New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

urshps In the various departments Of the University Of
Georgia.
The annual meeting of the New-Jersey State
Teachers Association will be held ut Trenton, August
"a and rs.
Bowdon has received from the Allen family
+ Gardiner Maine the gift Of valuable geological col
leetion OF 600 specimens.
The four new kindergarten schools in Boston
are intended for chirn three years Old and will give
four years course OF instruction.
The old University of North Carolina will
be again opened suuents on the frat Monday in Sep
tember. The charges tuition Will be SEQ a term
The Presidency of Lehigh University is now
held by the Rev John NJ. INavitt. II. d. Prof Coppcc
viii remain In intituton occupant OF the chair OF
History and International Law.
A large number of private normal schools,
attended by public school teachers and conducted by the
cicvcrcst Of Their profession are carried on
during the Summer vacations in Indiana. They are said
10 be very useful and successful
Commencement at Mount Union College,
Stark Co. Ohio occurred last week. OF the 80 eradu
atcs receiving diplomas, i've young women Inc
College Is to have a building for the museum, which
will cost $4,000 The Trustees also about to pur
chase for n commercial department the new and large
College Hall Alliance. The College has property est
mated al 1851 600, and SIS income is $4,000
A female teacher in Rhode Island writes
81 her seventeen years teaching and remuneration: my
salary has from 1921 per year. for the first year
Of my teaching TO $500 year FER the last two years
only. Now pcrait to ask how far toward support
ing this mortal body will 800 IL the female teacher
dcvotes her time when at to mental Improvement
and rest -
Dr. Samuel Elliot, head master of the Girls
High School Boston, thinks that If teachers could he
united or represented in faculty, and allowed TO carry
ont their convictions they would transfer some OF
The studies Of higher schools TO the lower, in more
elementary form; for they know that thousands OF cm
dren in the lower schools win not pass into the higher
and that what they do not learn where they arc Will
never De learned elsewhere.
The following calm suggestion is made by
The Illinois STATE Register: LET those who oppose our
statement that the children of The public schools do not
read speak write English test the assertion Ivy eN
aiming the group OF school children they meet and
they will find that assertion is literally correct Tie
public school system been loaded with red tape so
hampeed by machinery crippled by theorists ana so
weakened by the employment OF idle and incompetent
officers that longer public ofense to he opposed
10 the system"
cectarianism in our colleges is discussed by
The Ycoy lines II says There about 800 colleges
andunivcrsities in this country. Nearly all are under
the auspices Of religious denominations We have no
objection theological schools Let every sect nave
one nj every four corners If il wishes. but the halciu
Effects of denomnaticn rule secular institutions OF
learning should be swept away. Ii is bondage which
works ey AMI that continuously Now II is notorious
fact that majority these institutions are moderately
attended, poorly endowed, provided with insufficient
braree apparatus and other means of instruction. pay
Tho proso mcagcr salaries and as perssently
crying for aid Arabs around welldressed traveller
Instead Of being strong indeneDdent institutions able
10 employ the best OF instructors, buy every neodf
means for giving the student the broadcast and most
thorough culture and keep abreast Of the age the swarm
Of sccarian colleges are doomed ignominous and
vulgar scufle for bread
Concerning practice in language, Prof. Is. q.
Northrop says: every recitation may be practically
lanruage-rn both and precision Let every
pupil held accountable for all errors In pronunciation
or grammar occurring the Classroom as If they were
h ow H. unless and cOrrects them and let him
he encouraged try when confident that he can give
any answer brefer better terms than his classmates
have done This method ccps all on the alert, and de-
Nelops the habit OF attention and Of criticism with
yong children conversation should he Of the attrac
,ions of the school is Of the wen regulated home To
teach how to talk well should bc constant aim OF both
home school training TO attend carefully, TO ques
ton to the point and respond aptly diseipincs every
faculty. Just here OF The greatest deficiencies OF
American schools compared with the best schools of
switzerland, Germany, aud England. With us nothing OF
equal importance moderated the culture of the
expressive faculties"
The Summer School of Natural History, at
Peoria, Is financially successful. The school has i'll
interest in the studies pursued has grown in CORE
spondng degree In Of his lectures In this school the
other day Wilder held that educated people often
make the mistake OF forming conclusions upon insu
fcsnt grounds, especially in those subjects which are
thought 10 OF their line. II is in this way that
M nsters Gospel have been led to Generaze upon
pl,ysical phenomena in such way TO make science
and religion TO disagree. The Professor believes
this great of the decrease in the number
Of church going people. and that every minister should
IL rcquired ordination, 10 have good knowledge
OF science In order that the deductions which he
A. obliged for the sake Of illustration, 10 make rom
physical objects may be in accordance with physical
laws lie thinks five years at least, should be de-
voted to this branch of preparation.
The Homeopathic innovation at Michigan
University quietly accepted by nearly all the
physicians the old school, The Detroit Tribune notes
that Dr. Charles Rynd OF Adrian. the only one of the
pr,..It Board who IL regular" practitioner, ex-
er;ea himself Chairman of the Committee Of the Re
cents on this subject with noticeable fairness and energy
ave full practical expression to the wishes OF the
LEGISLATURE. The existing faculty. with the exception OF
,e Of their number, met the arrangement with
recognition Of the ccarness OF the public duty OF
managing body Of the University under all the cir
.rnstanees and did not interpose any resistance 10
lnee which although hostile 10 their professional trad
il was still most clearly demanded by the domGant
.timent among the people, who are in reality the
creators and Of the chairs they themselves were
90 -efuy filling The State Medical Society at its last
son. refused 10 act upon resolution condemning the
rae OF the Regents and its example has been followed
daring the present month by the sOhthn Medical Asso
ration of State which tabled tie whole matter after
a. animated discussion
That modern feminine education is too SUI
,.r6c:h is the opinion Of Globe Democrat
Il SAYS: "a little English, less French pinch Of art
letc snatteng OF drawing, and vast deal OF piano