New-York tribune., 1874-10-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Auburn will be hsbitabe by July 1916 us 10 cost
about 100000
Philadelphia has 30 exceedingly successful
nyht schools for adults of these schools being for
coored pupils.
The Rev. s. E. Herrick has been invited to
the Professorship OF English Literature at Amherst,
formerly occupied by Prof L. c. seelye.
Mr.. John G.. Lansing of the Senior Glass at
Union College has been elected represent that ins
tuition in the intercollegiate Literary contest
Of the teachers at the recent Onondaga
County Institute no; one spelled correctly all of ten
moderately hard words gwen, while fifteen missed them
all
Drury College, lately organized at Springfield,
Mo, has faculty OF instructors. $50 Students
and to the aggregate amount 1t is said, OF
more than 100000.
formal request of the faculty OF Tufts
College has been conveyed to DIR. Miner-this request
being the effect he should retain his official POSI-
ton In the College, Withdrawing from his Boston pastor
ate
According to the annual report OF the Com
mttee on Drawing OF the Boston schools. the cost OF
instruction in that art for the past year was SoS VI
this sum s96l9 spent in maintaining the free even
ing drawngschools.
There are in Italy 154 schools OF art, tech
nical schools and trade schools These are attended Oy
13,S9 pupils, ana nave dtOSetucr eoaShOi'' A"N
whole expense including school furniture OF every Sort
has amounted tO about ~, 26i.
The Yale Alumni held their annual reunion
tn Boston on Monday. -Four members OF the Faculty
were present - President Porter, and Professors
Thatcher Dwight and sumnerand spoke OF the present
prosperous condition OF the College
The Omaha Bee says:
To-day the school fund in Nebraska is in most de-
plorable condition Not only has the principal been
worry m
loans but even the interest on large portion oi thls
fund will never oe collected
The cost of tuition per pupil in the public
schools of Springfield Ill., is s4 o. and in the neghbor
ing city Of Bloomington it is only 50 &C. The SupeIn-
tendent geld reports that the plan Of halliday
sessions In tue ninth and tenth grades has been
cessfu
Prof. j. d. Steele of Elmira now i'll Stutt-
gart, protests like Mr. Northrop. against the educating
American youth abroad He declares that foreign edu
cation has not the merit of cheapness that the
students Stuttgart, for instance, find board more
expensive than the students AT Syracuse University.
The School Board of Keokuk having re-
fused admit colored applicant to the high school,
Judge OF the Circuit Court has decided that the youth is
entitled to q writ Of mandamus commanding the Board
TO admit him all the privileges and benefits enjoyed
by other scholars possessing .he same qualifications
1t is said that there were last year $1,000
children between the ages of five and twenty years in
Vermont. and that only about 1900 actually attended
schools Tie total cost Of schools was s731O vermont
having no fund.- the whole Of this sum had TO be
raised by taxation Vermont gives her children only 20
weeks schooling.
Harvard's Law Department has $50 students.
Tie library Of the College has the large number OF
100000 books distribution OF DeturS Is made near the
commencement Of the academic year by the Faculty,
from the income Of the Hopkins Foundation, to eri
torous students Of the years standing About fifty will
be given the present year.
The number of those attending primary
schools In Egypt is 10000 which in population OF
625OOO represents proportion of IT per 1000 proper
smaller than any European country except Rus
sia The Khedve is attempting to combat the prejudice
regarding female education and has established large
girls school Cairo, where, beside elementary edu
cation sewing, washing. and dressmaking are taught
The College Association of New-England-
q society composed Of the Presidents OF NewEngland
colleges and member of the faculty from eaeh-are
holding meetings educational discussion in Hanover
NJ H. this week. Four States are to be represented ts
year. Connecticut, Rhode Island. Massachusetts, and
New-Hampshire and delegates from Amherst Williams,
Yale Harvard and Brown will be present
The University of Modern Languages at
Newouryport was formally introduced to the public In
au enthusiastic meeting last Friday Senator Patterson
the Hon. Chai Lai Sun, and Others made speeches. IL
was announced that school building OF five rooms had
houses for 100 students secured. NewburypOrt was
called upon TO raise 100000 in the develop
ment Of the University
Orders have been passed by the Boston
School Committee fixing the salaries OF teachers fol-
lows:
Masters of Latin and English High Schools, $500
81 go aud 5000 subnasters of schools rt year;
- and subsequently, s2Goo instead OF s2O9 o. sna n
teacher Of French in the Engs9 hgn SenOo s1VV IN
sl,7OO first year and $1,000 subsequently.
college for the medical education of
women has been opened 10 London. The council in
clndes the names OF Mrs. GarrettAnderson DIR. Bill
ling Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. DR.. Buchanan Dr. Cbarl
ton Basiian, DR.. King Chambers, Dr. Cheadle, Mr..
Critchett, Mr. Ernest Hart Mr. Berkeley HILL Professor
Huxley, DR.. Hughlings Jackson. Dr. Mure. Mr. A T.
Nortou Dr. Payne, DIR. W. g. Playfair Dr. Burdon San
dersou and Dr. sturges and many OF these names are
found IN the list OF lecturers.
The Netc- -Haren Palladium says:
1t will generally we think, though not universally be
allowed that the enforcement oil education Dy the siae
involves IN country o he our rS SSn "aaS aw o suc
enforcement must be universal II u Is TO be enectVe;
could be framed which, while forcing education
those present illiterate. would preserve 10 other
OF study the child shall be educated The parent is tue
natural guardian OF the offspring and his guardlauslp
should be pugned only for the grayest public reasons
In discussing the mistakes in our school
system-and especially that OF cramming the memory
The Alta California severely criticses the composition
OF school boards. II says:
Our conventions seldom take into cOnsidera-
tim the qualification and fitness OF the candidate. A
ma school education at all, who has definite
idea OF what school should be, provided he offer hm-
self for the position Just likely 10 obtain the noun
nation and the election II he had passed through
every stage OF education frOm tue primary TO
graduation With all the h0nors OF Harvard faIe CAIN
bridge, or the first university OF Germany.
At the meeting of the Connecticut State