New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NOTES ON EDUCATION.
Compulsory education is asked for by several
counties Of West Virginia
The aggregate sum expended for schools in
Maine during 1874 was 81 ,l917l2.
Hamilton College win be represented in the
intercollegiate contest next Winter.
It is claimed that drawing IL successfully
taught in the public schools of Cleveland.
The Kansas State University is embarrassed
by too limited appropriations the part OF the Lcsa-
ture
The library of Peabody Institute at Balti-
more has increased very aaol this year. has also The
musical school
The erection of the new Trinity College
buildings ri Hartford viii be begun soon as the frost Is
out OF the ground
The Hon. Stephen J. Field is about to give
course OF lectures on "Constuuonal Law" at the Uni
versity Of California
AT the meeting Of tho National Teaohers'
Association, which 10 DC held at Minneapolis on the
9th OF August representatives from 20 to 80 States are
expected
The University of The South at Sewanee
Tenn has at present about 900 students. The unvcr-
sty has received lately tic gift Of sum sufficient 10
erect handsome library building for which native stone
will be used
Mr. John g. Pearson, Princeton alumnus,
has Just presented to his college very large collection
OF pam hlets papers, and especially books, containing
literature OF late civil war. As these arc chiefly
Northern, librarian has just issued circular al
dressed 20 Southern alumni asking for additional eonri-
buttons from their section.
The contest between the Representatives of
the different institutions belonging 10 The Wisconsin, Inter
collegiate Oratoricl Association occurred last week
The prize awarded to Mr.. j NJ Mills of the State
Unlvert ty for Grafton Our Destiny Painters"
young lady student University appeared a.
competitor, and gave Grafton upon Agassfz
Ii is said by TIE Tolelo Blade that ait is
now quite generally conceded by teachers that the two
studies English and German, cannot he proitaby puT
sued by pupils who have not passed through The gram
mar schools Young who have taken both Ran
guages through all the school grades join with teach
ers In the opinion the resuite not thus OBJ
tainod."
President d. c. Gilman has taken formal
leave of University Of California He found it at Oak
land occupying temporary buildings with hardly more
than hundred students in the regular classes. He left
1t At Berkeley occupying large edifcos with nearly
$50 students and ovory department of instruction manned
By competent professor Tho senior professor John Le
Oonto, viii now preside over the Faculty
The annual report of the Rochester Board of
Education says that the system of classifying teachers,
as relates the payment OF salaries Is entirely wrong
and great Injustice s often done the schools well
the teacher The standard should bo qualification There
is no justice 10 paying ordinary teacher $50 per
month another $50 $40 per month, which is often
the case" teeehng Of German in the schools IL is
said, continues 10 bc successful.
At Harvard this year Summer courses of
instruction will be given In chemistry and botany The
former viii include general chemistry, qualitative anay
SIS quantatiye analysis, and dctcrmnavc inoralOgy.
The instruction win be given In BoyIston Hail. four hours
day, five days in tue week. from July to August 10.
The fec for every S25, including the Of aJ
paratus including brcakage The in botany
viii include in phalnogamio botany, given at the
botanical museum by Assistant Professor Goodale aud
one ia cryptogamc botany, gwen at locality the
seashOre, by Assistant Professor Farlow The eoper-
OF the Kentucky Geological Survey is promised 10 the
Cumberland Gap School The fee for the term of two
Will be $50, including Of camp fixtures and
transportation around the camp.
At the meeting in Boston, last week, of the
classical and high school teachers Of Massachusetts, Mr.
Elbrdge Smith Of the Dorchester High School said that
he thought the schools were working too exclusively in
The education OF the intellect and criticised physical
sports oserod by colleges and characterized the coming
college races ut Saratoga az the great carnival Of SIM
He believed in many sports, like baseball and boating
thought they carried far, and did not be-
teve in sending college students to become "the
pawns and pieces OF those who live not by honest gain
The great want OF the age not bodily strength and
intellectual power but moral integrity The Rev. Andrew
Peabody Of Cambridge argued in addressing che meet
Ing that it better for child 0 grow up with strong
sctrau proyites than TO grow up in ignorance of the
Bible and tho history of our religion. lie would Danish
ssrptura question books they had been the greatest
enemies Of scriptur;d education and child never gets
connected idea OF scrpturl narrative from their
He advocated the reading OF the narrative portion Of the
Bble In the schoolrooin aud the OF the Bible as
rccronce book 10 Hebrew history and the archaeology
ancient customs. There great deal in Had and the
Odyssey that coud be better illustrated from the Bible
Than from any work Gecan history, and he aru cd
NE Importance OF tho Bible auxiliary 10 classical
study.