New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The first year class in the Law Schooi at
Cambridge numbers than 9O-the second year CLASS
more than 60.
The question of German instruction in the
public schools IA sn unsettled in Louisville tna'
committee has appointed TO investigate she subject
The citizens of New-Orleans have formally
complained Of the Encouragement of the school system
OF that city and the School Board about to consider the
subject
Dartmouth never had so many students upon
her catalogue "a now The total number OF students con
,d with the College is 45au increase OF - over the
attendance last year.
The entering class of the Boston University
School Of Theology a members. The medical school
has an attendance OF Ii6 students 43 having iateN
entered Ouc-quater Of the whole number are "dies
The proposed Philadelphia Museum OF Art Is
10 be IN character and scope similar to the South h'
sin,ton Museum providing opportunities and means OF
giving instruction in drawing painting modelling ana
designing in their industrial applications through ieo
lures practical schools, and special libraries
The new College of Medicine of Syracuse
University was dedicated last week. Chancellor haven
stated TINT II was not IN allopathe or Homeopathic
college but medical college in the broaGeSt meaning o'
the ,erm 1t would not reject anything on account OF US
source but would adopt any discovery however new
when its value proved
Mt. James IL. IHtiihS gnu 4"''
Wood have beea chosen from six Competitors to repre-
sent syracuse University at the coming nteTc"'c-"'e
oratorieaI contest In this city Messrs William NOTING
ham and n NJ wheeler % the University VIII appear az
councillors for the Greek prize and Mr. VI. l. spoohe'
enters the field for the mathematical prize.
Tho classical readings at Harvard will be
continued this year different professors giving one OF
two hours IA the weC; TO the work Prof Palmer VIII
read Homer; Prof Everett, Virgil; ana readings %
Greek tragedy and Latin comedy VIII pgoDioy D. "uo'
Prof Child will read Shakespeare aud Chaucer TIoi'
Marion Dante Prof. Lowell Ceramics; FFoi bOeho''
Nolierc.
Good scrse is not shown to any remarkable
oto, in G,oraia educational affairs Tie whole appro-
,rlaton made last year for the support Of the popc
schools intended 10 educate the school population %
100000 was only 100000; while tHe appropriation ioi
the support OF insane, Dind and desi ANA d'ho
in an about 7OO-aGounted 10 Sl3257o, sum lui'"oi
increased by the interest on the cost OF the Ddusf
erected for thom.
Halifax, n. s., has board OF large-minneu
School Commissioners A masculine Vce-Prncpal OF
80 81 tho scbools recently resigned. and they have
received 70 appoint 20 the position, ealing
urop ber 70 exactly fulfil the duties OF the re;lins
official and Offering her just haif the salary paid TO MIR
mart Of the press of that city INDUCES IN reos"h'o'
b probably il will have result men eapaDlc OF Su'h
.,uni1 and shortshted injustice are not accessible to
reason.
A committee of five is about to investigate
tle school system of Providence, r. Special SUBJECTS
examined will be: The massine Of large Numbers OF
children in one school, the ACCESSIBILITY of having The de-
tolls ~ te 81 stem more generally understood ny Gcrrs
q, the City Council and the school Committee 'he posi-
HE reduction Of the number OF the school Committee ue
u-scnt number being regarded az too unwedy Tor the
,roper supervision Of the schools the necessity Oh u"
foiy in the System of instruction; OF supoIaedns Jess
ieft
ton TO the care school property and in tie purchase
and dissemination of textbooks
The standard of examination for candidates
for admission u tie medical department oi Michigan
University has been raised. The applicant is now re
oured 10 stain somewhat thorough examination ia &C.
ocr,piy arithmetic, history, zoology philosophy gram
mar IN an the details Of construction orthce'apy, pune"
tuoton etc and Of show thai he il man oil Sonic
,ulnre He who could present diploma Of graduation
from any respectable high school, academy or college HAS
not been examined. Aside from those wio hiOush' apo
,,gs To certify to their education between 80 ana l4V
repted themselves for admission. This thorough cA-
,un,ton has rccn applied TO them, and fourteen only
have failed The whole number registered II TINS depart
no nj the present time is POI with possibly others set
90 COME There were 1872 last year at tAe same date
writer ia The National Teachers Monthly
saws ~ teachers examinations: "The modern written
examinations are in many rcsnc:ts an improvement on
1e od-asaiouod oral methods. IL Is undoubtedly true
That certain elements necessary for successful teaching
can only be tested by the written answer TO we'll
gorded question IL is equally true that certain other
elements require the connected thought and expression
4 The written page. But by ar the greater number OF
characerstics found in good teacher can only be DIS
covered ard developed 10y that flce and mutual ln'ei
change Of thought and opinion attendant upon we'll
conducted oval examination. TIE personal bearing >ld
setpossesson OF the candidate can m no other way be
50 well tested BY other means can the examiner so
tha fc lr9a a
ansyer TO attempt those qualifications pertain
ing TO tho polty of the sohoorOon including manage
men, and discipline by written examination is simply
absurd"
\. w. Newman, writing in FraserS Magazine
on University curriculum says: "Both OAlordau Cam
bridge arc weak from the absence 81 the practical schools
in which Science becomes Art. oxford, indeed Las en-
obseryaory but is amented that the fact bas had no
psrceptblc effect the studies Of the place Mathe
mates at Cambridge have often run Wild from want
o. the severe check applied by the question, To what
use is this development OF the study q" lie gives
IN the article these suggestions in regard 10
preparatory education: If from the average age
of seven children began 10 learn French
bv bcuc talked TO- they would in three Years he ali
vaoord tina; nj ten ton an average thew might similarly
learn German. In other way is true pronunciation
generally acquired Then at fourteen, half, or tfd
part o. a school might commence Latin; ana by approx
imatng tie mode Of teaching ncay as may he to That
which a modern language l. cGEhcu-'' e py
inc the language not te literature, and introducing
maximum Of the Lateria with minimum OF the pecu-
Isriiios and diGcues-yeTy rapid progress would be
made even by pupils not clever for language our com
uonest attainment From such schools pupils would
come prepared for truly modern University namely,
talking French and German falnaTv, not IMMERSED in
Latin and having simultaneously acquired in other mat
ters far NOR, than il now poss bic where scholastic gram
mar and dictionary exhaust childs faculties"
Among the papers of the late David Lee
Cuds has been found an unfinished letter referring
matters Of education. The following passage the
sudy OF languages IS suggestive: Nobody did,
ever can acquire ease precision propriey, and cOpiOus