New-York tribune., 1875-02-25

in tho benefits be conferred ny tho johns hoPA"o
University are the States of Maryland Virginia ana
North Carolina Prof. Gilman has taken steps W Seo''
| a department OF Oriental languages.
The annual report of Superintendent Flem-
ing OF tho total school population OF
that State In 1874 TO have been 42o3s4-white, al6eS
| coIored lo3s0 The number OF pupils enrolled was
o5sb77 the average attendance excepting seven coun-
ties was lGl os9 The schools received from State ana
counties during year $685. 70 and, Including tne
Cities total Of s09si59 1O7. The total expenditures
we're s9I376 49, The salary paid to teachers
by tho State was Per month $50 o. In regard 70 the
co education OF tho races, superintendent Flemng
saws: "The school law is absolutely impartial In Its
provisions as affecting tho The same sehoo age
Is prescribed for colored for white ohldren they are
counted alike in the apportonment OF schoo moneys;
they are entitled to pursue sudles they are
subject to the school officers and TO the same gen.
eraI school regulations and special regulations are
tolerated prefer the rights OF one race 10 those OF
tho other Coored people eligible as teachers schooi
directors county superintendens and state superln
endents lust as they eligible to the civil oces OF
the State General Government The only distineton
between recognized by our School law is In ho
mode OF organizing the children into SCHOOLS opoer
the imperative provision OF State Constitution, anu
for the manifest good Of both races, tho law provides
that white and coored children shall not be taught Id
the same school, Just it might have provided without
mpairng its parality that males and females shouid
he Taught IN separate schools The law therefore, Is
strictly impartial; for II it be complained that eo'oou
children are permitted to enter the white SCHOOLS
| might with equal propriey and force, be compainod
that white children not permitted 70 ehsr 'he CUT
| ored schools, as they are not"
The bill for the unifcation of our State
school system not the appreciation OF The Troy W0
which says: ut is all wrong, from beginning to end
II any change made, the first thing Is to abolish the
| Doar rIofDo at
their several powers appropriate departments
The Board is large and clumsy. Tho duties are all done
by three four persons in Albany and the Board 10 IN
truth sham" The Albany Erpress uses the following
strong anguage For the last two or three years the
Regents assumed offensive, and have sought 10
obtain possession OF the Common School Department.
and to make the of that department. an agent or
servant OF their own Jealousy and fear have both con-
trbuted to these efforts jealousy the part OF he Re
gents system which furnishes free instruction for
over 1000 eco Of children year, and which super
| yses the annual expenditure OF over sOoOooCo ana
fear that II the Department OF Public Instruction DC
independent 1t interfere In the future as IL mas
interfered in the past opposition the levyng Of
State taxes for the support OF private academies we
entertain very great respect for the honorable Senator
from Oneida (fr Lowery bat are well convinced tnst
in this matter he Is in the wrong 1t may be well enough
20 reduce tho number Of Regents and to provide DEL
mite terms OF office for such Of them as are to be con-
|
Public Instruction made mere tool OF theirs as ne
would be II he we're to elected by them, and turned
out at their pleasure The superintendent Should ike
every other head OF department IN the State Govern
ment ndependentiree to act for the best lerests
OF tho State without danger Of being turned out OF
Office for doing And his report, Ike that OF every
other head of department, should be made direct to
| the legislature"
| The Nation mentions with approval Presl-
| ~, o., in rd
| University and especially commcnds his proposal to
engage professors highest rank TO pay them well
enough give them and leisure for constant cui-
| walton and to this constant cultivation
| aud public evidence Of the same. "Now, wnat
this means" says The Ydtton aud how great contrl-
button would be the intellectual progress ana iaihe
OF the United States may be Inferred when we say that
VIC could at this moment name twenty men, employed
at small salaries existing colleges whose WORK IN
| certain fields OF research would be OF inestlmaDle
value TO science and literature OF the world but
| who arc compelled, in order to earn their livelihood,
to pass of their time teaching the rudiments TO
| boys or preparing schoolbools, and that American
graduates who would like to pursue certain lines OF
culture their latest limits compelled every year
either to go abroad content themselves with the
necessarily imperfect aid which they can get In the
| postcraduate courses from Overworked and halfpad
professors who are doing the duty OF sehoolmasters
Ono of results of the present state OF things-and
none see IL plainly than those who like ourselves,
are called every week to compare tho results or the
intellectual activity OF Europe with our owns that our
Intellectual progress bears sort OF proportion to our
progress in the accumulation of wealth and in The
mechanical arts. To the higher thought Of the world
we contribute shamefully little The books that rouse
and stimulate in the various great fields OF specua-
| tion to-day are almost invariably European and 1t
shows what a mental condition some OF us have fallen
into that it has been seriously proposed within few
years to remedy his OF things by putting heavy
customs duty the products of tho European mind-a
| proposal worthy Of the year 1900"