New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-06
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Lima College.
President G.. L. Hoss, LID, of the Kansas
Normal school has taken the chair OF EnglIss Ltera-
turs in the Indiana State University. r
Eighty women win study in Michigan
University during the next college year. Nine Will take
the law course, thrtyseyen the medical and fortytwo
the academic.
1t is said that half of the counties in Illinois
are IN search Of candidates for the ONCE OF
sehcoi superintendent Miss Eliza bvermore is named
Cor Madison County.
Mr.. McCandless, for two years Professor OF
Agriculture in Cornell University, has been appolneu
nv the Ontario Government principal of the Agricrtu
raj College al Guelph.
The Goth annual session of the Pennsylva-
MIA Teachers Association VIII be held at Reading on the
ssth lsh, and 18th OF this month An excursion mas
been arranged TO Chautauqaa Lake.
The total amount of the School Fund TO be
astrbued m Georgia Is $4,000 The total number OF
school children s Ga The people of that state are
showing a new zeal IN the matter of edua'tien'
The Milwaukee School Commissioners have
asmissed from the public schools OF that city Mitches
series Of biographies Goodrichs Pictorial History
Of tbe United states, aud have substituted thereIof
Buyot's Geography and Prof. swn'on's History
IL is malieiously said that at Pepikese, when
they serve fish, they first put his name on the black
board then they esi up discuss hun, tell how
many bones he had aud what tribe be belonged to-a
prooeedu g caiculaed to destroy tho most ravening aI
petite. .r-.
Prof. Huxley has just been elected an hon
orary OF the Buffalo Society OF Natural SCI
enoes. This Secety is nov IN possession OF the SVV
given u Nv the viii Of tie late c. T. Robinson Inc
money will be used as permanent fund. Mr. Robinson
also gave the Society his valuable scientific library
The commonplace ceremony OF bestowlng an
IL II degree seems TO be considered rather uemen-
dous performance in the South When 1t was announced
an Georgia college that Mr.. Alexander H. stephens hau
received t acted like an electric shock upon
toe audience; a momentary pause, GREATNESS silence
MAS succeeded by universal and prolonged shout OF
applause"
In has speech at the Union University Com
mcucemcnt at Schenectady, ex Gov. Seymour advised
that tho Regents should provide for system OF com
pletng examinations OF students from each college, 10
he made AT some convenient point lie observed further,
that 10 mark merits and attachments an honor should DC
conferred by the Regents on each one who stood lore
most IN each Of the branches Of learning or science
The feminine college at Eyanstown, ILL.,,
sn future 10 be known as the womans College Of the
North. Western University" rule Of the institution Is
that at least Of the faculty must be woman. Inc
fret feminine professor appointed Is MISS FRANCES
willard she occupies chair Of Esthetcs, and has
salary the first year Of 1880. with assurance OF an
annual for the next three years of $500 Five
ladies have been elected 10 Board OF Trustees OF the
Unyor4y
The new buildings for Trinity College at
Hartford will he ready for use in the Spring Of 1871
The college park Of Will be laid out by Fred
eTick Law Onsted alumnus Of the college, ara the
preliminary plans and specifications OF the buildings
have ucen ordered from Mr. Burgess, the distinguished
architect OF London II is intended 10 erect the finest
college buildings IN the United States, and 10 provide all
means for enabling the college make its university
charter available in all the various branches OF learn
lux.
The annual competitive examination OF
~ tie scholar each Assembly district for the Cor
nell Scholarship will be held at BinghamtOn on Aug TO-
The subjects for examination geography, grammar,
arithmetic, and algebra through quadratc equations
The successful candidate obliged on arriving at the
University. TO through the usual entrance e1amna
On but this easy enough for any one who has passed
the competitive examination. Girls wei as boys are
recognized as compettOrs-a fact which the BostOnians
should Immediately note.
THE Boston IrdreHer thinks that the annual |
coll, &c boat good for Dether the manners and
morals nor purses of students. 81 it is the policy,
says "of our college officials TO make our colleges like
those Of Engand-schoOls for the Weather classes |
aIone-these boating contests with the cost involved
will help to make them so the other hand If they |
are o. be the OF the middle and poorer classes no
such expenses should be encouraged While all OF our
higher institutions of learning are appealing TO their
friends for endowment IL is hardly consistent that ex
be encouraged"
TIE Macon Telegraph pleasantly remarks that |
when the bloody sherman, the FIRE hend or the war,
drove out our forces Marietta his frat order was
10 burn the Georgia Military Institute This was ac-
cord.ngy done 20 the indignation Of the cadets, who
when "sherman advanced his vandal horde upon
Atlanta took the field and n line Of battle aided for
days in keeping back the invaders" 1t is proposed
90 rebuild the College and 20 that end is TO be called
convention of ex-cadets and professors, to meet IA
Atlanta on the Isl of September, to devise ways and
means 10 endow the institution, and secure the CO.
operation OF the Legislature IN this work.
Philadelphia newspaper declares that the
only school for practical editor is the newspaper Office
aud that the scissors is the first good teacher lad
Of average brains who has received a common school
education who understands grammar enough to avoid
hAgrant errors and arithmetic enough TO compile eec
lion returns, train himself 10 become very fair
sdtor by beginning as erand boy boy of all work
no the editorial room Of respectable daily paper where
there whote example is daily lesson, and |
whose correction Of mistakes is given promptly but
kindy."-we are disposed 70 think that though he !
Insght perhaps be very fair editor" for Philadel
pha newspaper the journals Of less sleepy regions
auire a few accomplishments besides grammar
aud arithmetic
The National Association of German Teach
ers has just held It's fourth annual convention in St.
Louis Among other things was presented report
which il be laid for approval and adoption before the
National Teachers Convention a, Emira. This report
expresses the conviction that Froebels system OF Kin
dergaren reduction in its genuine form is the great
want OF our national system Of pue schools, and the
true basis Of moral. intellectual, and harmonious edu
cation; calls upon the pubhcminded men OF the country
20 furnish the means toward the endowment and susie
naDce Of a training school for model kindergar
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