New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-29
NOTES on EDUCATION.

OF the 3.247 teachers in the public schools
Of tlis city 29l2 arc women
The school apportionment of Iowa tins year
is S18s,4sO The school population numbers ''"''-''
The President of the Rochester Board OF
Education tor 1876 opposes, in hs parting address, 'n'
teaching Of German in tho schools
There is prospect that the Dartmouth au-
tiari,rs will abolish tie Junior exhibition aN n''hE
performance expensive and not practically useful
Michigan University has now LII students
in attendance. Three additional prcfcssorsApS have
been led since last year. the faculty now Numbering %
members The department Of Literature scicac', and
Arts has 500 s,U Icuts the Law Department, 3O9; De
partment OF trdclne ard Surgery, 2s5; Homeopathic
Collcga, 81; Dental School. 49,
Gov. Kemper of Virginia has vetoed the
lin which substantially takes the selection Of the text
hooks for the public schools from the State Board OF
Cducation and gives it 10 each county board Tor the
schools o. the county The Constitution provides ha'
the State Board snail provide for aIl 0fnty % TX
books and the Governor holds that the bill Taxes the
control Of the textbooks from the body m when th'
Constitution places IT, and destroys cGcctuay al nope
Of the uniformity prescribed by The same instrument
The school population of Ohio amounts to
lo25 G35. of this number 22,933 being coorcd The
number Of pupls enrolled in the schools il 722"oJ
There are j9 teachers, the male teachers RECEIVING
average monny wages OF $50 the female teachers -"
The Cercand Leatcr says: d" II cur SCHOOLS have made
rapid progress in tAcir power FOR improving, eiuc3E'
and generally cicvang the youth Of the STATE" Is he
cause the best Of teachers have been employed at fam
salaries"
The last official report of the Ontario schools
shows the number Of ups attending the schools to he
47424l But OF this whole number only 1891 at
teuded more than 3OO days du.1ng the whole scho"
year. These schools present for study - d'i1icn'
branches The highest salary pail TO any teacher In
city was 81 900; the lowest, 800. The highest III
county, $500; the lowest $40 Male teachers salaries
IN counties average 1891; female 1856 The number OF
schools reported rs kept open was 1884. % ,hcsc,
there 4Gl4 in winch the exercises were opened ana
closed with prayer.
The following is a summary of the changes
made last year Ia tie cou.ac OF instruction in Tie Pac
schools Of Nrv-York Ia the primary school course The
topics under reading, pcumanshp drawing. ana o'Ject
lessons have been rcaIraugcd with additions and
omissions IN learning % read the children viii net be
permitted by the course 10 waste their Time In u"c-
less and impIacclble phonetic lessons, the latter beus
confined within the just limits Of their practical value rs
a drill in articulation. In arithmetic, the attempt has
been mado to adopt course which, While
u affords a suas lent amount Of in'c!cctu,
discipline and OF material for tie Development
of IDEAS pertaining to number. does not rcisrd
the prczrtss OF the pupils in practical work. P,n.A4L
ship has carried down to the Il rd grade AMI tire
exercises prescribed III all the grades aIo such Vii
enable the pupils to advance rapidly possible ia
learning to wg!tc-rot merely to cNrcUica coy Of lo
tiers or Snort ungOunectcd words TIE drawing pre-
rrbcd Tor this part Of the is designed 10 prepare
the pupils more completely for tho higher work OF iIc
grammar schools. Object teaching has been reduced
from if, too prominent position and tlc UIntcr sIy
HiitutU formerly prescribed have been excluded
The eyes of the Buffalo 0olchdrcn have
been examined by D.. Howe OcuSt, and hc reports
that Of the 003 pupils Of yarious ages whose eyes be
tested 10 less than hr} five per cent mad inherited
ACQUIRED detective vision. or these about twenty icr
cent were ncarigdtcd; nearly twelve Pey cent Ear,
sighted and about t,I,e and half per cent had vision
so fcctiye beyond the reach Of help by
or any Other mode Of treatment THIS If itself woui u
place. tHat this impairment of the vision, 80 faT
pear-sgltcduess Is concerned, is gradual result
CORRESPONDING generally to the age Of the pupil
and his or her attendance a school. Among children not
mere than six years old he found none that wcrc
sighted. BY the time they seven years DID, however
five ont Of every 100 have acquired short sight when
they are years Old there II OF every 100 sin
laly trOublrd when - years OF age thcro are 10 in
hundred and at years 20 out Of 100 pupils baye
become near-sIghcd. Dr. Howe concludes that IN he
Buffalo schools about pupil out OF every Our that
GOES 30 far as graduate at the High Schools is made
uaar-s led for life lie does not charge the whole
the injury upon the schools bu' makes alowanc" FOR
tat nropoion which may duc IL critcd defects Of
VISION aG1 that which results fIOn overtaXng the eye
sight at hoiae.