New-York tribune., 1874-12-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Wtre III hcnVoi III 1850
There arc 1CO students at Williams College,
50 Of whom are freshmen ......
About 10000 children are taught drawing in
the Baltimore public schools.
promising member of tho senior class in
the Yale Divinity School is totally bind
The Kansas State University has new
presidept--the Rev. James Marvin, y D.
Ohio Wesleyan University Is in prosperous
condition, its assets now boiug over SI6,ooo.
T. il reported that Vice Chancellor Sewell
,f Oxford University will be succeeded by the Lev.
M,rk Pattlson, D. D., rector OF Lincoln College.
purdue University has now forty six students.
The expenditures of the institute for land and various i'm
urovemens during the past year amounted 10 siS6e a.
Among other cities, Rochester is troubled as
TO what It shall 90 in tho matter OF compelling children
to attend school, there being no accommodations Tor
them.
Tho Chair of Ecclesiastical History in the
University OF Glasgow left vacant by the resignation OF
Dr. Jackson 10 to be filed by the Rev. Dr. Leo OF Rox-
blrgh.
President McCosh says that the New-En-
gland a,es have thoroughly good preparatory iashtu
tons While Penns ylyania and NewJersey suffer from
want Of such schools.
Immediately after the decision as to mixed
schoos Of the Indiana Supreme Court the Brazil undJ
School Board ordered ali the coored children out OF the
public schools Of that city.
Senator Worthipgtop of Ohio is attempting
10 mit public school education In his State to A. d. g.
snellinc reading writing, arithmetic, grammar geos-
raphy, composition, and eiocutioh'
Ont of school population of 10000, Brook
,vn enrolled in the public schools during 1s73 1850
chldron There were 5s67 puplsin the evening SCHOOLS
The city has two Kindergarten schools
Trinity College, during 1874, has conferred
the degree Of B. A. upon nineteen gentlemen, that OF
NJ A. upon ten tina: OF D. d. on two, and that o LIZ d.
an one Strangely enough Is said to he at present
onlv one student in the college from Hartford its own
city.
correspondant of The Concord Monitor
thinks that all the older pupils in the public schools can
be- and snould be- taught the first principles of booA-
keeping; and further that more attention should be
given in these schools to decamaons Tor boys ana eo
positions for both boys and girls.
The University Of California has literary
COURSE including extended study OF French Germah'
and English, something Of Latin, the option OF laha"'
and Spanish aud history. Literature, Mathematics as
far as Descriptive Geomery Physics, Natural uisto3
Geology, and Elementary Chemistry.
Dcru1DS Illc UtSJ uStihoo e'N WV
ca,jonal clause CT the Civil gis bill Is the fact That
the trustees Of the District OF Columbia schoos-noth
white aud colored menhave declared the attempt to
sugtaiu mixed schools failure, and have recommended
the proporiopate division OF the school funds between
white and black children for the maintenance OF schools
for each class
The school population Of Maine is 223,919.
The total attendance in the public sehoos during tLc
past year was 3] Tho money raised for school pur-
poses by towns amounts 10 81 90 per scholar The STATE
allows 81 in addition TO this The total vaiue OF all
schooLbonses In tho State. including grounds. Is s9.
00O0oO sfce 1860 the wages of teachers In Maine are
sand to have been nearly doubled
A member of the Worcester School Board
thinks that schools IN danger OF deprecatins
because of instability. lie declares that We have no
fixed system long enough In practice TO reach the re-
salts that desire to ATTAIN and notes that In divers
foreign countries the ystems adopted are followed
for many years and changed only when proved beyond
u DOUBT 10 be "a failure
Senator Schurz's appeal for practical train
ing girls VIII be largely answered by tie new Col
le.e for Women at Wellesley, Mass Skilled cnoks ana
chemists will instruct stud,nts in domestic work.
Otherwise the course is intended TO resemble those III
colleges for men. The college, built at q cost OF
Ooo will he opened in about year All the STU
dents necessary expenses will, it reported, be Gov
cred by $50 year.
The placing of white children of the State
IN one class and the negro cLdcu In another class and
recurring these classes to be taught separately, pro-
vision being made for their education in the same
branches according 10 age, capacity, OF ndvancemen
with capable teachers and 70 the extent OF their
rata share the school revenu', does not says The
albany Argus amount to denial OF equal privileges TO
either nor conflict with the open character Of the
system required by the Constitution. The System
would be equally open to all. Tue tuition would be free
Tle privileges of the schools would be denod TO
1t is the complaint of The Utica Herald that
while the action of tue Compulsory Education law Will
force about 500 children OF that city TO attend TO their
elected IDEAS there is school for them TO t1e
egular schools beiDg all crowded now, and The city
Charter forDidding the raising of money for school
buildings until, consent OF the people shall have st
been obtained The Herald 10 note the omission
IN Compulsory law OF any provision for such cases,
and adds: :" "IsIs evident tnat 1t must. from its
defects become dead letter In may localities from
the moment 1t goes into operation unless it SHALL
ceive radical amendments BY the Incoming Legsla
ture."
Tile Boston Herald rather per;inently observes
that be said that New-York common schools give
instruction in draYing and photography, and tele-
graphing and three four languages, "but II their
scholars can OF the schools they do In some
cities, without a decent knowledge OF spelling, unable
to read with or effect or TO write PLAIN legble
hands wnat all their scientific and linguistic attain
ments worth ." 1t would be wise tor educational nno-
vaors go slowly in the matter of carrying technical
studies with the Common School course. Special tech
nical schools heartily to be desired. but it is poor
policy to crowd the necessary English branches in the
ordinary public schools.
The Troy Times. referring to Mr.. Wade's
views on mixed schools reported in THE TRIBUNE,
says: emo serious harm can be done by waiting a WHILE
in order preudces rife certain sections OF
the country may have time to die away before proceed
Ing further Ten or twelve years here In the City
OF Troy the objection TO permitting coored youth
enter the public schools indlscrnInately was deemed
almost nsurmountable Even those colored children
who their attanmens had acquired the right TO seats
In tho hioh acnaol found areat dIaia,l.u