New-York tribune., 1873-12-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

High School in Boston
The Utica Herald favors Congressional action
In the interests of popular education.
Prof Edward Soaring of Milton College has
been elected state superintendent of Schools in Wis
sonsin
Prof. Joel Parker has commenced a course
ofleotures to the seniors at Dartmouth College on Con-
stitutioDal Law.
The Wisconsin State Teachers Association
will hold an executive session the 29th S0th aud Slst
OF this month.
The Pittsburgh School Committee has
adopted Prof Walter Smiths OF Drawing for the
public schools Of that city.
recent debate in the Alabama Senate was
the occasion for expressions Of vigorous opposition TO
the present school system.
Prof. James b. Taylor of BOwdoin College
has accepted the position OF instructor in Eocuon ana
Latin at Chauncy Hall School.
The Yale Record wants bust of the late
Prof Hadley placed in the college library among those
Of other Yale celebrities, living and dead.
The Senior Debating Club of Yale discuss
tuch excellent and pertinent questions the following:
"ought the Government 10 issue the extra sA,OoOOoO
reseryef Z"
The nomination of several ladies for mem
bership the Boston School Committee has been
Of favor.
The students Of the Omaha High-SchOol are
20 edit and manage eight page monthly paper under
the supervision of the superintendent and Principal of
the school.
Last year the amount of the Peabody fund
appropriated to Tennessee s256oO This year the
Superintendent has $4,000 placed at his disposal
by Dr. Sears
The success OF the attempt to organize
Hebrew Syracuse University is still doubtful
The demand is as yet scarcely urgent enough TO justify
special prOiessOrship
The Virginia Legislature has ordered an ap-
propriaOn OF 5000 per annum TO Bethany College The
conditions that the institution Will educate free
student from each county in the State.
Rush University is the name of a new uni
versity of learning TO be established at Fayetteville,
c. under the auspices OF the A NJ E. Church. for the
education of young colored men for the ministry
At the next examination for admission to
Harvard University stated that applicants will be
obliged 10 pass I'm addition what is already required
in English composition, Cato Major lOgarithms, and
French.
The Indiana State Board Of Education has
decided that graduates from number OF the best High
schoos which we're to be thereafter determined, would
he allowed TO the University without further ex-
animation.
The receipts of the School Fund last year
were S7IsG95 "a for "the Cincinnati School District"
The expenditures 1851 %. The average daily
attendance OF pupils reached 2G9, loSO7 of whom were
boys and $500 girls.
Alderman Sir B. S. Phillips has been elected
President of the Hebrew Literature Society in the place
of late Sir David saomoDs. Tie post Of President
uf the Westminster Free School. also vacant by the
death Of Sir David, has notyet been filed up.
The report of the Board of Managers of
Ewartbmore College that their confidence III the
ooeducaon OF the has been fully confirmed by
another years experience the results Of which clearly
dsproye falaces OF those who oppose the system"
At meeting of the annual cOnvocation of
Queens University In Ireland held last month Prof
Neshitt of Queens College, Belfast. moved resolution
70 the effect privileges Of the University be ex-
tended TO women After discussion the motion
was lost by one vote.
Prof. Randall Whittier has been elected TO
the chair Modern Languages and Mechanics at the
Ptate tMaine) College and Mr. George E. Hamlin e. T.,
OF the Of 1873 has been retained as assistant in the
department of Civil Engineering. The chair of Chem
istry Is at present vacant.
1t is said that last year. though all the teach
PRS in the coored school at Columbus. Ca cOlOred,
and tuon nothing numbers Of negroes refused to
pend their children there not because the teachers were
not competent, but because the principal well-edu
rted eoored man. chose to support and vote for Gree
ley.
The brief announcement that Prof. Hough of
the Dudley Observatory at Albany has resigned his
drectorshp because endowment of the institutions
Insufficient TO meet the demands which the advanced
,cience OF the day makes upon the investigator, n'
dieates that something should done for the Observa
tory without delay.
As evidence of the growing unpopularity OF
sophomore societies Yale 1t announced that over
thirty members Of the present Freshman class have
pledged themselves not 10 accept elections thereto.
They will form association for the purpose of gain
mg more substantial literary food than the sophomore
societies now furnish.
Prof. Sumner will form a graduate class for
advanced study in Political Economy at Yale next term
The class will read Leone Lewis History OF British
Commerce" With the lectures and explanations this
rourse viii constitute a general history Of commerce.
Bnanee and taxation for the last hundred years, and
Will present economic laws in their historical develop
ment and practical operation.
The Albany Catholic Reflector says: "The
present public school system is becoming subject OF
vital importance the Catholics throughout the coun-
try There is need of hiding the fact that the sys
ten is Objectionable the Church. that her hierarchy
has condemned IT. and that ii therefore becomes the
duty of all Catholics to disccuntenance it,"
The London Echo says that real religious
training is out OF ten received from alto
geher other than school instructors and that
while the schOOlmaster mistress may do much in the
way OF forming habits of mental industry cultvatng the
intellect and memory, and incucatng the outlines OF
theology 81 - scarcely in crowd of little busy
coinpanons.sn the hurry and excitement OF class
lesson that those impressions ~ awe and love which
constitute Religion without which all Theology is
dead ietter-caD possibly arise.
The annual catalogue of Brown University
for college year Of 1884, has Just been published
Its contents give ample that the college, in
is Itb year. issteady gaining in vgor and
e cnnrna OF study las been brOadened examlna