New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-22
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

The value of the free scholarship for four
vears course at Cornell University is $40 The sxami-
nation Is TO be hold On Saturday
There are at present 800 colleges and uni
yesities In this countryprcbably more, several am
bilious female colleges" were counted.
The attacks of the grasshoppers and the
consequent diminishing of the crops are said to have
seriously hurt some Of the Western colleges
The request of the cclored people of San
Francisco be permitted to send their children to any
public school they might select has been denied TIC
separa,e schools he maintained for the benefit OF
the lG3 coiored children o. the city, Of which only eo at
tend school.
The annual session of the Wisconsin State
Teachers Association viii be held at Eau Claire july -
90 ard 80 The Pennsylyan Teachers Association VII
meet az wilkesbarre Aug 10, IL, and H. Tie Ma
ttonal Educational Association win have its annual
meeting at Minneapolis Aug g. 4, and o.
Two hundred and eighty-six pupils were
lately examined for admission to the Baltimore City Coz
iegc all but being from the grammar schools 1919
passed satisfactory examination, and IL others were
admitted then failures being but slight OF the 10 from
priyate schools, only passed satisfactory eXamna
ticn.
Since DIR. Potter became President of Union
College tina, institution has received in cash gifts Of
e. s3c0OOO \ gymnasium has been built; memorial
han Is nearly completed nj cost OF $i45 600 ana la
for the engineering department is III contemplation
for that purpose; $4,000 has been given to endow
scholarships for students from the South
Tile report OF the Committee on Hygiene in
tbo Public schools OF tie Ph0Gell ia Board Of Eiuca
non shows that Tie schools in Coporabio condition
~ regarls ventilation and Lighting No case was round
In which the most moderate ventilation ocdid have been
secured without the Of open windows The analyses
which show least amounts OF caTbonie acid Apply 10
cases in which open windows doing the work OF
ventilation The Committee states that Ia many o. the
class rooms the windows placed that the light falls
In the faces the scholars, aud recommends th"i az
rangccnts shall bc made have il cUnc from enc side
partly from behind
President John Rascom advocates, in Ihe N
dependcnL organic dependence in educational sys
fem He says: abandon the district school 10 itset
and il is fragmen:ary, feeble, insufficient and is re
preached as feligous though there 70 say the least
moral influence is most needed Establish complete
system OF schools, ard they become strong, nutualy
sustaining indispensable TO each CtnCg while healthy
moral as well intellectual life ought to peryade and
may peryade the whole. The feeling adverse to public
instruction Is met everywhere and with strength enough
10 withstand it, The weak line o. district schoos IS
hardly sufficient this purpose. Our educational sys
tens have missed completeness through very general
deficiency in in tcrme diao schools ana il hgh schools"
There are sixteen schools for coloTed pupils in
Augusta Ca and the authorities reconmcnd that the
entire control education Of these children he trans
ferrcd to Board composed Of :rcohold'rs ard Comn
sioner of their race and that tie fund obtained
from the taxation OF their property and polls he placed
at the disposal Of such Board IL is s2'cd that the col
ored teachers have succeeded extent beyond the
expectations Of the most sargunc Couhnins their at
tentions strictly their duties they Lave by prccept
anl example slry 20 impress upon the people OF tAef
race the Importance and necessity o. inGa try morally
oidcr, and obedience TO law They have So conducted
theiF schools as TO merit the laWgying power
recognition OF the capacity OF their race for senanage
ment.
AT the late annual meeting Of the Harvard
Board Of Oversees. consent was gwen 20 the appoint
ment Of Henry Adams a. T.. Assistant Professor OF His
tory from Sept 90 1879, TO Sept l. 1850; John Irow-
bridge = D. Assistant Professor OF Physics, from Juj
% 1873 to Sept l. 1850 Charles Joyce White \. NJ,
Assistant Of Mathematics, from July 20, 1870
10 Sept l. 1850. The Committee Sclce linen reported
that Charles Francis Adams Alexander Agassz, william
g. Russell, Morrill, Wyman, John II. Clifford, had been
chosen members OF the Board for six years John Lowell
for Ave years Edmund Quincy and J. Eliot Cabot fol
Two years William c. Endicott FOR one year MI Charles
Francis Adams reelected President OF the Board
proessorshp music is to be established by the FTesi
dent and Fellows.
President Robinson of Brown University
gives this wholesome advice: Put your child under
the best possible instructor while he is young for the
carly impressions are never efaccd Many young men
have come to college completely ruined, because the
teacher OF their early days was incompetent tut thc
great educators in the primary schools, Ii yon have To
take them college. There many useful persons
not learned their usefulness in some diFcc-
tions may prove fatal in others Teachers are born as
much as poets, and teaching is really an art" A.
10 the pay of these workers Robinson is 40 less scns
bic 1.-The Office OF school teacher lie says, is the most
poorly paid of any the professions. Many and
women enter it matter OF convenience to stay there
few months and then leave The best fitted for
teachers see better prospects somewhere else and seize
them, leaving the work of teaching TO inferior men,
Better guarantee teachers good and have The right
ones in a cheap house than build 4 600 school
house and presided over by stick The school
duties call for educated men, aud surely there
no greater work, not excepting the ministry that COG
calls upon men 10 undertake"
The National Bureau of Education docs not
receive approval of The Boston Post mat Journal
tersely says: "COmnissioner Eaton recently read
paper before the University COnyccation at Albany IN
which he undertook forth the results Of this new
Bureau and 70 little more than an apology
for its existence and satisfactory evidence Of its useless
ness He describes his occupation Commissioner
OF the Bureau Of Education that OF gathering ana
difusng information in regard 10 educational status
ms a people, For this kind of service the Bureau the
recipient OF $4,000 year TO be increased as crcun
stances suggest. How much these statistics may Do
inferred from tho fact that nc expresses No
official opinion respecting oE ror does he discuss ana
decide any Of the problems whose solution occupies the
minds OF educators more merely ornamental append
age TO the Civil Service system cOnld not be easily IL
vented. To support individual in clerical Industry
like this may DC thought benevolent but is difficult to
see what il has 10 do with education n the last circular
issued from the Bureau the country is informed Of the
educational status Of Russia Turkey and even Egypt
and will hereafter have nobody Ia blame II is unable TO
60 through its statistical .paIad1os 1uently. But plac
tcai people viii want TO he told what is the Of al
this and how is 1t estimated TO be worth nearly $4,000
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