New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Empora Kansas, lately opened with due ceremony
The Legislature of Massachusetts, has granted
additional land 10 the Institute OF Technology and the
Governor has signed the bill
The receipts of the Woolsey fund of Yale
College up to March l5 sO952 Co. Tue expenses 10
be deducted from this amount to 1881 So which
left total Of s6o,5S0 70.
The japanese Government is about to estab-
lsh an engineering College in the CITY OF Yedo. At
tached to the college there be technical workshop
and chronological museum.
The trustees of the Indiana State University
have determined the salaries Of all professors
who have served 10 years more from 1900 to $1,000
The amount Of the Presidents salary ia changed from
1900 to $500.
The Hon. Samuel Campbell of Oneida has
been chosen Trustee Of Cornell University TO take the
place left vacant by sr Greeley. Frederick Law Ohm
sed has also been chosen Trustee in place Of Judge
Charles J. Foger, resigned.
A citizen of South Carolina has established
school for ratuitousy educating the destitute orphans
OF Confederate soldiers. An agricultural and mechanical
department connected with the school, and the
feminine pupils are to be taught needlework
The money received from supplementary
course of lectures by Prof Neimeyer the Yale Art
School will be used TO buy large selection of Brau's
Auotypes for the school There will be five lectures to
be given early in the present term.
Vermont people are complaining that their
School laws in a sadly confused condition. These
laws revised and consolidated years ago. but
each succeeding Legislature has added to, taken from,
and altered and amended them until they have grown
chaotic.
The school expenses of the city of Syracuse
this year amount to tI5O5i o. Last year they were
sls4I2 81 This reduction made by Gripping the
lint nv dol no %
5000 which the charter permits to be raised and ex
pended.
The Cumberland Valley State Normal School
OF Pennsylvania has just been completed and publicly
dedicated. II handsome and comfortable building,
has the modern improvements the way OF heating,
light and water and opens with 800 pnps, and the pros
pect OF 800 more.
Somebody suggests that there should be a
cooking department in public schools and that every
girl should be required 10 know how TO make bread, etc
Certainly the OF cookery should be taught but It is
doubtful whether special school FOR purpose would
be better than the culinary course In grammar
schools.
Dartmouth has Il new scholarship of $1,000;
the Library Of Lane Theological Seminary has just re-
ceiyed addition of 5000 to its permanent fund some
body VINO whhods his has bequeathed $4,000 to
the Massachusetts, Institute OF Technology and the
Hon Albert Fearing of Boston has given $4,000 toward
the permanent dowment OF the LIBERIA University.
The last Minnesota Legislature appropriated
$4,000 for additional buildings for the State University
and the Board OF Regents determined to spend
$4,000 in the erection OF separate building to b.
cusiyoy devoted the and purposes Of aGrcl
tural department, including analytical chemistry The
remainder the Board proposes 10 put into new main
building, imposing and modern in It's architectural
style than the present structure.
The Missouri State superintendent of Public
Schools recently that there 10000 young
men in the state DISTINGUISHED because of inability to
read and write The suite Journal declares, the con
trary that instead 10000 being disranchsed ina
single year. were the educational qualification OF the
Constitution required OF the voter now, and from this on
there would be- in the next three years, only 10000 OF
the youth Of the state DISTINGUISHED.
Mr.. Laisun, the Chinese Commissioner in
charge OF his young countrymen now UNDERGOING educa
ton in New England made graceful speech the other
day during the anniversary exercises o. the Hartford
High School He warmly praised the Chinese educi-
tional being democratic ours. mo mat
ter" he said, chow poor Cnlnamln may be. his son, II
he has the ability may reach the Prime Minister'S chair
Each village has its schools, each town has its high
schools each city is college and each province It's uni
versity"
The schools of Mobile have been the only
public schools in Alabama kept since January. All
the others have been obliged to close for lack OF funds,
all parts of the The Legislature has passed law
retaining the school taxes both general and special IN
the counties where paid This VIII give superintendent
the advantage OF receiving school funds as fast as col
lected and thus enable them keep up with their
penses, and it will further do away with warrants
which Of most places in the State IN held in
stead Of money
The last annual report OF the Massachusetts
Agricultural College inspired sentiments OF playful
irony in the mind OF critic VINO observes that
machinery appears to have been the most
ful branch for the wre-worm rIyaged the potatoes,
aud the lodged, and the cost OF curing the met
was out of proportion value, and the strawberries
suffered from bleak severity Of the Winter ana the
raspberres were injured by the intense cold and the
absence the snow and the apples had to be converted
into cider and the ruabdgas attacked by aphdes
In cultiyatingi the beet, planter cutiyatOr aud
digger are used to got the vegetables in the ground
coax them grow aud pull them up Tle result OF the
combined forces Of the planter the digger aud the Guilt
yatOr was Is tons OF beets To four acres
The bill to establish a " Ilalf-Mill School
Fund" now before the massachusetts, Legislature, pro
ydes that the tax shall be annual and permanent
one II Is an assessment OF one-haf OF mill the
dollar of all the property the State according the
valuation, TO be collected in the manner other
state taxes collected. This tax Is TO not into the
town treasures but ntosthc hands OF the school com
mttees-$1OD to each cy town. without regard to
size, population apparent need OF additional money
and the residue the towns and cities in proportion 10
the number OF persons between and 10 years OF
The increased burden Of taxation the state under
this BILL however, is by limited to the tax it,
self 1t ia also shrewdy provided that part OF tins
tax shall be paid any city town which has not
piled with all the general school laws, and also raised
by taxation for the support of schools not less than 81
for each person between aud 10.
The Society of Alumni of the University of
Virginia recently issued circulars appealing TO the
friends Of the University subscribe to its permanent