New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Trinity College term opens to-day.
Middlebury College classes have in full q
membership OF 81.
The total accessiOns to Yale University this
term WILL it estimated to 400 at the least.
Wells College at Aurora has s. students-as
many as it possible for the institution to accommodate.
Swarthmore College has now about 255 stu
ents or these between 90 and have Just been ad
mitted
Nearly 1000 pupils attend the Denver public
schools Salaries pad TO teachers there range from 500
to $50 per month.
The new Keble College chapel at Oxford,
England s5oOOO all of when expense Will be
borne by man. Mr.. Gibbs.
Prof. Sanford, principal of the Fredonia
Normal School, has resigned his position and become
superintendent Of Public schools at Aiddetown, Orange
County
The new Smith College for women at
Northampton Mass. will be opened III September 1876
The conditions OF admission Will be very like those at
Amherst.
Between 5000 and 1000 pupils are registered
In the Hartford schools; 1000 belong to the public
schools The total attendance in the High School is
about 800.
About $50 young ladies lately went up for
the oxford local examinations aud there is nothing in
the list TO distinguish them from the candidates in
the learned company.
The Mechanics Evening School started in
Pittsburgh year proved be successful and
useful that the Board of Education has ordered the
establishment OF two more.
Mr.. Ramsey Wright of the University of
Edinburgh has appointed to the chair of Natural
Science in University College, Toronto, vacated by the
resignation of Dr. Nicholson.
The school lands of Texas are to be sold for
the benefit school fund.- and it is questioned
whether each county will have right to the pro-
eeeds of the sale Of Its own lands.
Prof Kemp, who has been acting President
of Knox College during the past years will be
tanned Professor OF Moral and Political Science under
the Presidency OF the Hon. Newton Bateman.
Not fewer than $50 applicants, graduates of
Colleges in every part of the country, have offered
themselves for three four vacancies which exist
the list Of teachers Of the Boston Latin school.
The Richmond Enquirer says: The passage
Of the Civil Rights bill will not only destroy adnra
Bile and successful school system, but 1t will aso
the utter ruin OF University, Military Institute
and our Agricultural College.
A writer in The American Journal of Edu-
cation says In regard 70 teaching history the district
schools that he should begin wherever he could best
succeed awakening the interest OF the pup at the
beginning. 10 the middle, or at the end.
The total enrolment of white and negro pu-
pills in the Richmond y) schools during tie past year
amounted to 1852 The average per cent OF the nnal
examination this Summer for the white schools,
70.s. and the colored schools, Ts.s.
The Toledo Board of Examiners have
adopted grade OF teachers certificates requiring
Der cent In scholarship theory aud practice for years
certificate 30 per cent for twoyears certificate and @
per cent for three years certificate.
The Cleveland Board of Education has ap.
Doiajsd committee 70 ascertain By what means shs