Omaha daily bee., 1874-07-13

] The hw consuming the 'banish-
ment q piapee from the college
atEYale has been re-
pealed, Or rather modified. Pianos
will be permitted under special
license and under strict regulations.
Five eolored men have been grad
uated from the different schools of
Yale. The first was Richard Henry
Green, of the class Of 1857. who be-
came q physician, graduating in the
Medical School at Dartmouth.
At a school dedication last week,
Gen. Banks said that military edu-
cation should become a branch of
our national educational system !;
that q republican form of govern
ment demands that We should know
our strength.
Bishop Morris, of Oregon, says
that one cannot pay attention to
the occurrences of the day in u
schools and colleges, without being
impressed with the conviction that
there is a widespread spirit of law
lessness and resistance to authority
in them that is fraught with evil for
the future interests of society and
the country.
The "Traveling Scholarship" es-
tablished in Union Theological
| Seminary excites great interest
among the students. The interest
| of the fund amounts to 500, and
, with it the successful competitor of
the graduating class can travel and
study for two years in foreign and
Bible lands. About half the next
| class has entered the lists for this
tempting prize.
At the late teachers Institute at
Poughkuepsie, n. Y, one speaker
said that tine people afford much
better accommodations for trying
criminals than for educational pur-
poses; that court houses, jails, etc.,
are better lighted, better heated and
better surrounded generally than
school houses. He further asserted
that, measured by the money teach
ers are paid, the clown and the
horse trainer r better men than
school teachers.
The Philadelphia Erening BuUe-
tin, in mentioning the commence
ment of the Girls Normal School
in the Quaker City, severely lee
tured the faculty and the young
ladies themselves on the display of
e~xtravagant dressing. 1t declared
that such an exhibition of extrava-
gance was a painful demonstration
Of the inability of sensible men in
trusted with the care of q school to
govern it properly, and of the lsnor-
ance and lad taste of the ruling
majority of the pupils in arraying
themselves in costumes utterly un-
BETTING the place, occasion, and
| persons who wore them.
A left>hand writer in the Scien-
tifc american gives some reasons
why it is better to write as he does.
The hand is never in the way of the
vision, the pen point is always in
plain sight, and so is the paper to be
written on ; consequently, there is
no inducement to stoop forward, or
to turn the head so as to throw the
eyes out of focus. 1t is q fault
with those who write much that the
left eye has a shorter range than the
right. 1t is O~verwOrked, and COM
PEELED to adapt itself to nearer Vi
sion. In writing with the left hand
these evils are avoided. An up.
right posture is the easiest, and the
eyes are equally distant from the
paper.
The educational system of Ger
many is thorough and compulsory.
In $4,000 public schools there are
6,OOO,OOO pupils. For higher in
struction there are $50 gymnasia,
IA real gymnasia, 214 prOgymnasia
and latin schools, and ASS real and
night schools, with an ag-
gregate attendance of 1889
pupils. There Were also twenty
n Universities, with four facul-
ties, theology, law, medicine, and
philosophy. In some a fifth, that
of political economy, is maintained.
The instructors of all grades num-
bered in 1872 and 1878, LEGO; the
students, 1883. In technical cul-
ture, 10 polytechnic schools,
with $50 teachers, gave
instruction to 1850 pupils.
Other special schools are maintain
ed, including As obstetric schools;
artesohOOls, musical Conservatives,
commercial colleges, navigation and
trade schools, etc., In great numbers.
In Prussia, bavaria, and Saxony
there are Is mining schools, a mill
tary academy, an artillery school,
and several cadet-schools, riding
schools, etc.