New-York tribune., 1877-08-09

ceivCd is about 30 Az. Notwithstanding Inc hedNY hu
den Of debt upon the city, and the enormous taxation
rendered necessary by that debt and 10y che necessities Of
tae State the municipal government T. making strenuous
efforts 20 provide every Partisan with the Iudincnis VI NJ
education Above the elementary schools the city las
also founded several superior schools and few ecni-
cal SCHOOLS, and il is improving them.
Prof. S. s. Packard is the Principal OF
successful business college in this city lie is besides
fu Of ideas Of bis ovn and lie has bcen in H. day
good editor. Perhaps this accounts for ms latest no
ton The CoHogc Tcl- Ta which is edited and published
hy the pupils OF his institution and is primarily miedeu
to set the young men TO thinking As the Professor hA-
self explains H. there large class 81 young men wio
DO not know their own mowers and are 80 slow IN cont
ng 20 themselves unaided that if amounts to waste "I
hlc" His notion is 10 wake them mp by getting them
outside of routine studies ard above all 20 teach them
the art Of expressing themselves. TIE te paper "hch
they arc editing is proof tha; he issucceedinl'
Professor Palmer Latin Professor at Oxford,
lately expressed in public address fear of the moe
etu tendency OF attempting ~ learn too many things at
once lie was strongly Of the opinion that classics and
mathematics have proved and are likely 10 prove the
best staple for tine highest English education. tie coIn
mcuded the action Of Bradford, where the school Com
mssioners proposed 70 exclude Greek from the grammar
schools BY rising massc against the proposal the
people compelled tho study Of Greek 10 be retained.
There was plenty Of in England, aud the expert
mcut had never been thoroughly and efficiently tried for
seconlgiade schools without Greek but for the highest
education the classical languages were indispensable
The ground has Just been broken for the
chemical building Of TIE Illinois Industrial Unver
sy. The State appropriation for this hl'idng ana itS
furniture is $4,000. IT is TO b. four stories IL height
Including he lofty basement and the finished rasaid IL
Will he l2i feet long. and Zee, Wlde and W!! lhca'
five laboratories, besides furnace aud aSsay-room
photographic ateicr, Tor analysis. balance
and Nt
Laboratory will have tables for l5O students; the Qaan
ttative for eighty and the Laboratory for Agricultural
Chemistry for ffy students. The institution has already
ID complete and costly set OF caemca ana physical "p
raraus ana has had as many l46 students in labor
atory practice al the same time.
Prof. Z. s. Morse Of salem, Mass, the we'll
known lecturer natural history subjects is no" baSN
with Ggclgc and microscope i'm Japan, having hNed MS
headouartcrs al InosAml i miles south Of AokoaIna
Recently lie assembled ore OF IN, highest Of the japanese
mountains about 100 miles from The coast aud found
Opportunity there for dredging Lake Chuser1. body
of water 1000 feet above SEQ level It's fauna was as
cerained 10 be quite peculiar. Prof Morse VIII return
90 this country time FOR his usual courses OF lectures
during the coming Fan ana Winter; hut afterwards in
ISIS lie expects to 60 back TO Japan having accepted
an engagement in the Imperial Uiv,rsity Of Toxic, as
Professor OF Biology. He has also proectea summer
school OF natural history to bc conducted the coast
near the University; his text book for beginners in
ZOOLOGY ie TO bc translated into the language Of Japan
and animals native 20 that country 10 be substituted
for the American ones referred TO throughout the
volume.
The National Gcrman-Amc1ican Teachers
Association lts Just held meeting in Milwaukee. The
Association has fund Of $4,000 IN hand with which 10
begin The organization OF tle proposed Gcrnan-Ame~
can Seminary ANA it unanimously resolved TO begin
the building this year The Association recommended
gymnastics as an obligatory part Of an educational
course and appointed committee collect Information
AS 20 the worth exercise The study o history was
also recommended and Tie following resolutions were
nssscd Fi,si-r}e Germau-Amcrcan Teachers RECON-
mend that where the study Of German is introduced in
the public schools the teachers OF German shall 10" be
appointed especially for that study, TO involve
additional cost 10 school authorities but that they shall
rank as regular classtctcbers 20 participate with their
English teaching colleagues in the OF classes so far
rs local circumstances will permit sccoad-Ths arrange
mcu should apply to the elementary classes as Wei as
to The higher or grammar classes with this difference
that in the first time for tho study Of G,rDwu
SHOULD be accorded than in the higher classes, which
order would leave teacher of German fewer classes TO
instruct ThrG-Expericrcc has shown tDat the intro
duciiol of the teacher Of German casseacher gives
i'm greater authority the scholars than he would
exercise as s"ceai teacher or supenumaIy. fort'-
Tina; the Introduction Of teachers Of German may not
cause a dismissal Of other teachers il advised that the
change should bc a gradual one, that Is whenever a
vacancy tie corps OF any school The numerous
changes IN the public schools lead 20 tho belief that tic
ARRANGEMENT could lie effected within brief period.
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