New-York tribune., 1874-05-21
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

College.
The Yale Theological Seminary Library has
inst received gift of 800 volumes from the Rev. f.
Goodrich Smith.
The new Memorial Hall connected with
Harvard will be formally opened on June 23-the day
before Commencement.
There are three large and flourishing Catho-
lie schools In Boston-the Boston College and the TWO
academies OF Nore Dame.
In Scotland the salaries of certlficated
teachers masculine and feminine are respectively $3.50
and $500 per year.
The Cambridge University Union recently
adopted notion by vote of l0l to A. In favor OF in
PRODUCING cremation In England.
The Government grants to training colleges
form about 6 per OF the total income OF those ins
tutons az regards England aud in Scotland about 70 per
per cent
One hundred thousand books have been
added 10 Harvard College library since the present libra
rian held his Office. The increase Is now from 500
10 5000 volumes annually
Mr.. Aaron Cove, editor of The Illinois School
uns,y and for five years principal OF the City School
Normal is mentioned n candidate for the post OF
State supoIintendent OF Public Instruction in Illinois.
Prof. Walter Smiths system of drawing has
been adoped by the Chicago Board OF Education for the
schools of that city, Detroit, Milwaukee, indianapolis,
Columbus aud Pittsburgh also use this system
At the Hampden County, Mass, Teachers
Convention the other day Rev A. d. Mayo OF Spring
field echoed the very wise call for more skilled labor in
the schools and the better payment OF such as is tray
skilled.
A class of pupils in Peoria district school,
OF ages ranging from TO eight are taught by the
phonetic method and can, it is said, read WELL answer
rapidly not too easy questions IN mental arithmetic
and write very well ndeed-and all after only one
years instruction.
Prof. 6. T. Baird u. S. Fish Commissioner,
who is 20 be stationed near NewLondon, has promised
the Natural History School at Penikese such duplicate
specimens as arc not needed by the party under his
direction
Eight students at Williams College will con-
tend on June q posuon oi representative orator
at the interco gatc literary contest of next Winter
An the undergraduates permitted to compete for the
representative Ocober1 being the date by which
all the essays must be presented
Philadelphlans are hotly discussing the de-
cision OF a majority OF their Court of Common Pleas
that Tweutysecondst should be opened through Girard
College grounds. II is argued that this decision is not
equitable IN OF the provisions OF Mr. Grards WILL
and the acceptance by the city and State of the trust
created in that WILL The case, II IS sald VIII DC carried
TO the Supreme Court.
\. ID.
recently addressed the Alumni of Rochester Theological
Seminary on John Stuart M aud Christianity" say
ing at one points Mr. Mill drove Christianity from his
tribunal without giving it chance to demonstrate itself
even to state itself He impcached its witnesses before
they began 10 speak And affirm that his treatment OF
it was wickedy unscIenfc as one can well conceive
If a theory his had been 50 eummary rejected, he
would have filed heaven and earth with shreks OF in
Gignant protest"
One of the traditions of Michigan University
IS said to be that in all contests Faculty and
students the students conquer! President Angel shows
in the "hazing" affair very calm and entirely relentless
determination at once TO put end TO that tradition
and the degrading habit OF rough practical jokes TO-
gethor The recent bounce and bustcr OF the students
as opposed the quiet and polite resolution OF the
authorities have thoroughly put the former In the
wrong that they have ewsympathzers among outsiders
The Tennessee State Superintendent Of Pub
lie Instruction says recent trip 10 West
Tennessee he aid not meet nor hear OF school officer
of any grade or OF any political opinion that did not
gard the Cvil Rights bill as the deathwarrant OF the
public school system, IL passed by Congress with the
school feature iu IT, He heard now and then OF coored
people opposed TO the course OF the Nashville Conven-
top but action their part toward repudating
it, lie thinks the action of that Convention is operating
TO revive the feeling against schools for the COL
ored population at all, and consequently against the
whole system Of puslc instruction, and that nothing
will serve TO the influence of that COnyen-
ton but an overwhelming reputation of 1t by the col
ored people themselves.
At the next annual meeting of the National
Educational Association, to be held in Detroit the
4th, 5th and 9th OF August, Commissioner Eaton Will
give an address. Prof. A. p Peabody OF Harvard VIII
speak on "The Elective System in Colleges and Univer-
sites" DR.. +. II. Clarke Of Boston Sex and Eiuca
ton" and Prof j. X Uosmer of the University OF Mis-
souri, Co-education OF the Sexes in Universities"
The report of the Committee on Upper schOols-;he
subject OF Dr. McCosh. paper last yearw.l be pre-
sented by IT. Chairman, tie Rev. George +. Hays.
A. ID. White Of Cornell University will read paper on
"A National University" and Head Master Dunton OF
the Boston Normal School one the subject What
are the Essentials OF Profession and what must be
the SPECIAL work of NoeAa Schools to euttIe them
be called professionally
One Gf the ladies who, in consequence of the
endeavors OF Of the Professors OF Cn
versity OF Edinburgh have lately received partial ed
ucaton IL medical science writes to The Scosman de
scribng the advantage she and Others have obtained
from the assistance thus giren, in manner which can
only induce that instruction put good ae
count shouh have been gruGged in any degree The
Lady is engaged at Yedo in training class Of Japanese
ladies' IN tbst branch OF medical practice which in
japan, and throughout the last is regarded as the
pre- nce of alone. While these ladies are ant
and attentive sfudents they present says their
inst bsDlutey ignorant Of aGatomy IA pbys
oOey and III refore quite Eniit to comprehend and
cope with any cases Of difficulty which may arise Hay-
Ing pupils intrustet with such SERIOUS IL
wSnder that Ills pioneer in tie allpy OF science re-
grets tbe lacking in her knowledge
I'm al address 20 the stuGeuts of Exeter
Academy. given last week. Mr.. James r. Fields declared
that "the difficulty il our America is that while ne
az all pretty well educated very few OF us are first
ra,ers and carry all the guns we might We forget
he aid, that If man dos not know thing accurately
be portiyelY docs not knOY i at all IL only nnx and