New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-03-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

surrent year amount to s2SsL6Si 81
The new Wellesley Female College at Welles-
Iey, Mass, IS to be opened on the sth Of next
September
Forty-one students have just been graduated
from the Medical Department Of the Uni'erSi| VI
louisiana
The new system of written examinations at
yeslevan Unyersity Middetown is said to be hear'y
approved by the students
The Polytechnic School of Zurich is the first
institution Of the kind Continent ana mas "ore
shan thousand students.
The new school of Mosaic decoration at
seyres France viii first seek for pupils showing 'aS'e
Scr the art at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum
II is reported that the Baptists OF tins
eountry to receive an appeal 10 lres 'N0 O'
xersity of Chicago from financial membranes
The Catholics of Buffalo have presented o
smor,al 10 the city authorities asking that the paro
ehaI schools be made public schools in everything ex
eept religion.
Mr.. William Francis Hllebrand, once
member OF Cornell University, recently received from
the University of Heidelberg tho highest degree con-
ferrable at graduation.
The two largest mixed colleges in the
country ore oberlin aud Michigan University oi tne
1850 studeufs az Obern eSs wOmenj OF the ll' a'
Michigan University, 100 are women.
The number of school districts in Montana
IN 1874 was g. The whole number OF children OF schooI
age returned s5l7 the attendance was ls.o' anu
the amount OF school money raised per pupil was ""
II is the opinion of The Toronto Leader that
Young women are at present trained IN superficial
r,anDer ana IL odds: "Thero can be no reason why
woman may not be acquainted If her tastes lead her TO
1uch studies with the classics any other branch Of
learning"
Mr.. Thomas Chase, once student and pro-
lessor at Harvard has elected to the presidency OF
Hayeriord College, Penn. lie Is one Of the American
reyisers OF the IRsh translation OF the Bhle VINO are
now at work In Connection with the British Committee
Of Revision
The Michigan Legislature has passed bill
abolishing county SUPPLEMENTARY and providing lOi
restoration Of the township supenDtendency OF
schools The number OF township school inspectors has
been reduced from two to one, and the term Of that
ofioer has been limited 10 a single year.
Prof. Sill, lately chosen Superintendent OF
Schools at Detroit lie mentioned as the possible occu
pant Of the chair OF Geology and Mneralogy at Nichi-
an University made vacant by the resignation Of Prof.
Higard Prof Church, who temporarily succeeds Prof.
Higard began bis work a short time ago.
Arrangements have been completed at Har-
ward by which all the great works Of the Greek Latin
Italian German and Spanish languages will be read as
Shakespeare and Homer arc read by various pro
fessors the whole occupy four years. the plan
coming uto practice at the beginning Of next year To-
day Prof Cbilds commences course Of readings In
Chaueer.
At late teachers meeting in Providence
the superintendent speaking Of schoolroom WORK. clt-
esed the lack Of life and animation which he had some
times observed impressing the thought that GULL list
less pupils would result from want OF life ana
sympathetic interest the teacher He also deprecated
the teaching OF abstract rules before the illustrations OF
them we're understood end urged thorcugluess in that
which Is really to DO learned
A petition is in circulation at Yale among
chose who are permitted TO write for Commencement
asking Prot. Eorthrop to abandon the plan proposed
by him time ago Of permitting the essays written
for Commencement to be judged by the competitors
themselves who to meet and hear the pieces read
and individually mark them, thus deciding as to which
are the best There good deal of dissatisfaction
over the proposed method and those who compete
the old plan Of having members Of the Faculty judge
for them,
A speaker at a recent teachers meeting in
Michigan said regarding school examinations II has
been noticed that as each year goes by, examinations
are held less and less regard teachers are beginning
70 take the record Of each day throughout the year as
telling OF scholars standing than any one or two
examinations possibly And this Is as It should be
the idea the ability OF scholar can be ascertained
by an examination, set OF examinations is one which
has worked, and Is working harm whose extent can
nQr be estimated"
II should be specially remembered by teach |
ers that series Of resolutions recently reported to the
Rhode Island Medical Society declared tai tcaoars
should not maintain the same position than half
hour at time; that child should DO admitted to
the public schools, as now conducted under years
Of age; that under n yearsof age three hours dav,
and for u and over four hours day is sufficiently long
confinement to mental cultures that study of school
khoad not usually be permitted. and that all incentives
70 emulation should used cautiously especially with
girls
School Superintendent George of Kalamazoo
saws; There IL a class teachers, sorry to
who look upon their work maEeshift that en-
abes them 70 keep body and soul together Their abors
are performed without thought Of the high duties be-
longing TO their calling. Teaching, as seience they
know nothing about; they acquainted with the art
merely to the extent Of turning of the work OF the day.
the week and the term, anxious principally for the
close of each and deeming all outside work or thought
10 the Of general culture preparation for classes
even as unpaid for and unnecessary"
The Galveston NeCs, in editorial review Of the
late session the Legislature Of Texas, crtcises its
aegect Of the public schools Of the State II says GAS
70 legislation touching the public schools. appearances
1T this writing suggest some msgiyings. In justice 1t
ust be said that the Fourteenth Legislature has not
teen distinguished for lively appreciation Of the i'm
portanee Of this subject At all events the languid
manner which propositions regarding public schools
have been dealt with by the Fourteenth Legislature
during both its sessions, exhibits anything but
ghtened interest advanced thought in that relation"
In Michigan, in 1874, there were 30 high
schools with enrolments ranging $50 There
were in Latin slS students; 10 Greek, 1905 In German
ssO IN French sOs in Geometry 500 in Algebra 1895
In Higher Arithmetic, I,l5l; in Bookkeeping $50; In
Elements Of Physiology, 5s6 Of chemistry, 275; Of
Geology as sO Zoology, 265 Of rMtural Philosophy