New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


officer Dr. Mutt.
The Sumner Scientific School, at Peoria, be-
san its sessions last week with so pupils The sum de-
manacd ior scholarship tickets is Sl5; lecture tickets
simply arc S.
The number of schools in New-liampshire IN
1874 was 25o2; number OF pupils GIFTS; wages of
masculine teachers s34 81 per month; wages OF fei-
nine teachers, S33 30.
The Professorships Of Greek and Mathe-
p,aties as veu as the Presidency Of Kenyon College
are now vacant. Large subscriptions were promised on
condition that the Rev. Phillips Brooks OF Boston NC
ceplod tue Presidency.
The Missouri Constitutional Convention has
adopted without amendment debate. section estao'
hsng separate schools for the colored population Inc
Convention will he pcttoned To rccognzethe hindergar
tens IN the organic school law OF the STATE
In the last ten years the sum of S2l ,290,oO5
has been voluntarily subscribed IN England and wales
toward the maintenance of elementary schools under III
speciion and tie annual amount derived from this
source has scn from II 3Ss 500 in 1851 to sSo7l ooo
IN 1874.
The Worcester archaeological School has
inst graduated u class OF 49, This Commencement was
uo,lea by me hesto al for the time at this instit
ton Of the degree Bachelor OF Science Graduates Oh
the fur preceding yeals received the degree Will the
graduates vi this year,
The endowment of the University of Penn
syivania been very larsy increased TINS year. a.
wei as that OF Dartmouth College. Another iennsy
vania college has also shown evidences oil maiera pros
rerty-Washinton and Jefferson College at Washington
Penn where a new college edidcc has been erected
Harvard is said never 10 have had so many
o,a,ion for admission Us this year. More than $50
,andaa;es have presented themselves. The policy OF
the Faculty avOwoGy 10 increase the age oil stuoeS
before entering. The average age of applicants TINS
,e is 49, which abOut The age at wlieh many grad
mated during the earlier rule at Cambridge Inc III
.e,sing populs. y Of the college is becoming almost
an emhlrrassIacn and from the lack OF facilities FOR
the board Of 50 many students the expense OF course
is reported to be considerably increased.
The Kirkland School of Natural History was
cpcned in Cleveland last week The sessions are iour
hours long The object Of the organization Is thus
dc scribcd by an authority: " ON schools aie raging
more attention now than formerly 10 scientific Objects
and We wish to educate the teachers especially so that
they may instruct The young minds under ;heir charge
The time coming when schools vii demand suci IN
.,r,,cn of their teachers. The pGhc are Iieh; when
they say that science mas not formerly been well taught
IN our schools, but more proiHtous day Is ia"hNH
In discussing the philosophy and methods OF
primary instruction The Brooklyn Jcvr'ot u Ed"c"to"
o. .. 7, Is ro,st earnestly recommended that soon
os s.mo facility is acquired in the art of reading, tue
n.aacup largely give place 10 lessons N
reading from the geography history or othrr ropes Vi
real interest: oven fhe uneic or grammar VIII De bc'-
daily routine Of school reading The ordinary school
course in cts schools assigns from six 10 ten years {"
The mysteries Of numbers as contained IN the common
school arithmetic and wise critics speak OF this aS part
OF that 'sy.en of examining they so mneh depioie'
The difficulty is not in the natter but in the method
surely lcarnns count. and It's extension IN the pro-
ecss of adding subtractine multiplying, and dividing
does not involve snch world Of labor that 1t should
,and al the thr, sold OF The Lds progress and forbid
his advance"
alt has been found" declared a Southern
newsIaper me Shreveport Ttacs after year' u IA"
,cnt toll and Of almost heroic Effort impossible to sns-
tam a first-cass uale college In louisiana An! WHY
Not bccaus. our people are too poor TO educate ter
hcvs brt because there are four hundred young men
from this state now being educated Ia Nmi'eIn ana
Eastern colleges, al far eTcaer expense Than wo"id
cast 70 educate them III a. Louisiana college
Perhaps very nearly as many girls from inc
state are scattered through the fashionable and
exponsiyc Institutes Of tic sections This and not
our poverty, is the real ROOF Of the dhity There are
undoubtedly many persons unable ~ 'nd th'ir 'os ana
daughters 10 the higher Institutions; huI. II those wro
are able % do SO would concentrate their PATRONAGE on
,lcir home colleges We would shortly have among Is
institutions Of learning equal to tLo-e Of any state IL the
IDon-Iot SO famous perhaps. as V@fsai and l"ie bi
cpalo of as thoroughly educating our boys and girls as
either of them
The Ner- ENGLAND Jouaal Of Education thinks
that II ia time that the line Of demarcaiOn between
rcadiustcd and sharply drawn. Every one" 1t adds
"trows that however adverse II may be 10 our demo
cratic theories OF society and however repugnnt to our
feelings as patriots there among IA growing sharp
ness Of distinction between the higher aud Tic lower
classes Every one knows, too. that either from a
greater love OF accumulation, the increased pressure
az the necessities OF living, education among to
masses Il becoming altogether subordinate TO work or
trade Children are Withdrawn from school just so soon
us their labor be male proftable young men aeai
don study at any moment for paying position. The
nrincipe now is school ana education because
they are the best becsus they are necessary to
The something better. but the ecC and eiCatoh ny"u
cannot do anything better, g. n fact yen cannot find
ANYTHING else AS the result u all this, II is noto
.s that OF the vbO are cn,o1 in the common
school the vast majority mover set beyond it. in
fact get properly through IT, But nero fraction ever
push on to he high school, and among those who set
there there much tie same pTOport nal falling on be-
fore graduation is reached"
The following salaries are paid H. teachers in
Chicago: Superintendent OF Schools, $1,000; Assistant
s,erintondent OF Schools, - 5OO Superintendent Tor
toacner Music - oO0 superintendent Tor feacerl %
Drawing $1,000; Superintendent OF German, SlGoo;
Principal High School. 5000; Principal ol Normal
School 50 500: Principal Oi Division High chool $1,000
Fead Of Department OF Ancient Languages S2.31V'
Head Of Department of Mathematics $3.50; Head of
pcpartment Of Natural scscc, %9.350; Head of
DEPARTMENT Of History ana English Literature
- 300: Head Assistant Of Normal School, $3.50
ASSISTANTS in High Division II n schools: For first
year 81 900: second year SllO0; thifd year, SlSOo;
fourth year. 81 800; fifth year and siisequ ntly $780,
assis,ants in Normal School ~ 400 year each Pm
eipas in Grammar Schools, first year 1920. $1,000
and 81 500 second year. 81 icO ~ 800 and 81 500;
,,r1 year 81 GOO y 500 and - 600 fourth year ana
subsequently. 81 SEQ - 600, and - 200. Fol Prnc
mails OF Primary schools, $500. $1,000, and $l,20O.