New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-05-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
o;no;o University has 5000 students.

Ieinsic University has 5000 students.
McKendree College sends out graduaeihs
eass of ID members this summer
The Association of College Presidents VIII
hold their next meeting at Tufts in Autumn.
Prof Sauveul's French Normal School al
pvnouth. N H., las already more than fifty teachers
enrolled.
The American Institute of instruction VIII
hold las fortyseventh annual meeting at fymoutn' ~
H., July IL, II, AID ID.
Among the orators announced for Com-
meDcement at Wesleyan University, Aidde'o"h onn''
Is a young lady from Kentucky.
The prize for the best Centennial drama for
schools has been awarded to Miss Alice NJ Guernsey
teacher in the state Normal School at Randolph VI
Dr. Robert p. Keep of Hartford has been
appoined Master the Classieal Department OF Wills
ton Seminary Roswell Parish of Worcester Master III
the English Department, and Mr.. G. T. WashOurn Id
structor in rhetoric and Oratory
A large number of wise and wealthy citizens
OF indianapolis have sent memorials to the scoo Ooh
missioners requesting that proposed reuuc'o" ~
teachers salaries shall not he made Ihese memnr'a's
contain vigorous iuesve protests against sueb ac
ton.
The Connecticut schools during the past year
arc reported 70 have been unusually successful IheI
apce Tue Normal School win send out 26 graduates III
June The Suite has 1851 teachers. The number o.
nups Is 1875 so and the amount Of voluntary oOn'rion
tons 10 the schools $6,SSl &C.
A writer in The NeC- England journal o.
Education very wisely says Before leaving te study
teachers knowledge of the days WORK ahead should "e
most thorough. to the minutest detalle AhStnih
short of this is inconsistent with that feeling OF conn
dence in SELF that consciousness of mastery OF the SUI
ect which is so essential 10 the peace OF mind OF the III
strucor striving 10 meet the demands Of accurate scho
arsnip Thorough previous preparation demaoe" u
a. But what does this invovef Not simply kDo"l-
sdge though full Of the subject as presented III re 'eA
Dooa used-meager indeed would be the outht OF
teacher thus scanttly equipped-but comprehensive
philosophical grasp Of the whole subject in Its varying
phases and relations TO kindred topics Remember So
tat the prime duty OF instructor t"eonVey hsuo
non not TO preside at an examination let the recitation
DC not a mere asking Of questions
A Summer School of Biology, beginning July
T. and continuing six weeks. is to be opened al ii'
Museum Of the Peabody Academy OF science saen,
Mass There will daily lecture. the remainder OF the
time being given to laboratory work. demonstrations
and excursions. Especial attention viii he gwen "
marine botany end zoology, the advantages FOR deds
me and shore collecting most excellent Tue NUMBER
of students will be limited to To- and while the schoo
Designed primarily for the teachers OF Essex county
Mass few others can be admitted Instruction w
assistance of Messrs J. s. Kingsley and 3 t. Cissno'
and In botany by Mr. John Robinson with the assistance
Of Mr. C. H. Higbee. Mr. c. Cooke will have charge OF
the dredging parties Special instruction VIII Oe gwen III
microscopy By the Rev. Il. c. Bolles Prof t. o Morse
has consented to give several lectures Oh geological sun
Iects Dr. A. IT, Johnson of Salem will dellvera s"o''
course on the anatomy and physiology OF the nervous
system Mr. T. Lyman Perkins VIII give instruction III
physiology An admission fee OF $40 Will be charged
Admission TO the lectures alone.S3.
The Superintendent of the Public Schools OF
BROOKLYN says drawing I'm the schools OF that CITY
"Tbe instruction in drawing has accomplished eucD re-
suits during the past year as 70 cntte III All te COD
alteration which has been claimed for 1t by its ieS.
The marked effect upon the writing OF class or sch""i
by careful and udicOus instruction in drawag mas o'h
surprised me- Notwithstanding my familiarity with us
results One result OF this systematic tuition VIII uouo'
less surprise the tardy friends of instruction IN
drawing in our public schools. Itwas believed ana often
asserted that enlarged aud cost scheme OF ART tuition
would result developing end fostering the taste OF only
thos who possessed originally leaving the great mas
of pupils totally unaffected 10y the instruction But
have found wherever the cooperation Of the local tech
ers has been hearty that whole schools have become so
far accomplished in drawing and designing thdt was
difficult to ind single book without evidence Oh eui
Gated taste and skill" The Superintendent recommends
giving reading and writing lessons tie prefer
ence over all other studies. He also erucis'S
the excessive devotion on the part OF teach
ers to the non-esseutia details prescribed by the
textbooks he says: II is the marking of time with
out the progress OF the march Thus, To AVOID voa"
OF the strict order in progression which most authors
seem TO consider quality sacred as vrtne' no text
book arithmetic teaches multiplication by fractions OF
which the numeratOr is until that awful portal
10 mathematical knowledge, called common fractions
Is reached after al enre of toll and study iDte'
yening The scholar is taught to multiply by any series OF
whole numbers but though his existence were III
peril multiply by one-half One-thnd Many thousands
OF pupils leave the public schools from the nrst primary
and sixth grammar grades TO whom the process OF as
eertanng the cost any article Of comm rec whose
price OF unity should he twelve and onehaf cents OF
thrtyhree and onerd cents any other OF the com
mon fractional prices, would be great mystery as the
integral calculus"