New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

A graduating class of 80 members has just
left Hnislale College.
The Rev. DR.. III. Q. Butterield has been
chosen President Of olyet College
Drawing has been introduced in all the cities
and in some of the smaller towns of Connecticut.
Baldwin University, Ohio, has just gTadd-
acd II students Five young ladies took the degree OF
Bachelor Of Arts
The essay which recently won the Lewis
prize medal at Wisconsin University given by Miss
West Of Milwaukee,
Georgia has 2ls,733 whites and 1854
negroes between the ages Of and ls and It's present
annual csiueatof,L appropriation is Sls0,GOO.
Virginia has Just made a second appoition-
rent 81 public school funds for the year lS741o at h'
rate Of rs cents for each member OF the school popua-
ton.
The Hon. George Davis OF Wilmington Is
mentioned as a candidate the Presidency OF the Old
University Of North Carolina which Is TO De reo'gae"
this Autumn.
Seven graduates of the Maryland Institute
Schools If Art end Design have received the fc'OooS
preIniums in money Gold medals have been awarded 10
another seven.
A museum Of Agriculture and horticulture
Is to be added to the Minnesota state University
Machines woods woods, SOLE grains, grasses etc. are 70
BE- included In Ike collection.
The State Teachers Association OF Call
fornia recently resolved that the Offices OF County SUPER
intendent OF schools and Superintendent oil fuolo
ouebt 10 be abolished Oh the ground that the
bpd,s derived from them did equal the drafts made
upon the Treasury.
During the past year 194 pupils were en-
relied 10y the University of Kansas. The Department oi
Natural History is said 10 be particularly useful and wen
managed IT, collections number over 10000 speei-
mems and are rapidly increasing The cabinet contains
16OO spccncns of Kansas insects, and nearly 300 o.
Kansas birds.
Thee are now at Harvard 20 candidates for
the deccc OF A. NJ II FOR the degree OF PHI d., and I"
for thai Of s ID. IL supposed That the number VIII DC
Increased next year owing to the recent chang ne IA
special cases tic previous rule by which Candidates
Tor degrees we're Obliged stay ia Cambridge ior hAed
tenn Of years after having obtained the decree OF H. a.
The COMPULSORY attendance law in CoEnec-
tcut ~ reported be worKing satisfactorily, ANA as 'le
result OF the various adopted for securing III
creased attendance, the proportion OF children III tu'
rnhc schools has advanced from sO'e per cent ID
ls67-s 10 1894 per cent 1874. The actual increase
has been about 10000 while the increase in enuineId-
ton in the same time about 10000
Twcntv-four extra courses in addition TO the
regular elective will bc offered 10 iiacA !ors o.
Arts at Harvard during the coming academic year.
four years course OF evening readings hon Homer ho
Greek drama. Virgil. the Roman sanrst'' Dante tAc
Flen>h DRAMA Coryaucs, Schiller, Goethe CaG'er ana
Shakespeare will DC given by PrOfs. Palmer Goodwin
Anderson Everett, G.conoash. Norton B0cheT, Lowell
Hedge, and Child.
President Eliot's opinion thot teachers should
take ust pains with their cieyerost pupils does mol AZ
pear g. receive popular assent. The Memphis APen'
for one says that prccoc az school IS no evidence q"
genius and The Bait,aore SUa declares that the pnbe
e 4. not 10 encourage genius bus to root out stupid
ity Tie true OF tho of common school Is
not how usuy ght scholars, bat how many billiards
does II turn out teacher should be permitted to ac
cunuate honors from his brightest graduates without
having set beside them his il teaching tht hard
oet cases To withdraw public education above certain
line from the masses and it for genius, s prelos
teIoEsiy inconsistent with Institutions"