New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-08-20
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Peorla Couhty' A"'
The Spanish and Italian languages are now
tsuebt in the College OF Charleston.
Seventy-one students are pursuing the regu-
l.r collegiate course at st. Johns College, Maryianu
The University of the South, at Sewanhee'
Tenn this term 25e students representing
DR.. Jones has resigned the principaish1p Oh
Geneseo Academy in this State, ana MI IL ~ ''s'''
Of Philadelphia takes his place.
The Hon. Newton Bateman, late Superin-
eendent Of Public Instruction IN ILLINOIS, mas peon
elected President Of Knox College,
Oro-sxtb Of Americas population Of about
.a0o cannot read write; b.ooOoo out OF totai
school population of almost 100000 receive
There are five Professorships in the Louisi-
ana Agricultural Mechanical College to be hled on
or before the 18th of November. Gov W. r. kellogg Is
President OF the Board OF Control
Education in Delaware is in deplorable
condition The absence OF any supervision renders IL
impossble to give any authorized reports concerning "
In ,s7o there were in the 2OO persons over ten
years OF age who could not write.
'-Of from 1900 to 1900 in the Newark Nd.
schoos only about onehird of per cent reach the
graduating class OF High School and not more tha
three Der cent who enter the Primaries reacn Ing k
Mating classes Of the Grammar Schools.
The PENNSYLVANIA Teachers Association dis
.,ssod the coeducaon of boys and girls favoraby one
of the members said that the great obstacle III ING wa.
of mixed schools that mothers woud no' oonse"'
to send their daughters away from nome 10 al! pu'
female school.
Prof Venable of the University OF Virginia
saws that in the having only one class OF "
each school, composed Of those who attain the heees
sary rs per cent most schools 80 per cent OF the
numerical value Of the questions set, that on'ers"!
stands alone among literary institutions.
II is the opinion of The Boston Globe as to
elective studies in college, that most young men, Is 10
10 years DID, have gone far as to gain admission
to university worthy Of the name, are enurely capa
BILE aided by the advice Of judcious parents irenus'
or teachers shaping their course OF study SO as
ODE far useful to them than any hxed curriculum
sanctioned by the traditions of the past.
A University and School of Applied Science
and Art are urged for Cleveland The Herald Of that
CITY explains that while mechanics and artisans are
numbered by thousands they have no technical schoo
DO with technical books ana perloocas
no library in which the latest and best information
touching the industrial arts is promptly gathered anu
made accessible; public museums OF laboratories
That the present popularity OF lnter-col-
legae physical contests involves results more Vauaoe
70 students than the results Of the old sanitary system
in colleges is the declaration of The Boston Journal and
Il adds possible that in this reaction OF sent-
ment this matter of physical development may be car
red too far but that extreme is so preferable to
the other that we nave nttie ureau Vi IT,
The new College of Physicians and Surgeons
OF Indiana is the result OF demand by the profession
of the City of Indianapolis aud the State for the estab
hsbnent OF medical college the basis OF State rep
resentaou with board Of trustees. the majority OF
whom shall be physicians who shall form and control
the college with the wishes and In the in
terest of the profession at large.
The lower house of the Missouri Assembly
passed during the last session bill having for its OBJ
feet the appointment of committee to agree upon and
select certain textbooks for the of the public schools
In all of the grades branches of study such books
20 be continued in for period of not less than hve
years without change. The bill died in the Senate and
now violent discussion is being held by the St. Louis
School Board on this textbook question
Some alarm has been expressed lest the
action Of the Commissioner Of the District Of Columbia
I'm combining the three School Boards should involve CO.
education of the black and white races. Ii is an
nounced however that this is not to be the result the
schools being kept separate as hitherto The County
School Trustees that they cannot be superseded TIL
Congress provide legal successor, as they form
corporate body, owning large amount OF real estate.
At the late meeting of the Kentucky Teach
ers' Association, Prof j. r. Hodges said: eve must
teach only that which the pupil can understand All
the faculties OF the mind should be relatively developed
SO as to produce equilibrium To teach thoroughly,
we must give but idea at time. We must teach
children according their ability to learn particular
branch OF study" Henderson reelected Presi-
dent of the Association resolution was passed con-
demnng the educational clause in the Civil Rights BILL
Prof. McLan of Brockport said the other
day that every teacher who expects to meet with sue
cess IN his calling devote much time each day out
side of school hours to sfpreparaton for his classes
He admitted that common school teachers were so
poorly paid that they could not afford the extra time
The lady teachers do their own sewing. But he
looked forward TO time when these district school
teachers would well paid that they could afford TO
hire their sewing done.
poor South Carolina has given $4,000 to
Washington and Lee University, and expects to make
mn her stated moety-s5O, OOO-of the endowment Ken
tucky has already gwen $4,000 for the chair Of history
and political economy louisiana $4,000 for the chair
of modern anguages Texas $4,000 for the chair OF
pled mathematics; and Virginia has also contributed
e2OoO Each OF these States is to give the amount Of
So 600. Missouri has nearly completed her endowment
of $4,000 for the chair OF applied chemistry.
A Stuttgart correspondent of The Boston
Journal notes that boys desiring TO become civil en-
gneers architects draughsmen scientific professors
usually study in the Realschule and then go to the Poly
teehnicum of which the number is increasing through
out Germany and certainly they afford every opportu
nifty for fine scientific education, the instruction being
entirely in the form lectures which the student is
pected 10 study ont alone by the Of text books
the fest OF competency in any branch OF learning s
after certain time study, rigid examination before
degree can be had
The atlantic notes that when the danger of
killing the Southern school system through the passage
OF the Civil Rights bill explained TO the coored people
they htway understand it, and become converted
70 the opposition. Bishop Miles Of Kentucky the first
ordained coloed bishop OF the colored Methodist Eps
copal Church South, in his circular letter. uses this