New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-27
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Two ladies have been elected to membership
ON the Edinburgh school Board.
The Parliamentary grants for education In
Great Britain amounted last year TO S6,753,75o'
The Spanish Central Normal School is to
have chair OF pedagogy Of the Floebel 81 STEM
There are % Catholic parochal schools in
Chicago, and the total attendance is nearly 5000
With population of $4,000, Toronto had
last year average daily attendance OF $3.50 III the Guy
schools.
The Cherokee Nation is said to pay the high
at salaries ia teachers men receiving 1913 month and
women 5000
Boston University is to have College OF
Commerce aud Navigation Don as the necessary iuno'
skal be provided
The Hon. Edward Blake, Attorney-Genera'
Of tie Dominion, has nominated TO the Cnahc'o
ehip Of Toronto University.
Il is said that the practice of changing ~A'-
books has been carried TO such On extent III oi' ~
CITY tba. one firm had in stock time los KINDS Oh
readers.
On the DIST the doors of the Ohio Wesleyan
s,r.,si,, e, opeued for the nTst TO women stu
a.,ts The oueston Of admitting them has been us
cussed by the faculty for several years
The Wisconsin State University, through It's
,epresentatye Mr. A. s. Richie, has just won the hst
hopors at the State oraorical contest Mr. H. f. fe''-
ON of Belo.t Col e took second honors'
new college paper, TO be called The Prince
toaian ia about be issued at Princeton IL VIII oV
pubisl ID fortnighty, and will not interfere with lac
Literary Magazine, which will assume more purel!
literary character.
The Committee appointed to conduct the
examination Of candidates for State certificate dc
slares through it's Chairman President Andrew u
a. bft flott the facf
oy only one candidate does not seem any argument
against extended trial of the system
The following prizes have been awarded by
the Committee Oh Bowdon Prize dissertations: f. /"
Welinian, Senior, prize OF $50 for dissertation vi
sTne Personal History OF JOIN Mlton;" l. Z. Williams
Seuior prize of $50 for dissertation ON Inc ioc'9
of the Nineteenth Century; p Lowell Senior prize oi
$50 for d dissertation on {" The Bank OF England rs
Furopeop Power between the death OF Elizabeth ana INC
death of Anne; t. HOvey, Junior, prize OF 500 LOT
di,seration Oh "schliemann's Excavations at Troy
writer in The Nec-England Journal OF
Edueao suggests the following pan for reading les
sou: J. Give from Onesixh to one-thlrd OF the ume
Of the exercise class drill one OF more oil TIC
points grouped under head of vocal culture Give
TO one-half OF the time TO study OF new
or advanced lesson and class drill in reading it, j.
Fill the remaining time with individual reading o. review
icssous or easy pieces In the first division ann al ac
curacy in the second at completeness; in tie thrd al
and animation.
Until last year the higher education of the
sfudcns Of the Imperial University OF Iedo wGs cl =
Quoted IN English French and German; but tie mhi-
Guilty and expense of carrying on higher, Special ana
professional education three foreign languages were
snch that it was determined to employ only one foreign
language for the pur aud English was the hguds
chosen Daring the year eleven students, CHOSEN from
the highest classes in the university sent TO pursue
,,fripS nd n
a4g students are now the books Of the college
The administrative body consists OF thirteen japanese
ofcias and twenysix foreigners are employed as PFC
fessors of whom six English, seven French, five
German and eight American
OF written examinations The Neic- Engldnd
ournc Of Education says editorGly that they were
seu To have prominent vanagos not only an eject
i've means Of testing pupils knowledge OF SUBJECT
but also in accustomng Inn to arrange with system and
peatness various kinds of school work Then came tie
orders from school committees and surerint ndeis ta
these examinations should come at certain stated peIods
In all the studies, they thinking about or cOe-
ndne the enormous OF labor which the coTrec
ton OF ese many qure Of manuscript full OF kinds of
errors entaed upon the already overworkd teacher nor
of the st additional labor for teachers and pupils in the
rewriting exercises for the improvement OF what
was amss Under the frequency with which these eAer-
eises sometimes ordered, it becomes absolutely mpos
se the teachers OF large classes 20 DO the Work re-
ou,red If il be well done Teaching pupils to make ont
bills from statements furnished or invented, to write
prv,ussory notes. orders. &c. is very important mat
teri aud them to learn how TO begin and close ous
ness ard other letters quite much So To teach them
TO exercise their inventive powers more formal conpo
stous il thing of great But the teacher who
attempts all these things with class in term
or year even. viii not be likely 10 do SO agein"
TIE following truthful criticism is uttered
edi,orally by The National Teachers Monthly: For
people VINO apparently well drilled In witt
ing compositions during their shOol life it is strange
what small percentage of Americans write simple
ester correctness. The cause III our oIin
ION Ia 10 be found in which composition If
taught In tho great majority Of schools In the first place
A is commenced Before The child has either
ideas or vocabulary he is called on to wrte c0npo
sition In The absence OF any ideas OF his Own, lie
borrows them from the most accessible source. Ihe
result that in nine cases out Of ten the composition
IA q numbor OF unmeanng phrases blended in
such way as to oeoken industry not honesty on the
part Of the pupil aud calpabe negligence OF downright
the part OF the teacher who does not detect
the plagiarism and prevent its recurrence. Another
causeSnd this Is peculiar to high schools and COLLEGES
10 called-is the OF false eloquence and highly
wrought rhetorical aourishos SchOomaster must give
common-sense topics which to write, and where the
subject the choice of tie pupil he should he d.
rrcted TO choose such. No such topics IA the Higher
H:stnetics' Talks with Angels Nights with the
Code Travels in Jupiter or Visits in the Moon,
should be permitted and least Of all should they be sub
tects OF essays for Commencement day"
Is is said that in by far the greater number
Of Scottish secondary schools to the present day pro
motion by merit is unknown. A boy joins particular
class entering school, al on year by year In
the same class with the competitors, generally uD
der the same master from beginning Of The
school No matter how rapid his progress may be-