New-York tribune., 1876-02-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Alabama Baptists are engaged in an
earnest effort 10 endow IIowa.d College at Maron.
Mr.. Alonzo Alternately, the Presdent-elect Of
Chicago University. will b. naugurated IN March, 1t is
believed.
The AVERAGE length of schools in the State OF
Maine is III days per year. and the daIy expenditures
during that time are SS,s4G.
Ohio will expend $4,000 in making an eda-
tiona exhibition at Philadelphia 81 900 of which WILL
be used in erecting model school building
The Chicago Board of Education has appro-
priaied y7o6,JS5 81 for school puTpOsos Tor the Line
months beginning April /, 1876, and ending jan J.
1877.
Iowa has no normal school for the training
of teachers though IL claims several universities
The Legislature in Session has before IL DL applo
prating $50, 600 to supply this deficiency
Subscriptions to the amount Of $4OO,OOO Aave
been raised IN behalf OF tie extension of the University
OF Edinburgh Scotland. IL is proposed to increase tn
sum 10 $4,000, and hen make ah appncauOh W 'n0
Government for grant.
The Boston School Board has directed the
Committee on Drawing inquire whether more WORK If
reaurc of scholars ia department than can be per
formed in the time allotted Much dissatisfaction pre-
walls on the subject.
The number of pupils enrolled in the St.
Louis public schools 53. an increase OF $500 over
last year Tie scnool buildings in many cases are mad
eQuate and por,ion Of the pupils are gwen only h''
day sessions.
bill has passed the Kentucky Legislature
aud signed BY the Governor, authorizing Ae Ny o.
Iouis le TO levy a tax OF each 800 of it's real
and personal property, to be used IN the erecnoh o.
buildings for white schools Of that clty The attend
ance upon tic schools durin January 12o37 an III
crease of S02 the same month III 1879. The eA-
penses during the same time We're $27,42e 50.
The tuition fees in the Johns Hopkins UNI
versity at Baltimore have been nNed ut $50 year
There will be 20 scholarships called tie Hopkins seNi
ashps and freeing tho holders from charges for tuition
bestowed upon students from Maryland, Virginia, ana
North Carolina. Baltimore City College scholarship
and five University scholarships, ami ten e'iowsnps
yield 2 $500 each. have also been established.
In 1920, Philadelphia, with a population OF
1907 had 1863 pupils in i1s public schools, and eX
pended to- O5S III aiming them. In 1873. with a
population Of about 10000, there were 91552 pupi,
taught in the schools at cost of $l,63f,613 20 The
ratio OF pupils the number OF inhabitants HAS increased
from one III about twenty-five to one III eight ana Tie
cost per pupil has increased from ~ to about $l|.
The Dost0n Herald gives the new School
Ioagd Of thai city useful Liuts, aud points out Un'
Of the Fundamental mistakes OF the system on which the
schools are now conducted: Eve expect all pupils 20 be
come Ihosophcrs We do NOT really count upon that re-
suit bus tie system organized though We did IAe
course OF studies arranged for scholars who enter al
the prinlry school and graduate at the university The
fact half tn scholars never eet through the
grammar schools. TAey obliged 10 drop oui |heh
they x to be twelve years Of age to contribute
by Their earnings to the support OF tie family If tie!
contnae until they fourteen years OLD, they have
hardly reached highest class in the grammar school
Ii ia this majority of tic scholars tiat has the highest
claim upon ,he school system. First, because ii Is TIE
majority; secondly because it drops ont 50 carly and en-
,oys no other advantagcs There scholars cannot b.
male philosophers, Dut they he provided EitL t,c
UCatiOu hlCh VIII cndbIo tHcll 10 DC
eJluc inteilig ~ nj aud useiu ctZ ms