New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-02-08
NOTES ON. EDUCATION.

after $4,000 instead or Sl3,OOO annually
Syracuse University now has an etching
class in its Art College. There 200 students III tho
university.
Chicago, during the past year, has spent
sos so for school purposes The cost oil tuoh pc
pupil was SIS GO.
Indiana State University and Purdue Uni
yersity are both calling the Legislature OF ther
State for appropriations.
+. The University of Pennsylvania has during
the past eight years received gifts the total value Oh
which is 81 62l OOO Abou; half these gifts do not at
present produce any income.
Prof Sanborn Tenney's Natural History Ex-
plor,ng Expedition to the Rocky Mountains will leave
immediately after Commencement. Its operations VIII
be in Colorado, wyoming and Utah.
An increase in the number of pupils taking
music drawing ana Germsn is the result OF the rule
making these studies optional which was recently
adopted by the Chicago Board OF Education
The bill regulating public education In the
State repored In the Louisiana Legislature provides Ina
the State Board Of Education shall consist OF the GOV
error Secretary oil state A''orheS
General and Superintendent OF Education In TINS par
tcularit proposes material change in the existing Law"
which concentrates the control the school system in
State board consisting OF the State superintendent ana
seven division superintendent appointed by him'
The State of New-YOrk OWNS school property
70 the amount of S31 .Ol7,904 The number OF pupils
attending the public schools during some portion u the
mast wear was O; 199 The whole number OF teachers
emnoyed was lO9 and their aggregate wages reach
s7965 sO4 The average compensation IN the cues Is
$40 and in the S237 The state school tax Tor
the current fiscal year ia S2,797725, and the INCOME
from the common school and United states deposit
funds brings the available unit up to $3132725 Inc
total expenditures OF the past fiscal year were Sl1439-
OSs rs the larger portion of which was furnished Dy
local tax. Superintendent Gnour urges that In order
10 secure greater efficiency in SUPERVISION candidates Tor
the Office school commissioner be required to DC the
holders state certificates OF diplomas IRON one OF
the higher institutions OF learning
The Visiting Committee for Harvard for
1873 1870 reports that the present WORK IN METAPHYSICS
Is considered insufficient, and 1t Is suggested that
Berkeley. Hume and Kant be added. Philosophy NO. s.
"Cr:ique Of Judgment" should suppant Shopenhauer
and Hartmann ethical are characterized
with a vagueness and sghness" In history the seVerei
courses should be brought closer cnnectou SO as to
have a common center Two new courses are recon-
mcnded one by which complete review OF Greek cur
ture may obtained through the English apd the other
10 be for who aim at accurate scholarship In this
branch of language Mathematics are not pictured very
attracSy, and reduction of freshmen work Is recon-
mcnded. On modern languages, The mann erltcism Is
on GalliCiZed English Uto winch the STUDENTS dhs
late French
Bills are now pending in. the Ohio Legisla-
ture to prevent the too frequent change of text books
One of these bills provides that tho Governor shall a
point three competent commissioners, whose duy IL
shall prepare compile for publication tAe various
series Of school books corresponding III character 10 ana
not exceeding in number those now IN use IN the
urinary secondary and grammar grades Of the common
schools For the time actually employed these commits
sos are to receive $40 per day for their services and
are allowed to employ clerk at "A day. After these
books shall have been published they are to be used rs
the Textbooks the several grades OF the Schools ana
tie ownership of the copyright shall vest in the State
After tLo manuscript copy has been fully prepared the
Secretary Of state Auditor Of State, and AtOrncyGen
eral shall constitute board which shall be required 10
give notice Immediately and benniaIy thereafter IN
two newspapers in Columbus Cleveland, Cincinnati
Ncw-York philadelphia, Boston and Chicago mat pro-
posyls will be receive for the publication and delivery
10 the various boards of education In The State OF SAID
series OF school books in such quane5 as may DC re-
ouircd for OF two years from ana AFTER the hrS
dv Of August ensuing These books are to be fur
rsed TO pupils at the price that they cost the
State and any agent subagcD who shall charge more
than the stipulated price shall be deemed guilty OF
tnlsdemeanor. shall he dismissed from his position and
fined in addition. Under this bill no change can he mace
in t, hooks substituted for at least six years after their
adoption.
Assistant Surgeon Billings, U. s. A., medica
professor Johns Hopkins University lectured in Bait
more the OTHER evening matters connected VIII the
medical department of tina institution He has recently
been ia Europe and declared that much curiosity Is felt
by the medical there to know the couIset to DC taken
Gy tc Johns HOPKINS Medical school and Hospital The
views OF interested in medical education ap-
pear e hat the school should not ann TO produce
Ir.ctioherS Of medicine much as men qualified TO
make original researches and discoveries or to take up
certain special of work. such as that OF health
Officer physician for the insane &C. That for this prr-
POS, only wen prepared should be allowed to enter
ond that the course of study should be four years at
least some recommending that Il should be SIX It's
prpGs,d that THE last We OF the course snail De spent
ASA resident III the hospital in the study OF disease IN
The living subject and the Plan provides space Tor class
OF 20 students-;he maximum number which, II Is pro-
posed 10 graduate NJ any one year After speaking at
some lepgi of the supposed Of hospital unkealth-
f,nes. which be considers be in the main an cxces
sivoy organic dust and BOT gas or VaFoT ana eX-
., lis reference a. 20 ycgtlaton that this dust
should be drawn down rather than up. and through ues
that can DC Cleaiscd by fire occasionally, Dr. BingS
proceeded speak Of the plans OF some OF the largest
and newest hospitals iu this country and Europe Illus
tr:ag of stereoseopie pT'jections Tie
rlau OF thc Johns Hopkins Hospital, now under con
alteration for adoption, shown and fully described
This plaD from the points Of view OF The hygienisr py
scn eduoator and investigator lie believed to &c III
ircsuccis good and III some respects better ta
that q, any ospita now existence ard held mat with
medical. ~ al, and uursuE sian ana sulcfltFo
ence ~ corresponding Qlhy, lhs result % "'"'i"'
obtained III Il viii not be SURPASSED c'se"hert'
The Womans Education Society in Boston
report that tie woman's laboratory organized by the
Institute OF Technology is successful experiment Al
addition for this purpose Las been built to the new ina
chine shop the institute; aud this addition forms
Nl-lgl,ed and welventilaed laboratory Tor anaIyu-
cal chemistry, 40 by 25 III space, with working TT
rlc for C persons provided with most convenient draw
err. closet, elves bowls, BunScn burners for heating
and ohcr chemical appaitrs for dlstillaOn and tue
usc cf reagents IL has also weighing and dress
irc roo Adjoining this is The optical laboratory, 20
by "a feet with tables for 10 students These tables are