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

Their report VIII be antcipaeeo "'
their city.
II Ia said that the Methodsts ana r ..,...
,,ans have assented to the unihcation OF All o.. n
tonal colleges in Georgia. win on' s,a that they
STATE The several denominations .,,nnor rho
e'a'e' ant,re,v after being taxed to support 'ho
State University. -.
Tho Union College of Law in Chicago opens
I'll a faculty including Judges lrnmouii' Doo-
u.,,o and Booth, and Profs Densiow ana myers Aho
.,,on fee ia only ESQ year, and WINE ooaru may po
obtained in Chicago at from u so to 70 week '"e
,varsity table or In the clubs II Is about na those
rates.
At recent teachers institute in this State
Prof yerril sensby deprecated the use OF e1toooks
in mathematical Rotations Of advanced classes ad
wishing the teachers to give problems OF praeuca CHAR
after not in the book. Such method OF teaching may
well be applied to classes not so advanced ana also 10
other English branches .. ...
The cost of the Rochester public schools for
1874 was sss776 The increase In attendance mas
heen over l6OO in two years. The three scholarships
hestowed by the University of Rochester upon the pub
lilo schools of that city have this year been taken ny
graduates of the Free Academy Three written exami
nations were held in the schools this year.
The new Methodist Seminary at Hacketts-
town. n j. was formally dedicated last week. In 1859
the building begun, with only $4,000 In the treas
ury. The contract price was $1,000 on Duildng ana
furniture has been expended about $7SOoo all OF which
has been paid except 10000 The President OF the IN
stitution is the Rev. George II. Whitney, d. ID.
The Nor,rich Bulletin says: "Notwithstand-
ing the strong feeling against coedueaton we oeeVe IL
liberal policy is pursued toward the South that there
will be no danger therei of the colored man being
oppressed Thus there strong reasons Tor DeneVng
that I'm school matters the black and proDaDy VIII
get his equal rights even without coeducatlon."I
The Committee of the Boston School Board
appointed TO nominate a candidate for filing the
vacancy in Ward Six lately reported the name OF MISS
Abby W. May formerly elected by che citizens ana
excluded by the Board. Ballots were taken' ana the
BOARD still preserved ITS Puritan stuboornness Sky
two votes were necessary for CHOICE ana on inc TWO
ballots Miss May received first I3, and then AZ votes
The question was postponed TO the next meeting OF the
Board, month hence.
The two Chinese students we mentioned
,ast week have passed creditable examination and
have been admitted to the Yale Scientific Department
In Connecticut and Massachusetts there are now 60
Chinese students supported by their Government and
The arrival Of 80 more anticipated. The first thing
done with them is place them with cultivated Amer-
can families where they acquire English, ana IL Is sa
are heartily esteemed. The Chinese Educational Com
mission has headquarters at Hartford and maintains
strict supervision over the Students
The studies prescribed for the Junior class
OF the st. Louis High School follows Latin aise-
bra and drawing all the pupils, and German iof
such pupils as select it and pass successful examina-
ton on the complete OF study prescribed IN the
district schools for the German-American classes All
pupils not taking German are to take grammGtcai
The studies Of the second class are 10 De as
follows: Latin geometry, rhetoric, and natural pnlos
ophy and German for such pupils as, having CON-
menced the previous year, elected to continue H. Inc
nf
2l,432.
Mr.. Edward Shipper of Philadelphia notes
that the earliest Pennsylvania schoobook was pub
ished in 1916 and the edition needed was very smai
indeed those early days the school teacher pos
sessed the only one the locality 1t must have been
sort educational encyclopedia for 10 was at the same
time primary. secondary. grammar, and
book; IL contained several alphabets large assert
ment OF hard biblical names, and many Scriptura quo
tations; list of all the names by which his satanic
majesty is called in the Good Book; catechism oil lO7
auesons and IL treated OF the Seven Arts" that Is
10 saw Grammer Rhetoric, Logic. Astronomy, Geometry,
Music, and Arithmetic.
The Darlington Is. c. SOutherner thinks the
position OF the coored has during the last few
years undergone radical change that educated black
men necessary to the welbeing OF the south as
educated white men. It adds AS we, undoubtedly,
are to blame for the ignorance OF the race neither per-
hitting desiring lnem 10 nave
ilepes let us no longer be TO blame this head, and
not only encourage by sympathy but aid by per-
sopal effort every for the secular and religious
education of the coored people OF the South Ii IS
work of which no Southern man nor woman need TO
be ashamed; it is one which there is peculiar ht-
in their engaging.
The new Normal School at Worcester, Mass,
was dedicated last Friday 1t the fifth school OF the
sort established by that state 1t has cost In building
grading. furnishing, &C., probably about $4,000 Prof
f. H. Russell is principal OF the school In his speech at
the dedication the Hon. Emory Washburn mentioned
the danger putting much Of the socaed work OF
early education upon the memory ut Is made, In fact
TO do almost everything" he said, though the mere
action OF memory without calling into action tho other
faculties OF the mind. the judgment, the reason, and
what some writers call the perception Of analogy Is
not In itself education Such exercise has little TO
do with rengthening and enrchng the mind as calling
upon the boy rece, in their order. tho list Of
recorded In the first chapter of Matthew. And what is
worse than all In this kind OF teaching which this loose
ay dealing with elementary instruction implies, is
the habits which the child gains at school, which stick
TO him as long he lives. WHAT lamentable number
graduate every year from our common schools poor
readers poor speers with anything but the pen Of
ready writer and very little regard for the relations
OF number and tense in what are called the rules Of
grammar"