New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-01
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

has several japanese students
Syracuse University has just received $4,000
from gentlemen IN Troy, Albany and LansngOrrsh'
Ii is rcpolted that 80 cents per capita Is pro-
vidcd for the education of colcrcd children III Georgia.
and 81 90 for white children
Nebraska is State possessing wisdom beyou"
IT, years 70 voys male aud female teachers eNac'! e
same wages for the same work
Delaware has $40 schools, with 2l,5o1
pupis and 43o teachers II has spent during the past
year. tor school purposes, S2l622S 50
The Alabama House of Representatives has
adop;cd an amcndn Mt to the School bal apr"If'2"E
sl500Oo pcr uuum for the schools from the treasury III
addition TO the Trust funds.
. The suneuntendcnt of the Davenport Iowa.
schools is e woman, teacher OF long experience az"
those schools were never in more efficient state INA"
under her rule. She has been elected FesueH' "a 'N
State Teachers Association.
The total expenditure for public school pur-
poses in MARYLAND last year Sl,6i0,0i7 a. The
average eos, fer each pupil in actual attendance was
SD "a In Baltimore the average pay oi teachers Is
$50 50; in the country districts 1t is F2s 30
Dartmouth has had among its alumni 81
Judrrs of the United States ard other courts ID
Senators CT Representatives 10 Congress, Two O"phe'
Ministers four ambassadors and Foreign Mlns'ers' one
Postmaster General, Ia Governors OF States ana ono
frpor Of q Territory % college Presidents, and l0l
Professors OF Colleges and Academica Medical, ana
Theological Institutions
West Virginia has at present schOo, property
70 ,e amount vt Sl.GGo457 81; 8G23 teachers. and
3I27 school-nouses The school population IS leA'9b
OF This number l23,5Oi attended school during some po
ton Of the past ycar the average daily ateh"hc' WIS
72.27s TIE total receipts OF the school department
were S9sGj77 The cost OF education per pupil is - ~
based on average daily attendance. Male teachers are
paid SSi 50 per month, and female teachers 49, o9
The Michigan Centennial Commissioner OF
Education rpcrs to the state Centennial Board that the
Philadelphia exhibits have convinced Lin that TIE ioi-
lowing change necessary III the schools OF the STATE
J. SCIENTIFIC instruction in industrial daWnS N ri
grades 2 In the high school grade great prominence
given 10 natural philosophy HISTOLOGY, chemistry ana
botany 3. Reinforcement in the time no" gwen 10
smelling grammar and geography, ana the uscOh'ih-
nance OF geology ana astronomy.
The total amount appropriated for school
PURPOSES in Ncw-Jeisey last year was S2ll9'@9o - ;
the total valuation Of school property III the state Is
S6A4s.5lG The census o. children between - an" -
wear. OF age is 3li26, increase of 2l32 over las
wear The attendance OF pupils at the public schools
was 103 500 while the enrolment was 19G,232; chll
arcp attending private schools, 4l,961 attending no
schoo % 733. TIE State Board OF Education ioiH@hJ
recommends The payment OF wages necessary 10 secure
tic very best teaching talent to be had for every school"
and tEeieby proves itself clever and jdicous poly
In order to give the advantages OF the Johns
uo,kiu University TO recent college graduates and TO
other educated persons resident IN Baltimore ana It's
vicinity the trustees have arranged tha the FaTi"d
courses Of lectures announced by resident professors
n well as members Of the faculty shall he gwen lI"
10 O'Clock every afternoon until June next Two zee
tures on different subjects often III progress al ZIG
same dGereut apartments Of the university ana
they are always wcIl attended They are ofal academic
rather than popular nature but they moi restricted
to mcnbcrs Of the university and the audience Is always
largely made up OF ladies.
The report of the Boston School Committee
says, in regard uufoundcd statement that INC
.'tne devoted 10 dIawns III the schools has been cut
down aud the Of study considerably circun'-
seric,d that any who viii compare the programme
of instruction for $3.50 with that for 1867 MI! sec
that IN both the allotted tine Is two hours per week in
The primary atD and high schools. and one hour ana
Lali III the grammar schools. They VIII further see
that the subjects taught arc Identical VIZ; FIeehahd,
models memory. design geometry, and perspective.
Tic only change distribution of subjects ana Tie
order in which trey taught in the grammar schools
the February promotions, under the last years
programme. involved waste of material ~ case BOOKS
were left af completed at the time OF promotion, or con
fusion caused ny the carrying Of such books to high
er class the consequent use of two sets OF books III
tl,a, class BY the present programme which has now
been IA oYerailun for several months, these difficulties
were relacv cd the smooth working Of the Instruction
given WAS insured. Much thought was bestowed upon
thanks of the committee and the masters Tor the success
ful solution Of problem OF 10 little difficulty"
The State School Superintendent of Missouri
saws thar il TO him or 20 anybody else what
Tic school population of the state Is, tie number OF
schools taught the average attendance, the average tax
levy the average per capita of public instruction.
Tic total amount expended per year for public Schools
the average salaries paid to teachers the average length
Of sci COL terms Tie most faithful administration
Of The existing laws has succeeded in giving to the Legs
Iature and the world annual report by the State SUI
pefnendent which bears its face the evidences o.
s own Incompetence. There is scarcely county III
tie state whose educational condition Is fully and acc
ratelv reported. Vast Of money are annually
drawn from the pockets Of people ostensby Tor pup
lie school purposes which children derive 40
benefit Hundreds OF thousands OF dollars are sqGan
dred and ud their way into the pockets OF individuals
who have no color Of title To them In - Lodis
Co,niy alone tie schools have recently lost nearly
si50OCO" Cny amendment Of the school laws VIII pro
vide remedy or these evils. The superintendent says
Many districts are cursed with poor schools, conducted
by so-callcd TEACHERS, who incompetent as 10 DC
unable TO calculate the average daily Attendance Of pa
pills and the average number OF days each pupil has al
tended nc schools under their charge