New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-02-18
NOTES on EDUCATION.

The Harvard examinations close on the S2d
inst.
A strong current of University opinion is
said TO set IN England toward the Of re-
search
Efforts are. making to raise Rhode Islands
share Of the fund to be appropriated 10 The further en-
dowment OF Brown University.
Eight students have just been graduated by
the Yale Medical School The prize of $50 for the best
report Of chemical lectures awarded to Mr. j. j.
Newcomb Of Ltchfeld, CoDn.
The English Woman's FAucation Union is
endeavOrng establish several schools for the heLc-
education of women in Great Britain. There Is piu
lack in that country OF Institutions for the training Of
women for teaching.
The attendance in the public schools of
West Virginia during 1874 lOs $780, the scaoo pOpula
too being l73 49, The whole number Of schools in the
State vas 3O23 against 2s57 1873 Tue average salary
of teachers ID s32 per month The total cost
per pupil was $6 90.
TheS committees appointed Ivy the alumni
and of the Miami University 10 secure State aid
for this institution about apply for LEGISLATION by
which the University will get money from some Of tnc
swamp lands be sold for educational purposes They
hope to devise practical mode of turning to account
some Of the waste places Of the State.
The New- England Journal Of Education says ::
zone Of the most interesting places or teachers TO
visit, gain valuable information and new ideas, Is
weIorga nzed printing Office. AS matter of interest
TO themselves well to obtain stock Of Interesting
facts for their pupils teachers would do well at
ton time learn, from practical examination, how
the daily papers OF the day are made"
A clergyman, at a recent teachers meeting
Ohio said that teachers too often selected In the
wrong way. Examiners make Intellectual require
alta hat
ever to peculiar natural and innate adapedness OF
the teacher for the profession and thus and
are found at the head Of schools who more
able to develop the human mind than Modoc Is To draw
picture Of the heavenly Jerusalem with charcoal"
An unpleasant fact is reported from PIOvi
dence r. The lady teacher OF the senior class OF girls
in the High School receives salary Of 81 800 year
500 than that given TO the male teacher Of the
Same grade. The question Of a small addition to her
salary just been discussed bv the School Committee
and the addition refused-a decision remarkable alike
for It's folly and injustice. The salaries given to the
teaehers-all womeD-in the Providence primary and
intermediate schools are simply disgrace TO the city.
good teacher deserves at least, enough remuneration
TO support life in ordinary comfort.
The National Bureau of Education, in the
opinion OF The Baltimore Gazette serves efficient
purpose except as an entering wedge to the larger
scheme" Of National university at Washington. The
Gazette on TO When we have IN this country
some 10 or u great universities cOntendDg for the palm
OF SUPREMACY shall have the best guarantee that
be given OF high standard OF educatioD-a better
by far than could have from governmental
pervision This country, with its ut population,
would furnish clientele for IL hrstcass institutions
and need many this First 10 overshadov and
crush out the so-oaed colleges that dotted around
by the dozen in almost every State second,
the Plethora condition OF OF the Older institutions
which are growing rich aud inert and living on their
traditions Third, to humanize by the best intellectual
influences the great ceners OF population and. fourth
TO inaugurate system OF strenuous competition which
will secure the highest interest OF all classes in
ject OF education the time that tends
tnual elevation of the standard"
The plan for the unifcaton Of New-YOrk
educational system IL advocated by The Ueia Hergid
which SAYS: THO necessity for the academy In our
State system Of instruction Ia everywhere admitted
This can be admitted. without Insulating any inydious
comparisons between the academy and the high school
Tue latter quite naturally supersede the former 10 the
populous localities But the former arc still essential to
the complete education Of the growing generations In
rsral dlstricts All antagopism between the two sys
teaas must be ayerted, possible. Yet 1t Inevitable
that the acadeies oontoue TO decline. and the high
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