New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

a,vland Manual Labor School shows that II made last
yummer over 500 FROM lite tomato crop.
bill providing for the taxation of colored
.ens 10 establish separate education for coored chi
arep has passed the Kentucky Senate The tax is ~
sauts upon each 500 worth of taxable property
The Edward Little Institute of Auburn Me-,
has been presented to the city by the trustees 10 DC
need AZ high school The trustees have also resolved
10 give $4,000 TO Bowdoin College for the foundation OF
Professionally of Moral Philosophy.
DIR. Leibreich, distinguished London sur
seon depOrng the tendency 10 curvature OF the spine
raused by cumsy arranged chairs and desks IN schools
has designed desk and seat, which have been adopted
nv the London School Board 10000 having been Or
dtred
Prof. j. w p. Jencks, the Director of the
Museum OF Natural History at Brown University sailed
lately for Savannah Thence he expects TO penetrate TO
tbe wilderness around Lake Okechobe, in Florida
territory square miles, which, so far as he can
learn, no naturalist has ever yet explored
The whole number of persons enrolled in
she public schools of is returned at 1850 an
increase OF more than the previous The
present number OF schoohOuses in the State is $685.
which sgGregstely vaued at S,4oe,sse The total
OF interest bearing securities Of pubic school
fund lie sl00S,6sl
II is reported that Cornell University is to
have an editorial chair and 10 give diplomas to gradu
stes IN Journalism Everything is to be taught, we are
told setting type writing leaders The prepare
NOp will doubtless be good but IL is 70 be hoped that
none O: these young students will iondly fancy mat
they are step directly from their school 'hO eSPso
Journalism The training Of the newspaper can ne'ei
Nc rendered unnecessary by any college eurrlcuiun'
Young women are received into California
Unyersity the terms with young men anu nave
an equal share in the advantages of the University
yRe majority of them have come for special courses
sore attending but a single class as in modern IAN
Euages botany, English literature, etc Inc numoer VI
special students has diminished since the remo'ai
81 the University from Oakland. In 1928 there were
II young women enrolled in the regular classes thie
year there eight of whom one 10 the senior class
In the freshman class and 1873 two young women
made the highest record OF scholarship Tor the year.
They belonged TO the College of Letters
The Amherst Student says, III relation to the
aeeson OF the Amherst men 10 Saratoga that
they did consider themselves called upon 10 assume
she rek Of permanently damaging the boating interests
10 which they have contributed with so much success
and distinction by putting them under outside CONTROL
and heaping around the regatta expenses, which must
evidently break the weaker colleges in the Asso-
riaton While Harvard may 20 90 Saratoga, she gives
Amherst her moral support. Williams ana Bowdoh
are also at heart her side. Amherst believes that
Der course will ultimately result in the formation OF a
strictly New England Association IL is SAID That let
ters have passed between the principal boating men OF
Amherst and Harvard with view 10 this end
f. E. White, ex-Superintendent of the Ohio
Public Schools, lately said speech about teachers,
that there are more from imperfect scholar
shp than from any other The teacher must have
h thorough and fresh knowledge Of what be teaches.
He should have such thorough knowledge that he
would be able 10 teach If the textbooks were burned
Lack OF preparation is great fault IN American
teachers best teachers have been the hardest stu
cents. Dr. Arnold one OF the most gifted and success
ful Of teachers when asked why he studied so hard,
when he master OF everything he taught, replied
tnst he would rather have his boys drink from clear
than from stsgnant pool Some teachers com
plain OF their falling health, and urge II excuse for
studying Three teachers fan in health for want OF
study where one fails with IT. These pale faces
caused by constant burden, which thorough knOw
e6ge would remove"
The Hon. John Monteith, the Superintendent
Public Instruction in Missouri says respect to
hglon 10 the public schools: " Each year brings
iteration OF the criticism that the public schools
goddess schools; that they loose upon the country
Of inidels, atheists, and criminals Thus far
th criticism stands in assertion. No facts or sta
Gttjcs adduced 20 prove what is alleged. They do
tell whether the Tweeds, ConnOlys and their Tx
attended public or sectarian schools Until the facts
statistics are brought forward the friends Of public
schools may easy, for the burden of proof with
the directors Observation produces in impressions
quite opposite 70 the unsupported criticism referred to-
Year after year the great book OF nature more widely
introduced into the schools revealing through the
agency of smpfed science the unmstakabe proofs of
the being, wisdom, and goodness OF a creating God.
Rspidy is aud inhuman method OF school gov
tmment-the prolific source of crme-yeldng TO the
gentle and refining restraints OF hightoned moral
SOntrOl."
In the report of the Hon. Milton b. Hop
eins the Indiana superintendent of Public Instruction.
be save concerning the changes in the School law of the
eate made by the last Legislature, that among them
the most important Is the abolition of County Exam
lner and the creation stead that of County super
intendent The law devolved the selection of this officer
fha Toy in Trusfa VIII fran relaf
10 the public schools supposed be peculiarly
htted for making selections These appointments
by the OF every county the State
the first Monday OF June last the day designated by
the law. Persons were generally appointed by the
Trustees with exclusive reference their qualifications
and in all such cases the results have been eminenty
satisfactory, and the law itself has been rendered pop
nlar. In few instances however regret TO report
that fealty TO political party, rather than 10 common
schools made the essential qualification for the
pfce. In such counties the law has failed in a great
respond to public expectation The fault in
his is not in the law itself but to the admnistra
IOn OF the law"
The following are among the qualifications
OF public school teacher, detailed by correspond
ent Of The Syracuse Journal:
Have you been thorough your study Of the common
branches, viz: Reading, writing spelling, geography
arithmetic. aud grammar you acquainted to some
at least with the history OF the United States
Are you prepared 10 teach the children something
evil government Are sou prepared 10 teach the chill
dren in the Of commercial paper such business
notes bills, receipts, etc.i Do yO0 re1Ounee the idea
that teaching school consists OF process OF assigning
lessons and hearing rotations Do YOU indorse the
Idea that the school children
and the object OF an education qualify for act
IN fUaaE