New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-16
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

fhllnpS Acduchhy Wynn
with 100 students
The Massachusetts, Agricultural College mas
enc feminine pupil
new subscription fund OF $3Oo,0oo Is COL
,ee,lpc for the endowment Of Boston University
The new State Normal University OF Ten
ressee has for its President Prof. L. 5. stearns
Mr.. VIM. H. Parker has been appointed
peso,t and Mathematical Professor Of Maryland AgrI
cultural College
The Rev. Lewellen Pratt of North Adams
has been appointed to the professorshp OF English LII
erature at Williams
Both Harvard and Williams now require
ophomores to sign pledges that they will obey the laws
of the college and refrain from I" hazng"
The freshman class in the academic depart
ment AT Dartmouth has so members while TO the seen
f.fc department 81 applicants have been admitted.
The German citizens of Louisville have Pc
t,,ione for instruction German in the public schools
for children OF parentage from the eighth grade
upward.
The Massachusetts, State Normal School at
Brdgewater begins its work this year with the largest
entering class history 1t has one Burmese ana
one Japanese student.
Mr. John w. Langley, once Professor OF
chemistry in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, III An
1iocb COLLEGE and In the University at Pittsburgh VIII
now hold the same position in Michigan University.
The Professorship of Church History in the
Rochester Theological Seminary has been hlled py VI
Osgood Flushing He is one OF the writers 1or Lahec
Commentary and also Of the American Committee
for the Revision of the Bible.
Lafayette College has class OF 81 new
students. The Freshman Glass at Union will number
about 90. Wesleyan University Comm mas tne
largest Freshman Glass of its existence Williams Col
leee has so Freshmen. Kansas University has about
100 new students.
During the recent entrance examinations
Hamilton College received about 20 applications for adj
,uson Dr. c. H. F. Peters, the director of the observa
tory now has an assstantMr j. c. Porter late OF the
University of BeIlnand the observatory Is bens en-
laryed for the accommodation Of a cometseeker, &c
Wellesley College for Women opened last
week with 800 students the full lumber which the inst
tuition can accommodate There were 500 applications
for admission received besides the number applying for
entrance 1867. More than so pupils intend to study
Greek The cost Of the college is SAID to be about
S2,5OO,O00.
The Rochester School Superintendent reports
the Compulsory Education law to be a failure The
Rochester School Board has adopted resolution pro
yiding that an examination in English composition ana
che history OF the United states be hereafter required for
graduation from the grammar schools and admission
to the Free Academy
The first session of the School of Natural
History at Normal, H. is said to have been extremely
successful every way except financially and 1t Is an
nounced that unless unlookedfor hindrances ARISE
class Of viii be organized next Summer the STUDIES
of geology and chemistry will be added to the llst anu
the session will extended TO six weeks instead OF io
The Board of Trustees organized to estab-
Dish the muchalkedof Mechanics High School at Pitts
burgh is reported been exceedingly busy for two
years in doing nothing The Gazette OF that city says
II has determined whether an Industrial School
shall be organized and equipped at any industrial center
in the State OF whether aid shall be extended in esab
sng schools several points or the affair merged
IN sone woy the public school system Not mem-
Ter OF the Board have given the subject enough
attention 10 have a definite idea regarding it,"
The use of the textbook is briefly discussed
by The England Journal Of Education, which says
"As rule, it may be stated that teacher is not pre-
pared textbooks most wisely until he Is able to
dispense with them entirely in the unfolding OF any topic
study The teacher who grasps the subject under dis
russon need not to books either to aid his mem
DRY or TO increase his knowledge and he who does not
know the subject in advance of his pupil might as wen
change places with him. or both together become dis
tipes." The Journal also says in regard to the
teaching of the English tongue :" The pupils writing,
spelling, of capitals and italics syntactcal forms,
aud general style of expression not transcribed In
importance by anything else learned in the school, AND
so long has been using the language with no REFER
epce 10 correctness whatever and with many assoca
securing that correctness is undertaken at trc~
mendous disadvantage Now, Of all forlOrn hopes, the
most forOrn and fatal is, that you are TO succeed III
teaching the pupil read and write the English Ian
guage correctly by carrying the pupil through the class
study of an English grammar. II should be borne in
mind how present the practical parts OF this study
are that of the other branches Hence. in all the
studies and exercises either oral written keep the
pupil attentive 10 English. DO not allow inaccuracies
10 appear uncOrected in of those directions
Devise Also the basis Of each study such exercises as
will especially teach those points"
1t would seem to be vain to hope for peace
in the disturbed medical department of Michigan Unver
sy The homeopathic professors quiet enough, but
the alopathc faculty is unhappy. 1t now publishes
long statement in which detailed the following
arrangements which certainly do not appear TO display
any astonishing libcray Justice: The diplomas to
be granted different in title and character-those OF
the Homeopathic students be designated as homeo
pathc-the OF of the Faculty OF the Depart
nent of Medicine and Surgery upon them. and
of the of the Faculty OF the Homeopathic
College not to upon those of the other department
The Faculty of the College of Medicine and Surgery do
not recommend for graduation, and have no RESPONSE
bity whatever in sending forth homeopathic students
or estying their tuess TO become members OF the
medical profession. But the students OF the Homeo
pathic College have the privilege of attending the in
etruction in the College OF Medicine and Surgery,
Anatomy, Chemistry and all the branches, excepting
those on practice Medicine" aud Maeria Medica,"
aud they are to be examined i'll each department OF
study 10y who teach them, and are 10 have their
knowledge want of knowledge III those departments
certified to- If student becomes proficient in chem
1stry anatomy &c. the simple fact is stated while no
innation is given that he is qualified TO practice med
icne or 10 proper professional associate Of medical
men Holding TO the belief that the system OF home
opathy, taught by Hahnemann and his followers Is
absurd theory and useless in practice and that those
who profess the theory but Systematically violate It's
principles are unworthy OF confidence no member OF the
faculty could certify to the fitness of any protesting
In practce the and for similar pro-