New-York tribune., 1874-10-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

A Harvard Atnleuc As0o'
formed A.
Bates College has 1s Seniors ~ J"hiors' 81
sophomores, aud 20 freshmen.
There are 1926 students at Stewart Cohege'
Clarksyille, Tennessee, this year.
The Missouri State University has received
thus far about 800 new students
Tn Yale Theological Seminary thirty-four
different colleges are represented
Senator Buckingham has been elected Presi-
dent OF the Trustees OF Norwich Free Academy.
Roston University School of Medicine has
almost 100 students, two-hths of whom are ladies'
The elective course in fine arts at Harvard
has attracted many OF the stuuehs' anu u'" i'0''s
Is manifested in the study alreaay
Mas Nav Ellis. once assistant principal of
Monnt uovoke Seminary has become Principal Of the
Ladies' Department in Iowa College,.
The new chapel of Union College will prob
ably cost ss5ooOO statue of Dr. Mott which IL
to crown the iron dome, will cost s3o,ooo.
Hamilton College has this year about 125
studepts Prof Bran a graduate OF the College, now
has charge OF the department of modern languages.
The Freshman Glass in the Institute OF
Technology at Boston numbers this year 80 members
The standard of admission has been somewhat raised
lately.
About 40 candidates were rejected at the
Harvard examinations. Ffty-hve were admitted WITH
ant conditions into the Freshman class which numbers
1853 members
The number of pupils enrolled in the Nash
vile public schools for 1894 was greater than
in any previous year, being S23. The total cost per
pupil was s22 OF.
The Baltimore School Board will not intro
duce the study OF German in the Grammar Schools or
that city, but propose the immediate estaoishment OF
four German English schools.
The Baltimore Gazette thinks that school
girls oug to give part OF their time to studying the
arts of domestic life, thereby improving theif heaith
and their capacities for practical existence.
Mr.. G. Z. Henderson won the first prize at
the Madison University oratorical contest iast "eeA'
One OF the competitors selected for defamation
TRIBUNE editorial, and also received prize
Corporal punishment in the schools has been
again discussed by the Wilmington Del), School Board
and resolution abolish the same was defeated Dy
majority of five. Tie discussion was long and sharp.
The Louisville School Board, in its annual
report protests against the Civil Rights BILL and notes
that there O9i pupils In at enhance on the LOUIS
VILE public schools whose expenses amount to s?9OG59 As
year.
President Porter of Yale will address the
Connecticut
New.Haven Oct 20 and 49, His subject is to be the apt
and interesting one The Course OF study Preparatory
to College"
The following appointments have been made
I'm Michigan University Mr. c. Jones, INSTRUCTOR I'D
Mathematics; NJ c. Tyler Professor In Engsh
language and Literature and W. Corwin as assistant
in the Museum.
The University of California has this year
16s candidates degrees. Last year 1t had 14 There
are 80 feminine students in the University Among the
lectures is a course by Prof Hgard Domestic and
Rural Economy" all his lectures being open 10 the
public.
There was no rough demonstration at Har-
wards opening this year. the students as well as the
faculty seeming determined to abolishing hashg Al
the last meeting of faculty it voted to summa
rily expel any and every student detected In any
"hazing" or roughng" OF the class just entered
AT the Onondaga County Teachers Institute
one speaker thought there was too much grammar
auch in our sch He did not II was not useful
held that people acquire the habit OF correct use
of Language far from association and familiarity
with it than from books grammar was good as intro
ducory the study Of the philosophy OF language but
IL should never be studied until the mind Is able to
comprehend it.
Maryland Agricultural College is to have
special sorshp of nautical science giving instruc
ton without charge in navigation steam, and practical
gunnery to young men destined for tho merchant
marine Capt Wm ii. Parker, graduate OF the Naval
School, will be at the head OF this department. 1t Is
me- toned that those students who could remain only
short time at the College could have textbooks fur
pished them for the voyage for examination and fur
ther instruction returning
A writer in AppletonS' journal advocates
more general and thorough musical education. He
says:
The frequentlv-adopted plan of waiting. to see
whether children "haye any taste or " show any
love" for music is a wrong one. No child would prefer
practcing scales playing bail and few boys If the
cultivation of their tastes depended upon the whims OF
their everything fancies would turn into educated
First give them the opportunity OF forming taste, aud
for ITS development the aesthetic element of their
nature.
The following peculiar facts are noted by
| The Detroit Free Press:
In 1850 the population OF the State OF Michigan was
397 C5i the school attendance, according to the
United states census 105,96 or little more than 20 per
cent OF the population BY the of 1870 the pOpu
| ation was llsiOj9. while the school attendance
26i PIT, little more than % per cent Of the popua
ton II will that OF the fruits OF the
expenditure 5000 600 for educational and reformatory
purposes has reduce the proportion OF school
| attendance to population more than per cent In
other words while there 80 attendants upon
school for every 100 Of population there were only % In
| 1870
| Harvard has for the first time arranged for
the Seniors voluntary attendance at Rotations The
change will probably be permanent II this years exper
ment proves successful. In order TO insure the CO.
operation OF the Students the dean has addressed
cuar 10 every member OF the class urging punctuality
at the beginning OF term and nHicng severe penal
ties for noattendance The present Senior class an
excellent with which 10 try this experiment
though ii can boast OF brilliant oarsmen the high
| standard OF scholarship maintained by the members
entities respect In the eyes Of the undergraduates
| The following are announced as the subjects