New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-18
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Ladies' have been appointed on the Exam
thing Committees in the public schools OF ouD"quo
Tboro uoro AoO names on the list OF matrlc-
-. =, vo,nckv University during the session Just
ended.
p.of Charles 6. Farrar of Vassar has ac-
.,.s enc presidency OF tho woman's College at Mil
wsukee.
The graduates of Brown University living In
rn,capo are endeavoring to form an Alumni Assoela
iion there
Prof. Humphreys of Washington and Lee
University now studying abroad has just received the
degree Of Phi. d. at Leipsic.
Hampden- Sidney College has just graduated
sts largest class since the Mr.. H. X Thornton VI
Virginia, took first honors'
Gov. Beyeridge of Illinois officially proclalms
that thu Southern Illinois Normal University at carbon
dale Will be formally opened Julyl.
Wooster University, Ohio, will graduate %
students next Dr. John Hall OF this city VIII give
the address before the literary societies.
A Harvard alumnus proposes to his brother
alumni insure his life for the benefit OF the
College; $500 is the sum he mentons.
The Hon. Charles s. May of Kalamazoo gave
on Tuesday an enthusiastic eulogy OF Sumner before the
faculty and societies of Kalamazoo College.
The University of Kansas has just gradu-
.,ed Two Young ladies'. One received diploma as
Bachelor Of Science other diploma as Bachelor OF
Arts.
The Essex County, N. j., Teachers Associa-
fion by of Al to have decided that the law pro-
bibing corporal punishment in schools should be re-
peaied.
Beleyille Union Academy celebrated its
10th anniversary last week, ex-Gov. Seymour making
speech and friends OF the Academy contributing over
$4,000
The Ohio State Teachers Association will
begin its meeting Put-n-Bay Island on June 30 The
opening address "Tbe Teacher as Ctlzen VIII DC
given by its President, r. NJ Mcmillan.
Mr.. John w. Lock, Senior Professor in 1ndi-
ana Asbury University has been elected President OF
MeKendree College, Lebanon. III. Twenty-Five students
of this college graduated last week, Gov Bever
idge giving them the address,
The first number of The Tufts Collegian, just
published, shows good promise for the future 1t is
specially devoted to the cause of collegiate educaon
and so ulfls It's intentions in manly and dgnlhed
fashion, 1t is to printed monthly during the college
year
The Rev. DR.. I. d. McCabe and the Rev. DR.. t.
o. Haven are discussed the lgh of Presidents Of Ohio
Wesleyan University, the present President Dr. New
hail. being hopelessly ILL., DR.. McCabe is member OF the
faculty aud Dr. Haven ex Presdent OF Michigan Uni
versity.
There is to be conference at the Uniyer-
euaton upon the educational needs and resources OF
the Northwest and the Inauguration of plans for con-
certed ali the States in behalf OF the proposed
Centennial Fund.
At the recent meeting Of the Chemung
County Teachers Association speaker urged that
attention be paid TO the sciences and TO geometry
as they of practical value in mechanics and farm
Ing the occupations IN which great majority of the
pupils Of our country schools will engage.
IL Gov al hot tna 81 az
that the accommodations OF Drew Theological Seminary
were exhausted only in part. 1t is true that
all the rooms in the two dormory halls have already
been engaged for the term, but other accommoda
fions been provided and near the grounds ana
proper candidates for admission viii be forced TO de-
part for want OF room.
Representatives from the State Collegiate
institutions of Illinois, Ohio Indiana Iowa, and Wis
consin met 10 Chicago week. and formally organized
society promotion of oratory called the Interstate
Collegiate Association of the Northwest Inc nrst ora
torjcal contest will occur at Indianapolis on the hrs'
Thursday February 1875 The chief prize is 10 DC
gold medal, the second prize silver one The Pres-
dent is Charles F. Hunt OF Indiana.
At the Hampton Institute Commencement,
School superintendent Runer of Virginia expressed the
opinion decidedly that the social repun aDce existing IN
the the white and colOred races TENDS 10
benefit and not inure the negro He pledged himself 10
demonstrate this proposition upon any fitting occasion
tive in Virginia separate schools or no schools at ALL
and there is no earthly power can make 1t otherwise
The School Board of st. Louis last week
adopted resolutions protesting against the educational
provisions Of the Civil Rights Dlll and directing me
mortal TO be prepared urging upon the Senator'S and
from Missouri the Importance of mme-
diate action with view to such amendments to
the bill as shall relieve all schools from the necessity OF
admitting both to the same rooms and classes
wherever provision made for the education OF
each in separate schools
The report of the Connecticut State Board
Education urges the necessity OF increasing the school
fund the income reported in 1854 was sS25S9 90
and in 1874 Ss while the In the number OF
children for whose benefit 1t exists during the same
time has exceeded 22COO The accompanying agent in
enforcing the law requiring attendance at school sug
gests certificate be required from each child ask
aug for employment at factory. TO the effect that the
requisite attendance at school has been fulfilled.
The Philadelphia Age explains that the num-
Der Of iterae women in proportion 10 the number OF
ilhterate men is in New York and Philadelphia more
than to St. Louis. to z; in Boston and Balti
more, as 10 in Cincinnati to 2; In New orleans,
as san Francisco, asa to 5; in Louisville to
2; and in Pittsburgh 80 to 20, nearly o1. The
Age thinks that this unequal education is the fault Of
the parents that they give their boys superior faci
ties that they put all the education they afford
upon their boy and keep their two girls at home to
grow up in ignorance.
The Province of New Brunswick is discuss
fng vehemently the question of sectarian nonseca
rian public schools. There is effort making to
turn schools which favored by the
existing laws. The line OF division Is drawn between
the Protestants and Catholics the former avorng
sectarian free schools the latter separate schools The