New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-10-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

ance oil 10 stutcnts
Mr.. A. II. Davis has been appointed Pro-
fessor Of Latin at rowdoin.
The annual expenditure for each scholar at
tending the Ohio public schools is at present SiA 49,
Tennessee has now six Universities already
organized or about to be established Why so ambitious
ttei
The Art Department of Syracuse University
h to provide for normal school OF drawing ana PANT
ing 70 be opened during the coming summer
II is suggested by The her- England journal
OF Education that correct English pronunciation he made
specino daily exercise the schools the large number
of words which currently mspronounccd to be taken
mp seri0;im.
The meeting of the New-England College
Presidents and Professors. held at Amherst last week.
was entirely private nothing having been found out con-
corning 1t save among the educational topics dis
eussed WAS that of the examination OF candidates Tor adj
mission 10 College.
The average school committeeman gets hard
knocks in these DAYS Here, for instance, Ia The Ncc-
Bedford Mercury asserting that he "is quite unfit for
the postion he occupies well he How can IL be
otherwise when he is chosen not because he Ia notably
the beat person for the place but generally because he is
n member Of the party that happens TO carry The eec
ton"
Prof. Capen of the Cortland Normal School
says that popular al.acy that the pale face" ana
broken constitutions found in schools are due
10 hard study He adds II the habits OF tle OF tese
socaled rdvokers could he traced 1t would be found
that late hours unventacd seeningrooms lack OF ex-
ercse exposIrre rich food food that IL poorly or UNI
wisely cooked eating aud the like, arc the direct
and the cfcort Of their poor state Of health
The number of pupils attending daily the
San Francisco public schools during the past year.
21,OlI. The average attendance at the private ana
church schools wac GOA and BPS children went 10 no
school whatever. The cost of maintaining the public
schools was S7O7 AS 36 the total value OF the school
property OF the city 81 1867 600 The average annual
salary Of each teacher is O2l ~ the average cost OF
taition for each pur S29 So. Tie total expcnd-
lures OF the Department since Its organization IN lS12
have been S7,6lOO43.
At the meeting Of the Connecticut State
fcachcrs Association last week, the superintendent o
the Waterbury schools advocated the study OF language
lessons in place OF the system Of grammar now in use
and the ahan lonnent OF great deal OF The mnutie
which is now Taught IN geography classes and which he
tonght shoul1 be reserved for the higher grades tie
fine thus gained 70 be devoted to the proposed language
lesson which will teach all TO acquire taste for good
reading and good style of composition IL was re-
solved to represent Connecticut schools at the Ccnen
na by reports The StC.e local eystems specimens or
schoars work Illustrations OF school buildings and ap-
planocs plans specimens OF furniture and apparatus.
and books
The CITY Solicitor of Boston has declared
thai the teaching Of sewing in the pubc SCHOOLS there is
Illegal, no legislative permission having been given for
hs introduction The list Of branches authorized to he
taught in Boston schools is follows: Orthography,
reading. writing English grammar geography, ariib
met O. 70 neral and local history good behavior, algebra,
vocal music drawing TART mechanical and industrall,
physiology hygiene agriculture, bookkeeping, survey
ing geometry, natural philosophy chemistry botany,
ciyi polty OF the Commonwealth and Of tine United
States, Creek, Vnob, Latin, astronomy, geology,
rhetoric (Which eocuton and prose composition,
logic Intellectual and moral science. political economy
arts trades ana occupations lin cities and towns where
Industrial schools have been established.
curious phase of the discussion in the
Texas Constitutional Convention the opposition TO
school sysem Many o; the delegates seem almost ul5d
in their determination not 20 vote for taxation for TINS
object ore Of them went 40 FAR rs to say Ii wac tins
school taA that the people have complained so nlch
about 1t the main tax the main expense aud bur
den that induced them 10 call this Convention They
could have borne the other taxes. They wanted the
mower Of the state to tax for such purposes limited by
This body The gentleman from Harris said as they all
say that where you de- have public schools yor have
ignorance and vice say the statistics do not show IT.
make the statement that the gentleman will find in
N'assachusrtt where they spend over $2,0O0OOO an
nnslv that crime is increasing rapidly It II any
where IN The country"
these editorial opinions from the National Teachers
Nopfhiy: "ReyOnd the study Of industrial drawing,
which lies at the foundation of 80 many pursuits We do
not desire 10 see technical education invade theprovnce
of the common school What the public schools should
Eiycis schooling We know that there is growing ten
ocncency 10 inject industrial occupations into the sys-
tenn but We dcporc such tendency The plan must work
imperfoetly as the industrial branches, while divert
lug the Clild's mud from the legitimate work
OF the school The cald who is lazy at his
books will be lazy at the bench, the theories Of
sophists TO the contrary Notwithstanding The
boy who fools away his time at school will
fiddle Il away in the shop and will probably be treated
alike by both masters. By holding boy down strictly
10 the business the school prepare him TO acquit
himself with credit "a the business Of tie shop The in
dustria branches too yeed, the method of division
of labor is carried too far, the Improvement in arts,
mechanics and trade too numerous and rapd-evon
in so 'schoolsh' branch bookkeeping, the methods
q. different lines and individuals diverse. that tie
school in attempting 10 handle Of them, not to say
Ill Of them would make so the laughins-stock Of all
practical hands II teachers know how to teach school
they do very wen What proportion OF them know even
that 2" The writer Of the above paragraph unohodoX
enough 10 also advise the reading OF healthy fiction by
school children.
Prof. ]. r. Seeley writes in regard to the
scheme for University extension in England popular
lectures at literary institutes, Of lectures TO
ladies' lectures worugm these kinds OF lectures
have give and they have been set on foot by dit
ferent organizations having no connection with each
other. Now the prescn scheme meets all these diff
fcrcut demands at once and throws upon influential
ORGANIZATION rgresenting the town. and acting in con-
cert with Cambridge University, the responsibility Of
providue all that Is desired 10y The inhabitants in the
way ~ higher instruction The yOung lecturers ap-
pointed Us good method and able to dcv0 great deal
o. tucto the probably the most succ Ssfl 81 them
WI D.. induced % devote their ves t)his puTsdifWill
liz a
hitherto by yiug visits Of the most dstin suiscd
men The utmost that occasional lectures without
teaching can 90 stimulate the desire for knowledge
src c,cirso II lectures it il proposed g. m,t-