New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

II is reported that Amherst will probaDiy
get from 100000 to $4,000 from the wliston estate
The substantial new building for the Baitl-
more City College is be ready for occupancy jan
The old reservoir at Albany is to be entirely
demolished and its site occupied by a very me Ho"
high school building.
Work has been begun upon the property VI
the new University of Modern Languages % Ne"V"'
mort Mass and the trustees report its prospec'S W
encouraging.
The Kindergarten system in the 81 Louis
,o,s h hoor 80 spccesstul that superintendent Har
ris recommends the establishment Oh az e"s' '"o "uu'
tional schools.
PHILADELPHIA is to have Immediately hand-
como new Normal School building for girls Inc sycoi
architecture Is the modern cohegia'e' "''nou' any "
tempt at useless ornament
The fund of $4,000, which the University
OF Chicago proposes to raise intended to at once ce
brate the Centennial and give free tuition TO poor ana
deserving students Of whatever religious opinion.
Maine is beginning to walk rapidly in educa-
ton Lewiston getting the Kindergarten system In
the primary schools and several ladies have been chosen
IN the different parts Of the State TO School
Supervisors.
The Academic Department of Southwest
ern University will be opened this month in the build
ngs of the West Tennessee College. and full faculty Is
to be selected April session OF the Baptist Con-
vention at Nashville.
1t has been suggested that 100000 would
secure the removal Of Western Reserve College from
Hudson to Cleveland and the consequent establishment
OF Cleveland University. Comment concerning the
plan is constant and favorable.
The Chair Of Analytical Chemistry in the
Pardee Scientific Department of Lafayette College has
been filed by DR.. T. NJ Drown Secretary of the Insti
tute of Mining Engineers. pupil of Bunsen and once
Instructor of metalurgy in Harvard Mining SCHOOL,
The expenditure of $4,000 has very much
improved that portion of Hamilton College buildings
known as the Old South College. It's name has now
been changed 20 Hungeriord Hall In honor OF an
alumnus the donor Of the sum necessary for the re-
pairs.
A Minnesota professor Mr. John, says that
out of COO pupils in single normal school in Pennsy
wanna less than entered upon the higher classical
course and there were two who finished t-whence
he argues that the county does not ask this course for
ats normal schools.
1t is reported that the incoming class at
syracuse University will number between GO and TO-
Altogether it Is calculated that the University will
begin year with 226 students in the College OF
IiberalArts alone Entrance examinations have been
held during the past three days.
Center College, Kentucky, offers to receive
forty students of tuition fees The circular states
be purchased by the student who has only to pay
an annual contingent fee of S. The annual ex-
penses student whose tuition is free cannot reach
larger SUN than sI2 which amount will be principally
expended for board.
The Boston Herald believes that in case
mixed schools at the South formally decreed the
Southeruers would undoubtedly fulfill their threats and
up schools altogether. 1t holds that neverhe
less threats SHOULD be treated as mere vapor-
ing" and adds that shall the doors reopened
readily enough the moment the South RECEIVERS It's wits
end is able realize what its peryerseness entails"
The Hon. ]. A. Garfield said at an Ohio
Teachers Institute the other day that we are by far
more educated by the people with whom we associate
by books rating teaching by the head and heart OF
good teacheras weghtier than text books he were
called make certificates for teaching he would let
~umpton 65 per cent, education rs per cent.
believing that that combination would make u good
teacher
There are" says The Buffalo Courier, the
strongest reasons believing that the thinking part OF
the coored population the South do not desire at least
mat portion OF the Civil Rights bin which relates TO the
schools IL has been urged upon them and Congress by
over oicious persons whose object was to gain their
votes through pretensions TO be their protectors Its
passage would destroy the progress of education OF the
negroes the South, and many years would necessarily
elapse before il would be renewed"
The rule ordering two daily sessions in the
Louisville schools has been recOnsdered ny the Board,
and one session substituted. There long discus
sion the subject, one member holding that one SEES
SION would not permit thoroughness of teaching be-
cause the time too limited for impartDg the kind
and quality information 20 the mental de-
velopment OF the pupils The children, he Thought
not Taught but simply heard The teacher might
well say to the pupil "you do not come here to learn
only recte." In the seventh aud eighth grades
of the Louisville schools object teaching in German is
80 replace textbook instruction in that language
Canon Kingsley, lately addressing the
students Of California University, said that he would
like TO see general education in aesthetics, music
and the ne Grace Of manners and beauty of form
should be studied the old Greeks studied Them II
what could not be carried out IN real e the
knowledge of these noble pursuits, aud OF what the
world had done In them, would be humanizing and ee
waiting and would help IN allowing that wide culture so
necessary TO the rounding and finishing of the perfect
character. Amid debasing surroundings IN Australia
friends had preserved themselves from moral in
lection by reading Greek plays In the original after I'm
proylsed religious services on Sunday.
A lecturer before the Chemung County, N. Y,
Teachers Institute said that the faults OF our
common schools cheap teachers and poor SCHOOL
houses. Parents declared, oppose. spending money
for good teachers for supplying teachers with useful
apparatus They do not manifest as much interest i'll
caring the health and improvement OF their children
while IN school looking after their stock They
should visit the schools assist the teachers In under
standing popularity of the children, should help the
teacher instead OF finding fault which is generally the
only recognition aud attention the school receives On
the other hand teachers do not appreciate the import
ance their work They teach books rather than OBJ
seryation and thought.
The Russian Council of State will shortly
OF the Commission appointed to afford
greater facilities for the instruction of in the
Empire. The Commission recommends that IN order 70
deter Russian from going foreign universities