New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-26

and most forward in the class 10 90 all Tue
answering. Devote the greater portion OF your at'eh
ton to the dun and backward ones"
II is the very sensible, business-like opinion
~ The BughdBton Republican that cheap wages must
result in cheap Teachers and cheap teachers VIII na'u
ally cultivate cheap minds which VIII III the pupil LOT
living cheap lfethat not attaining to any occupa-
ton above mediocre Let the subject OF cheap teachers
ma thorougbly discussed before have any moro re-
ductons and will be found at once that the great major
tv Of the educated minds OF the untry are not In favor
Of cheap educators"
Prof. n. r. Allen writes thus to the Bureau
Of Education: THE German system Is arranged Win
special reference the fact that none OF the children
educated underit ever 10 come into possession OF
manhood as We understand true manhood with us
broad and intelligent freedom. There is much In the
German man of education which should be rejected by
the Intelligence aud free thought OF democracy, and
which men of advanced thought in Germany are
anxiously striving to expunge from their system"
Prof. blizzard of the University of Michigan
has accented the Profe ssorsbip Of Agriculture in the Cal
ornia University. II the intention OF the Regents to
enlist the cooperation OF Caornlns who are versed III
agriculture order that the course OF agricultural lee
lures may be expanded beyond the ordinary limit Thus
the University will have In addition to the scientific
teachings Of the regular Professor OF Agriculture vaua
bic hints from intelligent filters OF the soil who have
had the benefit OF close acquaintance with the pcculi
arities OF California climates and Soils
The Boston AdCertiser notes i'll regard to
ladies' on the School Board that "ths year the School
Committee, portion OF H. has succeeded in keeping
four wards Of the city partially unrepresented at hs'
ON technical grounds, aud afterward by refusing TO
elect as the ordinance required. The coming year. il
the citizens who send their children to tho public schools
desire TO improve the system OF supervision by the
choice OF women who competent and willing to
I vvip no in he Of a
School Board 10 defeat their wishes.
A Buffalo clergyman, Mr.. Wolcott Calkins,
recently noted the following facts in Oh our
free schools: "Our public paupcrs number but 7G731,
and cost $ CC0CC0 annually The cost OF Great Brit
aims paupers and the cost OF her annual procedure
amounts to s6O 100000 annually II for each dollar eX-
pended purposes dollar was appropriated iOr
free schools, how much crime would be decreased
Nations cannot afford to permit ignorance 1t cost
France greatest humiliation Of modern times, and It
cost the Southern States their rebellion. Ignorance is
too expensive for any modern nation"
A School of Navigation for New-0rlcans is
suggested The Republican of that city says: There
are especial reasons why NewOrleans is the proper
point for this national and nautical organization The
navy the United States will be constantly requredto
cruise in tropical waters. The crews shipped from
Northern ports chiefly Northern men, not accmated
TO the tropics. Why then should not tho United States
have no doubt with adj quato encouragement, New
Orleans would turn out active, courageous, ana Ell
during class OF mariners any other city whatever.
Mrs. Ednah d. Cheney of Boston says that
there exists in every town and city in the country
class of women who are not fetercd by the bonds OF
matrmony who are ready to devote themselves to the
benefit OF humanity She thought the public schools
exercised vastly influence than all the social re-
forms OF day. aud they should have the Deneht OF
the services Of these women vast amount OF energy
ability and enthusiasm lost, aud If tho subtle In
Guence of the sex should be represented the School
Committee 1t would help train the hafciyilzed IN
cjpent voters Ia those qualities which 70 to make good
citizens,
Tie Detroit Free Press denies that two
thirds OF the best places in this country are held by col
lege men. In certain professions 1t declares TIC
proportion is far larger bat take our successful men
all tlrough-professonal men, bankers merchants, and
business men generay-and. II IS notorious that the
large majority of them the inside OF college,
certainly not as undergraduates. There too much OF
extravagance Of statement to young men before they
leave college OF the great things which are To happen 10
them when their course is enden. 1t excites IN them
notions, and hopes that often doomed to the
most bitter disappointment"
At his recent visit to one of the High
Schools in Baltimore the Hon. William f. Forster said
that II was very satisfactory him that tho prob
lem female education had been solved in this country
He had two for being highly gratihed at the
result-Grst because 1t encouraged female education,
and secondly, because 1t would give him an argument
which he could at home. There was one thing
which, more than any other in the world he, az pol-
cian desired and That 10 the two great coun-
tries England ana America, remain in friendship
together and an example to the rest OF the world. Moth
ing could do more toward that end than education, and
nothing more than the education OF the women Of the
two countries.
The prevailing idea of teaching does not,
according to The Phddeiphia Ledger, give due promi
nence TO reading separate and important branch OF
education "The reading exercises IN schools" it adds
"seen to be mainly directed toward eocuton. which
IS well enough If not made exclusive and there appears
to be too little attention to giving the pupils know
ledge Of words their meaning and their uses while
they are being exercised I'm reading LaborOus memoir
Using taxes the place Of what by reading. would be OF
easy acquisition, and things which might he acquired
almost uucOnsciousy drilled into the mind great
cost Of time and labor" complaint something like
this comes from Boston, where reading exercise
receiving little attention III the high schools