New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

tioA OF Missouri the Centennial Exhibition are said to
be discomdslug.
The total amount of expenditures for the
public schools OF Rochester daring the past year Is
$4,000 Co. and the rctrug Board Of Education leaves
To Us su, cessor a san lus Ol 10000.
The State superintendent of public schools
OF Tennessee has undertaken lecture tour to raise te
funds ccSary 70 make az exhibition OF the educational
interests OF that State al tho Centennial.
Tne new chapel of Yale College viii be COM
pleed auout the middle of MAY. viii hold al cast 30
persons moe tan Center Church. and commencement
exercises VIII be held in it in the future ii is thought
The University of GOttinsen has renowned
the night OF coEerrg Doctors Il, grees without oral eA
animation so that the abuse OF the sOcalcd degree ~
aGseatia longer exists IN any PIussidn university
st. Louis disbursed 500, SOB 80 i'll maintain
ing its pubc schools daring February and has good
balance the treasury. That city prciort good schools
I'm modest buildings expensive structures ana large
debts and perhaps schools.
The colored schools Of Delaware are said to
show encoTas ing signs OF activity Outside the City ca
Wilmington there % schools under the care of the
Delaware Association with average attendance OF US
pupils Effort, made to awaken the colored people to
the importance OF education are proving successful
A correspondent of The Richmond Enquirer
estimates that 100000 have been appropriated to cd
ucatOnal purposes Virginia during the pas 10 yeaIs.
In period endowment schemes for the bcnehI OF
the colleges and theological nstitu ions in the state nave
been wholly OF in part carried out, amounting in the az
gregate To @3,4OOOOO.
Yale has been prolific in college presidents,
having furnished them TO the following institutions;
Princeton Columbia, Dartmouth, liams, AmEoI lrn-
ity Mddlebuy, Cornell and the universities OF Vermont
California, PENNSYLVANIA, and many Others. Presidents
Barnard OF Columbia, White Of Cornell Gilman Ot 'hc
Hopkius University, and Chancellor Sue OF the CDiVer-
sty OF Pennsylvania, are graduates OF Nale'
The calendar of Michigan University has
been issued and ii RECORDS several important changes III
that institution. The OF study has been made
more elective and subjects have been extended anu
others shortened The total number OF students in all
the departments 1,l91 falling OF of 62 from the
previous year. Two colleges nave been added. VIZ
a Homeopathic Medical College and College OF Dental
Surgery.
Financial embarTassments have compelled
the san Francisco Board OF Education 10 order the CLOS
ing public schools after tie LIST OF May Reei Nae
been asked from the Legislature. but the attention OF
that body appears TO he fully employed III an
elaborate educational system which shall tHns the pu"
lie schools the high schools tie normal Schools ana th'
State University under the control Of state board oi
education. What the Board are TO find TO do II tho
schools arc closed for want OF funds does not seem |"
trouble the mind of the average legislator
The University of Georgia has graduated
13ss alumni of whom 50 have been judges Of superior
Courts 80 members of Congress- United States and
Confederate States Senators, judges OF State supreme
Courts Judge of supreme Court of the United STATES
Vce-Presdent Of TIE Confederate States, Secretary OF
Treasury OF the United States, Speaker OF Congress-
United States DstrictAtiOrney, state Treasurer /"
State Governors Speakers Of Georgia House OF Repre-
sentatiyes United States Foreign Minister Control
lers of Georgia Attorney presidents %
colleges AZ professors in colleges, bishops
Pardue University at Lafayette, Ind, which
has Just elected president IN the person oil the
ito nf is
been founded but two years ago. 1t received the Land
grant the state Of Indiana and gift OF Sooooo oi
the Hon John Pardue, and other large gifts OF mohey
and land have added by the state and county Tec
endowment fund amounts TO $4,000 besides which II
owns q farm Of land, buildings erected al
cost of so OO0 ana fund Of $4,000 that be used
for building and other improvements 1t is SAID that the
new president will enlarge the OF study by addns
al special sch OILS OF science
The trustees of the Johns Hopkins Uniyer-
sty al Baltimore have offered to young men from any
place felOwshps, or graduate scholarships TO Dc
bestowed for excellence in OF the following suect-
Phioogy literature, history, ethics, and metaphys!cs
political science, mathematics, engineering physics
chemistry aud natural history. The value Of the fei-
lowsIps will be $500. payable in three SUMS Aplioa-
tons be made prior to June J. 1876 the condition
being an evidence Of liberal education. an Inclination
toward a certain line OF study and upright CHARACTER
The holder Will be expected to cooperate in upholdne
the efficiency the University, and to render some ser
The following pertinent assertions come from
The National Teachers Monthly: Teachers are apt I"
talk too much In conducting recitatlons Teachers 100
often neglect TO teach their pupils how 70 study Tie
use dictionary other book of reference should De
taught good plan IS to have children hnd, wrlte ana
define ten words giving credit to the one who is done
first 1t is bad quell disorder in disorderly manne
such A by imgling a bell furiOusly, or tapping with
penc or stamping with the foot or whacRns the taot
with stick-the to blame We would advise
teachers not to q, stion children by throwing books at
the heads the children would be justified in replying
by means Of flying states and disengaged ink-wel.s
school-rooms should seated 80 that the hght sha
strike IN over the left shoulder"
At late meeting of the Boston Board OF
Education purpose OF eiectng school SUPERVISORS
IL was proposed to elect some representative OF the
man Catholic ueope of the city. The motion pro
tested against by member Of the Board, himself eo
man Catholic in this pungent way: He said that he was
not elected a member OF the Board as Catholic nor l"
repr.sept Catholics especially the whole people. He
would sooner resign his position altogether than 10 hoh
It with any understandings expressed or implied That he
the representative OF the Roman Catholic people
.oely He believed that the sooner the bg0s on bolh
sides whether Catholic Protestant took their hands
off the pubc schools it would be for them and
for the schools hoped 10 the day when no form
or ceremony Of religion whether OF prayers or hymns Oh
whatever else should ud place in the sessions OF the
public schools but that they should be strictly eculaas
much so as dry goods shops or the railway cars lie
would have sessions Of the schools 50 conducted ta'
no pupil whether Jew, Catholic, or Protestant shouu
hear any thing therein which should hurt Ills OF he re
upious feelings He profcssed adhere strongly Ia
his own religious belief any person did to his, but
could not regard public school system as the proper
Aid for the exercise religious preUdces the part OF