The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-05-07
EdmcniI0nnI.
Thcro arc 1902 feminine students
in Boston university,

in Boston university
There arc $40 pupils in tho Now
England conservatory Of music, at
Boston,
The state appropriation for the
Rhode Island public schools in
1875 & is $4,000,
There are now in this country
fifteen universities in which colorcd
students are receiving instruction,
An elective in thonow philosophy
is advocated among the phil.
osophical courses Of next year at
Harvard,
Tho plan for the enforcement Of
compulsory education in San Fran
cisco resembles that in operation in
New York.
Tho Indiana assembly has given
$4,000 to Pardue university for the
purchase Of literary and scientific
appliances.
There are 3S agricultural colleges
in this country, employing altogeth-
or $50 professors and assistants, and
instructing 3,0l7 students,
Mr.. G. A. Sala says that with
very few exceptions the educationtf
systems of the day are either bar
bNrous and laundering, or DlAnsibIy
insincere
DR.. Edouard Ilitzig, of Berlin,
known for his researches en- tho
brain, has been elected TO the chair
of psychology in the university
of Zurich.
The Ohio Wesleyan university
needs money badly, and the four
conferences patronizing the institu-
ton have undertaken to raise each
anjendowment fund Of 10000
The Maine State college at Orono
is said to be in a flourish ing condi-
ton. The standard Of cXpcrimor tai
agriculture is to be fully maintained
during the coming year.
Both the Now York and Chicago |
Alumni have nominated as their
candidate for the vacant trusteoship |
of that college Mr., II, B. Kellogg,
of Wisconsin,. lie is tho donor Of
the Kellogg prizes, and patron of
the college cabinets,
The Rev. DR.. Enoch f. Burr, of
Lyme, Conn, has hegun course of
nine lectures to the Amherst senior
class on the scientific Evidences of
Religion" After the course, there
will be q competitive examination
on this subject for the Mosely prizes
Of $50 and $40.
At the recent freshman oxamina-
ton in solid geometry at Harvard
the scale OF marks was 50 low that
nearly hundred members the class
are in danger of conditions. Six
teen questions were given, and an
swers to fourteen were required
these fourteen, it IS said, being pro
positions whose very difficult solu-
ton would be perplcXing to far
wiser mathematician than the aver
age freshman.
A reduction of fifteen per cent on
the salaries of principals, and twelve
per cent on those of teachers is pro-
proposed in Allegheny, Penn. This
would in some cases bring down
salaries to $50 so month, which
sum is a curious sort Of compcnsA-
ton for labor so important and IA
tlguing. 1t does not appear to be
possible to make certain class OF
Americans understand that low sal
aries in this profession mark the
weakest and absurdest policy.
The following sentences are those
OF the Baltimore Gazette: eve
shall hail the time when every idle
and truant boy may have cause to
fear each bush an officer, and re-
cognize in the baton of the police
man the rod of the professor and
if every roundsman shall be invested
with the additional dignity of
scholastic authority, so much will
be the general gain. And we would
see the girls not only have equal
privileges in the schools, but placed
under like restrictions with the
boys
Can we not teach morality in
school asks the National Teachers
Monthly, and it answers the ques
ton thus: Indeed we can. How
BY keeping a good school. By
Keeping good order we teach NOR
atty; whereas q disorderly religi-
glous school is the most irreligious
Institution that law can tolerate.
by teaching well we teach morality.
Morality is too general term to be
used in speaking with children. By
being kind to children we teach
morality. By being frank and nat
ural wa taanh ,norolitv Rv beinQ