New-York tribune., 1875-09-02
NOTES on EDUCATION.

The Rev. DR.. Andrus has resigned the presi-
dency Of Asbury University, Indiana
The presidency of Kentucky Wesleyan UNI
yersity has been given to the Rev Dr. T. j. Dodd.
The academic year at Trinity College Will
begin Sept 49, and the entrance examinations VIII 10
held on the two preceding days.
There are two Normal Schools in the Argen-
tine Republic the establishment of third one or
women in Buenos Ayres is proposed
Prof. f. F. Smith, lately professor OF modern
languages at Free Institute has been onereo
the chair Of Latin and modern languages at operin'
The State of Kansas is said to have invested
and expended for educational purposes, during the last
ten years the sum of s1700o000 This expenditure IL
now going ~ the amount OF over million oo'"'is
vear In spite Of the interes. thus shown in instruction.
Il further reported that only about three persons III
every hundred IN that state enter the learned proles-
sions.
There is some probability that the proposed
hin OF Cnesc will be established NJ oAioru'
England The University authorities are Wiling 10
maintain such professionally during the lifetime OF d.
Iegge who Is proposed the first occupant OF tue cha
nm, tho committee Chinese merchants and others WISH
10 found permanent chair, and offer to contribute
large part OF the necessary funds
iudicious method of instruction is thus
mentioned in Home aud School: One plan that nave
often ouud successful to require different pupils eac
I'm his own language, TO explain and Illustrate
doubt and then necessary TO call upon the ise"eis
"a crticise the statements made. BY this means NOT
only are the knotty points made clear nut haos VI
ouict attention and correct judgment are formed
The English teachers of Science and Art are
growing more accustomed We arc tod, 10 illustrating
their Lessons by experiment and are not relying as tney
were 40 much in the habit Of doing, ON Nerhal desciP
tions and the OF the text book In consequence "
pupls are not as formerly so much thc Case uo'
pendeu on the cultivation Of the memory oniy ana Tue
vicious habit Of erainmin6 without "nueis'"n"'Ne 10
gradually becoming extinct.
A new art to be desired in education Is men
toned by The Ner England Journal Of Education AS that
n. giving institute instruction. This journal hods liH,
sncn instruction requires peculiar gifts, atanments ana
expericuce to be found in combination OF the best
qualities of the schoOleaeher lecturer and pfeacher'
and IL SAYS further that institute instruction Is OFTEN
falure and that until Ia regarded severe specially
and more care exercised in the choice OF institute III
structors, II must continue 10 be failure
Memortic recitatiOns are editOrially advo-
Gated in The National Teachers Monthly, Oh thc ground
that exact memory is thus cultivated. and that IAN
cuagc memorized gives Guency, Accomplishment In
which Americans do not excel The practice of consider
Ing every thing deliberately oattemptng 10 recite matter
perfectly learned Of putting memorys buroes Oh 'he
back OF reasoning which prevails in our schools ana COL
has resulted III our puDlic
disgraceful drawing repetition, ana hestatlon io
which the more dsgraceful written discourse Is the usl
remedy Your ready fluent, graceful, eXtomporaneous
sneakers are really those who in youth trained theii
memory in spite of the OF sehOolmasers ana inc
laxity Of the schools Say what you may grace and
hnency in delivery pointed paragraphs rounded perlod
and better than ALL the trick Of stopping when one
DONE can be attained only by training the memory oi
ready recitation at school,"
The British Royal Commission on Scientific
Instruction report that the Scotch universities OF Lu
bnrgh Glasgow st. Andrews, and Aberdeen maintain
collectively no less than 45 Professors who lecture Oh
suliecs connected with hysca science, including the
professors of mathematics but excluding the assistants 70
the various chairs and out of aggregate total OF moro
than 900 students belong TO the faculty OF medi
cine and an unascertaned number-perhaps about 1Oo
morattend the lectures of the professors OF
at Edinburgh and Glasgow Their buildings for the most
mart are the property of the naton having been erected
largely out of Paramcna grants and by lar the larger
number of their professors and examiners are suoeo
by annual grants entered in the Civil Service esuaics
Large grants are given by the Government to various
British colleges The University Of London receives
and pays into the Exchequer on account OF
fes 600 600 The Universities Of Scotland receive alto
eether S79425 which is thus apporoned: ST. Andrews
slO52j; Aberdeen, $1,000 Glasgow, $15,s25 Edln
burgh S34 O2O The Queens University and the Quet
Colleges in Ireland receive each year nearly Sl0oooo