New-York tribune., 1877-05-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There are 1920 pupils in the Cmcago
schools tic average daily attendance being 37oiss'
Yale expects in the Autumn to receive a
number OF japanese students from the Imperial College
The study of German will be retained in the
Rochester schools until the end Of the present term ana
will then be dropped.
Not one of the essays handed in this year AT
Harvard to compete for The Bowdon prize was deemed
entitled 80 be rewarded.
The salaries Of the principals in the Pitts
burgh schools have been reduced 500; the salaries OF
the subordinate teachers remain untouched
The Miami University buildings have been
leased for years to gentlemen proposing to esiaosn
therein a scientific aud classical preparatory school
Union College has lately received gift OF
$4,000 for free scholarship from Mr j. b. Cornell OF
this city, aud from the Hon. Carkson y. Potter 5000
for the same uurpose. Nr George William Curtis VIII
make a ChanccOr's address at Commencement
The agricultural department of Dartmouth
has inst sent thirteen graduates u Is saio 10 he III
noursAing condition. The standard FOR admission Is
constantly being raised. It is proposed III short ne
10 increase the number Of years required TO complete he
course from three years TO four.
Superintendent Pickard of Chicago says that
children manifest less Difference TO Older persons no"
than they did 40 years ago. that TINS want OF oeietuce
fs fault: that teachers, certain extent should as
s1e some responsibility in the because owing TO
the increased estimation in which public schools were
held bv the people work of this nature was imposed
mn them y parcrs: that good could he done in this mat
ter by the relation Of stories, or suggestive incidents
illustrating merits and faults Of this character
permanent normal school will not at pres
ent be established in North Carolina as the apoPa-
ton is limited TO two years. normal school VIII be or
anized in connection with the University and held 'or
seven or eight weeks during the vacation, TO which not
only all persons desiring to become teachers, hut all
those now engaged in teaching, shall be invited Tree OF
charge for tuition. The dormories, the recitation
rooms the library and the laboratories OF the university
will be opened free of charge The teachers will be
allowed the OF the apparatus for teachine ana the
Professors at the University viii cooperate as iar as
practicable The foregoing plan is approved by Df'
Sears agent of the Peabody fund who has placed al te
disposal the board $500 TO be used in paying the eA
Icnses Of those joining the school
Each Wednesday during the six weeks ses-
sion of the Summer School Of Biology OF the Peabody
Academy OF Science will be devoted to dredging tip
During the present special attention viii he given
10 entomology. the study Of spiders and crustacea as
wei as the anatomy Of vertebrates the preparations
in the museum Of the Academy being utilized ior TINS
uuruosc Mr. Charles s. MiuOt Of Boston will give q
course Of lectures and practical demonstrations in his
tolocy Mr. Minot will exhibit numerous microscopic
preparations Of animal tissues. Mr. Emerton viii also
give course Of clcmentory lectures on general zoology
adapted for beginners. Prof S T. Baird viii establish
the headquarters the United States Fish Commission
at Salem and has offered dredging facilities to the mem
bers Of the school This Will afford good opp orumtles
Tor studying alive the rdrer marine animals
The National Teachers Monthly says; Good
Teachers should be to continue in their work.
1or the same qualities which make them valuable i'm the
echooIroo will win in other and more lucrative
calings Unless capable persons can understand mat
their work viii appreciated and paid for and unless
they can De assured of some degree OF permdnency IN
one pIace they will not continue in the business Only
those VIII remain who can do nothing else This n!S-
gadly policy Of doing out half living TO faithful IN
sruc,ors has already DEGRADED the profession ana, IL
continued will do so still more What scholarly and en-
crcctic young man would think Of dcvOting himself to
teaching NewYor City, when there is not one chance
In 300 of ever earning 5000 year. and in order TO Se
even that he must FIRST 20 years much smaller
salary II ,hc people permit this work to continue II
VIII inevitably result in the ruin of our schools"
The completed register Of Johns Hopkins
University for the year includes the names Of 80 stu
Gcuts including 20 who hold fcilOwshps or these 81
have already received academic degrees, II have ma
tcuatoi as candidates the Bachelors degree in this
University, aud % have been received as special stu
dents No preparatory department has been organized
aud none is contemplated OF the graduate students Is
have taken ae degree of Bachelor Of Arts have taken
The Bsccalaurcatc degree Philosophy Science, or let
tors the degree OF Civil Engineer, IS the degree Of
Doctor of Medicine and the degree Of Doctor Of PHI
loophy These graduates bear diplomas from p insutu
tio,s Five of the Diplomas OF Doctors Of Philosophy
were received in Germany II OF Doctors Of Medicine
were received ~ the University Of Maryland; grldu
afes each are Amherst, Cornell. Princeton Yale
ana the University Of virginia; each from Harvard
Ia,ayttc and Washington and Lcc and the Others are
from - American institutions, from cash.
The trades-un0n feeling against women
doctors is making a hard 1sht in the University Of
Jo1lan Not many weeks ago the senate Of that un
vcrsty decided y majority OF two to one to avail itself
OF tine act OF Parliament passed last year enabling the
un.ycra az Their discretion 20 grant medical degrees
10 women as they do 10 Il is not supposed tnat
there is tue cast reason fear that that decision will be
reversed stiI very great effort is being made by the
offended doctors 10 ct II reversed. petition. signed
by nioIa t go medical graduates OF the university
has presented To The senate cnreatn@ 10 recon
t.der and rcscnd is resolve. Tie Spectator says:
yous medical ucu likely have their prospects Of
work and injured by the entrance into h" ed
Of these female competitors IL is clear enough that there
must be real dc inc for .he advice ~ these female com
petitors and real sphere It is hardly in the present
DAY that a number Of hglyiuStructed men VIII lis;eo
10 the advocates of new monopoly. exclude women
from the exercise Of bcnencrHt profession because
their earnings are likely diminish the wages Of mon
Literary men might Just well apply for an act 20 prc
vent women writing novels, or criticisms O. leading
articles; vet If they did, what contempt Tie more cdu
Gated physicians would feel for such strange
yagary of selfish fear their part The argument from
medical students scliuercst is indeed crazy as d
can be- Either they have nothing TO fear aud then
should not be urged they have something % fear,
and then the Of the public opposed TO theirs
and their selfish claims mU, give way"
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