New-York tribune., 1874-05-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The cornerstone OF INC piopoSou
University was laid at Nashville April 2s
Only portion of the class will give ora
,ops at the coming Commencement of Union College.
German and French are to be taught in four
Grammar Schools and six Primary Schools in San Fran
rscos
Mr. II. n. Slater of Webster, Mass, has given
$4,000 to Brown University. in addition similar sum
previously presented by him.
Olivet College, Michigan, has an endowment
and real property amounting TO nearly s7looo aud re-
Quires Sal 900 more to make II self-Sustaining
The Central University of Kentucky has
appointed Professor Joseph Le COnto President of Its
College OF Arts and Science and Professor OF Physics
1t is rumored that plans are drawn for new
buildings for Ingham University OF lie Roy. and that
there possibility these buildings may be erected at
Rochester.
- The total number of students attending the
University OF Pennsylvania 59 The University Hos
ptal will be in entire working order before the begin
p.ng OF the Winter course Of lectures FOR 1S74-5.
The Philadelphia School Board has done
wisely prohibiting the pupils in the public schools
from taking home their books Consequently the Phia-
delpbia children study at school, and parents are no
longer forced to do work that teachers paid for con-
scious all that brainabor out Of school hours
was tho worst thing possible for their children.
According to the report of The amherst stu
dent the actual expenses Of Amherst College during the
past college year. 72-3 were between two and three
thousand dollars than the receipts Besides this
debt others. The Student declares continually in-
by appropriations to carry out new plans, which
appropriations the treasury being empty, are necessa
MY borrowed.
The Classical and Scientific Colleges OF
California State University have been separated Inc
Faculty Of Science VIII maintain five courses OF instrne
ton: Agriculture, Mechanics Mining Engineering, ana
Chemistry. The Faculty OF Letters will conduct two
courses, resembling that OF the ordinary classical
college and the other giving special prominence to the
modern languages and literature. Various literary
sudies are be prescribed for scientific Students while
literary students will be obliged to study some scientific
branches.
The Massachusetts, Board of Education last
year recommended the laying OF hafmiI tax on the
property of the State be distributed to the towns for
educational Purposes, the mOety OF the school fund
Income now is Tho did find favor with the
Legislature and this year the proposition is renewed,
Except that the OF proposed taxation is reduced
onehalf The for il are that while the tendency
OF population aud wealth toward the cities and larger
increases from year year. many of the smaller
declining relatively and absolutely in these
rec poets, yet their burdens not diminished in the
same ratio, nor anything like it.
OF the $50 members of Congress, 1A are COL
lege graduates OF tho non-graduaes IS received an
academic eduCaton; G5 only a common school eduoa-
tOn -Four educated in private schools, and six
were "self-educated." OF the remaining 76 large
proportion took partial courses at college, supple
mented their early education by study in the law
other professional schools. classification OF the
graduates reveals the fact tnat Yale heads the list OF
the colleges represented in COngress-the number OF
Its graduates including Mr.. William Walter Phelps of
N j., and Gov. Washburn, recently elected the
ressor OF Charles Sumner being eight These statistics
cOmWlled from the Congressional Directory bV
writer in The college C0urank.
In the State of Iowa about 5000 persons
over q years Of age unable TO write. The State
University at Iowa City has 5l5 students and 80 teach
eTs. The state Agricultural College at Ames has II
teachers and 273 students; Cornell College, at Mt Yer
non, &c teachers and $50 students; Iowa Coegc, at
Bnnnel, is teachers and students; Wesleyan Col
iege at Mt Pleasant 10 teachers and students The
yearly salaries given principals OF the leading high
schools OF the State follows: Dubuque, Cedar
Rapid Des Noines Council Bluffs each 81 800 Sioux
City. Marshaltown, $1,000; Waterloo. Independence,
Mason City, Otumwa. Dakota $3.50; Vnton, Boons-
bOro, Burlington. Marengo Muskatine, Fort Dodge
1880 The principals of ward schools best paid in
Dubuque, where they each receive $500 per annum.
These salaries may be considered reasonably remunera
live in a comparatively new state-out how pitifuly
ANAL they incentives TO thorough and accurate
preparation by teachers!
1t will do teachers no harm to read this
paragraph quoted from The School:
las az editor tor, Of & village lag % 0 have had 4 ample Gn on
behalf Of these few simple, but very important
Iuents Of good English educauon-penmanship or
popreties involved etter-writng and in preparing
communications iortne press. Beginning with NY own
three children, aged respectively u, 10 and II years.
not one OF them has acquired in school a competent
knowledge Of these things. 1 repeatedly inspec-
ted their " COMPOSITIONS" and always found them
grossly defective in these particulars. They seem 10
have idea at all Of breaks and paragraphs,
according TO the sense. but after finishing what
they have to say on one point OF topic, they
line, and sometimes with small letter. The fact
matters. the good that their present
teacher (and probably those before him) is himself
kindred branches OF good English education. This
found odt by receiving from him not long ago. for publ
cation in paper communication OF seven fOoscap
pages ia length which was not only written on both
tdes OF the paper in cranped, schoolbOy hand, and
capitals but there not break paragraph, "A
punctuation mark, from beginning to end The object
Of tine communication to show the advantages to
the rlng generation, OF common schools in general
md Of his school IN particular"
Col John NJ. Fleming, the Tennessee State
Superintendent OF Public Instruction, thinks that the
civil Rights bill means death TO popular education. He
says;
"If mixed schools were ordered by law they would |
not be attended, and were they attended the result |
would be rather juvenile O than profitable
rivalry in studies. The people cannot be brought
Hdrd the schools as merely civil organizations subject
only TO political government; the school Is too close
the family circle not 20 be subject IN great degree
social laws aud influences Already the detrimental |
rec OF the prOpos tOn To include public schools within
The operation OF the Cvl Rights bill has been severely
felt In Tennessee. The mere tendency OF the bin in
Congress with possibility OF its passage has begOtten
Eurtful apprehensOuS. The county OF quite a
number counties that year Wed school
have this year either deferred action the
iect or referred the matter the people School officers
thrOu the state have been for some time uneasy
and dlstrusful have, myself been, and still am,
hesitation in regard 10 projected measures OF school
IShey winch an enforcement of the Civil Rights bill in
an M Goat. s.s,N