New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-21
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Prof. Summers lectures OH poihCh O'"h""J
attract large numbers of the Yale students this year.
In the Department of Philosophy and the
Ars al Yale there IS graduate students ana three
specials.
The degree of NJ. A. has been bestowed by
the University Of Michigan Miss Hamln, one oil It's
graduates.
Prof. Charbonuier has been elected President
OF the agricultural college connected with the Georgia
state University.
A meeting of the leading Baptists in Georgia
will be held at Macon to-day, to determine ihe location
OF their proposed female college.
The handsome new buildings of Knox College,
Toronto have Just been opened and there is an attcd
arce Of students. not including those uhVersl! stu
dent attending the classes.
The special teachers in penmanship and
drawing in The Detroit schools are to be dismissed as
large proportion of the Regular teachers are Hound com
petent to give such instruction.
The Ne,c- England Journal Of EducGtiOn talks
ina ho ul salu general instruction IN THE country,
and adds at is difficult to overestmate the educational
Importance OF the attention given TO school matters
by our great dailies.'
1t is the opinion of The Boston Globe that The
III health OF school girls 10 he ATTRIBUTED not 50 Inuch
to oyerSork imposed by teachers a. to improper 1000
and dr. and the ambition of their parents 70 nave teh
thoroughly educated and Oaplshcd by tho time ihey
arc Is.
At the meeting of the New Hampshire
Teachers Association last week. the bringing OF the
academy and scnool into legal concerted opera
ton Wis advocated, special moral instruction in the
schoo-oOm advised, and greater attention to leading III
schools demanded.
Kentucky is TO have a State Educational
Convention in November which will be occupied chiefly
by consideration Of tn needs Of the colored children
Ton sbatr OH non MI ~
abont 80 cents year each pupil, which in district
Ct 30 scholars furnishes but SO for the year.
There is scarcely study in which more
fresh apt and delightful instruction uc given tan
in geography and there is scarcely study which Is
made more undressing 10 pupils. speaker IN re
cent teachers institute neatly described the result Of TIE
present method He said that Ia entered an inter-
mediate school IN Ohio, and suddenly asked the pupils III
geography to point toward Hudsons Bay majority q
tho hands went up toward the crlily OF the room.
Knowing it the upper part OF the map, the
paps seemed TO have location somewhere in the sky
fully settled in their minds.
The neglect of academic instruction by bOys
The Aaeaie notes. ia its article Mr. VI. T. Hariss an
nual report OF the grave shortcomings OF Amer
ican education. In Chicago" says "after reaching
the age OF thirteen years the boys who remain in school
are 10 the girls as fourteen to nineteen, proportion
which suspect would be found very common through
out United States. owing TO the carly age at which
many boys are expected q get their living Willie thelr
sisters are rot expected to do likewise at am age the
daughters OF the tradnc and working classes from me
age II eighteen coud relieve the family pnrse by their
earnings, to the extent % their board and ciotlnS
merely, it is bable that tler brothers could stay
longer time nj their books and thus the American voter
be better prepared Tor lis political and social respcn@
biities" II might DC interesting The A0Cntc TO pro
cure statistics OF tue proportion OF Young women In
these classes who do thus relieve the family purse
The fact that the Tennessee school teachers
pre TO be paid salaries without distinction Of SEX serves
Us whereto The Saien Observer appends these per
tincnt sentences "N0w in Massachusetts, we pay man
for his sryices teacher ana tlcn lay him something
extra for being man instead of being woman. Or else
If simply paid FOR being teacher ana hoihihs
more then We .duct half Of the salary for the
same service when rendered 10y the other because The
teacher is a We do not know which o, these
Ways IT, but is the other. ana either reason
soems TO be as irrational as its diverse We know It Is
said that paid because they have wivcs OF
families 20 support which women do not have but We
will venture say that careful examination would
chow that as many widowed mothers or unfortunate
broth sisters, other reatNes are supported by
the female teachers Of Massachusetts out Of their salaries
M there are wives and children supported by the gentle
men,"
The expensvcness of scientific education is
discussed by The Poluar Science NoRh'y which notes
that experimental physics Is more expenSis than chem
isry but that efcien; efforts making to reduce the
old scales Of I'VE notice that in the scientific
school at South Kensington in London, they have
adopted the plan Of putting the student methodicay at
work at the outset make his APPARATUS. This s
an important step, and short apprenticeship OF this
kind soon renders him 10 considerable dc ndceud
ent OF instrument aud enables him 10 go on with
his INQUIRIES by utilizing that may
come to hand in almost any circumstances; 1t Is
beyond doubt possible by the employment 81 suit
able objects that are everywhere available " give real
IN ftudv
pense bur the method of doing this has yet 10 he eab-
Grated Perhaps tie only exception to this statement -
btany which can he studied cheapy that there is no
excuse Che Of cost for not introducing it forth
with into ali common schools method has been devel
oped which is RIG dy based upon the principle that the
ru; shall study the actual objects first hand, that
he NAV know what he knows of this .ntero sting sub
feet and stop with book representations of It, while
The objects OF examination TO be had everywhere by
merely pucking them. Something like this, as far IA it
shL prove possible, j. yet TO be accomplished for the
pt pular study of physics, chemistry, and zoology"
The higher education of women does not ap-
pear 10 be very generously provided for in Canada In II
recent lecture Principal Dawson Of McGin College Mon
treal said: do think il possible desirable, In
the existing state Of our colleges and universities TO
send yOunc 10 compete in them with young men,
that in some parts Of America this Is done
with certain degree Of success, but not the highest sue
cess No doubt under good regulations young men and
yoYng women may attend the same classes but there
are many serious difficulties even in this especially on
side OF the and the two sexes cannot be adj
vantageousy subjected 10 the same examinations; nor
is it desirable that young women should be coz
fined 10 the somewhat harsh and bald curr'-
eu,um now provided for young men. An econ
omy might however, be secured by employing,
at present professors III our universities TO denver
courses OF lectures to young in separate institt
tlous Our stan of teachers IN universities Is as yet
scarcely large enough 70 AFFORD all thatis required Be
yond what be done in this way special professors
1rnst emnnNnd: nnd sccnrc The hest women