New-York tribune., 1874-03-12
TOTES ON EDUCATION.

determination not to at Saratoga and VIII u' o
Decorum and etiquette are to be taught ny
srrofessor in the st. Paul schools
Hve students have just graduated at 'ne
mt annual Commencement Of the Boston oh''e'S''
II sLool of Medicine.
The Detroit Board of Education has resolved
% npply 20 the War Department for an oicer 10 eao
military tactics, &c in the High sonoo Oh '""' ''
ia intimated that Mr.. Solicitor Heay Oh
Boston does not propose to rersct:h's iorner op"V"
regarding the eligibility OF women for positions on the
School Committee
hill prohibiting any change in the text
,ots osed I'm the public schools for period of FIVE
vea,s from the 1st OF January next has passed the
Missouri lower House
Young lady graduate Of the Medical De-
.stue nj of Iowa University has the first priIe TOT
The hest performed dissection in Surgical Anatomy from
class consisting Of "a young men and one o'hei young
The following have been selected as editors
of TAs YaIe for the ensuing year: Glass OF TO-
Furepe Boufou Robert ID. Townsend. Joseph ii. Griffin
Rdsard l. White, s s. s. Glass OF &c: Frederick W.
panghorn, Charles Il. lockwood S s s. Glass OF '17
John f. KeatoH.
AT a recent meeting Of the directors of the
Iavine Theological Seminary, the Rev Dr. Nathan L.
Roe President Of Westminster College, Fulton NO.
VA chosen Professor OF Ddactic Theology and the Rev
l.. J. Halsfy Ol tDlCaEo, ll- Was Sb"seH b'"''''
Of Church Government and Pastoral Theology.
The Chancellor Of Georgia University speaks
thus of the desire he witnessed III the peo
ME about Dahlonega: "They felt its necessity Ike
Ilysca want and talked about 1t as though IT were
susaiion in their blood well sentiment 10 Their
hearts wish that all Georgia had the divine fire OF
tbeT feelings
Tke London Graphic reports that out OF the
JtL men vino have recently attained mathematical
louos at Cambridge and the % who distinguished them
,syes the Law and History Trpos there were 46 boat
,us eu 10 cricketers 10 tbaI players and Is who
ssvoed themselves to athletics proper, and some Of
proficient in more than one ofthese pastimes
The trustees of the Cincinnati College have
resolved while continuing the!facnty ofSaw to organ
faculty OF philosophy, 10 consist OF two lecture
.hps: he called the Lectureshp OF Christian
PHILOSOPHY. and the second the Lectnreshp of Christian
Jurisprudence embrace all those topics of philoSo-
INV OF jurisprudence. OF legislation, and economy,
which are connected with the fundamental principles OF
sv.lned society
President White of Cornell says that he
tuows Of but one single instance lamoug the young
des At the University Of inability to keep well up with
the class He observes that as a rule they average
shout ten per cent better the examination papers
do the young that they have raised the aver
lge Of conscience and manuess and deceney more than
,et per cent aud that the young woman who took
degree the last Commencement stood easily among
Tie fret fifteen in a class of hundred.
There was filed last week in the Recorders
Cne at Washington certificate OF incorporation OF the
National Industrial Institute, where VIII be received from
parts Of the United States pupils for the higher depart
Of education, where they sustain themselves
w their labor in model workshops and model farm to
Dc provided and where they be htted teachers
The oOrpOraOrs mentioned are Joseph L. smith, John
Brainerd, John Hitz II. Rush Roberts, William II.
Fsrquahsr and c. L. Prentiss
An inter collegiate contest resulting success
fully has lust been held at Knox College, Galenurg IL
The colleges engaged in the contest were Chicago Un
yeTsiy, the Industrial University OF Champaign, Mon
mouth and Bcloit COLLEGES and Iowa State University
sud Grune College. Each Of these institutions sent an
orator 10 the expense Of the Adelph Society to
for the first and second prizes OF SOJ and S6
ALEC offered by the Society. Knox took part in the
contest Mr,T. +. Egbert of Chicago University took
Tia fret prize and MI g. l. Foster Of Belot the second
The Committee on Education in the Ohio
Constitutional Convention unanimously reported ad
diion 20 The Education Article Of the Constitution pro
ydng that women over q years OF shall be cci
ne any Office under the school laws Of this state"
But iOuI OF Of the Committee also suggested
nsoiber addition, which by any we'll
The fcur proposed the power OF taxation conferred
~ this section shall be limited a sum sufficient
educate all the children Of the STATE in such common
and necessary branches oi learning sna he provided
lJ law" The purpose Of tins proposition is 10 abolish
tne high Schools thus limiting the children 10 nsruc-
ton chiefly IL the three Rs.
At a late meeting of the Chemnc County. !
y Teachers Association, one OF the speakers sGg-
trtcd that every school take newspaper. from which
tne teacher could select something interesting and i'll
srucve 10 be read each dav, children could
during recess, a.. AL places mentioned in the
paper to De looked aud something sail concerning
10 ia them In the chniIeu's minds. The paper
would not only aid IN teaching geography. but history
Mos OF pI Ina
in the schools is slow and unsatisfactory
Tie for this largely attributable the low
wages paid. Teachers who sufficiently Intelligent
and earnest to make themselves really useful III Tie
school barred out They have to tarn their attention
10 more remdneratve employment.
In a recent lecture. Prof Walter H.. Smith |
a. Boston ,aid that the Of accuracy IN children
should be OF lie considered n more |
desuable that they should be dun and stupid FIRST
that their process Of education might be more gradual
and thorough. rapid development should be checked
rather Than encouraged. One plan Of instruction which
followed with was course OF study Of lines
aud FORMS and requiring the pupHs draw from de-
,cfiption and dictat.On. simple forms and objects |
should be selected first, aud when the pupils suni
GENTLY advanced more difficult and complex forms
could he substituted each step being gradual that
Iereepuble Improvement il shown at the tImc, but
which when looked upon aferward, will denote rapid
progress. This plan, he said. perfect attention
the psrt OF the pupil, aud developed aUsorbn.
interest in the work.
In connection with the Introduction into the
Pennsylvania Assembly last week of "a bill providing
for abstraction in drawing in the pnbhc schools, The
Philadelphia Chronicle says: "Such instruction IN
drawing a. s usually in good private schools
D. utterly useless, and than useless aud we should
o. sorry to see the same nonsense prevailing in all the
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