New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-04-29
NOTES on EDUCATION.

There are lOZ lenlnlhc sIo"ch'0 III 'V''
University.
There are $50 pupils in the New-England
conservatory of Music at Boston
The State appropriation for the Rhode Island
public schools in 1886 if 10000
There are now in this country fifteen UNI
vcrsjt,s in which coored students are receiving III
struoon.
An elective in the new philosophy Is advo-
Gated among tie philosophical courses OF next yeii "'
Harvard.
The plan for the enforcement of compulsory
education in San Francisco resembles tha' III op'I""o"
in New-Y0rk
The Indiana Assembly has given 100000 to
Purdue University the purchase Of literary and scen
tio appliances.
There are 80 agricultural colleges in this
country employing altogether $50 professors ana atss'
ants. and instructng 1917 students
Mr.. G. A. Sala says that with very few ex-
ccptions the educational systems OF the day are eA
barbarous and blunierng, or plausibly nsnecro.
DR.. Edouard IIitzig of Berlin, known for his
researches on the functions OF the brain. has been elected
TO the chair Of Psy GEOLOGY in the University Of Zurich
The Ohio Wesleyan University needs money
baly and the four Conferences etronzing the instu
ton have undertaken raise each an endowment fund
Of 100000
The Maine State College ut Orono is said to
he in n furnishing condition The standard Of expert
meutal agriculture s to be fully maintained during the
coming year.
Both the New-York and Chicago Alumni Oh
Amherst have nominated as their candidate for the VI
cant rusteosaip OF that college Mr.. T. B. Kellogg OF Wis
consin lie IS the donor Of the Kellogg price, and
patron OF the college cabinets
The Rev. DR.. Enoch f. Burr of Lyme, Conn.,,
has Begun OF ue lectures "a the Amherst senior
class on the scientific Evidences of Religion" After
the coarse there will be competitive examination on
tins subject for tie Mosely prizes OF $50 ana $40
At the recent freshman examination i'll solid
geometry no Harvard te scale Of marks was 80 low That
nearly hundred rcmhe?s of the class arc IN danger OF
CONDITIONS sixteen questions given and Pnswcis 10
fourteen were clued these fourteen it Is said, being
propositions who's very dicu solution would be per
lexing "a Tar wiser mathematical than the average
freshman
a reduction of , per cent on the salaries OF
priucp pals and IL per cent tuos Of teachers IL pro
roscd n Allegheny, Penn. This would III some cases
bring down salaries 10 $50 so month. which SUM Is
curious sort II compensation for labor SO important ana
f4guiuc It does not appear 10 he possible to make
certain class OF Americans understand that low salaries
in ts profession mark the weakest aud absuTdest policy
The following sentences are those of TIE
Baltimore gazette We shall hail the time when every
idle and trant boy NAV to fear each bush
an officer aud recognize I'm the baton OF the policeman
the Of the professor; aud every roundsuan shall
be invested with the additional dignity OF scholastic an
tholy. much WIN he the general gain. And We would
see girls not only have equal pveg ~ the schools
bur placed under Ike restrictions with the boys"
The whole number of children in the public
schools Of New Hampshire was. in 1874, about G9l7o
The average number 47,273 There is a decrease
since 1850 OF about 10000 in the whole number. The
amount money raised by taxation for the support al
schools the state in 1874 more than double that
raised former dlte. The annual reports seem {"
show that children taken from school at an earlier
age formerly aud that THE evil is increasing year by
year
Ii is the opinion of The american Edacd-
tonai MonttLy thai teachers should be occasionally
given European vacation on the grounds that there is
no class Of intellectual abOreTs who overwOrkcd
and undergrad as educators that they have much, n
not more do in giving bent to the incnatons ana
tastes and mUldng the mind OF cAi lren than parenS
cven and should cularc ,ier il ~ by travel; and tiai
teaching poorly lated that 1t IL difficult to
retain good abilities III 1t.
Can we not teach morality in school asks
The National TecrS' Monnds and 1t the qurs
tlon thus Indeed we can. Howl by keeping good
school BY Keeping good order teach morality
whereas disoricy religious school is the most TIRE
lgious institution tiat law can tolerate. BY teaching
well we teach morality Morality IL too general term
To uscd in soeaking with children BY being kind {"
children We te ch morality. BY acknowledging our own
mistakes seach morality by being frank and natural
We teach morality. BY being good nttuIcd We teach
raiity
A memorial has been issued in Phlla delphia
purpose OF securing aid for the projected erection
e. archaeological Institute and Museum II says: Dur
ing the Centennial celebration there viii be doubt be
many distinguished scientific mea il Pr Idelpha from
all parts Of the world. and who wOGd give lectures in
different languages ut archaeological Institute,
city which would be Of triple advantage 10 the City NJ
PHILADELPHIA namely firstly, to entertain our visitors
from all parts of the world with scientific lectures III d
r,.n languages secondly to introduce ana make
archaeological Institute well known all the world
thirdly raise mon"y by the ctures aud by the exIib
ton 10 pay for the building OF the Institute and Museum
A writer on the success of teachers says:
No matter how incompetent mercenlry be may be,
lac cunot rid Of his responsibility though he my
share IL with ,!iurs Whether lie wishes. admits
or denies IT, ,,uAbty reaches far beyond his d-
rect instruct i includes his most careless conversation
and hi- simplest habits, takes cognzance OF his
business character and transactions, and makes nqus
fual demands 70 his private motives AMI most secret
thoughts Who more than lac should hesitate before ul
dcrtakng the crculean t..ki For 10y far the ind
vidu teacher lacks the capacity of the ideal teacher
will the result OF his work he incomplete unsatisfactory
or vicious aud by far the Of the teaching
capaci,y Of the community Is below this standard, will
the community suffer for the deficiency.
A writer in Tie Ncp- England journal Of
Education thinks that the popular spelling contests
should never considered fair tests Of urto
graphic scholarship. Let the sane contestants" be
SAYS write the three hundred words and then pass pa
pers. correct and compare notes, AID The result would
probably be very different II would certainly show
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