Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-02-17
Educational Notes

Educational Notes.
Texas has 400, 900 children of school
age, of whom only 161, 900 are enrolled.
A PRESIDENT has not been found for
Tufts College. The Hon. Israel Wash
burn, the Rev. Elmer H. Capen, OF
Providence, and the Rev. e. c.. Bodies,
are among the candidates named.
The Board of Education at Medina,
n. Y, recently ordered the discontin-
uance Of religious exercises in the pub
lie schools, and public meeting was
held to condemn this action. =.
The Baltimore City Council is about
to establish high school for colored
pupils. Maryland appropriated $780,
600 last year for the support of her col
ored schools, which are said to be IL a
very fiourishing condition.
| HEREAFTER the school year in Vir-
ginia will end July 31st, instead Of
August 31st.
The Baltimore City College building
is completed, and will be opened on the
25ths inst. It cost $142, 900.
ALL the public night-schools in Phila-
delphia were closed last week for reason
OF insufficient appropriations. There
were ~ of them, instructng over
$4,000 pupils, and employing over 220
teachers. 80 ~
"THE application of force breeds re-
sistance," says the Harrisburg Patriot,
and it adds: ''The attempt to make
education compulsory will be the be-
ginning of the end of our system OF
free schools"
SALEM, Mass, has ,343 children be-
tween the ages of four and fifteen years.
of whom 4,2O6 are enrolled. The cost
per pupil is SIG 80. Corporal punish
ment has been administered l, 282 times
during the year.
NEVADA has $25O,000 as the begin
ming OF University fund, and the San
Francisco Chronicle suggests that, in
stead of organizing an institution of it's
own, the State shall unite it's forces with.
California, and build up one strong
University. A college OF mines is also
suggested. @ft-
Two lady students of Girton College,
England, Miss Kingsland and Miss
Dove, both daughters of clergymen,
have taken degrees at the Cambridge
Natural Science Tripos.
The Vermont Legislature, at its
special session, appropriated $50, GOO
for reform school for boys, to be loca-
ted at Vergennes. It was also resolved
to establish reform school for girls,
and S., 1000 was appropriated therefore.
The munifcent gift of Mr.. W. W
Corcoran to the Colum bia University
OF Washington, consisting Of property
valued at quarter of million dollars,
has been secured by the subscription OF
an additional hundred thousand dollars
necessary to fulfil the terms of the
grant.
BRAINTREE, Mass, has una nimouslv
voted to raise $40, ZOO to comply with
the condition Of the will Of the late Gen.
Sylvanus Thayer, who left bequest,.
which now amounts to nearly $3.50, 900.
for the establishment and maintenance
OF free high school IN the town, one
OF the conditions being that the town
should raise 500, 900, and that $50, 600
should be taken from the fund to erect
the building, the 5000, 900 to be left il
tect for fund to support the school.
PRESIDENT ELIOT, of Harvard, SAYS
of compulsory physical exercises in
schools: They should form a part of
the programme of every school for
boys, and should be insisted upon Just
as regularly as Latin and mathematics
from the time a boy is ten years old
until he is sixteen or seventeen. Most
American schools entirely neglect this
very important part of their proper
function. Many Young men, therefore,
come to the university with undevelop--
ed muscles, a bad carriage, and an i'm
paired digestion, without skill in out-of-
door games, and unable to ride, row.,
swim or shoot. It is important the uni
versity should give opportunity for a
variety of physical exercises because
this student prefers one form and that
another, and an exercise which is en-
joyed Will be ten times as useful as one.
which Is ren1lsiva