New-York tribune., 1874-12-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

n proposed In Halifax Ms
hill for compulsory education has just
ssen introduced the Ohio House Of representatives
WESLEYAN University has 1876 students the
se.er class numbering a. being larger than any pre-
seding class.
Colored pupils are said to have attended one
Of the Girls' High Schools NewOreans for several
years withoat any trouble arising therefrou
There will be this year no honors granted
70 the Department Of Fine Arts at Harvard the numeer
Of eourses- 90 far as arranged, seing insufhcient
Since last June, Syracuse University has
received contributions smouptiDg to 1hh osns'
up the endowment of the institution TO $Soo'oco'
TIE Medical Record is not unwise in sug-
eestnx that there be medical msn In the Nev-forK
Board Of Education, TO represent the profession Oh
sanitary questions in the public schools.
While one in three of the pupils stpdying
German in the schools Of Cleveland Of Euglish
speaking parents and In Cincinnati only one out OF
twestynve in Chicago only one out OF four are OF Ger
man parentage.
The Legislature of Vermont of 1874 abolished
the state Board OF Education, and pushed back the
schools to the system Of rs years ago. ana at present.
said there any State machinery for the seec-
ton Of school books.
There is begun in Leavenworth, Kansas, o
movement TO simplify the public school course oonf
arranged for the grade especially are beyond the
understanding of the pupils
In 1871 there were 1900 schools OF art In
England and in 1917 there 2lll There was also
rest IN number OF scholrs between tuese
daes while the works of art sent in for competition In
creased from l02,4e7 IN 1871, to 1858.
The Indiana decision against negroes in the
schools L. declares The Albany Journal, an uumisaK'
able expression OF the old. proserptiVe, Democratic
spirit decision which antsconizes the vital prncpie
underlying tue Fourteenth Amendment.
The French citizens of Detroit have pre-
sented a meuorsl 70 the Board Of Et1cation, asking
that their native he introduced In the puohc
schools especially" they say, "as that LANGUAGE 10
tbat Of diplomacy throughput the civilized wo'id"
The number of freshmen at Cambridge this
year IA somewhat over 400 Harvard College contains
lH; divinity school. Z; law school. 90; medical schoo
,oe Episcopal theological school, g. aud, In addition to
these there are the freshmen Of the scientific aud
dental departments
The following gifts to Madison University
have made completed during the past year, For
scholarships. $3.50; endowment for Colgate Academy
$4,000; for the general fund of the University, $4,000,
by MriColgate together with 5000 or more from vaFl'
Gus sources for the same purpose
The Western Baptist Education Union has
purchased large hotel at ST. Joseph, No. with the pur
Dose OF establishing university OF the highest grace
uuder the control OF the Baptist denomination. The
articles of incorporation place the endowment fund ae
ssOoOOO. with power to increase to NOoooeo
tits the opinion of The Harrisburg Patriot that
the experience which befe the attempt to enforce
social equality in schools of NewOrleaus world have
eefalen il every where else had the Civil Rights bill been
forced on the country In all the Southern States and
10 OF the Northern the public school system Wouio
have been broken up or severely crippled
1t is the not uncalled-for observation of
Ezs CStr Hnr reference TO the inter-
collegiate literary contest that ut is pity that our
leading colleges not oil to participate in the contest
his not very complimentary to our great educational
Institutions that contests OF MUSCLE like boat races,
should SO far oveishadow contests Of brains"
This curious statement occurs in the course of
an editorial article which The Toledo Blade deprecates
foreign education for young Americans Our greater
wealth. commands the best teachers, and with our In
progresiveness it reasonably follows that our
educational institutions must be fully equal If not supe-
yOr OF those of poorer countries while at the same time
they are better adapted national characteristics
and Development"
The Superintendent of Schools in Auburn
complains like great many other Superintendents in
this State that the Compulsory Education law ex
eeedingly detective He declares that II s vague and
iDde6nite many OF its important provisions that 1t
wOud warrant the criticism either Of having been in
considerably prepared Of having been unintentiOn
silly otherwise amended TO such extent as to aid
In the Chicago Normal School one training
teacher is employ cd for three practice schools 1t Is
proposed to practice school, and to employ
additional training teacher The course OF study Is
Of two years and pupils Admitted at the close OF
the Spring term june and of the Fall term In Decen
ber giving them four classes Each pupil o. The Normal
School spends weeks the training school in the
observation Of the work and two weeks IN the manage
pent and instruction Of class.
No mercy IS slovn to the proposition to cut
down the teachers salaries The Pmfdto Express refer
sing TO the NewYork teachers meetiS last Saturday
aud the protests agdi,t reduction made ther, es9
"Tweve hundred dollars in NewYOrk hardly eQuai-
NoO in Buffalo; but It is proposed 10 cut down this
miserable stipend sin further for ecoDOmys sake
while not breath has been heard against paying the
Sheriff, who is generally a leading professional city
politician like john Kelly or Jimmy O'Bren $4,000
year What argument be offered in favor OF econ
ony like that None. And IL perfectly evident that
the OBJECT Of the authors OF that proposition not
economy demOraze aud briDg into disrepue the
public school system in New-York. 1t is an outrage
that will not be tolerated il the public is awakened to
comprehension of it's gross injustice and full meaning"
1t is the opinion of The Net- Orleans Times
shat Summers legacy simply the dream OF Uopian
physicist 1t has been pondered and condemned
by the great majority Of the American people The
popular conviction is that mixed schools and the other
extraordinary demands OF the supplemental Civil
Rights bill intended, not for the elevation Of the
blacks but for the degradation OF the whites Equal
advantages unmixed schools, and equal accommoda-
tOns in other constitute all the equality which
be enforced by law II it be possible to go beyond
this the contamination must be achieved by untram-
meed appreciation on the hand and deserviuGs ON
the other. Punitive laws will advance the movement,
and the attempt TO break down preiudicee by force WIN
simply give TO these pre3udices q longer life"