New-York tribune., 1874-07-30
NOTES ON EDUCATloN'

The Agassiz memorial tund h"S i'"'
sum of s7,soo n,,.;on
The West Virginia Teachers C0h'en'''A
meets in Clarksburg, August I"
Tho Arkansas Industrial University haS a
President in the person Of Gen. A. W. Blshop'
portv-fve teachers Institutes will be held
an mis- state between date aud the 1st OF December
Oct o. is named as the date of meeting of
,no Connect,cyt state Teachers Association at New
Haven.
An evening drawing school for the public
,choo, teachers Is TO established immediaey a' pau
Francisco.
While The Richmond Dispatch approves col
,ere games heartily protests against their TOO pupho
aud sensational management
President Lupton of the Alabama University |
has resigned his position 70 take tse frOessoisp VI
Chemistry in Vanderbilt University
We are glad to note the action of the last |
graduating class at Amherst which instead Of founding
class scholarship gives fund of $1,000 TO the college
library.
The first examination for admission to the
Maine State College Of Agriculture aud the Mechanic
Arts will take place Thursday August 9; the second
August Is.
The proposed new Catholic University in
London WILL hinted, fail before it can be fairly es-
tablished, few leading Catholics looking upon IL In a
friendly manner
At q late teachers institute in Tennessee,
one speaker made plea for larger salaries lot
Instructors He held poor pay is driving competent
men from the profession.
A theological department is to be added to
Central University Kentucky within year The Pres
ident OF the College of Arts and Science is the Rev.
W. Pratt d. D., of Lexington, Va.
Two ladies were nominated to the office OF
Superintendent Of Public Instruction by the Illinois Re
pubhcaus and one Of them received number OF votes
large enough to be complimentary
The American Educational Monthly notes
that youpg lady teachers have very exravagant ideas
regarding salaries, while young men beginning the
teachers life much more moderate in their demands
Two new educational publications, it is re-
ported appear in this state-one The Atus-
tated Educational Ne,cs to be published in this city,
the other journal TO be issued from Cape vincent
The Buffalo Superintendent of instruction
reports that the whole number OF children who attended
some in the city during some portion of the past
year was between 1900 and $1,000 and that the average
daily attendance all the schools In the city, pubic
md otherwise about 1900. He also makes small
statement in favor Of compulsory education
The Wisconsin teachers at their recent
meeting unanimously adopted this wise aud amiable
resolution:
Resoired That we recognize IN the Press a powerful
greatly indebted 10 the editorial fraternity for the
have rendered in creating an engntehed
pubic sentiment IN favor OF every educational force
from tue primary school to the university
The Pennsylvania State Teachers Associa-
ton will hold its twentydrst annual convention at
Smppensburg, August II and 3incluslve Vocal culture
in the public schools coeducatiOn of the sexes tech
1icai education and uniformity OF textbooks will be
among the subjects discussed. State superintendent
Wickersham will speak on education under the new
Constitution.
The Mobile REGISTER speaks out aloud as fol-
lows
tits to preserve, reform and extend the public school
That bin would thrust the into the white school
aud drive the whites 1t would in effect give every
pubic school n the State TO the negroes, while the
whites pay the taxes 70 MAINTAIN them. II would would
every dollar of fund the education of negroes
The trustees of Colby University, Maine,
decided TO endow under the general rule OF the
college, academies at HoultOn, Hebron, and Cor
ham. These are conditional, however, upon the raising
of certain The total amount 70 be furnished for
Ahese schools is $4,000, TO which Gov. Coburn adds
$4,000 more which goes to the Watervilfe Classical
school Gardner Colby of Boston gives $500 TO Hebron
Academy
The London AthenGum says: "In connection
with proposals for improving school pronun-
citation Latin, which received much attention at
the last meetings OF the conference of head masters
Mr.. A. Ellis has at press manual for teachers, en-
titled Practical Hints for The Quanttatve Pronunca-
tion Latin" in which. starting from the ground OF
Profs Palmer and MunrOs syllabus or Latin Pronun-
caton" the writer tries to grappe with the difficulty OF
making the cumulative and accentua rhythm of Latin
verse and prose inteigibe to schOoboys, by giving
series graduated and examples with drec
rOns for the teacher"
That the scientific schools of the country
are TO the notable of the next quarter OF
century the conviction OF The San Traneisco BuAe!in
II says IN regard TO the subject:
While the professions crowded, as they always
there great dearth OF educated men VINO are
ready the fields OF scientific Investigation
already open. Mining engineers. metallurgstS, dyers,
industrial artists. fully TO the require
ments OF the tnos are not abundant In fact, some
of these have been drawn from Europe dur
the last few years. The colleges dd not furnish
them Now in Just these fields Of intelligent expert
ment where the most thoroughRong science makes an
alliance with industrial art and with Invention, our
greatest discoveries aIe likely to be made
The teachers average annual salary in New
York is SNS4; in Chicago, s77; in Philadelphia, ss3
The Esate On. u Journal IN noting these figures, and
many others, says:
The school teacher is expected to have money spent
upon her edGcaton 10 dress Hesy and decently
70 be cheerful aud good tempered and set such ex'
ceuty housed clothed people do, aud that
miserable pttanee. The thing ls absolutely
impossible, aud the result is that female
teachers get 10 consider their occupation
only as a OF temporary makeshitt from
which the lucky or a speedy marriage Will de-
liver them so feeling they can put no heart in their
rs the pay calls for Is the constant temptation.
Bishop Whipple said the other day, at the
Commencement of Minnesota University:
When visited EnRaDd found that England. with
sOOOOOOO OF souls, had bat fodr universtes-OxtOrd
Cambridge, Durham, aud London. Minnesota, with
100000 souls had half score But then it took EnSaud
500 years to build oxford aud Minnesota has killed
L visited s9Oh schools Rugby