The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-05-09

Among students mathematicians make
good oarsmeD.
German will no longer be studied in the
schools of Rochester
Nearly all the faculty of Yale college ara
gong abroad this summer.
There eight young lady listeners to
the lectures on geology at Columbia college.
Mr. Purlong is the name of a school
teacher out west. The scholars don't like
him. perhaps for the reason that furlong
has forty rods
Commencement orations are to be cut no
shorter than usual, trimmings OF Greek QUO
tations very full philosophy eat bias, and
the whole finished OF with a neat rseke of
Longfellow's Psalm of Life"
There are three great errors in American
education. One is the practice Of sending
children to school at too early an age; an
other is the imposition o. too many studies.
and third is graduation at too early an
age.
The Raleigh News looks upon the estab-
ishment of q normal school in North Caro-
lima for the education Of teachers for the
colored race as the ''inihatory step toward
the abolition OF the color line in the politi-
cal sphere"
The Italian government offers a prize
open to universities, of 5000 lire to the
author of the best essay upon "The Vicissi-
tudes OF Aryan Civilization in India" The
prize will be given at the international con-
gress OF orientalists in Florence.
When Dean Stanley appeared TO deliver
the parting address of the late graduating
class in St Andrews university, Edinburgh.
the future pastors struck mp the song Hes
Jolly Good Fellow" and whenever in the
course of his address the dean quoted Latin,
the students cried out. Translate, trans
late,'
Des Moines woman visiting Boston
writes home that all the teachers but one re-
main in one of the public SCHOOLS, who were
there when she left In 1863. She thinks this
an indication OF the stability of New Eng
land institutions. Her husband thinks il Is
an indication OF the slim chances old maids
in Massachusetts, have to get married.
The Bristol, Pennsylvania, Observer saws:
"At a meeting of the city and borough su-
perintendents of the public schools Of Penn
sylvania, held in Harrisburg last Tuesday,
three of the speakers denounced the system
of cramming and spending too much time
in useless studies which is now generally
adopted, and as a similar view was elabo-
rated in an address that advocated a practi-
Cal system of tuition. and claimed that only
a small percentage of pupils ever reached
the high school; yet all are made to take the
entire course, with high school graduation
in view"
Those who bewail the decay of the lite
rary and debating societies in the American
colleges, and atnbute il to the degeneracy OF
American students, can console themselves
if they will, by watching the development
of college journalism. Nearly every Ameri-
can college supports one or more periodicals.
few Of which are positively dull, while many
of them are extremely clever Yale has
two papers in addition TO the time-honored
Lat; Harvard also has two papers, and in
place of a literary magazine, something in
the Puch line, known as the Lampoon,
which is remarkable for neatness of typo
graphy and density of humor; the Dart
mouth and Princetonian reflect credit upon
their colleges; c rnell has a good weekly.
the Era, and literary monthly, the Re-
view; Brown University has the Brunonian,
an excellent college paper, with literary ar
ticles OF real merit and an interesting record
of college news; and the list might be in
definitely extended. The colleges may not
be sending out as many debaters and orators
as they did 80 years ago, but they are gradu-
ating clearer and stronger writers. After
all. is there the same need for oratory now
that there was then? A senator addresses
the reporters gallery, his aim being to in
fiuence the public that reads the newspapers
rather than his colleagues on the ho0r. If
college Journalism is teaching students how
to write with grace and force, its develop
ment is a fair compensation for the decline
of the literary societies.