New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-05-14
NOTES ON EDUCAIlON'

Tho Senior class at Wesleyan university
numbers 81.
H;nsdale College is to have new buildings
three Hve-story ones
Noar,v 6so applications have been made for
a,sson 10 the school OF Natural History at Penikese'
Prof. E. S. Morse will give the annual lee
,re before the Harvard Natural History Society on the
10th instant
The subscriptions and contributions made to
The proposed college Central Turkey amount thus far
TO s2S,27s S.
All the Canadian cities are speaking first"
n. 10 which shall made the site OF the proposed Mill
tary College.
To be placed on a satisfactory financial basis
tits said that Union College must have, in addition TO
i,s present endowments Of about s276oOo enough to
briag the sum up to $1,ooo,ooo
The technical courses at present established
n, the University OF Pennsylvania in analytical and
applied chemistry and mneraogy; in civil aud meehau-
heal engineering, and In geology and mining.
At Edinburgh the Senatus Academicus has
resolved to petition against Mr.. CowperTemples bill
for the admission Of women to the University while the
Town Council has petitioned in favor OF the bill.
The Kansas Agricultural College has ten
teegraphic instruments and twenty-five cases Of type
and these have proved TO be the most popular indus
al accompaniment OF the institution with the stu
dents
At Wesleyan University all students who re-
reive IS marks out OF maximum OF 100 now take first
honoIs. and all who receive 50 take second honors'
Special honOrs given by competitive examination IN
several studies
The new State Normal School of Nebraska
had during the present year 357 students There are
three departments-mode, preparatory, and normal
and in the normal school practice teaching
IL the model school,
Judge Woodruff Of the United States Circuit
Court and Judge William T. Curtis Of the Superior Court
hive accepted the invitation OF tho Yao faculty to
decide merits of the prize Of the Senior class
IN the Law School
The Chicago Teacher is somewhat astray when
says that notices that the school reports from
CITIES west Of Chicago far more practical and in
structive than those which from the East" Even
the most Jealous seconat ought to be able to acknow
edge the value Of the Massachusetts experiments and
the reports of their results.
Twenty-six professors holding various chairs
IN the Universities OF st. Andrews G gov. Aberdeen.
and Edinburgh have addressed to Mr.. Disrae memo
rial urging him. the head OF Her Mjesty's Govern
ent TO the whole subject OF the university educa
ton of into consideration, With view TO the re-
moval OF existing disabilities.
The Hon. George B. Loring, President Of
the Massachusetts Senate gives the loraton before the
Everett Of Cambridge gives the poem, and there will be
n eulogy of Mr.. Chase by the Hon. William NJ. Eyarts
The address before the Theological Society will be by
The Rev. william 3. Wright Of Boston, There e. in
the graduating class.
The present growing tendency in education
Is apparent in these sentences from the Milwaukee High
School Committees last annual report The changes
effected In the scientific department have been pro-
ductive of results that have afforded great satisfaction
10 your committee. The object 10 introduce the
study Of the things covered by the sciences, and not
merely the books which treat of them"
The Quadrennial Address of the Bishops of
Tho Southern NJ E. Church to the late General Confer
ence contained tbs statement we do hesitate to
that regard the education OF the young
leading functions Of the Church. and that she
aOdcae In favor OF thu state without infdehy to
her trust and lrreparabe damage society. The
for occupying this ground which inhere in the very
nature Of tins interest and in the relation of children 20
the Church, all intensned by the antagonisms OF
modern science and the oucaStng OF the religious ele
ent from all tile school fostered by State legis
lati0D."
The Boston Adrertiser thinks that the law
prohibiting hazing" in the Government schools will
not much good unless the members of Congress give
their wards understand when they appointed that
they need expect favor if convicted OF the fault 1t
sys also that al" not likely that any law Of Congress
will deprive the Secretary Of War or the
stating dismissed students, and 10 always has
been and is likely TO be always compare
lively easy thing bring sufficient influence TO
control their action - and it adds, the authorities In
immediate control Of these schools have now all the
power that is necessary, If they only dared TO exer
else IT,"
Speaking of the declarations concern
ing the cOeducation OF the races made at
the recent COlored Convention at Nashville, The
Bdnntr of that city says that it cOnsciontOusly
believes that " the negroes as mass do not de-
sire press question Of mixed schools and it would
perhaps injustice 10 hold them entirely responsible
for formal declaration" which, il thinks. inspired
by some politician whose face Is whittier than his
science
The Union and Anericon also Of Nashville, says
that If the movement should meet with success,
so far from having mixed public schools the
interested would have at all 1t must not be for
gotten by the cOored people that these schools
ported taxation, nearly all OF which is levied upon
the property Of the white population"