New-York tribune., 1874-11-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

= The Normal School at Brockport, N. T., has
600 students.
There are 191 students this term in the
Maine State College.
The total number of persons under 12 or 2l
years OF ace in Chicago unable TO read and write is
only 1ss.
There are three ladies in the class of 'Io at
syracuse University six IN the class OF 7e nve IN tDa'
of Vt, aud fve in the class OF 49,
As soon as some necessary repairs ana alter
ations are made the schcoiship jamestown IL VIII
begin Its work IN the harbor Of San Francisco.
The proposed change in Chicago High School
management bv which the pupil would study at homo
and only rece the school building has been defeated
IN the Board Of Education.
In 1873, 3S,S75 persons were preparing for col
lege of whom 2e6s in the public high schools
io745 in academies and 2l65 in the preparatory
departments OF the colleges themselves
The whole number of students ut Yale is
io3l theological department are 1o3 in the Law
department, IS; Medical department 80; ana tue DC
partment of Philosophy and the Arts has S6s
The State of West Virginia will distribute
th,s school wear TO the schools OF counties the sum
NJ s21479l s2 The counties will perhaps expend double
as much more Compulsory education, however, Is SAID
90 be needed there.
The Rev. DR.. Moss has been formally in
sueurated as President OF Chicago University. The
Alumni Association has undertaken to establish an
endowment fund OF at least $4,000 by July 1876 Su0-
scrptions to the amount of soOo have already been
received.
The free evening drawing schools in Boston
opened on Monday. Manufacturers contributing to
these schools necessary objects valves holdings,
woodcarvings. screws. bolts casts, pieces of pottery,
patterns of wall papers and carpets and various details
Of machinery.
The Manual Labor School for poor children
which is TO be maintained In Albemarle County, Wiz
gina. be established as soon as the buildings can
prepared. The fund of this school Is over sSOoVO
and was devoted 10 purpose by will OF the donor
aMr. Miller.
The educational monthly journals seem
fesher and better than they used TO be- Perhaps the
fact unconneoted with their free appropriation OF
news from the educational department Of The TRIBUNE
1t would be in better TASTE however IL they credited
their borrowings
At the time of DR.. Francis E. Ansties death
The British Medical Journal notes that he was actively
engaged the Dean and colecurer on Medicine in the
new School OF Medicine for Women IN London in fur
therug woman's thorough medical education at an
establishment fitted the same plan as the great me-
trOpoitan schools.
The Senior Glass Of Dartmouth College has
received Offer OF two prizes OF $50 and $50 for the
best and second best essay topics named by the
donor f. Hubbard OF Sacramento. The subjects for
this year are Intellectual Culture and Professional
Reward" and The Rights OF Independent Criticism"
the competitors TO take which thy please.
The whole number of students now en-
rolled in tue University OF California at Buckley, is
s2s OF these 81 are young ladies. The University
opened six years with 40 students. The Regents
have selected six OF the graduates OF the last to be
assistants In various departments. Hon s. Field, LIZ
d. Is to give a course Of lectures law before the
90 I~pHva ayf Nav
Prot. Edward R Sill fills the chair of English Litera
The Connecticut School Journal urges teachers
pass subject before 1t is thoroughly un-
derstood 1t says:
"The plea L know II, but cannot explain It,, should
never be accepted satisfactory A person who thor
oughly understands a thing can explain IT, Analogous
10 TINS s the necessity of having pupils understand the
definitions OF the rules and words they use In short.
each point should be thoroughly mastered before 1t Is
left to proceed to another This may necesstate slow
progress, but the advancement will be real and not
merely apparent"
The project of a National University at Wash
ington does receive the appreciation of The San
Francisco Chroncle. This paper not unwisey says:
The proposed institotion would. from the necessities
OF the case be under ana S could
petenoy Of average Congress 70 manage wisely O
extent fron the Of art which have been
selected adorn the Capitol The University would be
affected by every great political change; the students
and professors would be subjected many disturb
Ing Influences in such an atmosphere that of Wash
tDgton.
Commissioner of Education Chang Lai Sun |
thinks that feminine education in China is not poor
o. II might be. lie says
Chinese women read and write and when hus-
band wishes do anything he consults with his wife,
and when the comes home, Though he may be |
Prime Minister. he shows his respect 10 his mother by
bending his knee. l claim that the Chinese institutions
and system Of education. both with regard men and
women far superior to those Of any OF the neghbor
Ing nations Tor great many centuries ard that II is
defeated by many reverses III her arms, turned
90 foreign cOuury-lo the United states-for example
aud instruction.
In the course of an article advising tech
ncal education The Portland Press mentions the
deayor OF Boston publishing house to employ Ameri-
can workmen upou series Of belotype copies OF
engrayings They began with these native workmen, |
and found they would make failure of their under
taking unless they secured workmen having more
artistic skill They now employ In that branch alone
forty or fifty men, ell OF whom except two travelling
salesmen foreigners from different countries Of
Europe, and with whom they obliged to converse
through interpreters Tue smallest salaries paid to
the two travelling salesmen.
The Macon (Ga) Telegraph says that in its
opinion lat least half the young girls OF Intelligent fam
fly are seriously not fatally injured these times by
excessive demands Of teachers and studies. They
drilled ~ death to OF them. and to others
they are drilled into chronic nervous dsorders-dstOr
tons Of the body malady Of the lungs, or in some
arrangement which clings to them through o" -, ~
of life" Il adds That when young go school rso,a.
lions aud studies aud home ,ssons demand more than
ak hours OF her tune duless she possessed OF
than ordinary ysicai vgor. she is gaining knowledge
ct tie risk OF life and health"
The report of the Commissioners of Education