New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-01
NOTES on EDUCATION.

Colby University has 124 students.
There are at present 115 Chinese students
in this county.
The University of the South has between
200 and 800 students.
Mississippi will receive no money from the
Peabody School Fund this year. The income derived
from the fund has somewhat fallen of and such aid as
the trustees have TO give they viii render to the south
EN- States that doing for their schools than Mis-
sissipp and have received less"
Dr.. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mayor Prince,
and other prominent citizens of Boston have presented
to the Boston school Board Committee formal remon
STRANGE against the admission Of girls 10 the Latin School
President Eliot, Mr.. Charles Francis Adams ANA Pro
fessor Dimmock, of Adams Academy, have written LET
tiers in support of the remoustrance At last weeks
hearing MI Healey, Of the Latin School Association said
that girls physically incapable OF maintaining equal
rank in classes with boys. mr.. VIM Everett believed
that moral and legal wrong would he done by admit
ting girls to the Latin School The same teacher cannot
teach both girls and boys successfully Emulation hurts
girls Mr. Henry F. Durant believed that girls have
equal rights TO classical education with boys and they
should have equal facilities There is school IN
the city where girls can be fitted for college Dr. John
p Reynolds thought that the education given at the
Latin school worth ten per cent OF that given at
any secondary school IN GermSI, ana thdt 10 ADMIT
girls would be To strike IL a maj blOW.
An accomplished correspondent writes to The
TRIBUNE thus: 81 very glad to in your columns,
little time ago, notice OF the Harvard EXAMINE
lions Women. fear the public does not realize that
they are now an established fact If were able to reach
the local committee, would them TO try and show
parents how great will be the value OF such examinations
a. stimulus and test of girls education. little while
ago a teacher said TO me, You have no IDEA how easily
mothers are satisfied with school their daughters
happy, very often this be because they meet
other girls whom they like try 10 show them that
ought not to be satisfied they either, unless the edu-
be tested to IFS thorOughness and correct
ness. We have not heretofore had any standard with
which to compare the schools that daughters attend
In many Of them great deal Of time is gwen TO
complishments which desirable but not essential,
while the solid branches must be hurried over,
way for these snowy attainments. BY all means,
let teachers be prompt 10 this long desired aid in
their earnest forts TO make our daughters really well
educated women.
At the recent meeting Of the NewEnglaDd
School Superintendent Mr.. j. W. Dickinson, OF Massa-
chusets said that the fatal mistake schools the
using language the original foundation OF the aoquir
ing OF knowledge. Textbooks substitutes for things
ought to be removed from schools the teacher
should give hs pupils not only the results OF what he
had received from his teachers but the results OF his
Investigations. Mr. Parker, Of Quincy, said that the
trouble with oral teaching that it had been pictured
as something and mysterious and that teachers
had been employed who knew nothing IN relation 10 the
method He thought that there were qnachs III the
rauks of the teachers well as in those of tie med zeal
profession. Ninetynne Olehundredhs of the teaching
consists merely in the word cram Mr. COnaut, of Yer
mont said that in order TO establish teaching as pro
feson it would well each State to institute
porae board OF instructors who shall examine candi-
dates for positions in the public schools. aud that they
may be organized a corporate college Of pIece2tos.
who sna Tx course in which all the candidates must
proficient, and that the college give them license TO
teacn Tor certain number ~ years.