The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-20

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The Kansas Agricultural College has ten
Geographic instruments, and twenty-five
cases of type, and these have prove to be
the most popular industrial accompani-
ments of the institution with the students.
At Wesleyan University all students
who receive eighty-eight marks out of
maximum of one hundred now take first
honors, and all who receive eighty-three
take second honors. Special honors are
given by competitive examination in seve-
raj studies.
The new state normal school of Ne
braska had during the present year 35,
students There are three departments
model, preparatory and normal-and the
students in the normal school practice teach
ing in the model school.
Judge Woodruff of the United States
circuit court and Judge William Il Curtis
of the superior court, have accepted an in
yitation of the Yale faculty to decide the
merits of the prize essays of the senior
class in the law school
The Chicago Teacher is somewhat astray
when it says that it notices that the school
reports from cities west of Chicago are lar
more practical and instructive than those
which come from the East Even the
most Jealous scctionaist ought to be able
to acknowledge the value of the Massachu-
sets experiments and the report OF their
results.
TWenty-siy professors holding various
chairs in the universities of St. Andrews,
GLASGOW, Aberdeen. and Edinburgh, have
addressed to Mr.. Disraeli a memorial urg-
ing him, as the head of Her Maicsty's gov
eminent. 10 take the whole subject of the
university education of women into con-
sdcration. with a view to the removal of
existing disabilities.
The Hon. George i. loriug. President
oi The Massachusetts Senate, givcs the ora
ton before the literary societies at Dart
mouth this year. Prof VIM. Everett of
Cambridge, gives the poem. and there will
be an culogy of Mr. Chase by the Hon.
VIM VI. Evars. The address before the
theological society will hc by the Rev.
VIM, H. Wright of Boston There are
siXiy-tour of the graduating class.
The present growing tendency in cduca-
ton Is apparent in these sentences from the
Milwaukee high school committees last an
nual report The changes effected in the
scientific department have been productive
Of results that have afforded great satisfac-
ton TO your committee. The object was
to introduce the study of the things covered
by the sciences. and not merely the books
which treat of them.
The Cnioa ami lmelical,. also of Nash
Vile. says that if the movement should
meet with success. so iav from having
mixed public schools, the race most inte-
rested would have none at all. Itmust not
be forgotten by the colorcd people that
these schools arc supported by taxation,
nearly all of which is levied upon the prop.
crly Of the white population.
The quadrennial address Of the Bishops
of the Southern VI. L, church to the late
General conference contained this state.
nNnt; ave 10 not hesitate to avow that
we regard the education of the young as
one of the leading functions of the church
and that she cannot abdiCatc in favor of the
state without intidelity 10 her trust and IT,
rcparable damage to society The reasons
/ for occupying this ground which inhere in
/ the very nature Of this interest, and in the
| relation of children to the church, all are
4 intensified by the antagonisms of modern
/ science, and the outcasiing of the religious
! element from all the school systems fos
tered by state legislation.
The Boston .Adr0t,sD thinks that tho
law prohibiting ''hazing' in the govern
ment schools will not do much good unless
the members of Congress give their ward,
10 understand when appointed that they
need expect no favor if convicted of tn,
fault. 1t also says that at is not likely
that any law of Congress will deprive Tho
secretary of war or the President of dis
erection in the matter of rcinstating dis
missed students, and it always has been ant
is likely to be Il comparatively easy thinl
to bring to bear sufficient influence to con
troll their action = and it adds, 'thc an
thOrites in immediate control of thes,
schools have now all the power that is ne
cessary if they only dared to exercise it.
Speaking of the declarations concernin.
the co-cducaiiOn of the races made at tn
recent colored convention at Nashville. tn,
Banner of that city says that it conscien
tiously believes that ''thc negroes as a mas
do not desire to press the question of nike
schools, and it would perhaps be injustice
to hold them entirely responsible for
former declaration which, it thinks, wa
inspired by some politician whose face i
whittier than his conscience.
THE SCIENCE OF EDUCATION.
The science of education, to-day. i
where the science of Geology was fit,
years ago. We are Just beginning to thinl
of it as Il science. Men and women ar
waking up TO its demands. Children, will
their infinite variety of organizations, TEN
perauents and ldiosyncrases, can no NOR,
be educated at random than plants
gathered from the four quarters of tn
earth, can be perfected through the sam
culture, and in the same climate and soil
Each child in the great crowd that gather
in our schools is in some respects like
particular musical instrument, designed b.,
God in its complicated mechanism to per
form its particular part, to yield its Owl
particular tone III the diapason OF life; an
| shudder when | think how rudely it i
often played upon hy untaugh. teachers
teachers who have drlfted to their work
or rcsOrtcd to il rs IL temporary Occupa
ton for its profits, but who have nevc
thought of studying its principles as ply
sicians, lawyers, artists study the prlnci
pies of their professions. Played upon b,
the unskillful hands OF those who hay
never troubled themselves to study th
physical, much less the psychic, delcac
of this wonderful human instrument, tn
only wonder is that society should yie
the harm0nics it does No, Women nee
to think more, not less; to increase, not di
minsh, brain work; to oyer-llve the drude
cry Of it, whether it involve teaching, wr
ting, study, the work of Il profession O
house work, by breathing into it the liy
{ ing spirit of love, which sanctifes and Ell
mobiles what whatever the hands or til
brain find TO do /. II. Stone. in "Edu
cation of American Girls"
The school board of Philadelphia ha
forbidden the pupils of the public school
to take home their books which means
no study out of school.
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The EOCa:ion OF the Recent FIoot
Williamsburg, the principal scene Of tn
great disaster in Massachusetts Is
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