed in German
the city schools ofToedo ONO had made any prac-
tca business Of the language.
Dartmouth College has opened its new term
with 50 new members in the academical department.
tho scientific, and several in the other depart
ments The medical department contains 40 students
The Tiennia appears for the first time this year with
the Latin translated.
In the Indiana State Normal School, Of a
class OF II members, II young ladies were ready for
graduation four months earlier than the five gentlemen.
of whom failed entirely at the last and at Green
the feminine students in every class rank equally
IN attachments with the masculine students.
An American writing to The London Graphic
says that the public school system Of New England is
behind the time leaving untouched much that can be
and Is elsewhere included in ordinary school course,
and in particular failing keep up the standard OF edu-
cation, both for the boys who to 90 into active life
when they leave school, and for those who expect 60
to college.
An editor in Chicago invites the attention
of the public school teachers grave defects which
accompany the result of the present method OF
teaching One these is the savagery, the innate bar
barty Of the children shown in their many and ngeni-
ways OF prosecuting and hurting one another The
other defect lies in the unreasonable forcing or cram
ming which the brains of the pupils are subjected
The Vanderbilt University building will face
toward Nashville, beautiful site surrounded by old
forest trees The design is modelled after the Gothic
made for two elevators be used also for ventatng
shafts to rise from the basement floor the third story
IL is thought that the excavation and the building OF the
foundation for the supersructure will not be completed
until the first of January.
Utica journal, in an appeal for better
education quotes this remarkable declaration otits New
York correspondent: Perhaps there is no feature in
this city which would more surprise stranger than the
general prevalence of ignorance among our business
SO much as to the merchants, bankers and owners Of
real estate Whatever be the show OF wealth aud the
advance of luxury, the absence OF intellectual culture
| affords painful and almost disgusting contrast"
One of the chief difficulties to be encoun-
tered and already seriously felt in Tennessee is that OF
supplying the coored schools with suitable teachers
White teachers prefer white schools and so great is the
present and prospective demand for them that in many
of the counties great difficulty will BIO experienced In
supplying the white schools with competent teachers
Consequently there will BIO much need Of teachers from
among the coored people for their schools and I'M
fortunately but few Of them TO be found in this
state who are sufficiently qualified for the work.
A Washington newspaper INDUCES in the
pleasant statement that in point Of educational facilities
the capital city OF the country ouranks in many re-
specs any other in the Union. First there is the Smith
sonian Institute then there are Columbian College,
Howard University, Georgetown College, the Deaf
College, the Patent once, the COrcOfan Art Cal
lery the Botanical Garden, the Army and Navy Medical
Museum the Naval Observatory, the public libraries,
the political menagere and various other agents for the
diffusion OF knowledge. IT'S enOugh-twill serve
Washington can afford to wait for It's National Uni
yeTsity.
The following are the conditions upon which
aid is given from the Peabody fund TO the Southern
schools
First: The school for which aid is asked must be a
public free school, under the control OF the lawfully con
stituted local school authorities.
Second II must have bona nde enrolment OF not
less than 100 pupils, averaging IS per Day
Third: IL have an assured 1und i0r cnrlen eX-
penses amounting to at least twice much as the aid
received from the fund.
Fourth: IL must be "a graded scnOf
Fith: teacher must DE furnished for every 50 pupils
at most
Sirih Two copies of the blanks must be filed up and
subscribed by the proper parties ana returned 10 Inc
state superintendent OF Public Instruction at Nashville
The plans for the new Trinity College build
ings at Hartford furnished by London architect, and
recently accepted provide for the building OF three
tiguous quadraugles, each ncosng space 200 feet
souare all opening eastward and presenting grand
front of over 100 the whole pile may be viewed
as large recange converted into three quads by the
intersection OF buildings each 200 feet from
the north and south boundaries respectively. The
statue of Bishop Browne stand outside the quads
AT the head of broad avenue which is to be cut In
straight line from Washngtons up TO the grand CEN
ra gateway OF the college 1t Is not certain that all
the buildings will erected at once but the buildings
will he started with this plan in view, and all subsequent
additions will he IN comfOrlty with II.