The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-04-11
EDUCATIONAL ITEMS.

The salaries of the Louisville teachers
have been reduced.
Fisk university, the colored college in
Tennessee, has $50 students. An effort will
soon be made to hold colored teachers in
stitutes throughout that state.
The city of Monrovia, in Liberia, is about
to open public schools and the mayor is
seeking information in regard to the Massa
chusetts system of education.
DIR. Hopkins. of Williams. has assigned to
each member of the senior class the task of
presenting before the class a condensed &C
count of the life and theory of some prom
inent philosopher.
About Is per cent. of Trinity college stu
dents are candidates for the degree of Bache
lor of Science, or are taking special course
of study, leaving S5 per cent. in the full
classical course. Spanish, Hebrew and
Sanskrit are among the electives.
1t is said that the pupils of the Brooklyn
| public schools ''are required to stand "a crit
| ical examination in the history of Persia,
| Greece, Macedonia and Rome, and pack
their memories with the technlcalities Of
natural philosophy; but the business of
| handling with ease and accuracy the funda-
mental rules of arithmetic and the art of ex-
pressing thought in plain English are treated
as of the least possible consequence"
The Princeton College Princetonian saws:
The class of 1841 has ''panned OUT remark
ably well. Some of the most distinguished
members are Professor Duffield of the
Faculty r. p. Blair, the Rev. Dr. Theodore
Cuyler Vice Chancellor Dodd, r W. Walker
of Alabama, the Rev. DIR. =. A. Hodge of
Western Theological seminary. Judges
Nixon and Scudder, and the late Professor
Giger. Three members of this class have
| sons In the class of 1877.
The following plan is proposed for an
| aquatic summer school of natural history to
be organized by Professor Comstock, of Cor
nell university: A steamer will be charter
| ed for period of four to six weeks to be
used solely for the purposes of the school on
a trip from Buffalo or Cleveland, along the
| south and west shores of lakes Erie Huron
| and Superior, thence along the north and
| east shores of the same waters, visiting all
| important bays and islands on the way,
touching frequently for inland excursions to
the mines and other points of scientific in
| terest Numerous localities out of the regu-
lar line OF travel will be included. and some
| OF the larger rivers will be assembled as far as
practicable. Competent instructors will be
engaged to superintend the geological and
botanical work. Lectures have been prom
ised by eminent specialists who will join
the party at convenient points along the
/
desirable, and complete illustrative collec-
tions will be obtained of the geology. zool-
ogy and botany of the regions traversed.
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins uni
versity, IN describing his ideal college the
other day, said that three bylaws should
be passed-that no waste of time should be
! allowed within Its walls that there should
| be no disparagement of any branch of learn
ing, and that character is before knowledge
| Not what one knows, but what he is, should
be the criterion. The first requisite of such
a university is brains-a large number of
learned teachers who must also be ready to
teach and skilled in teaching. The day is
passed when the same teacher can teach
everything. Other requisites are choice col
lections of books, apparatus, etc, good plans,
method and harmony, good working places,
as laboratories, ETC., and last, good body of
enthusiastic students. Whether the guar
dians OF the Johns Hopkins university
are aiming at this remains to be
seen. Strangers are invited to come
among as. and by their counsel and help
and by their presence aid US in reaching out
to the education of the intelligent classes in
the community. The four-year system has
been entirely given up, and is falling into
disuse in many institutions in the country.
The matriculation requisites are as high as in
the best institutions of the land, and the
student has now the choice Of at least seven
combinations of studies. For the degree of
Bachelor of Arts a knowledge of Latin and
Greek is required, and to students of science
are given opportunities for the study of lite
nature and the languages. and opportunities
to the classical and literary student for the
study of science. Sharp lines are not
drawn between the faculty and students,
but professors, associates, fellows and stu
dents are regarded "a fellow-workers."