The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-29
Educational Notes.

The Senior Glass in the Michigan
University has, it is reported, petitioned
the Faculty to abolish graduatespeeches
at commencement -aq}s i-a .s7
EIGHTEEN students, five of them wo-
men, have just been graduated by the
Hahnemann Society of the Home-
pathic College of Cleveland. lass a
A LARGE number of German citizens
of indianapolis formally state that no
benefit is derived from the study of
German in the public schools OF that
city, the reason given being that not
enough time is devoted to it. ~ -.
The highest salary paid to male
teachers in Illinois is 1880 month;
the highest paid to female teachers,
1920. The respective averages of the
sexes are $18 10 and 1888 46; in Massa-
chusetts, 1894 33 and 1874 a. In Massa-
chusetts one teacher in eight is man,
while in Illinois three teachers in seven
are men. 'ao a-
Rev. ELEAzER SMITH, for twelve and
a-half years, Chaplain of the State
prison at Concord, N. H., has recently
published some facts concerning the
300 cOnvicts who have entered the in
stitutiOn during that time. After stat
ing that about fifty of this number, on
one in six, could not read when they
came under his influence, he says
OF the 800, not one has been taken from the
learned professions-not one lawyer, physi-
clan. or clergyman, known and recognized az
such by any of the associated bodies of any of
ia al, I,,t
he il not Of the regular school of practice.
There have been two persons who have pre-
tended to reach, but belonged to no religious
order, and held to doctrines not generally held
by churches not one editor, printer, or school
teacher. Further as to religious teaching,
but one was member of any Christian
church, and not one in ten had regularly at
tended church. / have been so long connected
with the prison, and it's records and history,
that can pretty confidently affirm that from
It's opening, some sixty years, there has not
been among it's inmates one clergyman, law.
yer, physician, editor not one deacon, stew.
ard, church warden. or class leader, nor one
son of clergyman and have been able tC
learn OF but two persons who at the time Of
the commission of the crime, were members
Of any church.
MINNESOTA sold itslands granted for
educational purposes by the United
States for 1862 per acre; California,
U.s. Michigan, $3 25; Iowa, 1927; Mis-
souri,, $l84; Wisconsin, $1.25. AS re-
CARDS the States which received only
land scrip, the price for which this
was sold ranged from All cents per acre,
i'll the case of Rhode Island to 95 cents
per acre, in the case Of Virginia
Between these extremes two States sold
for 80 cents; seven for prices between
80 cents and 60 cents; one for 90 cents
three for prices between 60 cents
and 70 cents; two for prices
between 70 cents and 80 cents; three
for prices between so and 80 cents; four
tor 80 cents, and two for prices between
90 cents and 81. Of colleges receiv-
ing Government aid, to the questions
whether persons of color are admitted,
twenty-nine colleges have forwarded
replies OF these fifteen report that
such students would be admitted; nine
that none have applied; two that they
would not be admitted because provis-
ion has been made for them elsewhere;
two that no rule prevents their admis-
sion, and one that the terms of admis-
sion have not yet been settled.
This characteristic illustration of the
parrot drill of public schools, is given
by q writer in the Penn Monthly: sit
is said that gentleman who fell in
with one of our school boys offered him
"a quarter if he would tell him the
names of all the capitals in Europe. It
was done and quickly. Now said the
gentleman, L will give you another
quarter if you will tell me whether they
are animals or vegetables. Animals
was the ready and confident answer. :"
The writer says of geography BY far
the greatest part of what is taught I'M
der this head in our schools is the mer-
est phantasm of knowledge--1s rather a
deterrent from any further seeking
than help and TN impulse to it, and
the time spent i'll memorizing the CON
tents of books and maps, in
every section and class of our public
schools, is for the most part sheer
waste. The student has no more real
knowledge, after he has completed the
course, than when he began. The facts
that he has learned, though correct
enough in themselves, are lies by i'm
plication, in that they are put forward
as a description of what they do not
describe. They contain no discipline
of the mind They only burden the
memory; and after spending years in
learning every speck on a large school
atlas, the scholar generally spends a
few more in getting utterly rid of it,
and in learning the wisdom of the only
wise thing that Matthias said in his big
book. The Pursuits of literature,
viz: Dare to be ignorant of many
things"