New-York tribune., 1876-04-20
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Mr. s. Richie has been selected to repre-
sent the Wisconsin state University at the coming ora
torcal contest at Beoit.
The percentage of the school population in
regular attendance is In Boston, 50; in NewYorS "a;
in Chicago, 6l and in st. Louis, 67
II is said that after the coming year the
requisites for admission to Cornell University VIII ne
inereased knowledge Of American history to be one OF
these requisites higher standard is also to be required
In the English language.
The bill last week introduced in the Legis-
lauro for penonug teachers who have given long and
faithful service the free schools is probably too wise
provision 10 be adopted If could be- the state Woud
have risht TO ask for larger number OF Thoroughly
capable teachers.
Amherst College is unable to pay the second
instamout from the Hitchcock scholarship tund lis
wear. The railroad bonds in which the fund was III
vested have passed dividends withouta prospect ol
immediate resumption. About so students received SIOo
year from this fund.
The next annual meeting of the National
Educational Association will BE- held at Baltimore on the
10TH lth and 10Th Of July session of the rst Inter
national Congress held in this country VIII ouo"
on the remaining days Of the week Distinguished Tor
eign educators are expected
Mr.. w. T.. Forster says that the position OF
the teacher and especially the elementary teacher in
England is much more fairly acknowledged and properly
appreeatod than IL used TO DE. lie holds that masters
and mistresses who interest in science are not
bad elementary teachers. but generally speaking,
better than those practically ignore the acquisition
OF rudimentary science
The recent annual report of the Boston
School Committee suggests that the teachers salaries
should be graded dereny that while it is perhaps not
expedent to reduce the pay OF the present neumhens
there should be provision for the future for keeping
the pay OF inexperenced ami inferior teachers at the
minimum rates. and giving the annual increase to those
Who under competitive tests, should prove to be the
ablest instructors.
President ChadbOurne of Williams says, very
sensbly "Just student feels tnat instead
OF being dealt with personally he only part o great
machine that is controlled and worked as whole much
of his individual responsibility is lost, except to DO his
mart in the machine Personal responsibility constant,
as though other student associated with HIM. IS
the true condition of development and unless y0u secure
that condition fully. much Of the Students time ana
strength wasted and your own strength is ~astedla
managing the machine which, when the school dssoves.
is worthless"
The average idea of the profession of teach
ing and its remuneration is in this country contempt-
bic one TIE teachers wages in no sort OF proportion
10 the importance of his work. and there is no induce
ment whatever for further Improvement presented to
him. The shoTt-sighted, penurious policy OF schoo
authorities is sharply illustrated By communication to
The Evansrtie Courier, mentioning as an argument for
the reduction Of salaries that many rstcass mechan
cs gladly work for 81 day, aud in fact many arc
working for less" 1t IN this stupid and ignorant spirit
that the question Of teaching s too often considered 1t
is work Of immense value. and that is very cX-
haustine and II is widely estimated below arts which are
little more than mechanical.
Decorative art in the Cincinnati School of
Design s mado to be thoroughly practical and effective
Tie feminine pupils have carved during the past term
many beautiful cabinets tables, and the Ike, some Of
which are to be sent to the Centennial Exhibition. Their
designs are original ana the carving is elaborate and
The seating capacity of the school 15O and
these places well filed both day and night during the
term OF nine months-namey, from September 10 June
The instruction in drawing is uniform up to point tht
enables the students to express their ideas with facility
after which instruction impaired in the principles OF
designing suited 20 the specially OF each IN the plan OF
instruction drawing there has been discarded nat eN
anples and students work from round or solid objects
from the nning and this has been attended with such
results encourage this method in the future the stu
dents learning N this with great rapidy There
are class OF beginners from geomercil solids thTee
classes day and nigiD drawing from the antique one
class original designing one life class where the living
model is drawn and painted FROM and class In model
ing n clay Regular instruction is given in perspective
al stated hours every week. besides original composition
of pictures from given subjects Tie school well
piled with models in plaster There seven colossal
groups and single figures 25 reductions, or half lfesze
figures besides busts masks torsos legs, arms hands,
and feet vases bas-reefs, pedestals armor DC. all
from the best examples known. IL is question whether
il Is not far wiser teach the arts s1ecia school Of
this sort than 10 make such study compulsory IN the
public schools
At the late annual meeting of the Cincinnati
Yale Club President McCosh OF Princeton spoke Of the
advance Of education In Europe and America, and said
that while the elementary schools OF this country had
always ahead of the mother country, Great Britain
was rapidly gaining on us, and had now elementary
schools very nearly If not quite equal 10 our own The
COLLEGIATE system Of England he considered very thor
ouyh Their plan of inspection was perfect. There was
an Inspector in every county, who was paid more than
The highest officers in colleges, aud there We're sub
inspectors who paid more than most OF American
progessors The Doctor thought the requirement OF
colleges as TO the age Of eligible applicants for admission
should be modified that, instead Of requiring students
to be IS years OF age, they should be admitted at
IT, He also thought that primary schools should be
encouraged more than they that public beneiac-
tors Instead Of founding the universities oi Brown,
Saith OF Robinson, should direct their bcneyOlence
toward the support of academies Of preparation for col
loc This was done in Great Britain and IN the Eastern
States and resulted in mach good TO the public In En-
gland candidate FOR any position underline Government
had undergo tie aost rigid examination according 10
the requirements Of the place he sought ana no influence
no matter by whom exercised could get msn into tie
public service without that examination Tic putting OF
educated men n,o pubic positions lad purifying effect
on the civil service Of country, aud tho Doctor archH
intimatod that it might bad thng 20 try in the
Unit states As reguds the general class Of students
educated az Yale the Doctor they fully equal 10
those Of Oxford Cambridge Edinburgh, ana Berlin But
each year these colleges turn Out dozen who are
fisher in learning than turned out in America.
Prof w. d. Whitney says, in an article on
English grammar in The Ner EHgiaud Joriai Of Edued
to It is often said TO be sure that the grammar OF
Englsh is best learned thgOugi thst Of some other
Ianguage-for instance tsnd especially the Latin that