Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1874-08-14
EDUCATION Ma.

Tennessee has eight universities and fifty
one colleges Missouri two universities and
thirty-Seven colleges. and the little State of
Maryland two universities and nineteen col
leses. Nor is Pennsylvania an exception,
for She has no less than six universities and
thirty-three colleges.
II. u. McCarty, Superintendent of Public
Instruction of Kansas. states that the school
population Of Kansas had doubled in four
wears that they had now 200, 600 children
OF schoui aye.
BOYS are now received at the Boston Latin
School at nine years old, and the school
course lasts nine years. \ wider and more
comprehensive course of mathematics has
been adopted
\ department Of uood-caryins has been
proftably added to Cincinnati University.
This department has made rapid progress
both in work and numbers. When it closed
last month the class ncmhered 100 During
the last year there We're 32S pupils in the
regular drawing and design department
Bloomington. ILL.,, has young society
called the Woman Educational Association
of Illinois Wesleyan University. Its OBJ
iect i the endowment OF womsn's pro-
ieSSorship in the university and the raising
of 4 fund 20 assist young women who are
striving To educate themselves, especially
such d are intending II become missionaries.
Over Sl0,u 900 have been raised already. The
total sum 10 he collected will he 10000
The St Joseph. Mo. Hrald gives the fol-
lowing in speaking of defective feminine
education in the West young lady Just
graduated hy Western seminary happened
to be in Washington, and her attention be-
inc called by her escort to the unfinished
shaft of the Washington monument, he made
4 comparison between the same and Bunker
Hill monument Bunker Hill Mr. Ct.
exclaimed the graduate. Il wonder if he
was a relative Of the Rev samuel Hill who
used to lecture L. ON conchology."
Secretary Northrop> school report Tor the
State of Connecticut, ir~t Issued, shows thss
the number of children between the age of
four and sixteen attending the public schools
of the State during the Year was 1888 ,62S, an
increase of go over the previous year that
the total amount of money received for pub
he schools from all sources during the year
was Il 81: 80. and the total amount ex-
pended : ~, i23. The average length Of
the public schools for the wear was i triae
over l. days, and the average percentage
of attendance among the children enumerat-
cl was 93.S3. New Haven county stands
first in the grand list. first in the number ,f
registered scholars. first in attendance and
first in amount Of wage Ilid 10 teachers
Daring the year. the secretary has delivered
- Lectures. visited .5yenty-~eyen towns and
travelled 1000 miles, all in the State.
The teachers Average annual salary in
New York Is II O>l in Chicago. $77777
in Philadelphia. SIS TIE Elisabeth M,
Jaaraa in noting these figures, and many
others. says The school teacher - expect
cl TO have money spent upon his or her
education, To- drc-~ neatly and leeently, to
be- cheerful and good tempered and set such
an example To- the children IL only well-nur-
tarcd anl iecently housed and clothed people
can do. AMI that ON a miserable pttance.
The thing Is absolutely impossible, and the
Test 1t l. that female tracher~ get u consider
their occupation only a. q sort uC Temporary
make->hiit from which the lucky chance of a
speedy marriage will deliver them 81 feel
IN. they can put NJ heart in their work
10 ~lnr over i; and give the public ~ little
service a~ the pay calls for is the constant
temptation.
Bishop Whipple said the other day, at the
commencement of Minnesota University
" hen visited England ! found that Eng
land. with 20 .00O .na0 Of souls. had but four
niyer-itir--OxtOrd. Cambridge, Durham.
and Inndon. Minnesota, with 200 900
souls, had half score. But then it took
England j00 years To build an Oxford, and
Minnesota has killed fve in rs many years.
| visited such schools a. Rugby and EtOn,
and asked the counsel of men who had made
education lifelong work. They told me
that even To build school must begin with
a score Of bows that hundred boys would
ruin me \ school was a living being it
had organized life. IL grew Its character
was made up of the discipline, scholarship,
morals. and traditions ut all who became its
pupils ! came home Il wiser man, and re-
solved that if it took twenty men like me
To- lay the foundation. W. would have one
good English school