New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


School superintendent OF Davenport. lows
Forty-five young ladies were graduated last
week at the Cincinnati Normal School for teachers.
DIR. Samuel Fallows was installed as Presi-
dent of the Illinois Wesleyan University on June 10
The Rolla School of Mines has just graduated
three young engineers at It's first annual commence
ment. .s
We note another endeavOr to organize
semLcentenniai celebration for the excellent old Miami
University.
The New-York State Teachers Association
holds It's annual meeting at Blnghamton this year, on
the 2sth. Goth, and 3oth Of July. .-
Eminence College, Kentucky. is mentioned
"a one of the institutions which coeducaton ot the
sexes has proved successful.
Tn one Tennessee county it is said that
little more than 81 paid for apprehendng criminals
than for educating the children
The Cleveland Board of Education has re-
solved to keep the Public Library open Oh Sundays as
soon additional rooms can he provided.
The Philadelphia school authorities have
under consideration the pracc6ility OF esao
fishing art and Industrial school In that city,
The Convention Of Indiana County School
superntendens laid the table resolutions protesting
against tho educational provisions OF the Civil Rights
bill.
Mr.. Ernest Young, '73, is to conduct the
course in Roman law Harvard next year. ana aiso
the second course history taught this year by Mr..
Adams.
In the collegiate and preparatory depart
ments of Wooster University ONO. three full
courses classical philosophical aud scientific, all fully
equipped.
The vexed question of the eligibility OF
the chool
last week In the Supreme Court in Boston, and judgment
is promised soon.
The President of Rensselaer, Polytechnic In
stitute says that that school of study which,
except in tactics gupnery and Notifications, Is equal TO-
if not hi CHER than that at West Point Military Academy
There are at present 80 pupils in the "Prac-
tca School OF Design attached to the Boston lnsti-
tue OF Technology. Already evera of the older pupils
have been engaged excellent positions upon gradu
atiDg.
The official report of Oberlin Theological
University states that the salaries OF the Faculty arc
pit,aby small so small that they are compelled 10 our
den themselves with outside labor, often 10 The detii
ment Of health
Mr.. A. c.. Shortridge, the President OF Pur-
due University otherwise Indiana Agricultural College,
il a practical agrculturist, owning splendid farm,
which il said to be IN excellent state of euu'aon'
AS''NN"N'
Vassar seems to be an inspiring institution
70 Young journalists. The Poughkeeps'e Ne~s saysol
one OF the late ceremonas there that was feast OF
music and roses. From opening to close there was
continued flash OF music. OF roses and OF delight
Gov. Beverdge of Illinois, in his recent ad-
dress to the graduates Of Champaign Industrial Uni-
yersy said in regard to the young ladies' graduating
with the class. that this marks movement granoef
than any farmers movement national political move
ment."
Bates College now has q fund OF SlOoUOo,
and is promised 100000 more. 1t 50 acres-the
College campusthree brick structures, the Presidents
mansion and a gymnasium. The real estate is valued
at $500 co., and the whole assets OF the College are
s5OoOoO and it is only IL wears old.
In the Tennessee Teachers Association
meeting held recently Of them said that while ne
believed in the co-educaon of boys and girls before the
war, his opinion was now somewhat changed. nc
thought that boys rule were less NJ " asso
ciate with girls than they were then.
Mr.. Henderson, Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Kentucky, aud Prof saaer State Geolo
gst have called Convention to meet at Frankfort on
July 49, the object being to mature
system Of public education that shall extend to the
training OF for the schools and OF the
young men of Kentucky for classical and technical pur-
suits.
At the recent Convention Of the Deaf Mute
Teachers at Worcester President gave account Of
new method of nve stigating the mechanism OF speech
invented by Mr.. Oakley Coles Of England. He covers
the whole OF the upper parts OF the mouth with
q MKT OF mucage and -four. He then articulates
sound Wherever the tongue has come in contact with
the upper parts the mouth the flour is removed from
the upper part and deposited on the tongue.
In his address at the commencement of the
Art School Of Maryland Institute. the Hon. Montgomery
Blair observed
Indications Of the rapid and vigorous growth Of art
feeling and culture abound thrOugGout tue country
Private galleries great numbers exist not only III the
principal cities but In the smaller towns ana pictures
sold for fabulous prices This, with ,he enormous
magazines, &c. and the quick perception by tue crowd
OF anything beautiful in the shop windows shows the
universally OF the art feeling III America"
The Philadelphia Ledger, in speaking of Mr..
Asa whtneys bequest to the Pennsylvania University
OF an endowment for a Professorship Of Dynamical
Engineering mentions several special practical subjects
inviting tho study of the occupants OF endowed pro-
fessors' chairs. These include the minute organisms
floating In the atmosphere and said to have relations
not precisely kncwn TO fevers and other epdemics the
invention OF contrivances for heating and cooking
which shall prevent waste OF fuel and life in America
ways OF consuming the smoke from bituminOus coal;
ventilation of dwellings factories, aud public buildings,
and spontaneous combustion"
In the new University of Modern Languages
at Newburyport all the fOregn professors are to DO
natives OF the countries to which their particular Ian
guages belong; and the students acquiring any special
tongue are to be domiciled boarders with family
speaking it's native language. Whence tho respect
able Arabic Chinese Burmese families come,
is not yet announced The Hen Chan Lasun, Chinese
Commissioner Of Education Mr. Giro Yano, Japanese
Charge d'Afares; T. Tomita, japanese Consul New
York aud Senior Don ignscio Marscal, Envoy Extra
ordinary and Minister Plenipoentiay from Mexico
on the Board Of Trustees.
At the commencement of the School of Elo-