New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

has just appeared. 40. ooo
The CITY of Athens, Ca, has given $4,000
10 the State College.
The School of Mines at Rolla, Missouri, is In
m excellent and hopeful condition.
The Rev. DR.. ]. f. Hurst succeeds bishop
Pceer as Prendent Of the Drew Theological Seminary
NJ Madison, n. J.
Commencement at Oxford, Ohio, occurs on
the tath OF June Mr. whtelav Reid will give the adj
dress before the Alumni.
Senator Bayard will give the next annual
address before the Literary Societies Of the University
Of Virginia, on the I'd Of July.
Cleveland is to have new medical college,
That is tc saw the medical department OF Wooster UNI
versity lie TO have building of it's own
Prof. Brush of Yale Scientific School intends,
shortly 10 make trp 70 Franklin N. j., in seareh Vi
minerals, and take a number of students WITH him.
The Auburn Theological Seminary has nc
cepted Col Morgans offer Of $4,000 and VIII '"ns,0'
itself to Aurora unless the citizens OF Auburn raise '
600 within 90 days ,
The Hon. Sidney Perham has been eiecteu
President of the Board OF Trustees of the Maine state
Normal Schools The Eastern State Normal School al
Castine recently dedicated.
The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale is to
Ia opened TODAY with elaborate ceremonies This new
structure embraces total gift OF $4,000 IL Is quit OF
brick with ornaments Of white and blue brick'
A number of the students at Bowdoin are
eoine through optional studies this term Prof Chap
man has class in the Latin OF Tacitus, Prof sewah
class in the Greek Of Plato, and Prof Young class IN
Italian.
The several congregations Of lsraelites In
Cincinnati taken the first steps toward the estab
nshment Of a Jewish Theological Institute General
Conference Of Congregations is to consider the matter
on the sth OF July.
Many of the students at Yale are taking
botanical aud geological excursions under the guidance
of Professor They 30 into the woods and the noun
tains have lunch. and with plants and fossils,
ell wearing :he longest and most tremendously hard
Latin names.
The recent discussion in Boston on the ad-
mission OF colleges has been the cause OF gen
era comment throughout the country Opinion is ap-
parontly equally divided the subject but everybody
TO agree upon the proprety of letting this ques-
ton 20 for the present, and making more useful the
schools specially intended for women
The cornerstone of the College of Letters
of the California University was recently laid. The
building will be Of wood with Man sard roof. and the
entire is be sSS75O II will be ready for occu
pancy the goth Of next September. more perma-
neut material might perhaps have been in better taste
and economical
We hope that the recent dinner at which the
national magnates at Washington assembled Will
not have witnessed the last 10 did the first discussion
Of the endowment Of National University with Column
ban College a nucleus National University would
be good thing 10 have, though doubt II IT would
ever compete with Yale Dartmouth, or Harvard.
The school children of Boston are to give a
OF for the purpose of securing to the Art
Museum authentic and original medallion portraits
Of George and Martha Washington which are now for
sale. There objections made TO the many public
bbtons Of the cleverness of the Boston children and
not sure that unObtrusive way of educa-
ton might not be equally valuable.
Il II L.
pointed Professor of the Scandinavian languages at Cor
nell The readers OF The Atlantic and other magazines
will remember Mr. Boyesen's Northern poems and
sketches IL is urged that unless provision is
for the study Of the Scandinavian in our
American colleges, the Norweqans Of Wisconsin and
Minnesota will be establishing schools Of their and
thus setting up little Norway in this country.
1t is probable that Royal Commission viii
be appointed to examine the state of secondary
education in Ireland memorial has just been pre-
sened TO Lord Harrington, pressing especially upon the
attention Of the defects Of secondary edu
cation for girls in that island, and asking for legislative
inquiry aud the admission Of girls to a fair share in
that portion of the Of the Disestablished
Church which is allotted TO educational purposes
Among the important features in the new
Ohio school law provision constituting all school
districts in Ohio bodies polite and corporate" with
and exclusive control Of educational matters in
GLIDING the fun title and ownership Of all real estate and
all other property used hereafter 10 be acquired
therefor This will invest Boards with every needed
power for independent action, while il win also definite
y fix responsibility for any failure in administration.
A Virginia newspaper protests with indig-
nation and with seeming justice against the statements
made by Washington critics that educational matters
make slow progress in that State, and that it mig
gardy in this respect Wei Ishow," says this angry
writer, to-day universally applied school system
1905 schools, 1858 teachers, and 10000 pupils the
e,sl. il org
for a State broken aud worn by war.
The departments of Law and Medicine of
Central University are to be opened at once, Louis
ville and at the time will be opened Of the
University Colleges at Anchorage. DR. Stuart Robinson
has been elected temporary Chancellor and the Rev. W.
f. Juukdn President Of Faculty and Vice-Chancellor
At Robinson's request salary is paid him. and
a salary Of $3.50 is affixed ito the office Of YiceChan
celor who is to increase the endowment and collect
and invest the endowment already secured.
The bill of the Pennsylvania Legislature,
providing for the establishment OF the Mechanics High
Schools appropriated only 5000 for that purpose which
not Overwhelmingly generous sum. It seems that
politics rather than education have the art of extract
ing money from Pennsylvania pockets II remained for
a gentleman OF Pittsburgh TO Offer Rrauitously large
space Of land that city for the site Of the school We
are glad that the very projection o. such ns
tuition been the Of starting discussion the
value Of more practical and discriminating education
than Is altogether the fashion now.
The Joint expedition of Prof. Baird, United
States Fish Commissioner. aud Prof Verrill. the
Naturalist OF Yale College, has been located for this
season, in CascO Bay, with headquarters Peaks
Island, of the Of Maine. The Fish Commission
was originally established TO investigate the Of
the Of the various kinds Of edible fish along the
coast with a view OF restoration; the sup
posed be dependent in upon the FISH
food IL mas found essential objects In view
70 thoronghly examne the feeding grounds by dredging