New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Commencement at Princeton occurs on june
81.
Fifty-four seniors win be graduated by Dart
mouth this year
Girard College has educated l,3oo boys al"
expended 50 5O0,OUO in the work.
Twenty students were graduated last week
bv the school Of Oratory Of Boston University
Greek Professor J. b. Sewall Of Bowdon
leaves that institution this year to take charge OF
school at Braintree, Mass
The cost to each member of the Aquatic
school q Natural Hstory-which is to travel through
the Lake Superior region TINS Summer-wiil be Sl'o
or ;he public school domain of Texas, there
nre said 10 be 100000 now in or to 60 into the
market for the next eight ten years at the minimum
price OF 81 so per acre. which VIII make sehooi luhu Oh
S3OOO0,GOO.
There are in Maryland 1872 public schools,
hsructinr 14eIos pupils the average number in daily
attend nee being 20 OG0 There $3.50 teachers en-
ployed. whose salaries last year amounted TO $ooS'-
74l o. The total amount Of public school expenditures
IN The state last year was S945,362 A.
President Andrew ID. White of Cornell
writes that the moro he travels through ancient lands
and takes cain view OF American affairs from out
side n the light thus obtained, the more thorough be-
comes his conviction that main bulwark against inc
found thorough system OF education complete IN all
It's parts managed by the people, and not III the hahuS Oh
any sect or party.
OF the $25O.OOO needed by Drew Iheologi-
cnl Seminary $4,000 has been pledged. Bu even the
interest upon this pledged amount left deficit Oi e3oVO
upon the last year. therefore decided at recent
meeting Of the trustees thar the amount Of deficiency
must met al ny cash subscriptions IRON the ru'
tees Three subscriptions Of $1,000 each so started TIE
al or
once, and lhcrally ana in moment the whole amount
needed pledged
The reductions made by the Michigan Lceis-
lature IN the hill Of appropriations the State Unyer
sty are as follows The items $4,000 for each o. the
years 81 and for the school of mines are stricken
out II is believed however, that the amount necessary
for supporting the school Of mines at ann Arbor the next
two years VIII De forthcoming from some direction The
fem 600 for 70 new building the dental school 10
stricken out. and 81 900 substituted "to repair
building Cor the dental school" The salary of the Pro-
fessor Geology Tor each OF the ears ls777s is re-
duccd from $500 70 5000 The salary OF the Pro
fessor Of PHYSICS for tnc year 1877 is reduced from
500 to - 900 The allowance for general library for
each of the years is reduced from $500 to $1,000 The
reductions bring down the total appropriations under
this bill from $4,000 for 1877 10 1000. ami for 1875
from S33,5OO TO $1,000.
The Convocation Of the University OF Lon
don has denied medical degrees to women one OF the
speakers said that the agitation Tor Wohes rights WIS
40 turning the heads Of that female servants were
not had Another appealed TO the Arts graduates
not to force women among men in relation 20 medical
pursuits before they entitled to practice m Law aud
every other pro.csoudu argument which, 10y stopping
the progress possible for the day, would stop 0l progress
The position for the flijUe 20 occupy IN
society another said, tn real question hcHe dis
cusscd while another begged TIE members o. tie miyer-
sty not 10 lower The status of its graduates by allowing
women TO app ar among them. Lord Granville ana Mr.
lowe who were present at the distribution OF thc uni
versy prizes next day referred 10 the snj Ct Iort
Granville mentioning the argument that there would bo
pecuniary injustice in subcctug those men VINO had
obtained medical degrees the rivalry OF tie other sex,
said that argument repu'iacd b. such men as Sir
James Plaet and Sir William Gull ana by TIE Medical
Council as probably would Poe by those young men who
had just received Their medical distinctions a. the reward
Of their labors Mr. Lowe said DC was in favor o. tnc
admission TO those degrees without any uiia
ton There were branches Of dcinc iorwllcu women
were uccul:arly gGapftd.