New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-22

IN MARYLAND desire admission into white schools. and
there ia. reason to believe that, In the event
OF the bill passing in ITS present shape. hrm ana
judcious management would preserve our schooi Eye
TEN intact"
Prof Prentice is transferred to the CHAIR OF
modern languages and Hebrew in Wesleyan UNIVERSITY
and his place as On Professor OF Rhetoric and English
Literature is filed by Prof c. T. Winchester Inc IT,
qurcment for admission in Greek is raised to three
books instead of two OF the Iliad" Three coordinate
courses are presented the classical atinscentihc ana
scientific. The number Of elective studies is greatly VI
creased the prize list Is also heightened sehor
ship has founded by Watson C. Squire, e9 oi inc
firm of T.. Remington & sons, the income OF WHICH,
amounting to $3.50 viii be awarded to that member OF
the senior class who shall pass the best examination in
Greek provided he pursue a course OF study IN Mddle
town under the direction of the faculty for at least one
year after graduation The announcement IL MADE tn
post graduate in all the departments are opeheu
The library has grown, during the year. " zo'V"
volumes The library fund is s27,o0O and over. Ihere
ls7 students at the university.
A new marking system" has gone INTO
effect at Wesleyan University. Some of les prinepai
provisions are as follows: student shall not be adj
united 10 examination in any study unless he shall nave
obtained 50 per cent of the maximum rank. Final e1
aminaons take place on the completion Of each study
Dement'S shall not affect the students scholarship record
The speakers at Junior exhibitions and at commence
ment shall be selected according TO their standing III
composition and defamation subsequent to Freshman
year The titles of the orstons shall be printed without
any designation of rank Eighty-eght per cent of the
maximum standing entities the student to graduate
first honor man." and eighty three per cent second
honor man." that every man may be an honor
man" Special honors also to be given at gradna-
ton in of the principal departments OF the college,
These are to be determined by special examination III
the department and course OF collateral reaoinV
,1,o ,ff. in ehn n
the department.
In speaking of schools in Ulster County In
tins state. The Rondom Freeman says that they have
continued to improve whether the Commissioners In
Office paid any attention to their duties or not or
whether they had any knowledge of the needs OF the
schools by previous experience otherwise II accord
ingy argues that good schools are the outgrowh OF
the moral desire OF the OF society; that every
locality does have good school and good teacher when
it desires them, Commissioner or no Commissioners that
the superintendent humbug the taxpayers; that
the $l2s annually paid Commissioners is waste OF
funds and that it is fully time IL to educate
teachers and scholars To end call on the next
Legislature act abolishing the office of School
Commissioner and providing shall essay to teach
public school without diploma from some college high
or normal school, certificate OF membership III a
county teachers society That there may be no cause for
trouble through radical change, the same act should
direct the teachers each county, in some cases In
Assembly Districts, who at the time licensed, to
meet and societies similar in plan to that OF county
medical societies. This, by stroke, would elevate
teaching a profession, place teachers over teachers,
"a doctors their brethren and emancpate the
schoo-room from politics
At the recent meeting OF the Michigan
Teachers Association, Superintendent A. b. Curtis Of
Michigan said that in 1872, "A per cent Of Michigan teach
ers were women receiving IS per cent of all The wages
while 70 per were men, receiving 65 per cent OF the
wages over a third Of rural teachers and no small por-
ton of city teachers boys and girls under 20
without experience training, who ought to he study
ing school While numerous institutions are estab-
ished for the higher education OF young men, young
women are much to private schools which being
undertaken as a money making business, are often de
fcient in apparatus and nothing thoroughly done
II is % mistaken idea that persons OF limited ac-
Guirements are competent teach children. The pri
mary teachers should possess welltraned inteleots
models for unconscious imitation, with a magnetic
power 10 mold the youthful miGd. Too many teachers
lack special training 1t il anomalous fact that not
half OF them ever read book the subject OF teach
ing: not NTH take educational journal, and
with nncteuths OF them ii Il not mace profession az
all but "a makeshft, taken up without preparation and
abandoned average service Of teachers being
moi over three years This is especially true OF prnc
pals studying for another profession whose best
energies to the business, oyersockng the
supnly which, being greater than the demand. de
presses wages. aud drives the best talent from the
field.