New-York tribune., 1876-05-18
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

xraduated by Lane Theological eeinihhy'
The Summer course of Physics at TUFTS
College w,li 1t is thought be successiul.
The Professorship of Chemistry in the Johns
Topkns University has been accepted by Prof. hemseh
Of Williams College
An annual prize of 800 will hereafter DC
given 70 tha: member OF the Senior Class oil hor'"es
r University who shall write and deliver the best En-
glish Grafton.
Connecticut has FIVE colleges and distinct pro-
fessional schools 1888 ungraded district schools 2o1
Graded schools So high Schools 26 academies, and 249
private schools.
The public schools Of Brooklyn require for
their support S639 0O0 exclusive Of the State appropra
tou of s26l AL The account teachers salaries will
next year amount to over 100000
The German Teachers Association has ac-
cumuated about $4,000 for the establishment OF the
proposed GerTnan-Amercan Teachers Seminary Ihe
Association expects raise further sum OF S0Oo,oOo
during the coming year.
The Boston School Board has decided that the
morning exercises of all the schools shall begin with the
reading by the teacher of portion of Scripture withou'
note or comment and that other religious exercises
shall be permitted in the schools.
The most urgent educational need of Scot
land IL said TO be Of schools of the third gradchat
is Of which shall carry education uP to the age OF
l4or15 just that the endowed schools appear
most signay fail while nothing else takes Their place
The expenditures for the Richmond, Va,
schools during the past year were s7o'ol4 9S The
actual cost per scholar $13 15 The school popua-
tion white and coored. between the ages of 5and Il,
was 2o754 The value Of the school property of Rich
mond Is $212,s75 81.
The ew-England Association of School Su-
pcrintendents win hold their next sem-anuua meeting
in Boston on Friday, MAY &c. Mr.. Ephram Hunt Of
Portland, Me- will present for discussion the following
suggestive topic: To what extent are the calaues OF
the times Justly chargeabe pre- yaing systems OF
educationi"
Besides the branches now required for a first
grade county certificate Wisconsin demands from her
teachers for Unlimited State certificate En-
glish literature and the rudnents of botany, zoology,
chemistry geology political economy, and mental phos
ophy Applicants for this grade must present satisiac-
tory evidence Of successful teaching for at least nine
years
Under the provisions of new act OF the
Massachusetts, Legislature, School Committees shall
direct what shall he used and shall prescribe as
fer as ia practicable the of studies and exercises
n the schools change of book may be made by two
thirds vote OF the whole committee. provided notice OF
such proposed change has been made at previous meet
ing the board and il any change is thus made each
pupil then belonging the public schools requiring the
substituted book shall he furnished by the school CON-
uitteo at the expense OF the town or city.
Last week the Michigan State Medical So
csety adopted committee report in its effect condcmnne
the LEGISLATURE the Regents Of the University at Ann
Arbor and the action the old Faculty in retaining their
places and tending The Detroit Tribune says't force
the regular professors TO resign" The Tribune says
further 1.-THE practical aspects Of Tins action are very
simple will not in the slightest degree affect The senti
pent or the legislation of Michigan in this matter The
State press fairly representing on th point popular
opinion will laugh it down with deserved rdee; the
Legislature and the Regents will ignore it, Ii may affect
the action OF the American Medical Association; we pre-
sume this is the real objective point Of the move
ment"
The condition of educational affairs in the
rural districts OF this State is said 10y The A11ny EsFreSs
"to be almost dsgTaccfu" II adds: "The school build
ines are poorly constructed, poorly heated and ven
tated poorly adapted 20 their often positively
uncomfortable unhealthy and too often erected with
cheapness OF construction the main ii not the only
view. The most evil 10 lie noticed is the en-
poyment of inexperienced and wholly incompetent
teachers and the lack proper supervision. Trustees
employ a teacher with far less discretion than they
would hire farm hand. In many cases-if said in
majority OF would not he far out of the way
the teacher employed upon the principle that the
schoolhouse has been built eheapncss ho.ng the only
consideration. idea that tact. experience, talent
in other words skilled labOrare worth paving for does
not seem 10 tic head Of the average school
district trustee" OF the commissioners clt ctel TO super
yise the schools The Express "WOr enough is laid
out for them To keep them constantly employed; and
yetti "a yyeInown fact that many of them look upon
the Office as sinecurc and do just as little work as pos
sih,e There those who rarely visit schools. who
license teachers without examination, and who perform
all their other duties III sip-shOd manner"
Prof Whitney, continuing in The heW-ER-
oland Journal Of Education his articles English gram
mar saws Tic distinction of the and verb as the
two essential constituents Of the bare sentence the
naming something, the other asserting something about
it-ths Is the Of the first and most important cass
fcation even hold tlnt the first distinction
successfully made the historical development OF
speech. II be brought ont and Impressed only in
connection with examples Of the bare sentence and WITH
definition OF It's parts the subject" and the predicate"
These words, 30 dreaded by many grammarans, and
shunned and deferred till far in the study,
should not hesitate TO bring in, rather, at the
very outset They are, he sure, hard and ugly
terms; yet Skally harder than pronoun and
adjective II taken hold OF as early and made
familiar; and they quite Indispensable The
establishment Of the distinction this way insnres
avoidance of that ongesablshed and baueful bunder
in grammatical definition which made OF the verb -
word meaning to do, 10 be. or 10 suffer- or something
ecuivaieat TO this-a blunder which, though getting
gradually exercised has s wide and firm possession
that IL is apt to crowd itself up to sight even among
those whom one hGs long trying TO teach better. 1t
imainy due doubtless, to the long misagIreheDsiOn
which recerdcd the inhnItye almost the verb par
eeeroe instead os as no verb al all but only verbal
noun Aud this tn its turn owing 10 the undue sway
OF classical analogics and the influence of Roman gram
narians which only the recent comparative study OF
language has been able correct"