New-York tribune., 1875-01-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

- ..nna,s ts s9SS .sr .'.f IN 900
u-.,,,. arr now forbidden to study out OF
..sooi honrs in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Bayard Taylor will give course OF lec-
,.res AT Cornell during the Summer season.
The vacant Principalship of the San Fran
,sco Boys' High school 10 be offered to Wm hseo'
superintendent of Schools at Brookline, Mass
The subscriptions to tho Agassiz Memorial
Fund thus far amount TO $s192 a. Eew-Sork mas CON-
tslputed si,lOs 81 and Massachusetts, s2SS' o.
The six ladies who were elected to the Bos-
,on sehoo Committee formally took their seats Iuesoa9
evening, and we're placed on several committees
The salaries paid to the Detroit public
.hooa ,a.obera amount 10 q total Of $105iS 30 per
mouth The institution OF evening schools Is recon-
nended
t 30 per pupil. or the whole number OF children en-
ned on the school of the year. 70 per cent we're
attendants OF the public schools
The schools of Milwaukee will be permitted
70 expend during the coming year tl5s4Oo The sGgre-
rate of the teachers salaries viii be ssO9Oo There are
,ss teachers now employed by the Board.
Syracuse University term is said to have be-
gun with very encouraging prOspects. 1t has lateiy
received gifts OF railroad bonds books ETC. Is re-
ported that a professOrship is to be endowed
The proposed new Boston charter provides
for the placing the schools in charge OF Boara Oh
amners composed OF men the largest experience ana
highest attainmeDts. This service 10 DO paid ior'
Tho result of the discussion of drawing In
the public schools by the Detroit Board OF Eiucauo
has lust been the adoption Of resolution MAKING II
department of study in al tho grades II "ii' 00''
t4,6oo year.
The Sacramento Board OF Education report
that the great cause OF large number OF slnat
q, rho High School was the attempt procure the study
Of one or more of the languages addition to the pre-
scrlbed English course
The Neuc- York Observer says that it is salts
ned that the managers of public schools bavo been
attempting too much the way OF education ana nave
oently regarded the genius OF the system Iand
she genius OF oar public institutions generally
Prof D. C. Eaton began yesterday at Yale
course OF the history OF Italian paintng'
prize Of 500 the best on any subject con-
nected with is open TO all students IN the
various departments of the College who join the class
The Governor of Pennsylvania recommends
that where provision made by tho local school boards
for education in applied scences the State should be
pledged TO give proper assistance In what shape this
assistance Is to be extended is not very clearly defined
by the Governor.
A Board of School Trustees in this State has
illustrated the mperfection of the Compulsory Educa
tsn law by resolution to send all children in their
district having neither p1reuts guardians who re-
comply with the requirements Of the Compulsory
Education bill, to the House Of Refuge.
The prizes, offered by DR.. Hubbard of San
Francisco 10 Senior Glass Of Dartmouth College for
the best essays have been awarded, the first, OF go IN
gold 10 Charles A. Prouty OF Newport, VT, and the
second OF $40 in god TO Wilbur H. Powers OF Croydon
gbe subject was Intellectual Culture and Professional
Reward"
IL is the opinion of The Netc-Haren Pal
iadians that II American colleges were alike in genius
sudies and influence intercollegiate contests would be
we'll It ssys: "Yale and Harvard differ from other
American colleges not degree bat in kind, just as
New-York differs from Philadelphia Brooklyn, or as
London from any other city in the world 1t Is not o
matter Of numbers, but OF character OF institutions OF
sphere. We do not presume say that Yale aud Har-
ward are better than other colleges; merely insist
tnat they different institutions, and that compar-
soma are, therefore doubly odons."
The proposed new system of education, en-
eraeug all sorts Of special technical instruction,
does not receive tho appreciation OF The Hartford Post
1t tsays: "A showy and simply outside training must
follow inevitably from the adoption Of the proposed
reform More ground will be passed but Of
81 will he held and proh;ably made use Of To imagine
that the common school should be made seminary Of
learning is niscOncepon OF tho public school system.
never designed 10 supply the want Of academic
training and it cannot be turned from its legitimate
neId without permanent injury aud loss all around"
In the public schools of Erie, Penn, books
sppear TO he read chiefly furnishing elementary
rules by which the pupil be guided in the methods
of acquiring instruction. In arithmetic the scholar Is,
for instance told TO make out bill Of given number
of items Another order may call for the drawing OF
note upon 1t its partial payment, interest, discounts
nc 40 that there is no learning by rOte and ere a
.ehoIar can even enter the High School be or she In
most cases is able make such computations as are
ordinarily required of bank clerk Business forms
nud business habits" s one OF the Of arithmet-
cal inst ruction here.
The endeavOr to introduce technical studies
in the common schools is criticised severely by The
Toledo Blade II holds that photography. telegraphy.
etc. to be acquired thoroughly, should he taught In
technical schools after the completion OF tho common
school education at least after sufficient attainmens
have Been therein acquired 20 h the student for the
business pursuits OF life The Blade adds Sufficient
time cannot no spared in schools to render
the pursuit Of technical education profitable and by Its
introduction before the pupil has acquired proficiency
sill the elementary studies general nefcency would
be the result and effect much more harm than good"
The defects in the new Compulsory Educa-
non law grow more glarng. At meeting OF the trns-
tees Of the several school districts OF the town OF
reenburR N. Y, for the purpose Of making rules and
regulations to out the provisions Of the law they
came 10 the conclusion that was defective In the
following particulars First The trustees. upon whom
deyolves the carrying out OF the law not liable
any penalty should they fail to do Second The ina
by OF trustees to enforce penalty for violation OF
the provisions Of the act 10 collect fines imposed
by it, Third The act utterly fails point any way
10 raise money to carry out any OF its provisions.
speaker at o recent teachers meeting in
Central NewYork declared that the schooroom Jugger
nAut intellectual arithmetic. "Beneath its wheels"
he said. many bright intellect is crushed. Mental