New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-02
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Iowa College graduates Is students this year.
Columbian College, Washington, has only
-four graduates this year.
Only one wing of tho Peabody Museum at
Yale lie now to be erected 1t Will cost sicooOO'
The new building Of Dean Academy, Frank
lin Mass erected at expense OF about si7soco was
dedicated last week.
Prof. Derby has been appointed VicePres
DENT Of Antioch College. and viii act as its head until
President be found
Tufts College has conferred the degree OF
D. d. upon the Rev. Absalom q. Gaines, President OF
the st. Lawrence University.
The Rev. Joseph Anderson of Waterbury,
Conn., refuses 10 accept offer Of the Proessorshp OF
Esgi,sh Literature in Michigan University
The Stroganoff Art School at Moscow has
q Sunday School OF Design tnstructing 200 pupils who
are chiefly young members Of the labOrng population
The abolition of separate lectures to the
feminine students the medical department al enF
gan University declared Impractcaoie oy INC
regents.
The subject of electing President or the
Ohio wesleyan University has been postponed TO be
further considered adjourned meeting to be held
Aug. 20.
Warren Academy, near Boston, has been
made preparatory scientific school, wherein instruc-
will be given ny actual laDoratOIy pfsSHV0 Az
q physcal "a well as chemical laboratory.
The law concerning the Punishment OF
pianos from the college buildings at Yale has been re-
pealed. or rather modified. Pianos will be permitted
under special license and under strict regulations.
Five colored men have been graduated from
the different schools OF Yale. The first was Richard
Henry Green OF the class Of 1851 who became phys
cian graduating in the Medical School at Dartmouth
Lincoln University is, with one exception,
the wealthiost literary institution In Illinois. Inc hon
Ewing Of Supreme Court of Missouri Is TO give
his entire to the law department lately organized
DIR. j. B. Helwig of Dayton has been elected
President Of witenberg College. Springfield ohio' In
place Of Or. Spreeher resigned Dr. sprecher WIN TO
main in charge OF Theological Department OF the
College.
Discussions among the Faculty of the 1ndi-
ana Medical College have led to the organization OF
new institution TO he called the Indiana College OF
Physicians and Surgeons and to be established also at
indianapolis
At school dedication last week, Gen.
Banks said that military education should become
branch Of our national educational system; that re-
publican fern OF government demands that we shouio
know our strength.
The PHILADELPHIA Ledger thinks that 1t is
certain industrial education. in some form or Other
must permeate land, and that each employee
shall eventually have its preparatory course OF in
structon secured to it,
Yale last year conferred one honorary de-
gree OF d. D.; Dartmouth. two; Williams, two; Am
berst one Columbia, four Princeton two New-York
University five. Altogether, 2lS honorary degrees were
given in 1873 by only "a colleges
Mr. Edmonds, who was selected after his
Hast weeks grafton to represent Williams College al the
intercollegiate contest next January, said TO be
natural orator. combining marked talent as writer,
with forcible and artistic delivery.
Rebecca r. Thayer a Boston school-teacher,
deserves special mention upon her retirement after
fhrtyseven years OF faithful and valuable service
fact like this ought TO inspire those who assert the
capacity OF for continuous and fatiguing work.
AS both Houses of Parliament are opposed
% the proposition England is not TO have the separate
ministry of education which has been suggested Mr..
Lyon Playfar desired to commit all matters of national
education science and art to the control Of one person.
and calmly snubbed.
At the Commencement of William Jewell
College, Mo. last Thursday, the honorary degree OF
LID. was conferred upon the Hon. Thomas C. Reynolds
of ST. Louis, aud the degree Of ID. ID. upon the Rev.
Tsomas Rambaut Of Brooklyn, and the Rev. lillian
Arthur Of Newtonvlle, n. Y.
The scholars of this State must not forget
chat the University convocaOn will be held at the Cap
tto at Albany next Tuesday The college faculties OF
other States are invited TO attend corresponding
members Tho list Of papers as announced by Chancellor
PruFR contains many valuable and useful subjects,
Bishop Morris CO Oregon says that one can
not pay the Of the day in our
schools and colleges without being impressed with the
conviction that there is wide spread spirit OF awless-
ness and resistance authority in them that fraught
with evil for the future interests Of society and che
country,
The Buffalo Express says in referring to the
letter OF Boston correspondent concerning the Kin
oergsrtens Of that city:
Tbe very general adoption OF this unique system for
time to come is something we would not care too
confidently predict, and yet there Is charm and
philosophy about 1t that comments II strongly " our
approval" -T
! AT the late Teachers Institute at Pough-
keepse N. " one speaker said that the people anord
snuoh better for trying criminals than
for educational purposes that court &C., arc
better lighted, better heated. and better surrounded
GENERALLY school houses. BE asserted furtner that
measured by the money teachers paid the clown
and the better men than school teachers
President Gilman of California University
expressed his surprise the other day that somebody had
moi written comparative biography OF boys Writers
had treated Of everything elsethe origin OF man and
chs biography most eminert had treated OF the
<omparatiye anatomy OF all beings In nature-birds,
ashes and reptilesthelr powers aud pecuarittes but
mot one had yet made specially Of the tendencies and
salents of school boys and girls
Gov. Dix at Union Commencement declared
chat the great error of Americans Is dusiveness OF
style or what NewEnglanders characterize by the ex
pressive and bomely phrase Of stopping OVER; aIo
said further that he knew Of corrective 80 eectua
as thorough knowledge Of the Latin II might be sug
ested to the Governor instuctor in terse
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