New-York tribune., 1874-01-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


hams and Yale the conducting a chess match by
means of postal cards
Henry Coppee, IL. D., President of the
r,hyh University has been elected regent OF the
smithsonisn Institute.
The Boston Art Club has now 400 paying
members. nearly ouehalf Of which number have been
added the present year.
Washington University has, this academic
year COS students corps Of government and IN
struction, under Chancellor Eliot, numbering So
The principal of the Norwich, Conn. Acad-
eny recently stated school that those VINO wished
10 attend the dancing school must leave the Academy.
He considers the two inconsistent with each other.
In compliance with an expressed wish of the
late l. A. Hitchcock Of Brimheld. the administrator OF
the estate has paid 5000 the Rev William Pond for
ihe benefit of the theological Seminary OF oakland Cal
The retiring Boston School Board last week
abolished corporal punishment the High Schools.
That 10 was not abolished in the Grammar Schools
was the result OF bunder among the resolutions pro-
gosed.
President j. C.. Burroughs of the University
Of Chicago has resigned his office and Will probably be
elected Chancellor of the institution The cause for this
action is the excron required TO conduct at the
same time its educational and financial Interests
Ten Congressional District Teachers In
will be held in Tennessee during the year under
The supervision of Superintendent Fleming and semi
annual meeting OF the State Teachers Institute Will
occur in July al Knoxville.
An evening school for mechanics has been
opeuod at Pittsburgh whose plan. II is said at present
extends TO little further than nstructOnliD tie various
branches OF drawing, and IN mathematics and cognate
sciences. There only Il technical educational ins'i-
tu1ons III Pennsylvania
There are 1850 school districts in Pennsyl-
,ania with 1896 schools l9s9 teachers, and average
attendance Of pupils. The cost OF tuition during
The year was &c cents per month for each scholar and
the total expenses Of all kinds ssSi5S6 A. The school
property OF the state is estimated at s2l,7jO20o.
The new Boston School Board met on Mon
day and long discussion had upon the admission
Of ladies elected. Two of them present wear
ing entirely selfpossessed manner and both voting
OIL the acceptance of report No positive action in
gard their admission taken the question being
referred to the Committee on Elections.
The new School law, passed in 1872 has
greatly popuarzed education NewMex xico, the result
beng establishment there Of 1873 public schools with
al attendance Of 5,625 pupils There &c private
schools, having lS7O pupils, and Indian schools at
tended by pupils. In III OF the schools the tuition
spsnsh
The lady member Of the Worcester (Mass.)
School Board was permitted at the last meeting TO
her before the formal drawing, against the
will OF OF the Board, who said that he had de-
do unkind thing and that he should treat the
lady due respect but thought that she should he
governed by the rules Of the Board the any of
Its members.
The Detroit Board of Education has just
dropped algebra from the union school the
fu and the teachers generally being in
leaving that study. one OF the members OF
the Board took the occasion that such opinion
from feminine teachers and thence proceeded
the declaration that the substitution of feminine for
masculine teachers at the head Of the union schools had
been very unwse.
II is probable either Saratoga or Troy will
Dc OF the intercollegiate boat-race
Summer Saratoga II said that the water
Of the lake quite rough and fear that
distance OF the lake from town, three miles, would
Objectionable. Against the course at Troy. which
otherwise fine 1t is urged that 1t is narrow aud
hat about 100 feet from the start the boats are Obliged
10 shoot bridge of four spans.
The Michigan Teacherma the following good
suggestions to teachers: Look carefuy after the wei
fare of the little ones both in school and the play
ground DO not be too rigid with them. II they get
fred sleepy. either let them go and play lie
down and sleep Avoid as far as possible the use of
chair textbooks in hearing recations Never fail TO
review the lesson of the preceding day. The reviews
should be frequent and thorough.
The University of the South at Sewanee.
Tenn. has, this year. 256 students. II opened
has been placed very high, and daily and terminal
smaations bring out the students knowledge OF the
subject. Thirteen schools operation, under
The charge OF nine professors and four tutors ana other
schools will be opened early the financial condition
OF the University will allow.
President Smart of the Indiana Teachers
says, reference teaching morals the
schools IL seems TO me that the moral tone OF
young people is not high ii was 10 years that
haye les fDr
gard the rights of others that they less for the
truth and honesty. and more inclined 10 disregard
the law Of obedience 10 their parents that they in
buenced less 0y their moral obligations and more by
their passions and prejudice"
The total expenditures of this State for our
public schools during the year slO94623O 81 OF
this 7l79 50 was paid 70 teachers 81 80
was expended for schOolhouses, repairs, &c. The es
mated value school property is s2O7O3lO We have
35 school houses, and the number OF school districts
outside the cities 1925 We have lS26s teachers
employed full time. and total Of 299l The number
persons OF legal school is l5i526O of
which lO3O36O attended the public schools during the
year. taught in private schools leaving
3s4 children, between the ages of and 2 who
ceIved no schooling.
There are 269 students at SwarthmOre Col
lcge. The managers report that the objection to
education. all higher education. for women,
based upon supposed injury their health. which has
Gently been urgently pressed upon purely theoretical
grounds, and supported by the citation OF few
strongly marked exceptional cases, is completely dis
proved by their experience The five young
who graduated at SwarthmOre last year had quite
good health at the end OF their four years
beginning Of II. and the work which they
accomplished would compare favorsbly with that OF
any class of young four years college course
The Laurence (KanD Republican Journal