New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-13
NOTES on EDUCATION.

Normal education in Kansas is now cOncen-
tratrd b. au Of the Legislature At the State Uni
versty.
Harvard grows conservative. It has now
three religious societies whose conditions of membership
are sail to be thoroughly Calynistic."
There are said to be over a thousand pupils
in each Of the ~ school buildings Chicago the 3GGSJ
school children OF ST. Louis distributed among "a
buildings
The Boston School Board has adopted the
plan Of having the storm signal for session struck az
fifteen minutes past eight in the morning TAis signal IS
% strokes by the are-alsrm bella
Foreign languages and instrumental music
are to be taught in no public schools in California, except
the University, the Normal and High Schools, and the
Institution for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
A bill has passed the California Legislature
allowing each Board OF Education TO select textbooks
for the schools its district and providing that the
books selected shall continue in use for six years
The lumber of illiterates between the ages
of and y in Indiana is estimated at 1922. There
Is school population OF GOT 736 in the Stateand of this
number 5l2 362 enrolled in the schools last year
Systematic teaching of morals i'll schools is
recommended by the Commissioners Truancy in Scot
land on the ground that by its means, combined with
physical education FIR successful rcsulif would DC
achieved in the dminu ion Of insanity than have hitler
10 been attained through the operation OF asylum treat
ment.
In Germany the movement for the higher
education Of women and Tor the opening up Of new
avocations making head by OF the foundation in
various towns Of 1rst-rate schools FOR girls
equal Hose for boys well by tie c1eitons OF Inc
different FrauenVerene, women'G associations, which
recently met in a delegates conference.
President Chadboune speaks thus Of educa
tonM textbooks: "small textbooks, containing only
the essentials Of the subjects treated Of only those parts
that have life in them, that cannot be eliminated without
leaving the subjects imperfect, are rare 1t takes brave
man. and morciess toward himself, to make small
| simple but thorough textbook Such books VIC must
/ have, II textbooks at all"
| At the late meeting of the North Eastern Ohio
Teachers Association speaker alluded to se care
essnoss PLAINLY visible in TIE management OF many oil
the rustic schools and enumerated number OF causes
that affected the system to great degree, including snch
as uncomfortable poorly ventilated edihces, and judi
cious osssforngs whereby quick and duh nteilec's
have equal opportunities. lie suggested monthly meet
nrs of teachers and general reorganization Of the pre-
vailing system
The public course of lectures at Union
College will be given this year by DR.. David Murray,
who Is the present head Of the japanese Government
Bureau OF Education His lectures VIII have for subject,
Occidental and Oriental Civilization" There win be-
I'm addition lectures by DR.. Coppeo International Law
ami nv the President Dr. Potter the Science Of Gov
eminent and other topics; course by Prof.. Seiah
Howell on English Literature another course by Prof
/ wendell Lamorcux Art, and still others Tor which
/ definite arrangements have not yet been made
DR.. A. II. Nichols, in an article on contagion
In schools suggests the adoption Of rules by which no
pupil shall be allowed TO attend school who Is affected
with diphtheria whOophg cough, or from any house
In when ,malpox varlocid scarlet fever is preva-
lent aud that in the pupil has been affected with
either OF these diseases TO which be adfs also measles
he snail rot be permitted to return to school until con
yaescenco is complete and the teacher shall have re-
ceiyed salts actory evidence that all clothing worn ny
the patient as well the surface of his body has been
thoroughly disnfeeted.
A writer in The New-Ehgland Journal Of