New-York tribune., 1875-12-09
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Free instruction in drawing is compulsory in
every town OF more inhabitants in Msssachu
setts.
The last graduating class at Harvard Col
leee representatives in the Berlin and Heideburs
Universities.
About 1,40O young men from the unlted
saes sr now pursuing their studies at the universities
and colleges OF Germany
bill withdrawing all aid from denomina-
tiona schools and making education compulsory passed
the Parliament Of Queensland, Australia, recently.
State Normal School was opened at Nash
Vile Tenn on the % inst II will receive 10000 per
snuum for the next two years the Peabody Eiuca
tiona Fund. The entering class numbered 20.
To endow Mercer University, in Georgia, the
Baptiss of that State have adopted the plan OF RECEIVING
dollar subscriptions TO the fund.- and they hope ny 'hs
means to raise enough TO place the institution On s'aoo
financial footing.
The trustees of Colby University at Water
VILE Me- have decided 10 raise $1,000 to rebuild the
gymnasium recently burned and to renovate the sou'
COLLEGE building The Hon. Abner Coburn Chairman OF
the Trustees has given ~ 600 of the amount.
The State Normal School at Albany has
graduated more than 1000 students during the thirty
years of its existence. 1t is proposed 10 hold reunion
OF the graduates Albany the 29th inst Wheh al
dresses will be made and other appropriate exercises
held
The Iowa Agricultural College is in an ex-
eeent condition financially, the rentals from the college
lands more than meeting The current expenses. new
laboratory building has been finished recently without
exhausug the sum appropriated by the Legislature Tor
the purpose
II is proposed TO hold the next term of the
school OF geology Of Harvard College in camp near the
one occupied the past summer Only 80 students
Will be received INTO the class. There is probability
that subsidiary camp will he established somewhere III
the mountains of North Carolina
Education has made some progress In South
Carolina There are 1IO416 children in actual attend
ance upon the free schools. almost onehalf Of the
school population Of the An EFFORT viii he made
during the present OF the Legislature to extend
the average period keeping open the schools from four
snd a half months 20 six months in each year.
The opposition to the public school system
n the late Constitutional Convention Of Texas was not
able 70 accomplish much injury was at one time
feared The provision made for The support Of free
schools includes oueourth Of the general revenue the
interest on the school fund, and the poll tax These
sources will yield an annual revenue oI T60oooo' Inc
State has acres OF school lands, which are to
be sold the benefit OF the school fund, when VIII III
crease 1t. il Is believed, 70 S30O0O,0O0
There are at Wesleyan University 17G stu
dents, OF whom 80 are Seniors "a juniors
40 sophomores g. freshmen, resident gradu-
.tes and 3 specials The faculty consists OF
l6 professors and teachers, the library contains 60
600 volumes and the neurological department OF the
museum about 5000 specimens. Wesleyan, as Is well
known trying the experiment OF cocducanon OF the
sexes There are young women pursuing their studies
IN the University distributed among the four classes ana
one resident graduate from Nassar College.
Since the organization of the University of
GEORGIA there has not been year IN which some mem
Der of the wadde family has not been connected officially
with the institution The Rev Moses Waddel was elected
President University in 1919, and held the once
for 10 wears His SON. Mr. James Wadlel, was Profes-
sor Of Ancient for 90 years and son OF the
latter and grandson Of President Waddeil Prof VIM
Henry waddell Is the present incumbent OF the char
Of the Latin language in the University
The University of Wisconsin is beginning to
take rank among the best educational institutions III the
West II has college Of arts and college OF letters
Under the former included the departments OF gen
eral science agriculture, civil engineering, mining ana
metalurry. mechanical engineering and military sci
encc In the college Of letters included the depart
psts Of ancient classics and modern casscs There Is
slso a DEPARTMENT oi law and past graduate course
The University i5 students in al its departments
According 10 the DIST annual report of the
Beard Of Education of Chicago there were 1921 pupils
enrolled in the public schools OF that city during
the past wear. The teachers numbered 200, ana the
school buildings J2-6 new ones having been erected
during the year. The cost FOR textbooks is over $4,000
per aunm which the Board hope to reduce pJ re-
curing publishers furnish schoolbook at wholesale
prices The average cost of tuition per pupil Is SO 49,
The schooLroom accommodations are 80 inadequate
thai 10000 pupils be given halliday sessions OI!
The evening schools have attendance of 1896
The Regents of the University of the State
Of NewYok have completed the distribution OF the in
come Of the Literature Fund for the coming year This
amounts $4,000, and il has been divided "lnCnS ZOo
institutions, IOj Of which high schools ana lo3
are private academies. The institution receiving the
largest sum f. the Albany High School, which is allotted
sl,Gs3 53 Next In order come the Buffalo Central
School the Syracuse High school, and the Rochester
Union School These the only institutions that re-
oeive over II 900 each Besides tins sum OF $4,000 the
Regents distribute $2l 900 to academies for the nstruc-
tion Of teachers classes, and for the purchase OF
apparatus.