New-York tribune., 1876-02-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Delaware declines 30 make any exhibit oi |
her educational progress at the Centennial
Michigan University has III female ste
dents of whom have chosen law, AZ medcine' ana %
literature and science
The Legislature OF Kansas has before a blls
proyding that industrial drawing ee added 10 enc oiu
uary currIeuism OF a common school education
During the past ~ years Dartmouth Col
,e,e has received about S6o00H0 IN gifs ana aeoSt
10000 more will beceme ava,l.ble IN sfow years
A recent inspection Of the Chicago put4ic
e,ool buildings has brought light the fact thai the
ventilation in many them is bad and the exit dee'dNe
The Journal Of Education will hereafter he
nnb,isbed from Ncw-York instead Of Brooklyn II is
issued the last Of month with the purpose e review"
ing the months work
The Cincipnati Board of Education has ap-
rrop-iaed Il z2O to make an exhibition OF the puoDc
schools OF that city at the Centennial. TIE C'eVe'lhu
Board Of EducatiOn has voted $4,000 for the same
purpose.
The Board of Education of Richmond County,
Ga at recent session. passed resolve es'"ohSn'De
high schools aud asking the General Agent of the fe
bodv Educational Fund for gift Of $1,000 for the Dehe
nj of such schools during 1876.
The sixty-third term of the Albany state
Normal school closed last week, when class OF ~ was
graduated There were $40 students connected WIN .o
school during the past term. The school ls I'D eS
osperosl. condition under the charge OF the rev III
Alden.
The Michigan school statistics Tor Is 20 sho"
that 943 sol scholars attended school during the year
Tho value Of the school property Is S9Os'5 'he
teachers employed numbered ~ i63 and the t"a eos
OF fmaintalnng the schools was s5oOO0o" ao-a iils'
worthy showing
The report of The San Francisco Board OF
Fdncatop fo tae year ending Dec 81 shows that there
we're 369s5 pupils enrolled, with an average daiy
attendance Of 231. The expenses were SeijiA5 %
For the purchase Of sizes and the erection oi sN"oo I
ings S9l3sG SO were expended.
Connecticut occupies a good standing among
the states in educational matters In the number oi
pupils enrolled ranks 23d, IN the average attend
auce 21s: n average length Of schools IN days oth
expenditure per capita OF pupils enrolled Sll TO Wheh
Is 4th in rank. The annual expenditures Tor sehoo arc
abV.t - 100000.
II is feared in California that the law passed
last year which allows women 20 hold educational "C's
IA only the entering wedge for woman sunIae' "n"
bill has been introduced in the Legislature TO repeal
the act Three women are bOldlng the Office Of
county superinendeu in different sections OF the stale
The majority by which the law passed vac small
The thirteenth annual report OF the Ma'Sa-
ebusetts Agricultural College, at Amherst shows th"'
the funds of that institution amount % S2o3'oOO Ihe
income ia about $4,000 aud the expense oi carrying On
thc College $4,000 and the report claims 'hat 'he ie
suit thus far accomplished jusJhes the state IN haAlhs
good this deficiency instead Of reducing the Ilheh'y '
the institution.
Rochester is preparing bill to be introduced
% legislature making some radical changes IA The
school board Of that city Ii vests the management %
the public schools in board Of twelve commissioner
named in the bin three classes, whose terms respeo-
tyey explrc III one two and three years, and providing
FOR tie election after the expiration of one year. OF four
commissioners each year. for three years each
further provided that each party shall nominate two
commissioners, thus securing a no4-partisan board
Maine. like several other States, has not cs-
ce1ed aunoyane with its college land scrip The amount
npportioned 10 that state was 10000 and the
gum realized from the sale OF it S11j52f 50.
Committee OF the Legislature is investigating the
transaction but he possibility OF discovering any fraud
Is very slight The real blundor doubtless in rcfua
ng 70 give the lands VI the existing college, ana
In deciding uTOn independent institution which las
been constant upon the state foT its maintenance
The new Public School law introduced IN
IRE NewJcrsey Legislature meeting with much oqpo
,ton 1t does away with the election Of local school
boards by tho people and authorizes the State School
Board to appoint local boards Of six members each IA
every city and town. Whenever vacancies occur they
are To ned by the state Supernt ndent subject to
lie approval o. the state Board Tic local boards 20
appointed are 10 have the entire management OF the
schools appointing such superntcndents, principals and
teachers they may think necessary, aud CONTROL NJ
tbe local onl STATE SCHOOL funds The bill has little prob
ability o. becoming law. The NerarE Adrtrfiscr char
scterizes II as en- attempt to create school cearchy.