New-York tribune., 1875-02-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

by the Medical College of Syracuse University one
the numbe er is q lady
President Purnell of Delaware College re-
nors that there is being educated In oo
out Of every six Of the population
The Senior Class in the Michigan Univer-
atty has 1t Is reported, pettoned the faouy W ao'
graduate speeches at Commencement
Eighteen students, five of them women, have
inst been graduated by the Habnemann Society Oh tue
homeopathic Hospital College OF Cleveland
Tho Regents Of Michigan University an
nounce their Willingness to manage such Homeopathic
College as may be established by the Legislatures
authority in connection with the University.
There are now pending in the Wisconsin
Legislature bills providing for uniform examination
OF teachers and for uniformity and free use OF text
books in the towns and cities.
A large number of German citizens OF In
danapols formally state that benent derived from
the study Of German in the public schools OF that oy
the reason gvon being that not enough time Is devoted
toit
A school publication, to be called The Brook
Inn Journal Of Educaton Ia TO make its first appear
ance in that city in March. Tbs journal Will give
school and art news aud will advocate drawing In tho
schools.
The highest salary paid to male teachers in
Illinois Is $3.50 a month; the highest paid to female
teachers $22O Tho respective averages OF the sexes
are s8 10 and $50 49, In Massachusetts i 80 and S4 a.
In Massachusetts one teacher in eight is man, Whiie
in Illinois three teachers in seven are men.
LAFAYETTE College, Easton, Penn, has re-
ceived from the heirs OF the late Hon. c. L. Ward or
Towanda, tho gift OF valuable library OF 1900
volumes. 1t is to be known as The ward Colectloh'
and will be placed In a room specially devoted to it.
This College has also received recently gtt OF SVoo0
from Mr.. Hoenback OF Wilkesbarre
In reference to President for Tufts Col
ege The Boston GLOBE THINKS during the contem-
plated interregnum, the present army OF candldates
will disappear aud that person, little thought OF at
this moment in connection with the Office, because OF
his recent action but who is prominent in the UniVer-
sast denomination, will be elected 10 Ill the vacancy
The permanent school fund Of Nevada has
been increased from to sSoo0O In the past two
years Out Of the school population OF 63o5, only y23
were non-attendants last generalization being com
pulsory in Nevada Tho Superln declares the
compulsory school law to be very popular measure'
Efforts are making to mOvo the State University, now
established at Eko. to the western part OF the state
Prof, Churchill of Oberlin says that too
many hours Of study exacted OF pupils In tho pubic
schools that instructors are careless OF the amusement
of children that the courses Of study require too
form the labor required in the time allotted. He adyo-
cats not the lowering the standard Of the high school,
but the engthcning Of tho time devoted to the lower
grade.
Tuition in the University Of California is
free TO students from any State country The next
entrance examinations will be held June and Aug H.
1876 The course OF instruction occupies Tour years.
leading to the degree OF Bachelor of Philosophy In the
College Course Of Mines Students who desire 10 re-
ceive the degree of Mining Engineer must continue their
studies for two years more aud must exhibit to tho
Faculty satisfactory evidence Of their power to apply IN
actual work the knowledge they have acquired.
State Superintendent Bateman OF Illinois
includes In his annual peport this sensible and practical
paragraph In regard TO the teaching OF the fnturc
1.-The era Of aud cheats and claprap In education
will have gone By. Rewards and prizes Gno oIher art-
HciaI and vicious incentives 10 study will no longer be
known and with them the arbitrary unjust and pre-
poserous practice of pretending to note astudenPs
intellectual moral and departmental rank and standing
by a mechanical system OF marks, Will also be num-
bered with discarded rubbish OF an obsolete educa-
tional dspensaon The hopes that have been crusheu
the hearts that have boen stung the ireparaDe mis-
chief been wrought by tha puerile and abom-
Unable system should have sent IL TO the moes and tho
bats long ago"
The whole number OF free public schools IN
Illinois in 1874 was II 6l6 Tho total number OF pupils
enrolled WAS GIL 75 and the average daily attendance,
as3 334 The whole number Of teachers 2129. Tho
State superintendent reports that Of tho whole number
Of children entitled TO attend public schools IN 1874 ~
per cent did attend at ALL and only 40 per cent were
I'm daily attendance, while but per cent OF those
enrolled were in daily attendance Tho number OF
private schools reported was 6l, these having IN
attendance OF 6lO23 pupils. The State Register says
"The marked in the number OF private schools
during the year, IN the number Of pupils attend
ing such schools, and IN the teachers EN-
ployed, shows the decay or the pubhc school
system in the strongest possible light, ana shows Also
the cause of this decay Tho private school an inst
tuition which proposes to teach the Children attending
that it lie shown by the great Increase OF at
tendance The public school, as now conducted, Is an
stitution which proposes TO give the children ut has
no pups the same privilege they would have II 1t did
not exist VIZ: tho privilege Of learning II they can"
The cost Of Inoiss public schools last year was Soo
cs2 s and the total receipts s92925l6 79 The average
cost per scholar school s. Co; on actual
daily attendance s13 The total common school fund
of the State is reported q, s6,573sO3 s..
Mr.. George E. Mcneil, Deputy State Con
stable who was detailed to investigate matters pertain
ing to the schooling of children employed in hassachu-
setts reports that hcre are 60oO0 children Old
enough to attend school, Roosing up in Ignorance In
that State He recommends that the school age include
all from Ave to 10 years OF age that they bc enrolled
and their ages addresses and places OF employment II
empo7ed registered annually in books kept for that
purpose He also advocates compulsory returns from
School Committees, Assessors OF towns and cities and
employers having children under their control as work
ers Also that law similar to the factory acts of En-
gland be enacted limiting the age at which child can
be employed either of various mills or factories at u
years and not then unless such children have
receiyed the elements OF . common school educa-
tion and shall be ply yscay qualified for such labor
age education and physical condition TO be matters Of
provided for by law and every child between
70 and s to receive weeks schooling each year. Of ten
sessions each week, 40 weeks Of ve sessions each
week. provided that any child having graduating from