New-York tribune., 1875-07-01
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Lowell (Mass.) schools has failed
Cocducation maintained since 1850 in the
public schools Of Newport r. L. is reported by the Com
ni,tee to he thoroughly successful aud useful.
The power formerly lodged in trustees of
.eaools In this state purchase maps globes or other
school apparatus the value OF $50 year, without
vote Of tie district has been taken away
An inter-acadcmic rhetorical contest Is to be
conducted by the academies Of this state under the aus
piccs Of the Board Of Regents Tic contest Will be held
aud prizes subted essays be awarded at Albany on
The evening OF June o.
In the Baltimore Gcrman-Enclish schools
teachers OF primary branches receive the same
salay prma school assistants, AMI tbose who i'Hh
more advanced will receive the salary Of third
ssslsiants in grammar schools.
The fu! course Of instruction made possible
IN the University Of Pcnnsy vana by the liberal IOwne
hccuost has announced, and will begin on the l5th
Of September The scientific department has received
the name Of "Thc Towno Sceptic school"
A new National TrGiaing School of Music
will be opened AT South Kcsugton, London, toward tie
end of the year This school which is under the patron
agc Of tic Prince of Wales au the Duke OF Edinburgh
has already received gifts Of binding and scholarship
and Will of,r instruction to about 800 stud nts
In late speech ON French University edu-
cation, MoHAenOr Drpanloup Gr6acd an rrniy th"t
STATE universities should not hayo monopoly "t confer
ring degrees bocaG~e there are two schools Of p'so
phy-a Christian and A Matcrialt school anl studonts
OF the University write essays and theses containing Ma
terlllst doctrines. Which, however, Monsisnor Dapan
toup declines TO LAY are taught nj the University.
Concerning education in Virginia, Tile Rich-
ssod It,.rer says: IL may be and doubtless is the
fact. iat many Of the ornamental aud some OF til"
practical accessuus Of the modern college curriculum
and IN yctouousncss OF school buildings we are behind
many of our Northern sisters but in the elements OF
l,t In ia,.iu
ture uscfiiln.ss and n,a dcvelopmentn beralty of
views we think it b. claimed that our system has
edyaucol with the progressive and that our schools
AMI r,s AL their grades, can be pointed ~ with
tIst pridr."
A person named Or CORY is President Of Tie
riiuu., Indu rial University at Ch.mpalsn. and IN III
address gwen before the Iowa Eap st Ministerial A.
,oca,n reported to have uttered t,is choice bit a.
advice Never read tie daily papers. No man Of
oul.urc literary ambition. Or VIII dcsrcsto improve
his mnl wond do IT, lie wOald as soou ask his servant
to,mlly ,tl Of Sop on his head every day fom the
rhnmjeI- ndow to read the daily papers They are
ucic hash They have no ncat iadus honSht' III
them nothing T. inspire tie mind and their influence
isp,rn ci ,us."
On July will bc held meeting of the
Committee appointed by the University Convection 20
prepare a system Of examinations by which the scholars
whu excel any study taught IN the coil gcs OF the STATE
may be classified anl proclaimed by public ccreno
III. C.mut..e are: President Brown Of Hamilton Cot
lee President Van Rensselaer, of Hobart College. War
den Of ~ stephen Collcg" + OF N"tn Of tue
University of the City of Ncl ork. Prof WILSON Of Cor
neil University. Prof. Comfort Of Syracuse University
sad Prof q feafy Of Manhattan College.
The cooIed citizens of San Francisco have
pcftorei the Beard Of Education 10 permit their cllen
to eut, public schools Of the city They say III r
erl to the separate colccl schools that during tie
twent, five years which they have been in existence
no courcd child has graduated ~ the grammar or been
admitted to higl school: aud that Wilde IL has been
Gscrt.lrcd that there over two hundred ohhdie
o. the requisite schoo age residing within tie limits Of
this rnv i city the annual report % the Suptrn-
tend M Of Public Schools shows that oDly about forty
eight are in average daily ATTENDANCE. which must hc At
tttintfd To- The roiuoieuce. AZ locality of suc el"os
and the want Numbers from their small population u
fcru fur aud Efficient grades in acc"r'auce with the
rules and /, gulltions of tic public schools
Tie amount expended in Connecticut for
teachers salaries during the past year Was ,02l7 ia
the average wages given per mon.h 10 masculine teach
ers reng S7l and 10 feminine TEACHERS $50 In tie Hast
10 years the WAGES of the latter laVe merely 'Ghtd
Will tnosc the former have increased no per cent
The Hartford says: The female teachers IN this
State as clasa are earnest faithful and INTELLIGENT yet
their wages are pushed down the lowest not'h Many
~ tcn ray than clerks or The hc'-
oI et,s OF operatives IN factories ant shops II II ." he
horcl that the remedy cvi FOR such II really IS,
WY the wages Of female teachers shoud not he at icst
Tire, loiuihs as much rs the amounts paid 10 men.
Tho, TO her or work many respects and arc
arscryiug az lust recognition for tIor sc-Vic' ="
In readlngOvcr the seasons reports Of Com
ceremonies the editor OF Tte feora Ira"-
seripi struck by the fact that the utaran soems to
be driving the aesthetic in college oratory, and II
would sem to follow. III college education He notes
that where formerly every college commencement iad
It's Ltln salua ,ran, It's Greek ola l's philosophical
es.aylst now many OF them dispense with these
altogether Instead ~ stil,cd oratious and essays upon
Greek dramas and NEUROLOGICAL legends. We nave piic-
fical essays the b'st 10 build bridge I" tunnel
mountain. construct truss roof AZ on recent Com
is,mcenent huge blackboard formed background to
tie orators platform. and Of the graduates Illus
irstcd hs essay by drawing appropriate figures upou the
board THIS probably carrying tie matter too far
but there il doubt that the present feeling among
both the Instructors and patrons of the best American
colleges is in favor Of practical rather than asihce
culture"
PRINCIPAL Garnet of st. Johns College, Mary
land .ays that our entire system ~ higher instruction
Is basel on two low plane aud for this The colleges
greatly TO blame Throughout the whole country we SO
colleges doing preparatory work, and as consequence
ioworns Tie character of their graduates, umii tie 1rii
nary R A. degree has ceased carry any Loupr With H.
aud r. As are Annually turned from colleges
almost entirely Of the very elements Of liberal
oduea,inu There IL anity Of plan Of hSiruct' H. uo
only IN the private. IN tie public high scl"os
and academies I'm any single state and consequently
there can urifo nifty OF preparation for COLLEGIATE
Iis only by enforcing rigid system ~ "i-
characterization that the colleges have II in their
rover 10 relieve themselves o the Necessity o doing pre-
,.,r.. Nv work BY placing the standard Tor entrance
,u..,Outly Ltii AMI storuy rejecting ai VII" do ne"
com. n to tire required standard. the good eject upou
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