New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-01-27
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NJ EIO ON OON4A 1ON'
The Law School of ColumbIa College has
b7s s,ud.utI-2jI Seniors and 81 Juniors.
The friends of Wake Forest College, IN
EoriE Carolina enjyayorin5 ~ raise 100000 for ta1
institution.
The first normal school in The State OF Mas
sachGsetts opened IN Lexington N 1o0o WA" -"
attendance Of only tiTee pupils.
A Summer School Of Zoology viii be con-
dueted at Cornell University during Tie coming summer
beg ming Juy 7 and closing Aug H. lie h'4hDcr u
students will be limited TO 90.
A chair of history has been established III
INC University q California and il has been h'o ny we
election Of Prof Bernard Moses recently Professor o
History in Albion College, Michigan.
The Charge d'AGaires of the Argentine Re
public in wasliu goa las informed The Coi'SS'"Aor "a
Education that his Government las prepare" ana
sdopt4d a scheme for tie establishment oi hornlM
srhoo for female teachers in every STATE OF the h'Puo
Twenty-eicht new students were admitted TO
Cornell University at the opening u tue present efni
making the whole nUmDar % students 5-5 II Is de-
scpcd 20 appoint new eassiel professor next y'"f'
the increase in the classes having rendered TINS seP
necessary.
Hereafter applicants for positions In the
Boston pubic scl4vJ.s VIII have 60 thorough eA
IA which they to work. and diploma WIZ lie aw"rcu
for that grade and in OF actual or prospective
promotion the candidate will have 10 pass ahO'II On
animation for the higher grade
The public schools Of South Carolina nave
srered among otter institutions III tia' Hiip0''"o"
State The schccl population numbers -do'zoi 90" ~"
clud,s ell between the ages Of ANA IT, % tu'' mum
Der less than - per cent received nsiIae'oh s H''
IN Tie $50 scLools Cen The ta school roVrA'e was
80 TltN r. 4 buFlruel
contracted by The issue Of pay certificates 10 teachers
which lave never been redeemed
The education Of the cOlorcd people IN the
South Is matter Of national Interest, and it is encoura9-
ns 90 ic,rd Tennessee correspondent OF ice can
thRah Commercial that the educational! cause ~ SleaI
advancing amoAg tiem. Tie American aiHsI'i'fy
Association it said has paid not less than @3o'00oJ
duiin. The pas 10 years TO promote education among
the freedmen while the Methodist Episcopal CnuCeh
paws annually about 100000 for TIE game purpose.
The twenty-sixth annual catalogue Of Rocll-
ester University las Just been Issued 1t slows an at
t.nIYnce of l5s students. The University has three
courses Of study the classical the scientific ana TIC
ecl.cic The cabin = Of geology and rincrcEy contain
over 10000 specimens library fund, III" ciit %
Ger Join F. RatIbonc Of Albany amounts to $-''VNo
D4tas TIE past year tho University resolved 800
from Mr.. Isaac Sherman Of Network for tie e5"0AsL-
mcnt Of post graduate eclol rslp
The officers Of the Harvard University have
lately kopt a record Of the p.rsbaso % uc students
fo,o which interesting facts are 10 he asce'nei
sic,,ants and snopsccpers send u the college ab'"
hall bar studeits. LAWYERS send literally ana el"rsy
rrc1 hardly 80 well Among the classes OF parents that
40 not send at I'll are caQtans, railroad men. hotel
tceucrs art sts and literary men. Artists and architects
have ouly contributed three stu!,uts In six years, ana
edto-t, authors, and publishers have done lite better
Tie Maine ( tate Superintendent Of Schools has
received returns Iu i45 towns, ID w!iei nearly 100 tree
hi. schools have been held the pest ycar aud ,re VII
probably De from ten o. hitoon pJgo towns mag
ins abcut 100 in al against l42 LAST year TIE towns
ttis far repor,oI VIII abou; $4,000 from tbs
Stat treasury AID Of these schools, and VII Qey about
$4,000 on t'c.r Own account; The Whole a.AO.t g.id
by tie state will b. about the as last yeas $1,000
Iepors Indicate Increasing interest in tie free high
Ecal system. aod foHinS conviction OF IT'S great
value 20 tie Stale.
The report of the State Board of Education
Of Aaryien4 Tor the year ending sept 3d. lo15, sc"s
that there are 1876 public fcioos in that State, at
tended b., 143,0o3 pupils. Nearly onc''rd Of tAcs,ho"
p,llaton reside 81 he CITY OF Baltimore, whore TIC
eyeraee daily attendance IS abort 20 Tci cent OF &c
number enrolled while the counties TIE afoLdance Is
Only Bt.lo over 81 peg e'9t Tie expenditures Tor
school purposes tic sa,c daring the year amounted TO
sIG4OOs7 OF which SUN $4,000 went 20 the schools
for coloeG Children Tho report states HAT lar n'un
her ofL.v school bt d.ugs needed, AID recommends
that ar additional tax ~ levied, the proceeds ~ DO &c
yotcd exclusively 70 building pUiToscs.
The West has closely copied New England
III educational r., .ud has erected e2 eusi'e cno0
buildings aii made large appropriations for maintaining
them But tt.ro are many complaints against tAcm
Cincinnati pare: eauactczos the public schools as
excessively expensive ai1 toi-aeavy" Another paper
says: They ere b, r0nins tol-heavy win efforts TO
make then, what they on.4t not to be that Trey
destined 40 tumble over rather, 10 tumble bao to TIC
ofehal standard and method" Chicago jouin'l re-
CARDS te hi <, schools the way: "Tao face high school
las given MS lawyer, clerks booskeepPrs and bankers
Instead OF FrOd artisans. 1t has added 10 cainsS
that could r., d'sDonscd With without great dcriment to
the public and taken y0ung from OCCUPATIONS that
ar. % great use to tic world. is oft sid ta IN our
free school ,yscm The rich educate the poor but sofar
as mos; lups in high schools concerned the PEG.
eauc.te tee rich"