New-York tribune., 1874-05-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

feminine student TAXES eh0 'N'N"'''-N -~--
.r. at the Indiana State University TINS year.
Thirty-six young lawyers were graduated
,he other day nom the National University, Washington
A competition between the different schools
Ind,ans has been proposed, and viii probably be car
ned out
Gov. Hendricks will give the address before
.he Literary Societies Of Hanover College Indiana, on
June 10.
Union Academy of Belleville, n Y, will be
10 years old next month and will celebrate that an-
tiQuity June IL and H.
Mr. Clarence King a Yale graduate OF oe'
will address the graduating class OF the seien'''
at the Yale commencement
The annual Convention OF the herman
teachers Of the United states Will be hed al De0 on
The 4tb. bth, and 9th OF August
Commencement at Williams College is ap-
pointed for June 81; at Yale, June %; at Rutgers
June II and at Dartmouth June Is.
The examination of undergraduates at Har-
ward begins May 80 and the examination OF applicants
10 the next Freshman will be held June 25, &C. and
Neophagen College In Tennessee was de-
stroyed by fire May TO- There was no insurance but
movement to rebuild the institution was immediately
begun.
Boston has now high schools, 40 grammar
schools and primary schools. The average number
pupils the past year was 45VO anu Tue 'eacHeis mum
beI l,262.
The Michigan State Public School at Cold
water now receives dependent children, aud VIII IN
rtruct them in such industries will give them use
full place in life.
The Iowa State oratorical contest will be
held at Iowa City on the nrst Thursday OF November,
and 1t said that the successful competitor will be sent
10 the Interstate contest
Measures are being taken among the Will
Nams College Alumnto increase the present funds OF
the college About Will be necessary to carry out
successfully the plans now proposed
Since the 1st of April, Agassz's Museum at
Cambridge had to depend entirely upon its invested
funds for its resources the income being less than $4,000
annually and this being only one half Of the sum needed
10 carry 1t on.
At the Young Ladies' Seminary in Hartford
prizes were recently offered for the best oaves of bread
10 be made by the students Four matrons and the
Professors Chemistry the committee, and seven
young girls won prizes.
The Directors of the proposed Southwest
trn University have chosen Carksvie, Tenn. as its
abiding place. The corporation and citizens offered
hss0O inducement and it was naturally accepted
The institution will he under the special care of the
Presbyterian Church Of the South.
The Catholic Bishop McQuade of Western
New-York says in letter. Now that Catholics
abandoning altogether the State schoosone obstacle
the less in the way Of other regionists in lighting the
battle Of education with the secularists."
The Boston Transcript thinks that if the
schools Of city thorough and effective
they ought TO be the evil is mainly raceabe TO the mis-
celaneous and cumbersome body nominay taking
charge Of them nornnaly, because in the nature of
things they cannot, whole, fulfill their assigned
Office understandlngy and with the needed devotion
At late meeting of the senior and junior
classes at Princeton, ii was formally and unanimously
resolved in reference the intercollegiate literary
test" That any gentleman who electioneers for COM
petitive appointment is known sanction cleo
uoneering in his behalf is hereby rendered unworthy
of our votes"
The Secretary Of the Connecticut State Board
of Education a a resolution
looking 10 q reduction has been introduced
in the Legislature To nothing OF Mr..
NOrhops important services. it seems false economy
make any precedent Of reduction in the already too
email salaries OF competent educational officials
Ingham University, an old and useful school
for girls at lie Roy, n. " has been presented by its
founder to the Presbyterian synod of New-YOIk 10 be
maintained by that organization in pcrpetuity. Its
friends have pledged themselves. II Is reported TO the
creation of endowment fund. the enduring basis
Of which its continued life and usefulness shall be as
sured.
The colored citizens Of the First Congress
tional District of Tennessee held convention recently
and put INTO their platform this resolutions:
Earnestly desiring the elevation OF our race morally,
eOcIay and rehgOusl, and deemlng the educatlOn or
children essential 20 the attainment OF these ends,
favor the present liberal system of tree public schools
IN the state and express gratitude for the liberal
provisions made for the education OF our children
1t is always pleasant to note bit of con-
such this found in The RensSeaer County
IN. " Gazette. IL in the OF advice to those
authorized choose district schooteachers that every
educated person not Of necessity excellent teacher
time that natural aptitude and the ability govern
wisely should be I'd among the first qual1ca
tions teacher, matter how small the school he is
70 conduct.
The Common School, published at Davenport,
Iowa, speaking Of the importance of teachers read
Ing notes the following necessary course OF pro-
fessOu al reading l. Periodicals; 2. Reports and Pro
ceedngs Of Educational Assemblies 3. School books
and Miscellaneous books. Constant study what all
teachers need what many neglect. Larger sal
aries which would give the struggling leisure.
would in a measure do away with this neglect
The coOrcd pastor of Methodist church in
Richmond lately said TO his congregation, before the
passa ge OF the CivIl Rights bill The moment such an
enactment appears the statute books the public
school system in the South will blow that will
death, and power this side OF heaven
dIuse lie into it, dead carcass. Then who will be the
lOsers the blacks or tle whites Ia Virginia there
are 5000 coored children attending the public schools
What will become Of theml"
The subjects selected by the speakers at the
coming Yale unusually estiDg
and apt-wIth OF exception two This the
list The War OF 1860 between the NaTOnes and Druses
Spanish Struggles for Liberty; John Stuart Mill The
skeptiesm of Montague; The Popular Standard of
Honor; Roman Catholicism in America; John Ruskin:
Philosophy of Lord Boingbroke; The Practical Man;
The Influence of William Penn American Repub
ncaDism: Hermann. The English RsyOlutiOn of