New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-11-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Iowa State Agricultural CODeBe mas J"so
cent out 90 graduates
At Dartmouth the term bills amount to $40,
m Brown ss5, at Williams 500 to $780, Yale Sl4o, ana
Harvard $3.50.
A Young lady, Miss Evelyn Chapman, took
the nrs prize the recent State collegiate oratoca
contest AZ Des Moines.
Prof Backus of Vassar says that other de-
nominations are jealous than the Baptist In the
matter OF female education.
The Texas Legislature has fixed the compen-
saton public school teachers in that state at 10 cents
per day for each pupil in actual attendance
The trustees of Wesleyan University, Mid
dletown have resolved to celebrate the Centennial by
the addition of 100000 10 the endowment Of the insti
tuition.
The new Ladies' College at Cambridge
England to be known as Newman Hail. has just been
opened 10 students Miss Cough sister OF the poet has
charge OF It,
Egypt has long been noted as country re-
markedly abundant in ophhaluc subjects, but not uhu
recently has IT had any school for the blind. One has
just been established at Cairo.
II is the opinion of The London Examiner
that the first necessity of the educational situation IN
England the friends Of free education should unite
in vigorous assault the eleicasm OF the Uniycrs-
ties
The Boston Teachers School of Science
ougt 70 serve as precedent similar schools in other
css The lectures are free the teachers In the public
schools and are well attended. The expenses OF this
school are all paid by its founder, Mr.. Cummings
The London Academy thinks it is worth con
alteration whether the elements OF modern pollos might
not be systematically taught In tie upper classes OF
schools instead OF being left entirely TO debating soc
cites and TO incidental illusions in historical lesscns
The Messrs. Stuart of NewYor> have given
10 Princeton Theological Seminary within the last Is
years nearly 100000. Over 40 students have been
admitted 10 Princeton this year. Tho new dormtory
building will be ready for occupancy In September next
The Public School Board of Indianapolis
have refused 10 establish kindergarten schools in that
CITY, The Indianapolis Sentinel thinks this wise action
on the grounds that such early training is not necessary
in prosperous country like ours, and that school. life
here is already too long,
Prof. Fawcett maintains that different stu
dents should he allowed 20 choose their own intellectual
discipline be in keeping with their own aspira-
tons and interests and cites in which the study OF
political economy takes hold Of young men and deye
ops their powers after classics and mathematics
have completely failed to awaken them.
The trustees of Wellesley College, the col
lege recently opened girls Massachusetts,, now aI-
peal to public for aid The price of board and tuition
-S250-wi not enable the institution to meet its cur
rent ex pense with the 800 students IN attend
1t needs books Tor us library, enuOWichJS IOr
proiessorshps and poor students contributions for
the gallery and the natural history department, and
GIL astronomical observatory. It's founders having built
the college and set it in operation, apparently consider
their part OF the work well done.
At a recent Massachusetts, teachers meeting
IT argued that much must not be attempted in
teaching history that details OF history should not be
taught but left for the pupil 10 learn in after years by
reading History ia tho scbooroom should embrace
III
which minor facts win cluster. half dozen political
facts ont Of which our system Of government has
grown; of inventions, from which mercantile
prosperity has arisen few leading literary facts 10
which literature is indebted;-these were the teach
ings advocated.
The maximum per cent in examination OF
teachers established by the California State Board Of Ed
neat Is follows: Eighty-tve per cent for hrst
grade for second grade and 20 for third grade certf
Gates The Board has also adopted so per cent as the
minimum standard in arithmetic, grammar. and spelling
for granting rstand second grade certificates, and 90
per for third grade certificates. County Boards are
required TO the candidates in these sndies first
and at once from further examination all who
fail below per cent Neither the State the County
Boards allowed 10 third grade certificates
The expenses Of Amherst College for the
past year, exclusive of the scholarships and prizes
s59,445 including 1888 for salaries Of instructors
and the receipts $J7 2O6, including $4,000 fort
term bills Of the misunderstanding an unfayoraoe bal
ance 1888 The estimates for next year Of about
$4,000 receipts and expenditures Though the num-
be- of students IS steadily increasing 33i in all the
business depression naturally affects the income Of the
funds Of the college and the sctest economy is neces
sary Tho college is already in debt TO itself about
$4,000 excess Of expenditures over income in former
years The yearly tuition has been raised fTon $50 TO
$780, its payment required after this year semi
annually in october and April, while the ministerial
al rghf laV cen MI
scholarships and prizes in this college pay about half Of
all the tuition fees besides their universal reduction TO
onehaf the whole cost by the general endowments of
the institution.