New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Wesleyan expects freshman class of eighty
members.
Musical culture at Amherst is said to be
thorough and admirable.
Columbia's freshman class this year is the
largest ever entered on her rolls.
Nine thousand pupils demand admission to
the public schools of Kansas CITY
The last semi-annual school-fun appOrticn-
meut IN Minnesota amounted TO Sl46,s09 ID
1t is reported that there is more trouble be-
tween the aopaths and hom@opahs at Michigan UnNer
sty.
The freshman class at Union now numbers
between sixty and seventy. and Is sti receiving add'
tons.
Dartmoutl's freshman class has eighty mem
bers IL has adopted the English University cap and
gown There only seven students in the Ag1euE
tural Conege-nope entered this term.
A new course in advanced geology will be
given this year at Harvard by Professor shaler twenty
six men have passed the sntepatory examination III
sophomore rhetoric and sixtyone in first hatyear MS
tory
The University of Wisconsin has ulnety-two
freshmen. President Bascom writes to HE 1ElBVNE
saw that the faculty does with the Board or
Visitors in their report adverse TO the eoeducaton OF
the sexes.
The colored people of Evansville, Ind, have
lust held meeting discuss Indignantly the exclusion
Of colored pupils from high school of that city.
They propose take proceedings TO test the IeSay o
such exclusion
Tho Mayor of Baltimore has been authorized
bv the City Council 10 appoint commission OF hVe
citizens to ascertain whether the school system now IN
operation presents defects anu II us Nv 'ue o'sc' "o"
they may be romedied
IL az C0rOpn University
numbered up 20 p M Wednesday last, 49, distrib-
uted as follows: Optional. 40; Arts Is; Science II :
Mechanic Arts Is; Engineering 49, Agricultural 49,
Literary IL; Philosophy. 3; Science and Literature o.
Architecture. Mathematics, 2 Natural History -
Chemistry and Physics / OF tins number sixteen are
ladies'
Seven of the regular university classes in
the Faculty o. Arts and Laws Of University college,
London are open rs web as to men, not Only
in instruction but also examinations class-st honor
and competition prizes AT the present moment he
Joseph Hume Scholarship In Jurisprudence clOOa year
for three years. held by Miss Eliza Ormes ana the
MAYER dc Rothschd exhibition OF $3.50 for pure nahe'
MATES is held by Ellen NJ Watson The classes IN
the Faeulty Of Arts aud Laws which open TO women
are those on following Subjects First English ana
IFS relations to Ice'andc and MgsOGotbic; Mathemat
les Higher Senior Glass; Physical Laboratory Tor pac
tica instruction in Experimental Physics; Philosophy
OF Mind Logic History OF Philosophy, ana Ethics; Po-
utical Economy; jurisprudence and Roman Law. In
University College also the classes Of the Department Of
The Fine Arts including drawing, painting, and sculp
turc with lectures anatomy, perspective ana arena
olocy a. hearing art open TO women equally win
men There is only class in the Faculty OF Science
which s omen TO women and that is the class of geology
and mineraogy. Last year, female student Of this
class the first prize in the examination some OF
the connection with the Royal school OF Mines
receive female students Inquiry III south kenslngton
has produced the Official statement that the s,r1cIoh
there is generally given classes composed OF men,
but women may be admitted with the special sanction
of the professor Apart nom me women octS so
have llght 10 the - lchtlHv lIall'it ".. 80 ~
have awaited themselves OF It, some women NAV come III
among the general plhnc; ana, indeed III inc poiOeF
class, have been admitted
A committee of the Boston School Board
gave hearing last week to the advocates Of the adins
SION Of girls the Latin School Professor Howson OF
the Institute Of Technology argued that demand Tor
classical education for girls in Boston does exist. aud
that is not met by the present educational system He
said that Vassar was not institution Of the very high
est order yet Of thiry-two girls who went there be
tween 500 and 1877. only were admitted without
conditions and their deficiency was generally in Latin
and the classics. Eleven Of these girls went from the
Girls High and Normal School and not one of these was
received without being conditioned President Runkle,
OF the Institute OF Technology said that he would have
girls admitted the Latin School at the same age and
under the condition boys He believed that the
general the education Of bows and girls should
be essentially the President Gambler, of the Bos
ton Board Of Trade, expressed substantially the same
opinion Principal Hagar Of the State Normal
School said that his experience told him that
girls had generally been the superior scholars with
ont Oyciwnrk The Rev. James Freeman Clarke ead
tbat II IT should to that the Boston lAtin
should he opened on the system OF JOINT ednc
ton he bel that II would be greatly 10 the adV1n-
tage Of both the bows and the girls President Nartn
Of Boston University. said that n would not be
rash innovation uutried experiment One girl had
already been fitted the Latin SchOo-the daughter 81
master She the school. and finally completed
hy hudng her TO the seats aud recitlng
other pupils. and this year graduated from the
Boston University doctor Of philosophy. Tho only
alternative the latin School the establishment
of another school precisely sim1r, and even then the
girls would not have the advantage OF the reputation o
the OLD Latin school Tns Latin school would give the
girls a better opportunity than the high schools