New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION

A gift of bank stock, valued ut trom S'VVV'
70 $4,000. has been received by Washington UNIVERSITY
Missouri.
The London University has instituted aeoH'Se
., Chinese language and literature under the tuition 81
Professor II. +. Holt
Ten thousand dollars aud more has ALREADY
bcen secured by Washington aud lee Vo'NeSN 'N' ee'
endowment OF its South Carolina chair
The establishment of branch Of the state
Eorral school OF California az san Diego Is warmly
urged one Of the fayonts argameUss that The pAe0
4 very healthy.
More corporal punishment discussion
Nashville saws "contnue;" Pittsburgh SAYS. abolish
We have no manner doubt a. the sentiments az tAo
children OF both cities
The semi-centennial Of Trinity College Hart
ford which occurs this year. will be celebrated HHu
1871 when buildings set In It's new Er'uaSs q -
acres, will be completed.
Wittenberg College. Springfield, oho' mas
the prospect OF an additional endowment fund 70 'ue
amount OF slO0OoO large part OF the snm haS SV""
been promised condition that the resi- Oh " y
The annual apportionment Of the Michigan
Primary School Interest Fund has just been enueu "
the Superintendent OF Public Instruction. Inc "H''o
amount is slo6o u; ~ cents per child one cent tore
than last year. and an increase ID 'he 'o'Ai "o "
$500 ~
Earl Russell has just made speech on edu-
cation in which said that they could nave no goou
schools unless they had religion in them" that the
teaching OF the Bible was the best teaching which could
he oven and that be trusted 1t would continue 70 pros
per in England.
A New Haven newspaper argues that so far
"a the study OF history concerned, nothing should be
taught in our schools but the barest outlines since the
moment one goes beyond them one gets into debata
BILE land where the preudces passions theories of
different sects and parties In conflict Alas Dry
outlines are not attractive to the average pupil"
The Baltimore School Board has had an
animated conversation the prOprety Of introducing
Natural History cards into the city schools One MEM
her grew excited aud picturesque in his language over
the marvellous beauties Of these works Of art, while
another declared that would be cheaper TO pay for the
admission of the children to cirouses and menageries
The consequence that further dehberaton was post
pOned.
The Medical College of Alabama has estab-
hshed a Chair OF Public Hygiene and Medical Jurispru
dence, and Tie Mobile Register is extremely glad, be-
cause says 1T is 10 the application Of this science
that We are look the only means Of freeing our
Southern from the disastrous epidemcs that have
no often deCimated their population while the whole
some lessons that it teaches the inhabitants of the
rural districts inure greatly TO their benefit"
The Milwaukee Board of Education has
placed the language upon nearly the same foot
ing the English in the public schools Of that city.
This is not very remarkable, considering that its German
inhabitants are said TO be majority. The proceeding
however, has awakened not little indignation among
people who contend that the children have already
enough studes that two languages cannot exist in a
nation time, and that German must either
die ont supplant the English tongue.
The New-YOrk State Association of School
superintendent and Commissioners ended their annual
meeting last week. with the passage of series of resou
tOns deprecatng the appropriation Of $l20O0 by the
Legislature the Academic Schools and urging the
abolition OF the Office OF Regent of the University and
she placing all schools that receive State aid under
the control Of the Department OF Public Instruction. The
next meeting win be held the 22d of July in cODnec
tion with the state Teachers Association.
A correspondent complains that many of the
textbooks used in our common schools are written in
language above the comprehension Of the average pupil
In illustration he brings forward the answer to the ques
tOn "Wha is Arithmetic % which is this The science
or knowledge OF numbers, and the art of computing
0y them" He contends that the average pupil, not
understanding what the words science art and comput
ing mean, gets from of idea of what
Arithmetic really is. We persuaded that they could
easily find OUT but advocate the proposition that
language Of the lower textbooks should be the sim
plest Saxon possible.
The New-England Association of Superin-
Of Public Schools recently held its semannual
meeting in Boston. paper was read advising the fur
nshng Of textbooks free OF expense to the pupils of the
public schools, and resolution adopted declaring
abe expediency of such measure. Another paper ad-
Vanced the statement that the great difficulty in obtain
lng teachers Of culture is that the greater number
of those entering the profession simply their posi-
tions makeshfts and seppngstOnes to something
higher and their training is insufficient and the
pensation in most is too small. third paper
argued that children were set to work arithmetic at