New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-10

,ou,r NJ 600 popu,atou an called colleges and yet
out of three empty wereceDty saw In village OF 400 or
500 people, and not eigiby situated, threestory,
twelve-room college building erected at cost enough TO
have secured competent building for good graded
school and fund at interest sufficient. with the state
funds TO have sustained good graded school perpet
ally yet with but about 80 pupils In attendance"
A curious proposal was adopted ut the recent
meeting of the Teachers Institute OF Chauauqua County
Y This was 10 develop and report the natural MS
tory of the county through the agency OF its P'Dc
schools The plan suggested was 10 divide the suhlect
into branches assigning TO each one OF the committee
one or more OF these branches, and constituting each
,reuber the head of department. with power to organ
lie staff OF volunteer assistants taken from different
pars of the county the chief 10 make his own place OF
conducting researcher and to collect and arrange
all the information he may De able To "e'o'h
in his uar ocular department during the year. and make
report at the next meeting Of the Association. II was
ouglt that the report OF the result OF these invesga
tons II published m pamphlet form. might he valuable
addition 10 the textbooks OF the country, AMI OF great
interest and benefit the pupils ~ The schools asmuch
a. 10 would relate matters and things coming under
their own personal observation, and liable to he seen
every day. Subsequently, the work OF local natural MS
tory was divided up into departments and department
heads were appont Each head OF department has the
entire county for his field Of operations and enllst @
sides his own schools such other ASSURANCE as he cA se
cure Each Of these heads Of department il the head Of
| school. OF them are means Oh UNION
These are cxpected 10 find their readcs corps Of assist
ants and al the same time their most enthusiastic ex
porers In their own schools among the boys and girls
An attempt is making to rcsuscitate the
British Academy of Arts Rome in other words,
free and permanent school for British artists In Rome
since ns death Of John Gibson the sculptor this aeadc
NV has well nigh ceased to exist and it was chiefly
owing to his exertons and personal interest that Tor
many years it existed az ALL Mr. william Agnew, In a-
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Gihson's almost individual superintendent was the
chief cause of its decadencc but any one aware Of the
sculptors retiring character will hesitate TO accept this
version. A strong-wlled and autorratic man may be-
come of an institution; but had the british
| Academy been properly supported, Gibson was The
last man in the world to cndcav0r to exclude Others
from a share in its government. But now that the
academy ia being rcorganizcd the question at once ar ses
az to the necessity Of n Roman education for Eng h
artists Every other nation in Europe except England
| recognizes the duty of sending promising students to
Rome Even Russia, perhaps the least cultivated of
European States supplies certain number OF students
with an for six AMI derays the ex
pensc Of the outward and return tourney to Rome In
England there probably art patronage among tie
uper and middle ciassps and more money passes Ill the
many mt together yet III the tine no national
provision is made for raising the standard OF Engsh at
whether il be that OF painting or sculpture ~ Roman
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