New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-01
NOTES OK EDUCATION.


A School c,,f Mines is to be established at
Donver,
The Chemical apparatus recently purchased
sbroe 4 for Vanderbilt University cost $4,000.
fhe new academy at Ashburnham, Mass,
wiu be opened to pupils OF both sexes next August.
The library of $4,000 volumes left to Harvard
by the late Dr. Walker have been received at the college
The Committee on Organization of the
Rochester y. " BOari OF Education report that owing
to defects in the Compulsory law they gave up all at
Sempts at its enforcement.
The Catholic movement toward separate
schools now appears in Prince Edward Island the As
semby which has just received memorial asking for
such schools
The Buffalo Express says: awe hope the
controversy viii not be renewed and to AVOID any
excuse for continuing Il trust the reading OF the
Bible In the schools will be dispensed win 10 the
future"
The Maryland Institute Art Night schools in
Baltimore have over 500 scholars Thorough ratHlng is
given in elementary drawing. drawing from the round
gcometrcs drawing artistic and architectural dr@"ng'
and modelling In clay.1
At the Dartmouth Classday exercises, June
n the orator will be Mr. Jarvis Dnsmore OF Sterling
H.. the poet :. b. WSGin Of Boston the prophet
G. II Bureigh Of Name and the ohroneler' C. l. Coen'
ran OF NeS-IlmpshlTc.
At the Amherst competitive examination
last week. for the German prizes given by sanuei u
Warren of Boston, the prze Of so was awarded 10
L. storke OF Auburn n. Y, aud the secoud OF $V 10
G. K Bateman Vi Springfield III.
The teachers of Philadelphia are said 70
have answered fully and lntegentiy tie questions as
70 the health OF the public schools sent out IN circulars
by the Board Of Education. The public would be glad
10 sec these returns published in condensed and tabu-
lated form.
A speaker M a late Ohio Institute meeting
wisely said Instead Of paTrotEe recitation, we want
athinkns aud reasoning about thing. While the pupil
must ever allow due Difference t. the superior kno~l-
edge Of his instructor he should stl learn 20 ask for
himseIf not Is this true suggesting doubt; but why
Ia this sos"
Engineering students are said 10 be rapidly
entering Union College An annual SUN OF $50" pas
been promised to the college Tor art purposes ltI7
proposed 20 raise endowment f1nd or $1,000 70
create profrsscrshps in the name of Profs. Jackson
Lewis ana Foster, who about Retiring after Ion.
and faithful service
The separate organization, at Harvard, OF
the School Of Mining and Geology and the pro-
fesaorshp established therein sept 90 1865 have been
Discount by the Faculty and prOfessorshp estah
hshed known as the sturgsHoopcr Professorship OF
Geology ProfcssoIships Of Clinical Surgery and Of tn
History OF Art also been established as well as
one 10 be called tho story ProfessOrsnlP o. Law
II is asserted that while the curriculum of
the new college for women at Northampton rs not 81
elaborate asthat pursued ut Yale md Harvard 1t VIII
not compare unfayOrahy with what is insisted upon at
Amherst Williams Wesleyan University, and ls con
sderauly OF anything required either az VS.
sar or Mount HolyOke. Tie HrifJSd Post thinks that
1t hardly seems probable that the effect OF tho sruH
demanded Vii be disastrous 10 health and mental
activitv
These are the conclusions Of The indianapolis
S,nttael: ITO put the briefy no people ever
possessed two national languages. Therefore, either
English German has got TO prevail IN this country.
II the suppant the former, well and good tut
81 should not ask Tor receive government aid N ac
completing that task Il Is safe 70 assume that should
German bs the prevailing speech OF majority OF
our citzens. the deeayiug English would not be leit
long in the schools"
The demand for a manual of the normal
method Of teaching 10 DC answered by Prof j.
W Dickinson who has at work upon volume
giving the fruits OF his experience IN ftnG achcrs for
pubC schools during the past p years. IN the Wesihd
Mas, normal school The boz VIII make about 2jJ
pages and pTOpfshccs of II will be prepared and su-
he normal scDOOl principals az the meeting OF
kcw-YOrk Normal Teachers Association at P0ts-
dam, Y, the second week in MAY.