New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-03-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

uv,ve tho University of North Carolina.
Tbirty-one students have just been gradu-
.ted from the Philadelphia Dental College
Amherst College now has 100000 in money
tut Is yet poor as the funds are bound by oohdonS'
There arc three schools in Boston exciu-
siyely devoted art besides the drawing SCHOOLS ahu
course OF industrial the Lowell Institute and d.
Runners class in art anatomy
BOSTON reports that in the matter OF school
s,ruituro at the Vienna Exposition she was clearly IN
advance of all other parts OF the world ana that inc
poston exhibition furniture comprising single oesks
and chairs in oak the best thing that Amerea has
yet produced
A very good musical idea has been elabo-
rated a Yassar where matn6es given by the young
lades each matinee being exclusively devoted 10 tue
,yorts ~ some particular composer. Prof Ritter INTRO
auoes the performance with historical and critical OBJ
scryations upon the composer In question
It Is reported that Gen. Eaton has intorma-
ton from many parts of the country where the popua
lion sparse, that there is desire Tor smoua1oy
schoos-a European institution. By the ambuiatOry
.v,tem teacher holds school IN one neighborhood one
week and In another next and thus covers large
section, and at comparatively little expense
The 81. Louis Democrat says pertnenuy IL
rather bitterly: "The object now seems 10 DC 10 80
arrange the schools and households Of the land that the
teacher may simply sit IN judgment upon the manner III
which the child has been taught at home. Choen Ho
20 school not to learn, show the teacher now
puch they have been taught during the preceding even
ing at home"
The PhiIddelphia Age proposes this plan con-
corning uniform textbooks: "up Authorize the state
SUPERINTENDENT and his assistants TO prepare coup'oo
system Of school books C) have these copyrlsn'eu ny
the state @ let them be the school books OF le pubic
schools Cd let any publisher print them VINO wishes TO-
or let the publishing be divided among dnereh se'uon'
OF the State TO the lowest bidder"
The Louisiana State Board of Education de-
clare that the school fund Of each year should be used
exclusively for the support Of the schools in that year.
Accordingly, they determined TO repudlate al deos
due by the state TO teachers OF public tchoois VINO
taught before The plea is made that there Is NOT
sufficient proof the validity OF the claims ana that
the cost of proving them would be more than the
amount Of the claims.
IL is said that the military schOo! at Baton
Rouge with most competent corps OF mstruetorslh
civil engineering and chemical science as applied 10
agriculture is IN a state OF great embarrassment Ihere
Is not The Nec Orleans RepUbcdn says. one colored
cadet at the school, and tins is attributed to the lmpos
sbty even at West Point Of protecting the nights and
feelings Of colored youth when they are boarded ana
lodged in the same building with the whites
The Congregationalists Of the West propose
founding large university 70 meet the wants OF the
country beyond the Missouri. conference has deter
mined on Colorado Springs Colorado the location
Tho new university will be literally under the shadow OF
Pixies Peak in close vicinity to remarkable con
vergonce OF upheaved strata Of different formations
which will give it the field for the study OF physical
sciences tins continent considerable endowment
fund has already boon subscribed,
There is a very good system of school saw
Ings banks III Client which might be initiated here to
advantage. The sehoomaster receives and records
small sums from his pupils, and when these savings In
the of any pupil amount to franc he deposits
Ehen IN the bank and hands over the receipt
Next day the certificate returned to the schoolmaster
who keeps it, IN that the investment of subsequent
,aypgs may be recorded upon it. In six years the
school children Of Client have deposited, under this
simple organization, Of money 70 tho amount OF
s0o,N7.
At a recent meeting of the Second Radical
Club OF Boston professional teacher read paper,
which, among other things, contained the statement
shat Of the schools half the individuality OF the
ehdren was suppressed by false notions OF order and
as general rule there too much repression OF en-
forced order The child should be encouraged TO give
his opinions and when he wrong an EFFORT should be
made to convince hun Of the fact. II mistake 10
set up pattern for them 10 follow, as 1t steals away
their ndvidusy and the sabbath school books Of the
day produced much in the tendency encourage
copyists"
1t is stated that financially the Massachusetts
Agricultural College does not pay is way From the
State fund OF s39333 80 there is annual income OF
ti5 600 and the receipts for tuition and room rent IN
crease the income to $4,000 per annum over against
this there annual expenditure Of $4,000 leaving
adefcit of 5000 TO be made good by further endOw
mont by contributions from private citizens, or by
special appropriation by the Legislature or 2Si young
men who have been with it since It's establish
ent about 10 are known be engaged IN agriculture.
pursuits, nearly all at Work in some industrial
occupation Next 10 farming, CIVIL engineering IS IA
Vorte pursuit with the graduates.
The Cherokee Nation now numbers 10000.
Its Superintendent Of Schools reports that about 1880
children attend Schools that the schools are in session
nine months annually and that all the English branches
are taught including geometry rhetoric etc. that there
arc native teachers aud p paesces that they have
pne orphans school, with 70 inmates; one female high
school, presided over by teacher from Mt HoyoRe,
Mass, and Moravian missionary school These
schools have supported by the United States for IS
years past or since formation, and about $4,000 Is
now appropriated by Congress annually to sustain them
The Superintendent thiuks that the Nation will in time
support the schools without aid from Cover nmert
For the session of 1874, at the School of
Natural History at Penikese the applications exceeded
by some 40 or 90 the accommodations provided on
the island Twenty female and % male teachers
gathered from 10 States win receive instruction at the
School during the coming Summer. part OF these are
students OF last session certain proportion Of room
being reserved for those who could most proftably
pursue second Funds necessary to
garry on the institution and State Boards OF Education
been asked 20 contribute or TO obtain from their
State Legislatures contributions 90 the maintenance OF
the School Five thousand dollars or an annual amount
OF tS5o will entitle State to the admission Of two
teachers annually students st PeniRese.
The Hon. S. Il. Ten Eyck of Waterloo,
n. Y, gives this excellent advice to teachers the