Omaha daily bee., 1874-01-02
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

Sixty-fve per cent of the male
population in Spain neither read mol
write.
The Cincinnati Wesleyan College
delights in the attendance of Ice
young ladies.
The girls in Boston's High School
are to be taught photography, per-
haps to impress upon their minds
the grammatical rule that two nega-
tives do not always make an afirma.
tive.
1t is probable that an an evening
art school for the benefit of mechan>
les who could therein receive in.
struction in their own branches OF
business will be established at Pitts
burg, Pa.
The total number of pupils en-
rolled in the public schools Of Ten.
nessee is 178,076. Of this number
24,325 are colored. There are $50
schools in the State now organized,
and 542 colored teachers are en-
ployed.
1t Is said tbst the kindergarten
system in the st. Louis schools, al
though introduced but a short time
ago, is now in full operation and pro-
ducing excellent results. 1t shows
all the benefits claimed for it, and
develops particularly the two widely
different activities--the mathemati.
cal and the productive.
The British Government has ap-
pointed Miss Pogson, the Oldest
daughter Of the Government astron-
omer of Madras, to be assistant az.
tronomer at the Government Observ,
atory. Under the instruction o.
such a teacher how delightful t.
take observations of Venus, and how
intoxicating would become the con
tents Of the clipper"
DR.. Sears, agent Of the Peabody
School Fund, says that an intelligent
citizen of Raleigh, N. c., lately tolt
him that they had not a publ,
school in that city, but they had JUS
paid out $4,000 OH account of a few
criminals which fact sustains in {
measure his assertion that it cost.
more to maintain the people in ig
n0rance than it does to maintain {
system Of public schools.
A writer in the Meriden (Ct.) Re
publican says that "more than one
half of the teachers of the State have
been spending their time for year,
upon photography, reading and ar
ithmetic, living and moving and hav'
ing their intellectual being, as teach
srs. in the spelling.book, the primer
and reader r, and the rudiments Of
numbers and calculation, until the
minds of both pupils and teachers
slip over their smooth, familiar pages
almost without a CLEAN of conscious
thought or intelligence, and this
state Of things has come to be &C.
cepted and acquiesced in by the com.
munity, in a helpless kind Of way, as
a sort of dreary necessity from which
there is no escape, and the average
teacher, just like the average work
man in every other pursuit, will earn
her wages as easily as she can, doing
| no more and no better work than il
required by the obligations nomina'
ted in the bonds. The teachers are
| not so much to blame as the system
under which they teach. They are
not dead, but sleeping; they lack not
capacity, but opportunity not abili'
ty and willingness to advance, but
the obligation and necessity OF adj
vancing."
II appears that Harvard was not
the tirss American college to reject a
woman as student, Lucinda Foote,
daughter of the Rev. John Foo to, Of
Cheshire, Conn.,, was q fine Greek
and Hebrew scholar, and at the age
of twelve was fitted for Yale College,
as appears by the following copy OF a
translation Of a certificate in Latin,
given to her by President Stiles, upon
parchment, and also inserted by him
In his diary, on the same date, upon
the occasion of her passing her ex-
animation for admission TO Yale Col
lege: ,,
7SThe President Of Yale College, to
all to whom these presents shall
concentrating Be 1t known to
YOU that l have examined Miss
Lucinda Foote, ~ years old, and
have found that in the learned Ian
guages-- the Latin and the Greek