The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-20
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.


EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Colby university has 100 students
Dartmouth has students from Japan. Bur
nah and Brazil
Sectarian teachings and formal religious
exercises are forbidden in the Davenport
schools.
1t is reported that the San Francisco school
authorities are about to restore the teachers
salaries to the rates paid before the recent
reduction.
The geological museum at Warsaw is ex-
ceedingly rich in the department of higher
animals. Its collection includes 514 species
of mammals, 3,216 of birds. and 400 of reptiles
and amphibians.
The proposal to substitute "commemora
ton week" Tor class day at Harvard in view
of the present split in the senior class re-
garding the class day officers, is meeting
with favor and may be adopted. 1t is pro-
posed to give each day a different pro-
gramme making a week of unlimited fes-
tivity.
At Johns Hopkins university there have
been applications for admission as follows:
From graduates 80; from undergraduates
lis; total, 1854; accepted, SO; rejected, IS.
There were received as graduate students,
"a dS SlNlGtINS Oh lTldl kAO
be examined for naturalization in January,
1870. "a; as special students, not candidates
for degrees, Il; fellows 20; total attending
the university, 10.
A free Spanish university has been opened
in Madrid, under the name of free institu-
ton of education. 1t has over eighty stu
dents, eight or nine of whom are ladies.
The institution is reared on a small founda-
ton, only ZOO guiheas having yet been sub
scribed Many of the shareholders are
Englishmen, among them being Professor
Tyndall. The professors are men of high
standing, and it is hoped that the school
will enjoy an abundant prosperity.
Friedrich Ritschl, professor of philology
in the university of Leipsig, died early last
month, at the age of 20. He was one of the
very foremost classical scholars and teachers
in Germany. Though especially distin-
guished in the department of the older
Latinity and the dramatic writers-one OF
his principal literary works being an edition
of Plactus. with notes and commentaries
he was at home in the whole range of Greek
and Roman classical learning His writings
are said to be models of scientific compost
ton.
The Baldwin beneficiary fund at Hamil-
ton college now amounts TO over $4,000. A
prize scholarship has been founded by Gen.
eral S. H. Hungerford, TO be occupied by
students from Hungerford collegiate insti-
tute. A $1,000 scholarship has recently
been presented by Samuel H. Jordan, of
Philadelphia. In all the college has % schol-
arships. The Litchfield observatory, where
DR.. C. II. +. Peters nightly sits and almost
nightly discovers new asteroids, has been en-
larged. and an effort is to be made to retain
the services OF Professor Porter as assistant
astronomer. OF the last class graduated,
one-half are now occupied either as princi-
r,olc or. IN .Ia
have been during the year some noteworthy
additions to Memorial hall.
Our college readers will be edited to learn
that the use of ponies has begun in China.
The Picking Gazette of September IL con-
tains the following: decree. A Vermilion
Edict. A censor reports that at the exam
ination for the post of provincial examiners
this year, portions of the Pei ige7a yln fu
Imperial Dictionary of Literature) were
didates for such post should o
be actuated by feelings of self-respect, and it
is incredible that they should conceal books
about them, with the object OF attaining I'M
deserved success" From which it is clear
that returning boards may at no distant pc
Rod be introduced into the Celestial empire,
and the country of Confucius sink as low as
Florida and Louisiana under Chandler and
cameron.
President Woolsey says: II question very
much whether the formal reading by rote of
the Bible in schools as a school book doesso
much good as to be justly regarded as essen
tial. The children are not generally in
state of mind to receive instruction from it. |
Its meaning can not be explained where its |
style is archaic or the sense obscure beyond |
the comprehension of children. Still some |
thing valuable may be gained by |
the children through familiarity with |
the gospels, and some influences |
even from perfunctory formal |
treatment of this school exercise may pass
over into the childs future Ire. If any of |
the inhabitants of a school district should |
object to this for conscience's sake, would /
grant every indulgence consistent with school
order; for instance would allow a lesson
from some other books to be substituted in
its place. To cling tenaciously to the read
ing of the Bible against a considerable mi
nority in the school district, or the state,
could be insisted on, should think, only on
The ground that this exercise is of vast i'm
portance for the moral and spiritual welfare
If the children, which am not prepared to
admit" EtFf.sts ~ 49, .srf