New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-16
NOTES on EDUCATION.


Deborah F. Wharton of Philadelphia has
given 600 to the endowment fund of Swarthmore Col
lege
At the annual examination for women Mt
Harvard University, Ave young received certh-
Gates.
Iowa State University has coo students in
all it's departments with female student IN the law
school.
The friends of Hampden-Sidney College, IN
Virginia have employed agent TO raise funds for hat
institution.
There were 1904 scholars taught in the
San Francisco public schools during the present year. at
a cost Of $67S,647
In 1874 Italy had AZ, 900 schools, 1,s72,3S1
scholars and 500 teachers The average pay OF tne
teachers was $s5 ayear.
The reports as to the financial embarrass-
ment OF the University Of Chicago are pron"uneed uh
true by Dr. Burroughs Chancellor OF the University
| The amount expended for the education OF
each child between the ages OF and 10 in the cities OF
Massachusetts varies from 50 SO in Fall River to S2l "a
| In Springfield.
| The Leavenworth (Kansas) Board OF Educa-
ton has reconsdered s resolution abolshng the col
ored high school that city, and has decided to reopen
il until Feb l. 1876 after which coloFed children Will be
| admitted to the white high school
| All givers of $4,000 in money, or OF books
valued at that amount Harvard College library are
entitled to the of having their names placed over
an alcove In accordance with this rule, the names OF
Sumner Walker and Savage will be placed over alcoves
in the library in few days.
BY a recent vote Of The Faculty of Harvard
College all students conditioned any study, either at
admission CT during the college Will have one ex-
animation or making up such conditions free OF charge,
but for all subsequent examinations the same eondi-
tons Zee of SO will be charged each student
Arkansas expects to raise 100000 this year
for educational purposes The General Assembly adopted
recently memorial Congress asking that the balance
of the public lands state amounting TO 100000
acres be given State to form permanent ednca-
onal fund. The Baptsts have college at Jusonia and
the Friends in Phillips County, called South
land College among supporters Of which has been the
| poet Whittier
| 1t has been decided to open the Johns Hop
| kins University Oct 49, 1876, at which time temporary
quarters will he provided for it in the City OF Baltimore
No part of The principal OF the fund left by MI Hopkins
was to be the erection of buildings, ana the
trustees have decided lay by certain portion of the
income each year that purpose. The occupants OF
the several chairs Of which there viii be the usual mum
her, have not decided upon yet The departments
OF law and medicine will not be begun until the other
| departments have made some progress.
| The proposition for a Reformed Episcopal
University Of the Northwest, at Chicago, is
I
yersy in the true meaning OF the word combining all
the best features of oxford and Cambridge Universities
in England the other colleges and seuinaes OF the
| denomination will be subordinate to the University,
which will have power to confer degrees By thus
having central university organicaly related To the
several colleges it is hoped to avoid the mistake OF mai
tipying weak colleges with separate charters and fun
| academic powers
Nearly all the States have taken measures
for making an exhibit of their educational interests 1T
the Centennial Exhibition The States already prepar-
ing include all New England States, Newly ork ONO,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Tennessee, Iowa, and others The
Connecticut educational department will contain com
pete OF the works written ny the professors and
alumni OF Yale College The Rhode Island collection
will he arranged in three Observation-Disclosures and
statistical school work. and schO0houses The hrst de-
partment Will include historical account and eata-
logues of Brown University aud Of all the academies IN
the state. The third department will include models
and photographs OF schoolhOuses and of school urni-
ture and apparatus.
The second annual report of the President
| of Boston University gives favorable exhibit OF tue
condition Of that young IL has scpa
rate colleges and schOOlsviz Of the liberal art, OF
music theology, law, medicine oratory, and ali sci
with AIS students, 102 OF whom are young women
The authorities have made arrangements with the Ma
tiona University Athena Greece and with the Loyal
University at Rome Italy, by which students in the de-
partment OF all sciences of Boston University re-
COVE instruction at those institutions This arrange
ment is especially intended to benefit those who desire
TO prepare themselves for professoshps The financial
resources the University show handsome aggregate
but the President expresses the belief that during the
next ten years least 81 100000 will be necessary In
addition to all prospective revenues.
Some good points are made against the mod
ep idea of education by The Boston Herald 1t contends
that under the old method, when three, four, or six
months schooling all that young person received
in a year. the mind and muscle better developed
than under the present system. The Herald remarks
very few leading minds have in tie last quarter of
century remodeled school system upon their peculiar
theories and although their intentions nave been OF Tie
best the results have not been favorable TO that best OF
all products Of civilization. sound mind in sound
BODY The habits and circumstances OF our people have
changed 40 much during the period 20 which We refer
| that we cannot expect adopt, except in some
| OF their best features the good old ways OF our
| fathers when mental and physical development went
hand in hand but we can and ought in the interest
OF humanity as well as of education, to find and adopt
some better methods Of culture than those which
prevail or we snail as a people rapidly degenerate both
ia mind and body from year TO year. and create greater
necessity for new almsbouses and unatc asyluns than
that which exists at present ard which 10 cost Masa
chusets 81 100000 the present year The modern idea
OF knowledge rather than train by reasonable supplies
Of mental pabulun mingled with large quantities Of work
| or play or what is better, OF both combined"
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