New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-04-16
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There are 14,416 persons of school age in
Colorado, Of whom 1856 are enrolled In the pubnc
schools.
The Chandler Scientific Department of Dart
mouth College will hold its anniversary exercises
June 2
The Boston Question-Shall women be adj
mitted to seats on the School Board twill be argued
before the full court in June.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has made
law yosting in the Amherst College graduates power 70
choose the five college trustees.
There will be no class-day exercises mt the
next Commencement at Amherst Agricultural College,
the Seniors having voted dispense entirely with class
day.
The New-Hampshire State Superintendent
OF Public Instruction ia doing good work in organic
ing associations OF town Superintendents In every
county.
The Harvard authorities have elected Messrs.
John Gray, Henry j. Bigelow and Thomas g. Appleton
Masters OF the OF Fine Arts for one year. from
March !, 1874.
Of the IA colleges represented at the
Hartford Intercollegiate Convention II have Joined the
association formed. The two Others are consider
ing the question.
The Madison, Wis, Board of Education has
very sensbly arranged course OF easy pleasant anu
varied oral instruction TOT Lue bplluH oosS"h VI
schoosthe reason being that large numbers OF small
children will enter school for first tune with this
session.
Judge Perkins, in the Superior Court at In
dpapos has decided that coored children are entitled
TO admission to white schools when no provision Is
made for their education in separate schools suos'an
daily equal in which educational advantages are pro-
| vided for them by the State.
| The trustees of Chicago University report
that sol O54 or In good 10 per cent interest
bearing obligations could be added TO the present avail
able resources of the University all its bonded and hoa
ing debt including it's indebtedness to the Greek Fund,
eoud be provided for paid discharged altogether
Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps is the lecturer
ON Representative Modern Fiction" in Boston Uniyer-
sy; the lecturers and Instructors in music are Tou1ee
rrahn and Wuf Fries special part OF tho theoogi-
cal school course is talks" in which distinguished cler
gymen of all denominations give the students their ex-
| perience.
| The Philadelphia Age objects to instruction
in drawing the comnOn schools, saying that III any
| one wants his child children 10 take lessons In
branch entirely foreign 10 tho common school currcu
um drawing Is let him pay for suel Instruction out
of mis- own pocket not have paid for him out OF other
! peoples pockets"
The Catholic Bishop McQuaid of Western
New-York a speech on the religious question
in the public schools, made the declaration liable TO
very dangerous Interpretation, that this question
must come into politics II would obtain our constitu
onal rights. When the question il finally settled it
will be upon principle OF equal rights and privileges
| TO ALL"
An interesting decision as to the relation of
the school funds city to the other funds recognized
| ~ law has been made iu Toledo. According TO the
holding OF the Court city funds only those raised by
or under the control OF the city government as
municipal corpora and school funds raised by and
uuder the control OF the Board of Education are en-
| trely distinct aud in no sense city funds.
The Maine State Superintendent reports that
there has been great lack OF general interest among
teachers educators, aud school officers in the educa
onal conventions associations, and that 1t ia not at
all surprising tha but little professional enthusiasm 10
felt by class OF educational workmen school com
mittees supervisory who receive 30 little remuncra
ton for their services.
1t is a pleasure to mention the admirable
school system OF BnghamtOu, N. Y. II is fashioned
somewhat alter Kindergarten method, and consists
In making as the basis of Instruction. first complete
thought and then a complete the expression
OF that thought. IL ignores entirely the old Z
method by which several years OF laborous application
are consumed in enabling child TO read short and
easily pronounced words. This method famariz}s the
child at once not only with all the common words bat
also With whole sentences aud the proper manner OF
forming them.
The Ontario School of Agriculture at Guelph
will be opened Tue terms are, The Toronto
GLOBE free board and tuition with the prospect Of so in
money at tho close OF the year. should satisfactory
progress be made. The conditions prescribed GER
tanly easy could well be desired, being those on
which scholars pass up from, common TO high school
Applications to be made to Principal McCandess di
rect accompanied by certificates OF moral character
70, ho,r nd educational standing. Candidates vino
eOpnot present certideae. froa high seh2oL college,
pormd school or county board will DC examined as to
,beir knowledge Of the several branches
The Raleigh Ners charges that the Repub-
lcan party into power IN North Carolina making
all sorts OF promises OF good general and education IN
particular, and that it did nothing but bankrupt the
state and squande the school fund IN the process OF SO
doing The yees adds that "a
Legislature was elected and 1t has reduced the taxes
the people and the expenses OF the State Government In
every proper and possible way and made as liberal pro-
vision for the instruction OF children TIE effect OF
Radical extravaganza would allow them"
The Legislature of New-Jersey has made
COMPULSORY education n law in that State. This
measure must beneficial, for the attendance at the
schools, public and private. has been small In pro-
| portion to the population. The superintendent
of Education reported last year that OF the total
number Of children OF school age in the Stae-29l4s-
only IS47l9 were being educated. The newspapers i'm
mediately began the movement for compulsory
education and chief among them The He,c Jersey
ReDubytcan OF Hackensack, whose editor, Mr. A. Il.
Johnson sent Constitutional Convention forcible
letter In favor OF the legal prevention OF iteracy
the best educational service to the State.
The gentleman at the head of Norwood
school, Nelson County Virginia. has peculiar ideas Of
discipline In letter to The Lexington da-eue he tells
this story "Not long two OF boys OF size
and age called upon to settle dlicalty between