New-York tribune., 1874-04-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

changes in text books.
Instruction in German is 10 oe give" WV
hour daily In the Washington schools
The Junior Glass alone, at Harvard' has
subscribed s9os TO the Agassiz Memorial Fund'
The sixth annual meeting OF the assocl".iOn "aI.l
Of graduates Of the Rensselaer, Poiytechhio .,.
, no held June l6 1874, at 230 p m III tue i"S'u''
hall.
Several leading Catholics of Davenport iowa.
xsoen,y asked for division Of the pupc schoo money
eating in their petition that their schools would be open
20 all children OF any denomination "Ao iniHN' "' ~
attend The School Board reIuseu'
The Gifts made during the past year to the
.massi, Museum Of CompaI atve Zoology at Harvard
mouuted TO nearly tl7e0O0 The subscription Tor per-
nanept memorial of Prof Agassiz, TO be presented 10
the museum upon its birthday, already amounts u
nearly 100000.
very reasonable protest is made by Ihe
S,n Francisco Post against the presentation OF 'esu
onis 10 teachers by their pupils, and also against
expensive dressing at school commandments bo'n
often involve cruel drag at the pockets OF poor anu
proud parents.
Prof. w. c. Russell says that he once ex-
,mined the Principal Of academy In Pennsylvania
who was in doubt whether Patagonia was IN America
or Africa" on another occasion, a teacher VINO had
been is months In New-York academy coud name 10
him only one river in Europe, and that tile Iiber'
Boston is to have new English Hlgh ana
Latin school building which estimated to cost si5OoOO
Premiums will be paid for the four best plans submitted
these being severally sOOO $780, $780, tOo All plans
nust be sent I'm before the 1st Of May Two hundred
architects have been furnished with the specifications
It has been found advisable in the English
Educational Code 70 10 longer recommend that the chill
dren In the two highest standards OF examination should
be acquainted with the principles OF the metric system
and be familiar with the method and advantages Of
forming mulupes and submulupes Of the unit OF com
putation.
The semi-centennial anniversary Of the Yale
Law School will celebrated the afternoon Of June
a. There will be grafton by William Edwards Pierre
pOnt and historical address by exPresident Woosey,
and ChefJustce Waite will preside. 1t is said that the
number Of students In this school has been so
large now.
In 1888, nurseries under the name of SALES
asie established in Paris, wherein mothers who
were compelled to work away from home during the
day could leave their children After time the plan
introduced OF giving to the little taken in such
instruction as would fit them for the elementary
schools Royal and imperial DEGREES fixed their organ
izaon and there now OF these infant schools in
the city, and their inmates number 25.l33.
In an art lecture lately given in Boston, Prof
Walter Smith said 10 his pupils of perspective that it
the conscience Of drawing the still small voice that
would always make itself heard and unless they mas
Us
have to serve over years apprenticeship to
eeed young people OF this country impatient
OF control aud do not like the idea Of apprenticeship but
Il was mistake and kept them all their lives lacking
ykill in the highest Of the term.
The London Telegraph speaking of competi
tive examinations in England, notes the fact that the
arts Of the "CrammeT are beginning to grow stalei
Examiners" il saws, have found him out, and
their watch against him. When the Indian writer
ships first thrown open TO competition very wide
mathematics, classics English, French German Italian,
Banskrt Arabic, HindOo logic, psychology, chemistry,
Of the coach was at once in his element aud the
accomplished crammer who could force into the memory
Of hls pupils snattorng OF dozen languages, ana
dozen ologies and supple ement II by certain amount
red everything before him. But for the last five or six
years the current has begun to set the other way
ar eTe % Is h eSsn T those owy sfaees and
tricks that are acquired from the professed coach"
A correspondent of The Boston Globe, who
has been visiting the kindergarten In that city, thus
sans up the results Of the system;
Children come out Of the kindergarten II it is con-
ducted by those who understand the science, with a
good knowledge Of the relations and properties OF small
numbers gained by continual counting OF y INES & N ana
metrical foms-squares, OblOngs. cubes aud tranges
of all sorts stick and slatayng. the making of trans
parent forms with peas pointed sticks, with knOwl
Of drawing sufficient TO enable them to invent sym
much facility in little arts of manipulation That mako
the little fingers dextrous; with great many pretty
plays taught musicaly; with simple, easy gymnastlc
exercises, and, above all with the power and habit OF
expressing themselves clearly and correctly. Can ali
this be said Of the first two years or even OF the three
of primary Instruction. Yet Is all accomplished with
out books any knowledge Of reading but simply by
dQIng.
In a recent book on technical education by
C. b. stetson it is stated;
In Berlin ten or twelve thousand wOrbmen attend
lectures and instruction IN the actual theory of
men have left Central School Of Arts and Manufac
lures 70 carry on as manufacturers and suPerntend
of business To meet the decay of the old
oapprentoeshiphe Freuch Government has established
Besane0n school OF theoretical and practical watch
making; Belgium one for weavers, and this has been
Initiated Muhouse, where the manufacturers them-
feyes in 1861 began IN TINS way TO secure Tor thelr
future use thoroughly trained workmen Then for the
education OF wOrknen there are in England working
mems colleges in France there similar schools with
lectures aud Instruction. in Paris in district and
turn out scores OF superior leading workmen. In Ger
many and Switzerland there schools and museums
Of Industrial arts, well supplied with teachers at the
public expense.
The Atlantic points out that by the revised
and improved programme of studies prescribed by the
Prussian Government the following studies are made
obligatory for all children Religion the mother-tongue
including writing and grammar, arithmetic, practical ell
ementary geometry realieH comprising geography
tory elements Of natural history and the rudments
Of physes) drawing singing, gymnastics and, for girls
needlework each of the last four branches the
pills the upper classes required to give two hours
weekly In giving the gymnastic exercises the teachers
must follow the laid down in the official manual
prepared for the purpose The Prussan teacher finds
plenty Of time to teach all these branches effectively
snoe he uses the textbook only for reference aud
aid 10 pupils in preparing reviews. We glad
welcome The Atlantic this connection position
OF opposition 10 the Of teaching exclu
sively OF chiefly by means Of book recitations.
The subjects for examination at the Normal
Art School in Boston next month, with the time to be