New-York tribune., 1876-06-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

bangor neOlOeiCd1 DSAhAhssJ A'~S 49,
cut ten graduates
Teachers salaries win not be reduced IN
New-Hiven this year.
The usual ceremonies of ciass-day VIII no1
he held tins year a Brown UniverSity
The Bible is now read in 1860 OF the
I7Osto public schools Of Pennsylvania
Prof. Emory Washbum will retire from the
Harvard Law school the close Of the present year
Mr. Henry A. Rowland of the Rensselaer,
Po,yecmc Institute is the Professor Of Physics In
Johns Hopkins Un versity.
Mr.. IL. +. EcIls of Cleveland has won the
Cark oratorical prize Hamilton College His subject
was "The PathOs Of the Bi6ies
A proposition to abolish all class-day cxer-
eise exct the Vraton poems, singing and cheering rs
beng discussed nv the Senior Class at Harvard.
The scientific classes in Lafayette College
are making excursions TO various places In P'nnsyi
vania, where they study p. .aetclly mines ana
minerals.
Miss Anna Oliver took the degree of Bache-
lor OF DvIuiy at the COnmoncsuient OF Boston lheo
logical School last week. Her oiaton Was ehutiou'
"ChIistiau Enterprise, Its Field and Reward
Hamilton College has graduating class ot
% menp.,rs this year. The Law Glass numbers 20
graduates. Commencement begins Sunday june Zo'
with the baccalaueate by President Samuel o.
Brown.
IL il proposed to establish in Lehigh Uni
yersy as soon as practicable additional technical pro-
fcssorshs The classical department VIII also oe en-
kggod. Recently Sunday service has been opened ln o
poege chapel aud lectures Psychology aud the CHRIS
.in Evidences staedy delivered by tue Fgohoen|
During July and August opportunity viii be
given University of CINCINNATI for the STUDY oi
n riler Analvsis Spherical and Practical Astronomy,
and Celestial Mechanics Tdls chance ID intended pil-
mirly for my desire to spend ther vacd'
bun in the plIst OF studies connected with 'uer own
work special attention will bo paid TO the art OF com
sung in order give insight INTO the prscaeai Az
pheation Of mathematics TO astronomy. Opportunity
will also be afforded To learn the use of snstrulnents
The Harvard Overseers have voted to concur
with TIE Prcs,J.ut AID Fellows III eStaoSAine PROBES
sorship OF glsh in appointing John E L, ier' NJ d.
Professor Mental Diseases In tue MeSlcai se"oi'
Henry W. vii iauIs NJ D., Professor of ofhIhalmoioSy
In the Medical school, aud James C. White, NJ d. Pro
fessor OF Dcllnltoloy In the Medical Schcoa for five
Yeas from Sept. 1, 1876 The Hon. hcssrs L. h hodi'
Parker. and Ropes appointed on the part OF this
Board as "a Committee of Conference regarding the use
In the ensuing year, the funds subscribed several YEAR
since for lectures upon labor, capital, and national
tesources
The ancient plan for commencement speaking
at Amherst having ben aDo he'd. the cromonies viii ID
arranged this yea i'll this fashion: Tie graduate taxing
will in addition ten paris, each OF wnieh VIII
repeseni particular branch Of learning pursued III tht
college au VIII will be assigned to TIE menber OF the
class distiugu shed excelcnoc In that department
The following nominations have been made; Naiedic
y, A. L. Smitns sautstoy aud Latin Department. l.
H. Knight; Modern Languages, c. i. W. Hubbard
t.iences c. syden History. G l. smith, Philosophy
Mental, A. B. Hunter; Literary, 6. W Cloak Tue senior
class at D.trtnOsth have pctitonei tbe iacu1ty l"
ABOLISH the pros system OF assigning commencement
parts scholarship exclusively
Tie National Teachers Monthly saws of teach
ting the elementary branches: IL Is mistake To SUI
pose that the elementary branches not Interesting
children. Children Ike To do what they can do "eii
what they understand, on the road to UNDERSTAND"
ing Tue facl having prog essed so M In his text
book is a source Of satisfaction to the ehd "herr"
Instruction vaguely presented and imperocily unde'
stood renders the rcstiess and dSooni' nted
Whit Interests a child Is to feel that he KNOWS To-
sure and to this END be should not be advanced T.
another stage until he is of his footing IN the pess"
ppe Hence drill upon each principle when IA iAno
Is preferable practice Of turning the BOOK aSah
snd again Nor should tue work presented In the tex
be on>iered sufficient. The examples III any irl h
pe for instance should but the text for whoie ser
mon OF additional proDlems, original aud selected
The Johns Hopkins University examinations
of applicants for scholarships for the states Of Mary
hand virginia and North Carolina, will b. held in Bait
more Richmond, Stauntou Ya and Raleigh, ~ e., iron
June 30 to July 10, and will be conducted nv PresieD
Gilman and Prof Gilderseeve in person The examiner
will report by whom the scholarships VIII
be awarded but publicity VIII he gwen to tue name
of those who appointed rejected The i've scholar
shits known University Scholarships are 10 d.
coupe tive and open to young men from any part Oh u
counry Exnina for these will br held la BaltnOii
m October. The feIowships arc not yet d. iniiel,
awarded but the papers submitted by each canidat'
have been referred specialists la the Sarlons depart
ments aud as their reports In te list Will
announced. There over 100 applicants FOR ieJo"
ship representing Al colleges, and besides these hrg
number of letters received from Others maxim
fpaury As difeUlt to decide upon any ten oil C'
applicants when many advanced students had pr~
rented themselves the trustees concluded To extend tl
eder to twenty 1t is estimated that at the opening
the University the library will contain about 0,OoV
volumes