New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Dr. Thos. Nicholson is President OF inc
Louisiana Agricultural and Mechanical College
Prof. Mark Bailey is giving course OF iec-
tures on Forensic Elocution In the Yale Law schooL
School Superintendent Drummer OF berks
County Penn. thnks that teachers should s'uay na4u
throughout vacation
Commencement at Missouri University occurs
June a. young lady takes the honor oi 'ne 'aie
dictory in the Academic Department. !
:, The late Benjamin T. Reed of Boston be-
,,ccoc to his wife for use during her lifetime
xheb the is to 80 to the Episcopal Iheo
Dogical School at Cambridge
Leland University, New-Orleans, estapnsneo
Nv the American Baptist Home Missionary SOCIETY -.
the education Of the colored people, n's '''A
months In successful operation
The addition to the laboratory OF Michigan
rn,versty now building. will it is said cause 10
rival IN its provisions for TINS particular ihs"u'' ~
German and English institutions
An intercollegiate Association for the pro-
,ooon Of oratory by means OF annual contests was
formed in indianapolis last week by delegates rom INC
different Universities Of the State.
One of the members of the graduating class
IN the Boston Institute OF Technology is japanese
youth 1t said that in civil engineering he holds 'ne
highest rank and second TO none in English compost
ton.
Ohio has had q college convention and
organized an association to conduct annual rhetofea
contests Each college represented will send delegate
10 the Interstate Convention TO be held In chicago on
June9.
The total receipts of Yale College for the
past year amount 10 s259ss9 81; total expenditures
Sas76o &C. The Sheffield Scientific School took s4s sos a.
and the Art School s. 1914 o. The receipts OF the scien
tifc school amounted to A9S72 A.
State Superintendent Wickersham of Penn
sylvaDa says believes that In other State in the
Union has such progress been made in education as In
HE Daring the last year he notes that the
people had furnished s9.ooOOOO for school purposes.
The very elaborate annual report of the
OF the St. Louis Public Schools says among other
things this concerning the education Of boys and girls:
1.-The demand for the course OF study paramount
that for subordinate although Of eonsdera
bic Importance"
In the United States there are four deaf
mute schools wherein articulation is exclusively used
of these in operation for seven years. In
OF State Institutions also, where the sign IAN
guage medium of instruction special teachers are
employed who give their time wholly to articulation
Rochester Theological Seminary has received
during the year $4,000 in requests aud John b. Trevor
ESQ., Of New York has e1tngushed the Indebtedness OF
the institution amounting TO 5355 &C. has purchased
the lot IN the Of the seminary at 5000 has gwen
t,C0O for the erection Of a gymnasium thereon, and
E,6Co for fence around the entire property.
Gov. Dix will give the University Grafton
at Union Commencement this year. The College cata-
Iogue 1884 gives 100 students in the institution and
adding the names Of students IN the professional
schools. number returned as under Instruction in
the University $50. Military drill under Capt Ward
of the u s. Army, has begun, and has been made very
interesting and successful
The Harvard examinations for women in
1874 will be held the latter half OF June and will be of
two grades-a preliminary or general examination
Gasting about seven days covering parts OF two week
aud an advanced examination for those who pass the
preliminary aud not less than IS of Notice
of the place Of examination IN Boston, and of the time
sent to all candidates on May l.
The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer suggests way
by which to avoid mixed schools ana elude the law
established by the Civil Rights bill. II says:
Let the poll taxes collected In Georgia from the
whites be applied to the support OF exclusive white
schoos and poll taxes of the negroes be applied OK
no general taxation for the support of any public
schools but partial taxation for the support Of two
classes Of schools each race receiving back exactly
what it contributes for this purpose.
A Californian suggests that it might be an
improvement dispense with textbooks altogether in
all classes below the high schools, and in their stead
Issue monthly from the Office of the Superintendent,
brief synopsis of the studies to be pursued III the differ
grades during the month and OF such matters as it
IL necessary TO commit to memory. This plan would
require that the teachers should really teach instead of
merely taxing the memory Of the child, as is now gen.
orally the case.
new house is to be built Immediately at
Cambridge. England, TO receive those ladies who
residence JOIN the classes OF the University pro-
fessors and site has been obtained
Newman, on ground belongings st. Johns College
"Eewnham Hall will take tue place of Merton
Hail." and will be governed, the earlier foundation
was, by Miss Clough; it will contain between 40 and 80
students, or more If funds will permit. 1t isexpeced
that the building may be available before the
Of the year.
The Boston Post, in mentioning that part of
President Eiot's Young Mems Christian
Union anniversary expressing his opposition TO the pro
yosal 10 tax church property, including also other
Glasses of endowment property, says: The conviction
81 steadily growing that the healthiest treatment for the
church and the college In a free society them
entirely 10 individual and affection. They will
suffer far from the decay OF this than they could
the refusal OF the State to take them
special protection"
The Chronicle and Sentinel of Augusta, Ca,
asserts that the people OF that State have been willing
that the blacks should enjoy all the educational priv
leges afforded the whites.
Indeed it SAYS it was for the benefit OF former
that the common school system adopted. for before
the it was unknown aud There is an
equal division of the money, though the taxes from
winch the funds raised PAID almost exclusively
by the whites. The schools the blacks numer
Gus and as good those furnished the whites. The
standard OF scholarship Is as high aud the instruction
dTen 10 the sa@e school with negroes. and they will
close all the school houses supported whole part
Civil Rights
The Boston AdTertistr cOmmends and advises
military drill in schools aud colleges the ground
na should make their services necessary they
would be found in a prepared 1t declares
corning the Bowdoin students who refuse TO drill