New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-11-19
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Prof. Richard T. Greener of Harvard, 'N,
has accepted the chair OF mental and morsi P""'f''
IN the State University Of South Carolina
Prof. Calvin of Dubuque, Iowa, has been
appointed to I'LL the vacancy In the s.a,e
by the resignation OF Dr. Whte frolessoi
OF Natural Sciences.
The Tennessee State Teachers Associations
nsl Meeting and state Convention OF County senooi
suucriutendents will be held at Nashville on Inc '"'
10Th nth and 18th Of December
The school teachers in st. Louis have not
een paid their salaries since the Summer vacsuon' anu
,he xtyday certificates which they received IN heu OF
It, they unable TO get cashed'
II ia formally reported that the colored
chooa OF the District OF Columbia are In good conduoh
and very useful There 1000 pupils attending the
schools, and there 81 teachers Cncludng speea
,oachers) in the employ of the board of trustees.
The FAN term of Amherst College, this
year will be IA weeks in place Of the usual IS closing
ahe week before Christmas and the vacation VIII DC
three weeks from that time, lasting week after the
holidays The other terms of u weeks each, with
two weeks vacation In April. Commencement Will DC
the second Thursday in July.
At the late meeting of a Teachers Institute
In Kansas clergyman insisted the necessity OF
the Bible In the schools and proposed as the best plan
OF mpartng its instruction the use OF some elementary
book OF morality based the great religious and no'
truths of the Bible with the constant use OF the boe
NJ a book Of reference.
The collection of educational documents, IN
handsome binding. sent to Vienna by the state OF MAS
sachnsetts-whicn comprise a complete set OF the Re
ports Of the Board of Education in % volumes ana also
complete Of the School Reports OF all the cues anu
towns in the State for 1872 in IL volumes-has been
formally presented the library of the Austrian MID
istry Of Education.
The Regulations of the Faculty OF Harvard
College adopted 1872 just given to the students are IN
q great measure the that have been II force Tor
several years but there some important changes
Hereafter the rank list in each elective study VIII con-
ian only the names Of those who have obtained 10 per
cent of the maximum mark; heretofore ~ per
cent has been Sufficient After this date degree VIII
be given TO no student who not obtained 50 per cent
of the total number of marks for the whole course from
abe time OF admission
The Albany Express denies that there is
anything wrong about the Oyerdrawn School rama Oh
the state says that the taxes which 80 TO make up
xhe appropriation OF the fund-whch appropriation
may be drawn upon after the first Of October IN each
not paid into the Treasury until the next June
or july aud sometimes not till later. Hence between
Abe ISL OF October aud the date when the school taxes
are paid there money in the Treasury TO the credit
of the Free school Fund. and when the bills for the
school support appropriations are duly rendered. the
superintendent Of Public Instruction can do nothing
else than TO overdraw the bank account for the time
being.
At a recent meeting of the Trinity College
Srustees the plans for the building prepared by
architect Burgess of London were considered ana the
committee having the matter in charge we're authorized
Nv the Board 10 procure detailed drawings, with spech
cations 10 enable builders to estimate with ac-
cracy OF erecting those portions OF the general
plan indicated the report OF the committee as being
necessary for carrying the Immediate WORK OF the
college on the site. This done with the under
fandny that those parts OF the plan. II the is not
% be too great shall be erected within the next three
years following April 1874, and that the whole plan shan
e completed rapidly the funds accrue and as the
need for additional accommodations arises.
At the recent commencement of the Atlanta
Medical College the orator Of the occasion urged the ELL
enlargement Southern educational enterprises The
capacity OF people, he said equal to any on the
continent. Our past history proves it. From the begin
ming statesmen took the lead and for threeduarter
of century shaped the policy OF our Government. III
the world OF letters point 10 individual examples
that would illustrate the annals of nation We have
seyoed too much time 10 the affairs OF Government ii
anstead OF contendipg in our national councils we had
devoted more time TO literature, we could have accom-
pished greater results While were studying states
nanshp we were sending children TO the North and
Europe for education and thus became dependent on
others We can scarcely believe that any good can
come out Of Nazareth"
Tufts College is reported TO be III an ex-
oeent financial condition The endowment fund includ
iDg the original value Of land and buildings is more than
100000 The productive property amounts to about
s7GOO and the land and buildings worth 100000 The
grounds attached the College embrace more than 100
acres Some OF this win be sold when it will be for the
interest institution 10 do There is property In
Boston belonging 10 the College, which is valued at
tscOOoO The faculty have just learned that Amos
whitney late Of Lowell, deceased, makes the College
hts residuary legatee Tue amount Of property thus
added to the College will probably reach $4,000. The
College library upward of 1900 Volumes 400
volumes of standard works have been added this year
There are between and 30 students in the institution
at present. At the last examination two young ladies
applied for admission. but were rejected
The Hartford Poet thinks that the Connect
suit common schools up to the standard thai
should be aimed at and that the of the trouble
found the in which teachers are selected
system that leaves them, practically unaccountsbe &c
body long they 10 the district its share
of the public money. 1t holds with the State Teachers
Association that there should be examination and GER
thcaton OF teachers by authority under direction
Of the State Board Of Educaton that there should bt
county some such officer with practical aud theo
retca knowledge of the business OF teaching TO whom
The teachers should be held accountable and whose
business it should be TO that they advance rather
than jog along I'D inc rut lhto WHICH Iney e 20 year,
ago At present the system OF appointing teachers IL
the odfashioned and The Post thinks that in the
appointments the interests OF the school are isubor
dnated personal friendship or family relationship
The Arkansas College Colony is situated al
udsonia White County, Ark SO miles north Of the capt
tai Little Rock and the Cairo and Fulton Railroad
running both from st. Louis and Cairo diagonaly
Che whole State OF Arkansas. This road 10 the main
trunk line OF Arkansas, and nterseos ali other lines OF
road in the state. The colony organized IN Chicago
ahnnt three years ago for the purpose of founding