Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-10
Notes on Education.

Notes ON Education.
A STRONG current of University
opinion is said to set in England toward
the endowment of research.
EFFORTS are making to raise Rhode
Island share of the fund to be appro-
priated to the further endowment of
Brown University.
EIGHT students have just been gradu-
ated by the Yale Medical School. The
prize Of $50 for the best report of chem
1cal lectures was awarded to Mr.. j. J.
Newconlb, of Litchfeld, Conn.
The English Womans Education
Union is endeavoring to establish
several schools for the higher education
of woman in Great Britain. There is
pitiful lack in that country of institu-
tions for the training of women for
teaching.
The committees appointed by the
alumni and trustees of the Miami Uni
versity, to secure State aid for this insti-
tuition, are about to apply for legislation
by which the University Will get money
from some Of the swamp lands to be
sold for educational purposes. They
hope to devise practical mode of turn
ing to account some of the waste places
Of the State
The attendance in the pu. lie schools
of West Virginia during 1873 was 1885,
1856, the school population being 49,
462. The whole number of schools in
the State was 1923 against 1857 in
1873. The average salary of teachers is
$32 per month. The total average cost
per pupil was IS SO.
The New England Journal of Educa-
ton says: One of the most interesting
places for teachers to visit, to gainsvalu-
able information and new ideas, is
well organized printing Office. AS
matter of interest to themselves, as
we'll as to obtain stock of Interesting
facts for their pupils, teachers would do
well at vacation time to learn, from the
practical examination, how the uailY
papers of the day are made.
A CLERGYMAN, at a recent teachers
meeting in Ohio, said that teachers are
too often selected in the wrong way.
Examiners make an intellectual re-
quirement IN straight jacket style, and
pay no attention whatever to the partic-
ular natural, innate adaptedness of the
teacher for the profession, and thus
men and women are found at the head
of our schools who are no more able to
develop the human mind than Modoc
is to draw a picture Of the heavenly
Jerusalem with charcoal"
AN unpleasant fact is reported from
Providence, r. [. The lady teacher of
the senior class of girls in the High
School receives salary Of 81, 800 a
year-$9OO less than that given to the
male teacher OF the same grade. The
question of small addition to her
salary has just been discussed by the
School Committee and the addition re-
fused-a decision remarkable alike for
its folly and injustice. The salaries
given to the teachers-an wOmen-in
the Providence primary and intermed1-
ate schools, are simply disgrace to the
city. 4 good teacher deserves at least
enough remuneration to support life III
ordinary comfort.
The National Bureau of Educa ton,
in the opinion of the Baltimore
Gazette, ''serves. no efficient purpose
except as an entering wedge to the
larger scheme of a National university
at Washington. The Gazette goes on to
say: "When we have in this country
some 10 Or II great universities con
tending for the plan of supremacy, we
shall have the best guarantee that can
be given of high standard of educa.
tion-a better one by far than we could
ever have from governmental supervis-
ion. This country, with its present
population, would furnish a clientele
for II first class institutions; and we
need as many as this: First, to over
shadow and crush out the so-called
colleges that are dotted around by the
dozen in almost every State: second, to
reduce the plethoric condition OF some
of the older institutions, which are
growing rich and inert, and living on
their traditions Third, to humanize
by the best intellectual influences the
great centers of population: and, fourth,
to inaugurate a system of strenuous
competition which will secure the high
est interest of all classes in the subject
of education, at the same time that it
tends to continual elevation OF the
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