New-York tribune., 1874-08-27
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

N.
Prof. A. C. Hopkins is to be Superintendent
of Public Instruction In Indiana
Rev. j. B. Helng of Dayton, ONO, mas ac-
oepted the Presidency of Wittenberg Conege
Tn this county over GO per cent OF all the
teachers are women. Chicago employs % per cent oi
feminine teachers.
Two sessions a day are to be held in the
Louisville schools the first from $3.50 O. H. TO IL ociocs
the second from 1880 toi o'clock p. m.
The cornerstone of the new building OF
Hillsdae College was formally laid last week. senator
Chandler marked the occasion by glft OF Nooo'
The proper legal authorities have decidea
that University, at Evanston i' ""s'
be taxed-that institution having appeaied ior
ton from taxation.
The schedule of teachers salaries In San
Francisco for 1894 been altered by the Board OF
Education, most OF the changes auopieu pens Al Va"
direction of increased pay
The Hon. Neil Gilmore, State Superintend-
ent of Instruction New-York that the teacher
should be trained for his profession as man Is tralneu
| for any other trade or profession
| The Northeastern of Chicago holds that 1t
has been established girls get their lessons just
as easily and well boys can do it, and master the
hardest problems mathematics, physics or language
| with equal facility.
| Eighteen institutions for the blind were
represented meeting OF the American Association
of Instructors of the Blind ut Batavia last week VIII
liam Chaplin of the Pennsylvania Institution was elected
| President Of the Association.
II is the opinion of Prof E. E. White, ex-
Superintendent of the Ohio schools that no man Is ut
for position Of teacher "unless his knowledge OF
what he teaches fresh and thorough that he would
be able to teach all the textbooks in the world were
| burned up"
At the Niagara County Teachers Institute
one member advised that teachers should not have too
many classes subject, and that If the pupils
use different kinds OF arthmecs, biographies, or gram
mars they should teach by TOPICS aud thus AVOID an
| unnecessary number of classes.
| President Barringer of the New-Jersey State
Teachers Association that the school never rises IN
physical, moral, or intellectual culture above the
teacher and further that the rage for intellectual cu
ture in the American schooroom is the Moloch into
| whose the children are cast.
The Massachusetts Teacher says: Teachers
too often sight of the noteworthy fact that dull
scholars not to blame for their duness any more
than they are the color Of their hair" And the
writer is upon teachers who show "a marked
partay good scholars and noticeable dislike and
neglect toward those who are dull"
The price offered by the late Hon. Richard
Fletcher of $500 for the best essay on the I'm
portance of High Attachments in the Christian Le mas
been awarded to Rev. Daniel W. Faunce pastor or the
First Baptist Church in the City of Concord NJ H. The
of IL was committed by the Judge In his will to the
Trustees Dartmouth College, the College having been
made his residuary legatee.
Dartmouth has several new teachers, among
them Prof Arthur Hardy who has just returned from
n wears residence study in Europe He taxes the
chair civil engineering in the Scentihc department.
The libraries be united in Reed Hail. uhder 'ne
care OF one librarian with enlarged facilities Tor draw
Tho vhnl
he warmed BY steam The students rooms IN the Copy
Bull dings are also TO be lighted by gas
Tuition in the Massachusetts, Normal School
NJ Worcester is given without fee to those students who
intend to teach public schools of the state Ihose
who are to teach private schools or IN oher states
are required pay $50 year. fee OF " Term III ao
vance Is required of each pupil to meet incdehta e1
penses Candidates will be examined In reading spell
ing pepmanship, geography, arithmetic EDgish gram
mar and history United States, and In order 10 De
| admitted must show good attainments therein.
The Harrisburg Patriot laments that the
Common School resolution" " in the platform OF the
recent Pennsylvania Republican Convention favors
polcy which adopted would destructive to the
school system of the State. II says: III adopted IL
subyerts the whole school system OF Pennsylvanla
which, as its imports, rests on the ideas and pn
cipes of liberty, and changes 1t into compulsory,
despotc system with the State constaouiary running
down all the truant children within the boundaries Of
the Commonwealth"
In the absence of Polytechnic School es
tabshed by the State of Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh
Chronicle holds that such exact sciences usefu
to the business man. artisan aud farmer should be ncor
porated into the plan OF studies in the public schools
II declares that popular treatment of the sciences OF
mathematics states. mechanics. and chemistry, with
some amount of drawing can very well be taught and
that the various mechanical and appliances can
be so interestingly described and explained that no
rightly constituted and earnest boy will turn away from
such instruction.
1t is DR.. Sears, it is reported, who says in
The Aaantic ITO form correct general estimate OF
the state education at the South it Will be necessary
to keep steadily In view the TACT that wne popular sen
preponderance is slight that II wonid require but
the peope are friendly to free schools About third
are ut heart, decidedly opposed to them The re-
anepeed and Governed by the dominant party Tue
first class now in the ascendency They owe their
prsing Character They are hopeful energetic
and progressive portion of the community.
Mr.. N. G. Stebbins, late principal of the
Springfield High School, has theory that In both pub
lie and private education the individuality OF the pupil
is overlooked and that all personal pecuiarties rig
idly repressed. He would such repression and
bring out the individual But this loss Of individuality
is inevitable IN public schools he thinks and can
be modified only ittle according to the originality,
tact and real educating genius Of the teacher II the
idea successfully practiced anywhere 1t must be in
private school. small public school, large school
with an uncommon number Of uncommon teachers.
The whole number Of applicants for admis-
sion to Indiana State University during the past year
400 The educational system In Indiana has been
that the student pass without nterrup
ton or delay through all the grades from the Primary
through the intermediate High School, Collegiate. and
University courses Of instruction The minimum stand