New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
IS have Just left Wittenberg

Nineteen graduates have just left Wittenberg
COLLEGE. Ohio.
Shartleff College, H., now has property to
the amount of $4,000
There is 10 DC another change in textbooks
I'm tho California schools.
Kiudergar;ens have lately been established
IN various pags oi Michigan.
A chair OF Celtic languages is proposed for
one OF The Scotch universities
-Four young women took baccalaureate de-
erccs at NcKondreo College last week
The expenses OF the Yale Scientific School
are $4,000 yearly. It's income barely covers TINS
A new feature in the regular course of the
Yale Art School is the introduction Of the study o.
anatomy.
A reconsideration of the vote in the Board
OF Education introducing dgawiug IN the Louisville
schcos resulted IN e abandonment OF that study
Az the University of California Mr.. T.. s.
Burchard has been awarded first h0nors for thesis III
agriculture. and Nj f. ) sutton first honors for thesis
IA Chemistry.
II is the belief of The Wheeling (Va.) In
tViocncer that the most intelligent people OF tue
United really not inclined to insist on any re-
ll,ious exercises in the Schools
Cumberland University has just graduated
large classes. The year now closed IL sod 10 nave
n one Of tho successful in e history OF the IN
sutuion Three hundred and ninetyone students were
In attendance
There is again to be private Summer
,outs. Of law lectures in the University OF 'ISili"
T,ye,,vs.ven lectures arc given in the t0o months
n and the cost foI the junior class Is SlO iof Inc aa
vanocd olass, SO
The Michigan State Medical Society recently
,h,d to reopen the homeopathic controversy over the
,.lil lrpartlncnt Of The University The Socle'! also
aort.l resolutions asking to University authorities 10
rri'f, Gre course Oh medical instruction in mat lnsVu-
,gi 10 raise the standard o; admission 10 that &c
Iaftment.
Yale class statistics for 70 declare that the
largest Individual expenditure cuin the eoAr' JuS
1uais that OF the of ~. ing = sC1 So|' rep
rosents the smallest expenditure, aud FlIOO inc aNe
amount spent Annually by each member. ONO cat'
graduating this wear so PER cent arc destined fol the law
Nm Viii enter business eight the ministry seven lne"i
cine, and two journalism
The fee of $40 demanded for the Summer
tenn in the new Kirkland school OF Natural History ~
Cleveland covers all expenses OF The course except the
cost Of implements 10 lie used ia The "no' story sIcN as
kniy,- fogcops, lenses, note books &c Win Nl'o' ''
pup must provide himself herself The ordinary Iur-
nnr, aud apparatus Of the laboratory VIII he supplied
without extra charge, and specimens VIZ De lu'-
u,,hcd also Occasional lglt assessments Tor cNcnf-
.ins nay he made bu' these VIII "c voluntary vi al"
part Q! tie students
The pTincipals Of the Elizabeth, y. j., schools
have asd FOR increased salaries, ana The Her0td of mat
eli; ,e,s II any chan 70 30 be made IN the cOpvl-
,aton Of teachers in the pablo schools oi tins ety. te
salaries Of the subordinate, axe the oacs t. be hc1tsed
II is the Woodworking teacher Who does the real NolA Oh
teaching IL the Incaeer salary Of 800 or thcrsa0ouis
month whose compensation is inadequate These are
Tic ones whose salaries should be Increased and there
are ,hy such the most part female teachers VINO
nisht well the Board to avoraby eoieiGefo request
foI addition
Disseminating views of Southern education
are held by he chicago Tribune II says; " Ie l"ct -
there no disposition among tho fomer saveh'ain|
classes Of the South, which Cons'ituto the controlling
clement Of the Democratic party there NJ pres MT 10 ss-
taia the free schools. SO fr from being willing to maze
any sacrifice to maintain the system there Is very Dc
cdd tendency 10 abandon Il altogether. The csavor
among these classes is relic Of the former c9D3ilo Oh
Slavery. when there was no more thought o. sluedh5
negroes than mu.es and when the poor and Ignorant
whites left TO the care OF III iis regard
II IS the declaration of The Springfield Repab-
Item that "the public school Is MOTTO encourage Genius
but 70 root stupidity The true test of the success OF
common school is not how many bright scholars Int
how many duluds docs II turn out The ijr and ned
oc, scholars will make safe citzens; 1t is the dulards
who viii become the tools * crime, furnish the Josse
Poneroys 10 our as and state prisons aud the paupcis
10 t aim 1t is the imperative duty OF the school
authorities 10 recp close watch on the dun pupils y"
t,tlsr should bc permitted to ac,ulHi. hon".3 iru.
lie hraest graduates without having set beside them
public education above certain line from the masses
with our Institutions"
State Superintendent Fraser Of Kansas says
that there + more show than substance in the school sys
tom Of that AMI that while in the matter OF costly
and comfortable school houses IL greatly CXces the aver
nce OF other States, il is lameahy deficient III compe
INT teachers and superintendent, end also lacking in
financial skill Most Of the county districts are too
small Instead of seotonizing the districts ne would
lave Int one in each township. district Onsisng OF
township would be able TO maintain school nine months
in n. year and employ suitable oacicrs Under the
present contracted system country schools are main
iaed three months IN the year. ana are OF course
tauet by incompetent and incNpelcucca teachers ana
Nai mDigr instructions there impaired 10 schOlas
are mostly lost to them by such long vacations.
The normal schools fox training masters i'll
Ialy have increased in u years 10 80 and SUPPLY each
year an average OF 562 thoroughly trained and well
qualified masters whose abors ought TO raise the
level OF elementary teaching. Not more than oneha
however OF these ever undertake school work
They are drawn off into the better paid and more prom
Using branches OF commerce and manufactures Seventy
nine training schools for feminine teachers supply
yearly Of 1900 teachers AS women undertake
the lower classes in boys schools and all iils' schools
The demand for their service The women often
spfns higher class, and as thcy less kely to
Ia diverted into other cslg t1cr work Is pursued WIN
ssadcss and ZEAL we'll a. with feminine insight aud
s. said Oh the whole to be superior foi ths purpose 10
That Of
The following piece Of wisdom was uttered
by State SUPERINTENDENT Briggs OF Michigan The pre-
yalng tendency of the present time to introduce the
higher branches OF study iuO schools 70 Tie neglect
of the elementary greatly 10 be depOied. After the
children are well grounded in the elementary branches Of
study then ard till then let them carry their uycS
cations The education acquired in our schools
is fear, becoming too superficial in ts character As
teachers IN The public schools required to give in
sructI0n what is termed the higher branches OF study
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