New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-02-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

v;ctshnrc. Miss, reports total enrolment
-, ,,,,s in "a public schools an increase oi lo4
over tho en,ohnent of January. 1870.
The friends New-Ioydon On. H. In
sttutiom have appointed Mr.. T. r. bne" H""'al agent
10 raise an cndOwu fund Of 100000 for mat mS'
ton.
Deereeld. Mass. has voted to comply with
the conditions OF Mrs. DicSnsons will, ana receives
sc, 600 with which 10 establish free library aud
high school.
The estimated expenditures of the public
schools Of Troy for the year beginning Mareh arc
s11a3I2 OF this sum S2G,497 will DC Appropriated y
the state leaving sol 1873 to be raised by Local 'aA
tion.
The examinations in the Syracuse pubnc
..hoos with reference to the Centennial ExhDuoh arc
now in progress. Few of the cities IN the STATE h"N'
tssen similar action and there appears ~ De mueh III
difference on the snbjecL
The New-Orleans School Board has an out
standng debt OF S375sG5 CO. about hvesi1ths Oh WHO"
IA for teachers salaries. resolution oHeFed at "'0
.,sson of the Board music teachers ia tue SCHOOLS
IN, dispensed with would appear to be IN orcer houS"
failed to be adopted
Tho arronoerneuts for the next session of the
,atonal Educational Assoc aIion which meets IN Bait
more IN July have been plsced in the names OF eon
,,,tse consisting of President Porter OF Yale, fFoi
yeuablc of the University of Virginia, and Prof. eneP
herd sup rintendent Of Instruction in Baltimore
Free school education cost the people of OHIO
in 1878 SO 633 068 So, increase OF almost nan
million dollars over 1874 There was no correspondents
increase IN the nunbe. OF pups, the enrolment oo'"1
only 4Is0 greater The cost for each one Vi .e
40 100 children attending school was Slf ~ Inc
sac OWLS s3i school houses valued at SloS'ooo4'
and employs o., 1872 teachers
There has been n law and medical depart
ncnt connected With the Iowa State toheVe lor soi,o
wears past and recently the homeopathsts sent pe
tiou to the Legislature to have char oil that ssOo
added The discussion raised by the ehor' ~ nAeiy "
sfsaiie Dat litiVGfis ~ NJ pFSis.si@i 0'i'
ton Of professional men,
ppblic instruction has received great I'M
mise in Portugal lately. In the snlan towns ''ere n
continual increase OF teachers while in the capital ana
Other large cities night schools and those Tor aons V
hing eopstonuy established Much of this activity Is
due TO the efforts Of private individuals and socleeT
Tine Academy of Civilization. lnauSnrated on '"e '"' "
November opened the first OF its popular sehooiS On '
first OF December This society proposes 10 eS'''''" "
Js,on 90 schools for adults 10 children and popn
Er library.
The Cincinnati Board Of Education arc con-
s,stne tn a1visabilty of abolshns the intermediate
,e,sr,nent of the puhilc schools TIE YoWs % th'
nyr,els Of the district and intermediate schools was
requested and nearly ali OF them eoneuIIeA III inc o
ION mat the present classification OF tie sehooiS ous'
be repsodelcd The committee OF Ihe Oo1Iu WIZ 40"
had tie subject under consideration believe tn"t ar
continuance of the intermediate department VIII a'ei
s benefit the schools aud considerably reduce the cost
OIL maintaining them.
In an address on "Self Culture delivered
re- ent session OF the Vermont State Teachers ASso
citation oec, the folio wing peIInent thoughts 4e'cl
IN. l. not nic. to DC learned IN le" hours d" ~
educational convention, trade 10 &C game" III ''1'0
,,hs n a normal school II ia rather profession
c,e work Of lifetime. II is good 10 compare ou'So''e
with heroic men and women and TO ot IL me P'''o'
c,rs either in men OF books. To secure The means Oh
culture often requires money and teachers are Que"
Themselves 10 blame that they do not haF" more % '',
They urd make their services worth netter Iilces ana
should get better prices"
OF the Peabody Educational Fund, Virginia
seceyed last year $3.50: NORTH Carolina @lol1Vi
Geo,,ia $1,000; Florida, 5000; Alabama $0'-o'; ME-
,aspi $500 Louis ana $500 Texas, $1,000; Ten
,e>s.e seg2s1O and West Virginia, SILVIA 'o'~i "a
Eg7SJO South Caroline receN al hc Iinhg' on
a.. failure of that state to comply WITH tAe
,,f., which tho fcuJ is distributed. MHch Soon -
hon ACCOMPLISHED through tac jI,icions infringement
=, ls garnas sears tao General Agent, III ealing 'no
at. ntion of the people TO the advantages OF INC system
one al te ccaes obstacles in the way or The uus''S
las lssthe ind ,rcncc OF the southern people 10 Hee
schools This ID gradually giving way TO" more ens''
,pad sentiment ard schools ncreasiiGn hummer anu
popularity.
Education is making progress III huasl"' ~
appears from official documents mat Id 1910 ''' V-
ont Of each hundred able torcad and wrte
u,uo in 1870 the average had risen 10 eleven In eae
hundred and this average has been sun lui'hs' Al
creased of late years The m-nc al oounc. Oh ID re
tgsnnr, ia thinking Of making attendance al ScAoo
ea..nsry III tie city and district ADJOINING Ioi al ohi
IRE, from e. u years Of age The yearly report Oh l.
r,ueafisu Department sta IS thn excluding Flhiauu
die Carcaslrs and Central Asia, there are 22fCo ei'
ue,ary schools, with 754,43l male and l8oo56 ienaie
scholars This shows scholar 10 4s males ana 20
females and ono school 10 1924 Inhabitants In INC
German Provinces there is one school TO 2oli persons
and one scholar 10 10 males ard "a icna &C. In the
Ia where the pupils have the option OF learning
rr,u.b or German IL .3S2 prefer German anu S'oOS
French this preponlerance for German being almost en-
brc,, furnished by the pupils entering dupg TIC last
tzo years.