New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


OF Troy shall be maintained On purely secular hass
Prof. HART has been appointed National
Geolosst Of Brazil LIZ win receive annual salary Of
$4,000.
Prof. William Ashmore of Shurtlefr College,
H. il about to resign and take professionally in Brown
University.
The Theological and Normal School Of the
Nashville Institute for Coored people Is TO have several
new buildings, which will probably cost about $4,000
The conductors of one of the grammar
Of teaching grammar and rhetoric The pupils are
awarded two marks for every error found IN local
newspaper.
The following members of the Senior Class
at Bowdon College have received the first two prizes IN
essay-wrtng: T. H. Hal for essay on "The Cause OF
Religious Persecution in Europe" and H. L. Pol,en for
essay on Republicanism in France"
1t is proposed by few citizens of Philadei-
phia to fcrIu corporation for the purpose OF organizing
chronological institute and museum OF usefnl arts In
that city, The institution viii be arranged IL is said
upon the principle OF the Konsngton Museum.
The following manned members of the Senior
Class AZ Yale have rcc,ved the Townsend prizes for En-
elish composition: Samuel r. Bets, New-Ycrk City;
Carl T. Chester Buffalo, N V; Henry s G1iiVer Nor
vieh Conn: John A.. Carver, Scotland Penn; James
Hillhouse New-Hayen Edward W. southworth New
Haven.
The examinations for women at Harvard
were concluded last week. Eight applicants we're passed.
Three of these passed the examinations last year, ana
this year applied for advanced standing Or these three
ono elected TO be examined in Latin and Creek one IN
latin English and history and the third in German and
Latin.
Donations to the building fund of Yale the
Official Department amounted last year TO SSlloO; 10
the chanel fund $1,000 to the law school, $4,000
Of 1,a
term hills were S6l727. Instruction in the academic
department cost $685. the art school cost SlO7so
the Sheffield school, S49s3; the theological department.
s2e371; the medical department, Sl5l9; the Ia"
school, So ass and The philosophical department. Sl'4oS
The Boston School Committee has hitherto num-
beredl Is members Now that the Massachusetts, Les's
ture has passed the reducing its numbers it will have
only "a members The nominations to De made at
large the inhabitants OF the city without reference
10 ward limits and are TO be elected by general vote OF
the electors OF the whole city The term Of oee is tree
years. and after the first election eight members VIII be
elected annually III vacancies occurring by tho exnI
ton Of term OF Office
It is suggested by The Ne,c- England Journal
Of Education that the best hope Of Improvement IN our
schools and progress in the OF popular education
lies not what educators DO directly for those Objects
but rather In what may DC done to make the people gen
orally take deeper personal interest III what concerns
the-n the choice Of efficient officers In the selection
of qualified teachers, in the providing OK good school
accommodation, in the payment Of just salaries, ana Ill
the visiting schools and keeping sharp oversight oi
their management
Tho following appointments for the tenth
Kingsley Prize Defamation been made at Hamilton
College: Junors-Wiliam Hervey Albright, Nor'hamp-
ton England; Newton Wordsworth Caldwell, Meridian;
Archibald Longworth Love, East Saginaw, hlchisAni
Byron Wells, OnOndaga Valley. sophomores-frahA
DOR BudIong Clinton Harry Writ CocAcril Glasgow,
pFd Madam. Utica; Frank Wander
rooler Nila windsor, Conn., Ereshmen-Seward Duane
Allen. Brdsevater; Charles Rawson Kingsley, Utica;
William Lorenzo Parsons, Clinton; James sebooicrah
Sherman, NewHartforL
An industrial school is to be established near
Aurora ILL., The instruction to be given WILL 1t Is sij
cover everything necessary for tho farmer ana the ne
chanic. Enough literary training will be provided To
enable the shoar TO understand and appreciate current
literature. The s to include chemistry especially
as applied to agriculture and the mechanic arts natural
philosophy, demonstrating those portions winch Dear
upou the matters pertaining to the machinery of the
farm and workshop and the hydraulics etc. SO neces
sary IN slightly watered country Especial ATTENTION
win be gwen IL botany and demonstrating gardens aud
nurseries viii doubtless form portion of the system
The real attitude of Catholics to the schools
IL the subject of editorial in The Spt'Gre1d Ae"o
oa. 1t says; awe believe We arc right III saying that
te belief IN the American stem OF cOlnnon sehoois, as
the only proper for free people conmoD to the
tsnt However attracted certain sects may he 20 eI
paroehal schools however much highchurchy influence
may canOr God in the Constitution and the priest in
the shoomssers chair however far below The ideal of
public education the average Of cOmmOnschoo instruc
ton may fan believe that these considerations do not
Affect the loyal altitude O the great majority Of Ne
American people 10 the common school"
The Prussian Government, about 20 years ago,
having it, attention directed to system of gymnastics
which has received State support in Sweden for more
than half century, dispatched physician TO inquire
and report and finding the report satisfactory ut once
established institution for gymnastie training
at B,tla; and now every boy In every school Is put
through regular of gymnastics The same
tenn has been adopted throughout The whole OF Germany
and Austria The case OF saxony is an Illustration OF
the advantages Of the system SaxOny is manufacture
inc country and IL was remarked there In the
featuring of Prussia that the number OF men nj
for military service did not keep pace with the increase
OF the population But of late, since compulsory sys
TEN OF physical instruction has been introduced this
falling on in physique has been checked.
Public school instruction in Sussex County
Delaware does not appear be in fourlslug condi
ton we may judge from the report Of superintendent
Groves He says OF the comparatively few teachers who
presented themselves for examination and certificates:
MANY came in suppicaung attitude-eonfessing
their ineaieiency but asking certificate as necessity
10 their earning living. Many teachers refused TO
opnly because they did not consider themselves strictly
ia The business, they teach occasionally, when they
want Job. Others regularly empOyed-as regularly
they could be-after entering tho examining room. de
sired not 70 be examined In grammar history, geography.
&C. for that they not In the habit Of
teaching those branches One two candidates could
not tell who WAS VicP resident OF the United States and
in than instance candidates did not scem To
know what was meant by the Presidents Cabinet One
veteran teacher Of reputed proficiency Of whom II
poasteu that he could cipher through GreenlCars
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