New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-09-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Fifteen recent graduates OF Hamilton Noi-
lege have become teachers.
DIR. Locke was last week inaugurated as
President of McKendree College.
The Theological Institute of Connecticut has
@ senior class Of seven this term.
The cost per scholar on total expenditures
IN the Richmond, Va, public schools is SIC os
The whole number of students in the regular
collegiate department OF Amherst is now $50.
Feminine students are to be admitted to the
medical department OF California University.
Eleven graduates of Yale Divinity School,
whose average was SO years have died during the past
year.
Mr.. John E. Smith, formerly of Andover
Seminary has taken chair OF Latin In Atlanta Uni
versty.
1t is estimated that the new High School
building at Albany will about sl2OOOo furnishing
included.
A full corps of instructors has been ap-
pointed in Colorado College, which opened Sept win
q freshman class of 16.
DIR. VIM. B. Davis has taken the Chair OF
Materia Medica in Miami Medical College in place OF
Prof. Edwin B. Stevens, resigned.
Prof. T. d. Biscoe, once tutor and walker
,ns,ructor Of mathematics at Amherst, has become
Professor of Natural Science in Marietta College,
II is said that the freshman class at VIII
hams this term which has 60 members, is the largest
entering class that college has had for several years.
The Porter prize, the examination for which
was held at Amherst last Saturday. was awarded TO
George W. stearns Of Boston. who was prepared az An
dover.
It il denied that Yale has given but three
degrees of d. D. from 1868 TO 1873 nciu
sive the College, are told, conferred u doctoaes
law and nine dOctorates OF divinity.
The Dartmouth College library now contains
abont 900 volumes. Military dril has been dropped
at Dartmouth this term and the arms and equipments
furnished by the State are to be returned.
President Warren of Boston University in
forms us that class in sanscrt and another in Anglo
Saxon are about to be organized in that University and
that both are free to students in department OF tue
institution.
Students of Cornell University not holding
State scholarships aud not in the Agricultural depart
ment will hereafter pay tuition fee of OF $40 per term
Instead OF SIS as heretofore Tuition is free IN the agr
cultural school.
At Cornell University this term las apph-
cants we're admitted the Freshman class. Twelve
new students were admitted the upper classes Prof
Goodwin Smith has begun his lectures. President
Whites lectures will follow those Of Prof. Smith.
Tufts College admitted 80 new students at
the beginning OF the to the different departments
Prof Doiback has elected to the Chair Of Higher
Mathematics, and Prof Benjamin Brown, who has long
held this position will heneeOrtn fill the Chair Of Pure
Mathematics.
The WILMINGTON Commercial declares that the
Civil Rights BILL with its provision for mixed schools, is
repugnant TO fourhths OF the people; and, further,
that IL had passed the President had vetoed it,
that action would have put him in command Of the po-
ltica situation.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says: owe are in
favor Of instuting National bureau of education with
some settled authority. We want National school
system-a complete, comprehensive plan that shall
reach everywhere" And it pleads: Let us no longer
stand appalled, at the bugbear Of Capitalization"
The Maryland institution, hitherto known as
Calvert College, lately been changed in form, and
now under the name OF NewWndsor College, contains,
with all its proper appointments ladies' seminary
and also an academy training school, classical and
mathematical. Tie President is the Rev. L. b. W.
shryock
The lady Superintendent of the Peoria
schools has just made her first annuaareport III which
sbe rather unnecessarily takes brief survey of the
American public school system. Excepting this dgres-
SION aud little irrelevant enthusiasm, the report CON-
pares favorably with other similar documents the
school population enrolled in Peoria amounts to s2S
Wittenburg College refuses to admit colored
students. and The Springfield (Ol Republic says that
reserving TO the College all its rights the premises.
we believe 1t would have added TO its efficiency and use
fulness had it made distinction in this matter The
educational institutions which do not now admit the col
ored student are rare exceptions Our proudest col
leges with Yale az head welcomes him. and the only
distinction that there recognized is that of ability"
1t is the suggestion of The Nelc- York School
Journal that the larger universities should afford oppor-
tuntes for the learning and rehearsng Of the ancient
drama and that instruction should be given in the per-
forming Of legitimate English tragedy and comedy as
also the best facilities for dramatic composition for
those who desire such advantages The Journal holds
that by these classical scholarship, oratorieal
eoquence and dramatic reform would all be advanced
The new Scholarship st. Mary's, which is TO
be stationed New York harbor has been sent TO Bos-
ton 20 be reted and will return receive scholars
about Nov. will furnish comfortable quarters for
about 200 pupils san Francisco 10 have the James
town for school purposes, Philadelphia viii probably
have the Saratoga and The Boston TrdUeler suggests
that the Athens should ask for the only ship of
the kind left available In the navy-the sloopof-war
Portsmouth.
The teaching of teachers is considered by q
writer in The Fortatghay RsrieH which writer suggests
that every university In England should have chair Of
Education aud educational leetureshp, aud Expert
mental School. 1t would be the work of such depart
ment TO investigate and expound all parts of sciences
relating education, TO show the best application OF
the true principles OF education to crcise methods aud
system and provide for exhaustive study OF educa
tional science. both practical and theoretical.
The School Superintendent of Utica says
"No erroneous ana harmful idea can prevail In
respect the management OF schools than that good
degree OF education is not absolutely necessary for
competent teacher Yet as ndisputable as the ahrma
of such question would appear 10 those acquainted
with teachers duties, there those who insist that
teachers education matter OF secondary i'm portance
Teachers who from the deficiency Of their own educa-
ton unable 10 make clear and accurate Impressions
essential object