Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-04-05
Notes on Education.

It's action and voted the state universit@~
the $4,000 asked for This is douf :
the amount appropriated heretofore.
Col. Z. w. HIGGINsoN has been en-
gagged to prepare g History of the
Growth and Development of the Public
school System Of the State of Rhode
Island, " to be sent to the Centennial
Exhibition.
IHE Lower House of the California
Legislature has followed up it's repeal
OF the compulsory educational law by
Young TO annul the act making women
eligible to the Office of school superin-
tendent.
IHE state appropriation for public
schools IN South Carolina for the COM
ing year is S25O,0OO. It is apportioned
to the counties on the basis of school
attendance. The total attendance dur
ing the past year was no. 16.
The available school fund of the stat
Of Minnesota has been apportiof
among the different counties for the
present year. 1t amounts to $58,O13.54,
being 81 cents for each of the 214.9O2
persons of school age in that state.
RESOLUTIONS have been adopted in the
Rhode Island Legislature, calling for
information as to the ex pediency of
giving instruction in the industrial
arts " in the high schools.
A SCHOOL of natural history will be
held under the auspices of the Illinois
Natural History Society at Normal, ILL.,,
beginning on the 25th of July and clos
Ing on the 35th of August next. Prof. B.
G. Wilder, of Cornell University, will
be one of the instructors.
A COMMISSION has recently been i'm
session In Berlin to consider and recon-
mend a purely phonetic system of
spelling; and it is understood that the
Minister OF Public instruction is ready
to introduce such a system into the
schools so soon as it is perfected.
THE Yale School Of Fine Arts has
adopted a marking system similar to
that used In the academical depart
ment, and at the end of next term an
examination in the principles and
methods of art will be held and
grades of excellence established. Two
thousand dollars worth of new casts
have been purchased in Paris for the
school and are expected to arrive this
spring. Professors Weir and Niemeyer
each propose to send paintings to the
Philadelphia Exhibition.
HILLsDALE COLLEGE. Michigan. de.
stroyed by fire about two years ago, will
probably be rebuilt within the present
year. The plan involves the erection
OF a group of five buildings, one of
which is to be named "Griffin Hall,'
after Prof. Charles P Griffin, of New
York, whose prompt and liberal gift of
money in aid of the enterprise is thus
recognized.
MR.. PHILLIPS JoDRELL, late Fellow
of Trinity College, Cambridge, Eng
land, offers two or more scholarships
OF e25 year each, tenable for three ~,
years, to be given for proficiency I'M
the Cambridge local examinations in
December next, to girls who are pre-
pairing for the profession of teaching.
Two or more similar prizes are also
offered to women preparing for the
same work. Mr.. Jodrell evidently un-
derstands the need of good common
school teachers.
PROF. MAX. MULLER, of Oxford Uni
versity, is relieved from the duty of
delivering lectures to the students,
a deputy having been appointed in
his place, who will receive half the
Presidents salary Mr.. Muller has un-
dertaken to edit for the University
press all the sacred books of the
world, except the Bible and the Chinese
Scriptures, which last will be allotted
to Dr. Legge, known as a devoted mis-
sionary to China, and respected among
scholars for his intimate knowledge of
the literature Of that empire.
AN act has been reported to the Yer
mont Legislature providing that school
committees shall direct what books
shall be used in the public schools, and
prescribe, as far as practicable, course
of studies and exercises to be nsed in
the schools. In any town or city in
which the school committee consists of
not more than Is persons, the books
may be changed by a vote Of two-thirds
of the members, and when the commit
tee numbers more than Is, majority.
When the books are changed the town
must pay for the books where a pupil
has an old one.
EXAMINATIONS for admission to Har-
ward College and Scientific School are
to be held, the coming season, at Gin
cinati as well as at Cambridge. This
move is an experiment, and the object
of it is to accommodate applicants for
admission who live in the West, many
Of whom are deferred from making a
long journey to the college simply to
be examined, with the chances of fail
ure before them. The Cornell Era sug-
gests that Cornell University fall in
with the idea and hold similar exam
nations, say at Boston, and on the
Mississippi River, and perhaps at the
South.
The students Of the first class In the
Thayer School of Civil Engineering of
Dartmouth College have completed
model of a railroad bridge, designed by
themselves, and upon which they have
been at work for some time past. The
model is of Pratt truss bridge, for a
clear span of 80 fest. The length of
the model, which is built upon scale
Of one-twelfth, is seven feet, and the
hroo 1x1pc load Of tho modal itoolf -