New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-12-03
Economy takes place OF Perrys AID Latin s not IN
cIuded In the OF the first term These are the
only changes in the studies Of this department.

At the late session OF the St. LOUIS county
Teachers Institute, following resolution was re-
ported and Land on the table alter mneh dlscussioD;
Resoired That this Institute considers the salaries psd
10 teachers generally as inadequate for the services
rendered. and tending toward the degradation ln-
stead OF the elevation OF tho teachers proession ny
keeping wellqua6ed teachers ont OF the county Inc
Good sense and good feeling OF the Institute found ex
preston in the adoption OF this excellent resolution
Resolred, That, in tic judgment OF this Institute no
discrimination should be made In the salaries Of teachers
holding the same grades Of certificates whether male or
female but that for equal services equal compensation
should be paid.
There has been an attempt made by the
instructors at Harvard to abolish rhetoric from the st
OF required studies aud TO supply It's place Dy an extra
number OF themes They think that the student OF
rhetoric learns an unlimited number OF tue rules ana
canons OF good style, with some OF which ne natuay
complies while forced compliance with others only
cramps his style. IL theme writing the Instructor can
get directly at each mans weak points, aud make the
necessary corrections The corporation, however, con
ders that rho study Of good textbook on rhetoric u
better for the student than thcme Writing Ihere VIII
be an elective next year In modern English literature
Hitherto the instruction In this branch has Included
only the earlier period from Chaucer to Dryden.
It is said that women will probably be
elected ON The Boston School Committee year, with
very little opposition. Miss Lucretia Croker Mss iu
cretia Hall, and other candidates are In the hsd ana
some of them will quite certainly be elected The mat
ter was aqated year ago. but not long enough Deiore
election Success This year Il has been qneuy
canyassod all the tune by several or the most Intelligent
and phanthropcal ladies or Boston, aid the hostility
which at first threatened has mostly died away OF
Withdrawn from public notice. Women are already
serving school COMMITTEES in many OF the towns near
Boston, and are always found to be the most dicent
and useful members OF the Board IL Merose, Tor eH
annie Mrs Samuel r. Sewell and two oher Ia lies are
on the committee and IN Concord Miss Emerson has
been member for three OF four years, taxing her
fathers place there.
Judge Dean of Blair County, Penn, in the
trial OF OF assault aud battery, in which schJo
teacher was this defendant, made some remarks upon
the subject OF corporal punishment 10 Schools III Whch
he sad Any teacher who Is forgetfui OF tho duties
Of hi. high calling the farTeachng consequences o.
his acts, as nalciously cruelty beat pupil should
without ltoring without hesitation on your part Dc
convicted Of assault and battery o. the other hand 10
OF the greatest Omeut that teachers In our pubic
schools be encouraged ana sustained in every proper
exercise OF their authority The very existence of these
Institutions depends sustaining the teacher in his au
thorty, when properly exercised in the schoofOOm III
the teacher be stripped OF his authority 10 enforce
attention prohibit disorder IN the schoolroom, by
unlOuuded trivial prosecutions the end Of te 81 stem
for good ia very nearat hand Rebellion and cOntnmacy
on tho paIt OF the pupils VIII become chronic the
teacher instead Of training youth, will be engaged in
couilnuaI contest to maintain his authority
Among the movements OF most general in
erest in our colleges. President Gilman OK California
notes these l. The extraordinary munlhcence OF
wealthy men toward institutions OF higher learning.
= Tue growing tendency 10 concentrate institutions "
learning Of various kinds in ono aejghborhood, and
under bond OF union or afflatiOn. by which each
may strengthen every other The tendency TO denomi-
national and sectaran colleges seem TO be lcssening
O. Bold aud steady notifications OF plans Of instruction
spOndng the hand with the marvellous ad-
yauces Of modern science, aud the other hand with
ne requirements Of difereat mental proclives and
with TO dliferert l'epuposcs among the students
Even the oldest aud most conservative Institutions are
taxing thu lead in Innovations which years ago would
have been regarded as Objectionable, II not impossible
t. The increasing Importance attached 10 the eye, as
portal 70 The BRAIN The ear is not regarded with any
less respect because tho eye IS receiving more con
sieraon, both ego and simultaneously and
equally employed by this ia meant that educational
apparatus Of every KIND, Instruments, models maps en-
CRAVINGS, diagrams, specimens casts, are employed to
an extent quite unknown few years ago.
At 4 meeting of the Cincinnati Principals
Association morals in The public were discussed,
and Mr. Goo i. sands eaI among other things that,
~ f. th. Principal and the higher teachers, Will be
tie school II tne Principal aud his assistants axe men
ana women OK honorable example, whose actions are
ist conscientious. aud upright, whose words aud deeds
evidence 1Iciy and integrity o. purpose, anu whose
every net VII bear scrutiny ouch teachers viii impress
their example and influence upon their pupils. But
90 not believe in ot lessons On morality 81 timely
adilg Of moral selections stores, anecdotes PER
lap, in the rst 4tcan tne lasr ~ een minutes, or
uciIent lly, as tho occasion may cali for you may
make Impression Tor good upon the children under
our charge. IL something occurs when yOn are teach
lug arithmetic, or any thing cse for instance pupil
fftas. tfIrrs n
arithmetic go to the wnd'; then IS the opportunity
presented; tnat is the Incident OF which the teacher
Will avail himself, when the minds OF tue children will
be most sensitive to nculolto ~ prceDJ and illustra-
ton the hiie0ness II lying and the beauty Of truth
fu,noss. 1 would incucate morality as che circum
stances suggest, the incident called forth, and
believe that as good Impressions would DO thus
made by adopting any set lessons Oh morals at dell
mite times"
The Baltimore Ga-ciio talks thus: 1t has
been ray said that cultivated speak better En-
csh than cultivated And the reason of tuat IL,
that most Of them have taken in their language by alb
sorpton They have dulle1 their English idoms
Dy stilted TRANSACTIONS of the classics IL IS true that
they often phrases and turns Of son that are
very wearisomo from constant repetition, such as per
fecuy lovely aud horrd,' aud they usually ar what
they possess OF Frenchwch stil greater source OF
woakness-but on tho whole they speak better purer
and more idomatc English than But it was not
the study OF grammar that taught the ladies to express
themselves clearly and neatly and in the majority OF
cases. you ask OF them TO analyza or parse any
one OF her graceful clever sentences give the rules
bv which size constructed it, shc cannot do The
same thin. may he said of public speakers man with
a rush of oratory in his brain frequently violates
NAUTICAL laws. aud not sure that the Grafton is
not some the more telling that account. One %
tho veterans OF man whose reputation is
tona even worldwide, as great jdrist and as very
powerful speaker-uses his moments OF oratorica in
sp ration the verb amt. No hear him use 1t
without thinking that IL there be 10 such word,
IN IN. ,cha with