New-York tribune., 1874-06-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

ter comes July l. -. -..--.- .-..- ~ -.-. ..,.. 49,.
Class of IA at Yale expects TO graduate 123
men, It has had in all lsa members.
The cornerstone of the new Hamiine UNI
yers,ty. in Minnesota, was laid last week.
Eighteen young lawyers were graduated last
week OF the University OF Maryland.
The Rev. Thomas yermilye, d. d.. gives an
address at Wells College Couimencemen' 'Di' y'ar
The proposed Industrial College OF LOUIS
vile is to be established Professionally and at once III
that city. . n.f..
Reports from Swarthmore College confirm
former concerning the success OF It's
ment 10 cOeduCation. can , .. rl
The Exhibition of Drawings by the State
Normal Art School Of Massachusetts Is SAID " DO Oh VIC
whole good and encouraging.
Bostonians complain that the School Com
mittee has grown unwieldy for Its WORK IL nas
about 130 members. says The 0dSe0e'
The "Elmira Female College" will begin
the lecture method Of instruction next year. "in no'
however, drive out textbooks altogether.
At present the utmost capacity OF the Dre"
Theological Seminary for the accommodation OF students
has been reached 50 that candidates have mad 10 oe
turned away.
The funds of the Indiana Agricultural Col
leee known as Perdue University" have amounted 10
100000 OF have been spent on improve
ments and 10000 in purchasing land.
Economy can no further 60. A lax.
payers and School Directors Convention" was cieu
last week In Clinton County, Ill., for the purpose oi con
siderng and reducing the salaries OF teachersi
The new hospital building of the Pennsylva-
MIA University formally inaugurated last week IL
has cost 800 Ooo and accommodations for lo pa
adj
wings erected.
Commencement at Princeton occurs Wedhes-
dav lime a. The oraon before the literary societies
will be given on the 23d by the Rev. Meancthon W.
Jacobus d. d. LIZ d. The Junior orations VIII also DC
given on that day, and the meeting OF the Alumni AsSo
citation will be held in the afternoon.
At the commencement Of Westbrooke Semi
nary ane the other day, the orator OF the occasion
SAID that seshness educated is the great need OF the
nation at this time that Progress Is most certain anu
liberty most secure when the sehshness Vi all Is most
ready TO assert itself.
Two professors have been appointed to Gin
cnnati University, follows: Professor OF Ancient
Languages and Comparative Phlology I. d. Allen now
Tutor and acting Professor Of Ancient Languages IN
Harvard University; Professor OF Mathematics aud
Astronomy. H. T. Eddy, now Assistant Professor OF
Mathematics in Princeton. j.
and almost criminal that in going beyond our means Tor
the thorough education OF boys, not dime has been
from the public fund for the same educa
on Of girls The free schools in many parts OF tue
state have caused private schools wholly to disappear
and tho daughters of farmers have no access to
higher education than reading and writing"
These remarks were made by Mr.. A. Bronson
Acott at Massachusetts, teachers convention the other
day: Matter is the foundation of experiment because
we know more about matter than mind and perhaps we
know as little about matter do mind for 1t takes
mind know matter. Should we not, therefore, DeSh
| with the study Of the mind and soui
A gentle snub is administered to Catholic
disputants by The ST. Louis Democrat 1t declares that
may be filed with more OF the Writings
of Protestants than OF Catholics bat If they are the
reason is simply that the best OF English writer's are
Proesant, and that in selecting reading lessons fol
American children most is naturally taken TO
| choose such as are models of English style"
The Richmond Enquirer says that =" the mid
die classes that section" will not submit TO the Civil
Rights bill. "They cannot be compelled to send their
children to the schools with negro children; and
they will not send them TO such schools The Memphis
Aopenl declares that evident the public school
sys,ems of the Southern States cannot survive the en-
actment OF this BILL"
Now is the time of Alumni meetings. Among
those coming soon is that OF the Alumni Association OF
the Connecticut Literary Institution, to be held at Suf
field June 80. Mr. Isaac H. Bromley will be orator, and
Prof W. c. wilkinson poet of the occasion The Alumni
of the University Of Virginia will be addressed July
by the Hon. j. ii. Kennard Of New-Orcans, and the
Hamilton College Alumni will listen July to the Rev
VIM f. Knox, ID. d., of Elmira
The semi-centennial and commencement
exercises at Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute will be
held next week. Tue list OF ceremonies promises many
into .ttnD Them an r
Henry Sedey Of this city graduate Of the excellent
obi institution Tue usefulness OF this school Of practi-
cal civil engineering has than justified the endow
ment by the good patroon'Van Rensselaer,, and II de-
hearty congratuatOn upon its semicentennal.
The University of Modern Languages T"
which il is proposed to establish at Newburypor Mass
WILL it Is reported, be ready for students by the 1st OF
September next The Boston Trdrelter says that the
European aud Asatic departments will have separate
buildings; aud that already Brazilians Cubans, Japa-
nese, Chinese. aud MeX!cans belonging to high families
IN their respec tive countries have made known desire
10 attend this Institution through their proper guar
dams
Mr.. NJ. d. Conway, in speaking of the Lon
don University ConvocatIon, which lately expressed
itself in favor Of opening the degrees women,
"One OF the most remarkable things about the debate
was seriousness and The discussion Of
questions about women among students has not un-
frequently been the occasion for perpetual of ess
roars. But in two debates each lasting hours,
there only two speakers who attempted anything
funny, aud each Of them somehow found it convenient
to be brief"
More Chinese students-30 of them-wil ar
rive here next mouth, their way to school in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut Those who have been study
ing In NewEngand for the past two years all fitting
for higher grades OF schools, and will enter our
scientific schools and colleges they are pre-
pared to do Elijah Laisun, the OF Mr.. Chan
Lrsun Of Springfield. will enter the Sheffield scientific
school and l. ,mue Yung the Troy polytechnic school