New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NOTES ON EDUCATION.
The Maine Agricultural College wants the
State to help II with money
1t is proposed to begin the publication in this
country Of a mathematical Journal
Rochester University has 163 students; ten
OF these special-course students.
The free Institute of Industrial Science at
Wore ester, Mass, has about 100 students
There are at present in active operation in
this state 90 incorporated colleges and universities
President Eliot says that the question of adj
hitting women Harvard has even been discussed
by the faculty.
The University of Berne has 80 female stu
dents Of which number 23 studying medicine four
bcleslcttres, and one law.
a formal medical report declares that very
large majority of the pupils in the Cincinnati pubic
schools are breathing atmosphere containing more
than one-tenth per cent OF carbonic acid
Superintendent w. T. Harris makes strong
arguments in favor of county supcrntendency He
says: with well-paid county SUPPLEMENTARY the
county schools Improve at least fifty per cent In the
first year"
The University of Vermont and State Agr-
cultural College has 16s suden,s none OF the students
take the whole agricultural AT Dartmouth 1t l.
taken by only There is hardly farmer or tar-
ers son in Vermont who thinks it necessary to spend
three or four years agricultural college to quarry
him 10 conduct farm Tney do not believe it will pay
they going to spend that time in study they prefer
TO take broader. generous course, that VIII give
them foundation for any department of lab r-proes-
siona literary, scientific, as their tastes may at the
end OF their course incline them
The chemical laboratory of Johns Hopkins
University will be completed about Feb l. Prof Rem
Tho be
and stimulate original investigation in the hope OF lend
Ing additional interest 10 the study and developing OF
the science in proper spirit In the method OF lfsue
ton. students will be classified as beginners IN other
sciences learning chemistry aid practical chemists
and investigators making chemistry their study for some
specific purpose. He thinks that chemistry not SUM-
GENTLY appreciated essential part of medical cdi
cation and IN plan of the university special attention
will be given to nsructing medical students in science
that so largely belongs 10 their profession
During the past year the school attendance
OF Georgia has been Whites, i2l1lS; colored 0T9S'
The entire school population OF the state Is 33io3|'
The cost per pupil the number in actual attendance
was So So Local taxation raised for school purposes
Sl42 727 60; this added the State fund of $&0l3l9
gives total of 434 046 63 expended or public SCHOOLS
in 1876 This would bc Sc II for each pupil in actual
attendance The Peabody fund distributed III tins STATE
in 1877 amounts 10 800 Since the nearly every
female college in anguishing condition. and does not
approach TO its former prosperity. Many fOurshing
male schools also have been closed. The members OF
tie Legislature have the night Of appointing @l9 Tree
students to the University yet not more than one
fourth of that number be induced TO attend The
cause OF this is the poverty OF the people
Boston University had during last year G27
st,ents attendance ia of these were young women
The graduates of the year numbered 1872. Tie "hoc
number thus far graduated by departments as follows
College of Liberal Arts none; College Of Music. 6; Col
lege agriculture, 81 School OF Theology 80 lo whcm
As or an average of - year. were Bachelors OF DlNl
ityl School OF Law 14G School of Medicine 66; school
of Oratory 81 total of graduates, 500 Or the ABOVE
number the young graduates are as follows; In
music l in theology, in medicine. l6; IN oratory'
lG: total "a The President reports that in no depart
men of university has the presence OF young women
decreased the standard OF scholarship In several IL has
aided in eevatng it, In quite their fair share OF classes
and sections their representatives led both III day
work aud in the stated examinations, oral ana written
In the selection Of electives they have shown
disnosition TO pass by the hardest of mathematical
branches or the most difficult Of the languages AT all
times their influence has been promove OF Order stu
diousness, and true social culture
The Committee. on Education of the Michi-
gan Legislature about TO report bill touching the
educational interests OF the State The first section pro
videS that every teacher who receives certhcate sa
nav so cents 10 the examiner, who in turn pays the
money collected to the county treasurer with
report the persons from whom received every three
months This fund be expended only in The county
where II is raised Section makes 1t mandatory
upon the State superintendent of Schools to hold teach
cr institute each year every county where the school
population exceeds 1000 In counties where the school
population is than 1000 he is authorized TO draw
from the Treasury from the fund already provided
by law Cor that purpose, aum not 10 exceed 800 for
each institute being left 10 his discretion whether he
shall hold an institute such county and in no case is
he 10 hold except teachers petition therefor
Section 3 provides that the State Superintendent
shall hold each year State normal institute at an ex-
pey not 70 exceed $780, and which he expected to
enpey the best educators in the country. one object OF
this State being train teachers 10 take charge
of the county institutes The county institutes are TO be
90 conducted 50 that instance Snail an institute cost
the State than $50 the superintendent in each case
beig c.arged with the payment Of the bills The sum
aiready provided county institutes rs 81 800
yeiT and is estimated that the total additional expense
involved in the enforcement OF The new law VIII nc S4Oo