New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-12-02
NOTES on EDUCATION.

Oberlin College, Ohio, has GAS male and sos
female students.
The Massachusetts Teachers Association
will meet in Boston OH the 2sth, 29th, and 3Oth inst
The Iowa State Teachers Association will
hold s next annual session at Burlington Iowa, on the
2sth inst.
Under the new School Law of Tennessee
female school teachers will receive the same WAGES ior
the same services as male teachers.
A bill will be presented to the Legislature of
PENNSYLVANIA. at it, next providing for the
tablishment mechanical school in the City of Pitts
buTgh.
The State Superintendent Of Instruction in
Indiana has decided that county superintendent can
license himself TO teach, and receive pay for his
services a. a teacher
The ladies of Chicago arc to canvass that
city for sgners petition, TO be presented to TIE
Board OF Education asking for reinstatement OF the
Bible in the public schools
During the war some United States bonds
belonging 10 the school fund of the State of Texas
taken from the Treasury of that State and sent to Eli
gland to be used in the purchase Of munitions Of aud
other supplies for the Confederate States These bonds
amounted 10 about $4,000, and their recovery has
been subject OF litigation since the close OF .he war
Gov Coke has been successful recently in retaining
$500 900 of the fund through agent sent 10 England
for the purpose
A novel plan for promoting habits of economy
among children has been ia successful operation for
era years in public schools OF Client Belgium BY the
advice of g. Laurent Professor OF Law in tue University
in that city, savings banks established in each Of
the schools and children encouraged to deposit their
pennes The wisdom Of the scheme is shown in the fact
that al the present time $4,000 Of the $1,000 scholars
attending the public schools in Client have succeeded in
getting themselves opened at the state savings
banks, with about 100000 to their credit.
The influences which the Johns Hopkins
University will exert upon the educational Interests %
the City OF Baltimore and the State OF Maryland begin
10 be felt already. At late meeting Of the Public
school Commissioners Of that State the relations between
the public schools and the University were discussed
and several plans suggested by which they might be
brought into closer relations II is designed TO grade
the educational institutions of the State that scholars can
pass from the high schools TO St. Johns and Washington
Colleges and from these to the Johns Hopkins University
In the annual report of the School Commit
tee Of the City OF Providence, the following interesting
facts found The whole number of pupils registered
IN all schools the past term is 1O,92s or this num-
Der $40 have been received into the High School, 291S
have been received in IL grammar schools 1850 into 80
intermediate, aud 1884 into 81 primary schools. Tie
whole number OF pupils admitted for the year is 12507
The average cost Of nsTucting each pupil was Sl3 A.
Concerning the evening schools the report says The
number of scholars registered ut the night schools
26l boys and OF girls, with attendance Of
$50 In addition these there 352 enrolled at he
polytechnic school To instruct these scholars nearly
100 teachers employed The general results of the
evening schools have heen highly satisfactory.
Brown University at Providence, II. l., sends
out neatly printed catalogue which shows creditable
degree progress in that institution under the energetic
administration of President Robinson. The ndnber Of
students 200, divided among the different classes
statt,4e -f.Fff.
freshmen Ga The requirements Of admission have been
advanced during the past few years. and the catalogue
announces that the standard viii be still further al
vanced III ST. The OF studY for candidates for
the degree Of Bachelor Of Philosophy which have here
tofore extended three years will be extended TO
four years after the present collegiate year The Unigcr
sity las three departments Of practical science, as fol-
lows Chemistry applied to the arts, civil engineering
and agriculture The library contains at present $4,000
volumes, and library building is in process OF
erection in which accommodations will be provided for
100000 volumes There are 80 scholarships, the income
OF which is given 10 meritoriOus students, and, in
addition "a scholarships of 800 each derived from the
OF the public lands given by the State to tie Uniyer
sity. The next Commencement, the 1Osth June
81, 1876
The catalogue of Union College for the pres
college year shows marked improvement in that In
etitution, both in the number OF students and in the
Of instruction. There are In the Senior Glass %
students in the Junior 50, in the Sophomore 40 and in
the Freshman ~. making total OF go. The engineer
ing is four years course, and embraces
besides technical training belonging to tie engineer
ing profession, fall amount OF general culture. IL In
cludes Latin German, French Rhetoric Philosophy, Po
nca Economy, and the Sciences. Nine lectureshps
by professors have been added to the college
curriculum President Henry Coppee OF Lehigi Univer
sity lectures History; Sidney A. Norton on Expert
mental Physics; the Rev. DIR. Edward A. Washburn
Old English Literature; the Rev. Samuel Osgood d. d.
LID, Of New-York City, on German Literature and
Modern Thought; NJ. Wendell PAmoreux On Southern
European Languages and Literature; selah Howell on