New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-30
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

eussed by the School Commissioners of that city,
The California Legislature has passed bill
abandoning tuition in languages and music in the com
mon schools The two cost in San Francisco SoOOOoa
year.
The law providing for "mixed schools" in
Kansas has not yet been put in force large majority
An the I%avenw0rth school Board is opposed TO the
measure
Wellesley College is now prepared to give
advanced iastruc ion in chemistry to special non
resident studcnts Other departments will also offer In
the future similar opportunities for teachers
The third Harvard examination for women
will he held in the latter part Of May, place and time TO
be announced April 10. he Secretary must receive
notice Of intention be candidate ON or before Aprai
The whole amount expended for the support
Of the free schools Virginia during 1875 was SlO2l
396 6s Tie derived from state taxation was
s47s750 A6 and from Peabody fund and private do
nations, S77,232 49,
The Brooklyn Board of Education intend to
memorable the Legislature to amend the school law so
ms 10 exclude from the public schools all children under
six years Of age II considering the question OF dsco
tnuing drawing in the primary schools.
The trustees of the Johns Hopkins University
have determined that their first years work shall he
preliminary and tentative, aud the exact terms OF
maricuaton and gradual shall be determined after
the professors are brought together for mutual counsel
and suggestion.
The President of the Cleveland Board of
Education says study OF the German language
Is no derment to other studies In the schools OF that
city The OF this branch last year was SllS2O
The number pupils Of English pareniage engaged IN
the study 7O5; those OF German parentage 3i3S
Chancellor Eliot of Washington University,
st. Louis, says concerning the education OF women
ITO speak from very limited experience can
most confidently say that it has thus far developed no
iusuperahc difficulty TO admission OF young women
when properly prepared, to the regular classes
either OF college, or scientific or law SCHOOL
We have observed indications n intel
ectua inferority divided attention. OF careless habits
of study inability meet ali reasonable requirements
of a strict curriculum L sincerely wish that we could
have moro of every class from this time forward
with this condition. that the courses OF sty should
not be lowered in any respect hut held TO the iu sh
ard OF scholarly education so that young women gradu
stcs should stand upon the same level OF scholarship
with The Young men. There was time when should
have hestaed say this, but my skepticism mas &c
parted and my only fear now is that very few young
women can inspired with the love of learning as TO
desire the highest education, who are so fortunately
situated a. the opportunity aud choice gwen 10
them"
According to the last school census there are
bs3571 children attending the public schools of Iowa.
OF this number 62,144 under years OF age There
are 952s schoolhouSes in the state and the average
yearly Increase 400. There are 1sl45 teachers EN-
l8s The total amount OF expenditures in 1870 was
s46O5749 The most important higher educational in
situations Of the state the State University, at Iowa
CITY; Carroll College, at Mt. Vernon, Linn County;
Wester College, at Wester, Linn County; Wesieya Uhr
versity at Mount Pleasant; Baptist College, at Brng
ton; Griswod College Davenport; Iowa College, al
Gripuell; and Upper Iowa University, at West Union
The total number Of students attending these bgher
private Institutions exclusive OF the State University Is
about l69l5 of whom 1922 are males, and S'6lS are
females The number OF instructors is of males 2l3 OF
females 295. The annual income is $l79,9s3 6o; and
the number OF volumes in library $3.50 The number
OF students in the University is over GOO The
private schools all in weak condition, which con-
dition docs not improve with age They giving way
TO me free, public, grammar and high schools
The Bowdon Summer School of Science
opens for both July IT, and holds for six weeks u
der the direction Of Prof Carmichael Cornell will have
Summer School Of Zoology, to be conducted by tros
Barnard Comstock Cones, and Wilder and beginning
July and closing August IT, The instruction fee is to
be $50 from July TO August A. normal institute OF
drawing painting will be held at the College OF tle
Arts OF syracuse University Harvard announces the fol-
lowing Of study for its Summer SCHOOL, eacn
course to last six weeks:
/ General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis by MI
C. f. Mabery Fee $25, besides small charge for break
2. Cumulative Chemical Analysis, by Mr. H. H.
Hodges Fee 70, besides small charge Tor DeakaSe'
8 DetcImuatiye Nneralogy and Crystanography,R
MT NJ j.. MadSWOrth. Fee, 90, Dcsiuts Ch''6
for breakage. wear OF apparatus, ana chemicals
l. Ph3enogamic botany, by Assistant Prot George L.
GoOdale Fee SIS. -. - -,
G. Geoiogy by Prof y. S. shaer. Fee, $50 Including
tle use OF tents and camp equipagel.
The fifth course will held the seashore, and the
sixth in camp near Cumberland Gap Ry the others will
be held at the university.
The following are officially stated to be the
present Of California University: 100000 for
TIE erection central portion Of large building
for the Library and Museum and for the Seereary'5
Office, said building TO cost ultimately not exceeding
s2JOoOO to be built Of brick other substantial
material and OF such form as admit Of its future
largement by wings not 10 impair the interior
arrangement or exterior architecture; $4,000 for
wooden building for auditorium, drllroom, and
armOry size sufficient to accommodate not less than
1000 people; $4,000 for out-of-doOr agricultural
operations and experiments the University grounds,
and In continuation work already accomplished
and that now under way practical and experimental
agriculture; 500 600 for the increase of the water
,upply tol the University buildings and the agri-
cultural grounds; $4,000 for the erection OF a
plain substantial building OF brick, 20 feet by So and
two stories in hight for departments of mechanics
and mining which have been established in response to
the public demand, and in conformity with the organic
act establishing the Universy $1,000 for the purchase
OF additional books for the library for which lin every
department Of knOwcdg) there is urgent need $4,000
for the improvement the grounds; $4,000 TO meet
tie deficiency between the current expenses Of the Uni
yersy and its income The Regents Of the University
have asked tho Legislature 10 appropriate these sums
The total the Uniyersys annual income amounts TO
$4,000 The expenses for the year ending May 81,
1876, are Sl2s,OO0.
LITERARY NOTES.