New-York tribune., 1877-12-20
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
mdoin has NOW 1913 students.

Bowdoin has now 1873 students.
The building of the Mechanics Arts College
of California University Is to DO begun Immediately
Harvard has now 100 scholarships in the
,do,c Derartruept; they vary III annual income from
$40 10 $3.50
The metric system is to be taught in tie B'
,,r,ar ,rade of the Cleveland public schools. About
500 pupils will thus study it,
There is n petition in circulation IN Boston
praying the School Boardto erjon daily session oi oS
four hours in the schools OF the city,
The members of the Yale Law School are
reoured so pass an examination on this terms work.
while formerly they have had only the annual ekamina-
lion.
A well sustained society for debate and par
amentary practice In every high school was enthusl-
astcay advocated at late meeting Of the Hartford
County (Couu Teachers Association. IL was urged that
girls as well as boys should belong TO IT,
All those Albany teachers who have been
receiving salaries 81 500 to have them reduced
ten per cent and those who get from $500 TO $500
viii have them reduced five cent with the exception
of principals whose salary does not exceed 5000
Mr.. II. d. Bacon, of Oakland, Cal, has Of
fcred TO give the University his large collection OF
rare and valuable pictures and other works of art to
eether with $4,000 10 money for the purpose OF found
ing an art gallery at the University, provided the state
will add another $4,000
A speaker at the recent meeting of the To-
rOnto Teachers Association recommended that the DIS
tory and geography Of country should rs Iar rs pos-
bile he studied simultaneously and sand that good eXcr
else was to take the marine arrivals given IN the news
papers and require the pupils to give the most direct
route taken by the vessels the with wh4eh hey
would be most likely TO be laden outward and inward
and the winds and currents which would affect their
speed
Professor Huxley has just been lectming on
"Techmca Education" He said that he regarded tech
meal education, not the teacher OF technicaes nut
as the best training qualify the pupil reaTnng them
for himself 50 far he could gather, any measure of
technical education tending to postpone the period at
which a boy entered the practical business Of his
trade by an undue prO0ngatiOu OF hs school lie was
impraccable and he doubted whether 1t was desirable
Professor Huxley cCntasted the schools OF Ae present
day with those Of forty years and said the result 0
the comparison snch rs TO fin one of his own age
with Of depression and envy at the immense ad-
vautagcs enjoyed by the youth OF the present generation
sli there respects iu which the present ma
tonal system of education might be improved Eiener-
tary science was taught out by drops IN spite OF tac
Efforts his friend aud th,fs-> john Lubbock udca
10y another M T. then present, Dr. Lyon Pay'ar-to oh
tain from the Government more generous recognition
Oi IFS claims. For his part, Professor Huxley said,
although he held % be fanatic on this question: he
had wish thar any other brauch of study should be
traunccd the sake OF science Another thing need
ing reform that such science teaching as was given
was not always practical and cxuerimenial enough.
which, though 70 might be attended with some trouble
and expense vet very necessary Perhaps too, the
system tended TO foster in some teachers practice anal
ogous to what spoIsmcn sugrnatiz,d as po-sho3t
Upon the whole however, their educational machinery
was working we'll and they might almost be
ready to congratulate themselves upon such U,opau
state Of things. Alter expressing his grave doubts
whether the Coy crncut could wisely do much more for
technical education than 10 already dom in tHe
broad sense OF which he had spoken, Professor II Ncy
said there shoald uBaoubedy be some machinery toI
utilizing iu the public interest special talent and genius
brought to light IN our schools Ii any Government
could find Watt, Davy or FdraCay in the market
the bargain would be dirt cheap 40 100000