New-York tribune., 1877-11-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

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Williams College bas 2s4 students, seven
tom OF whom take partial course ihe college mas
rraduatcd Altogether ? t70 students
Columbia Is said 10 have S15o.OOO IN the
.olee treasury aut IL has refused 20 buy Mt strong
valuaDie Bbsary at the price Of $4,000.
The total Of school receipts in Ohio for the
ra.,vear was sat729s s6. The payments amounted
a. 500 s291i Mole tolchers receive an average sal
arv ~ sS1 per month; female teachers Ssh
The botany class in the public school of
woolrry y j. presents aool eVemrlc Is other coun-
ty schools Dnrog tho past season Sc has anayzei and
traced 900 plants. some Of these being very rare.
The Hampshire Agricultural College, in
srilc of sine aii given 10 hy Dartmouth and thc unpaid
services Of many OF DHtmouhs cs professors is s'ld
20 be- o failure Vth facilities or hundred students u
hss only hatadozcn and has incurred dent OF
SC 600.
The school moneys OF New-Jcrsey are re-
porcd as amounting % % O5O6s9 OF. Her school prop
erty is valued ut S65ls5oi The school ponn'ation
numbers SIS SIS the number enrolled IS l9'Fos anu
The average attendance 72lo7. The private schools
have about ~ pos pupils There are @4 male teachers
and es-G female teachers The former receive average
salaries ~ s63 7s per MONTH the latter s37 o. Inc
cost Of education per capita is Sli CT per annun'
The following is a list of the number OF
-s8uafcs from various Colleges. in the class OF 17
Yale 20; Harvard 1GS: Princeton 112; Amherst, 75
lafayette. &c; Dartmouth. 65 Brown, 55; Columbia
30: Williams 90: Bowdoin 80 Wesleyan 81 Univer
rty Of Pennsylyaui1, 81 Rutgers, 90; University of
California 90 New York University 25; PennsHlYauh
CoHeoc, "a; Trinity. 20; Bates 19; Vermont Uniyer
stv. IS; Roanoke. ~ Colby. lG Tufts. 16 Marietta,
Is: Middleburv. 10; Lehich u; Chicago University
u Wittcnbcrg 9 Carthage. 9.
President Porter of Yale, has been repri-
andug the sophomore for their abusive treatment OF
freshmen He declares that hereafter the faculty will
do all I'm its power protect students from indgnues
md any student found guilty win be Immediately eS
PEELED The John 4. Porter prize viii he given TO the
best essay dealing with eny OF the following sub
,ects: l. The Latin and Gothic. Tcut0nc Spirit, as
manifested in Literature. Art and Politics. ? The Ger
man 3 Tie Classic Mythologics Illustrative OF M
tiona Character 3 The Rotation of the Renaissance TO
the Reformation 4. Mcdieyll,sm and H1tionaism' the
conflicting Bases Of Ideas in Modern Religious Thou"ht
and Worship. 3. Tendencies of Co"'emporneous Liter
aare and Art 8 Tho English System Of Civil servceas
Applicable 10 the United States. :. C1mmunism IN
Amercl e Poetry rs An ted by the Progress of Sci
ence. O. Imaginary Commonweaths
Harvard has this term S13 undergraduates,
239 Of whom are freshmen. Tic tendency toward sub
stuling lectures for rcctatious is becoming marked
There are thirteen unmaricuatod students and of those
STUDYING for postgraduate degrees. p are try
inr FOR A. d. % for Pr. D. ana fors d. In the sum
rrrcourses 80 took Chemistry, Botany and Geology;
IS % OF whom LADIES' taking Botany - Qualito
tive Analysis; 10 Geology Quuntative Analysis, and
a General Cncmstrv. Candidates for admission viii
hereafter De exanueG they prefer, upon their general
knowledge Of required subjects ana m translation 1T
ticht This plan will he tried or three years The uni
versitv now owns altogether 222 900 books The follow
ing subjects have been given for junior themes Should
snend The time given every day to newspapers in
reading standard authors Has anything great been ae
compishca in prosaic mood The first sug-
gcstcd from Emersous Society and Solitude, and the
second from Thore5us work on Cape Cod.
The last hearing before the Boston School
Board Committee the admission Of girls 20 The Latin
School was held on Monday. TIE wife Of Professor
Pierce, Of Harvard, made long and clever argument in
favor Of this question She thought The effect OF co-cdu
cation would beexcccn and that the fact Of the employ
Inent Of one hundred thousand female teachers IN this
country sufficient 20 the inquiry rs TO tho
necessity Of giving girls college educations President
Warren. Of Boston University, made eloquent judi
cous and careful in support Of girls aimis
sion to the school. lie took mp The objections which
have been made sciqtp and it must ba confessed thai;
put his manly words they looked fimsv, petty and
selfish. One OF the reasons given why lcboar3 should
not grant the petition was d. Warren SAYS "hecause
gentleman Professor EyerctN, To wbon Boston gave
free tuition in Greek for nuulscr Of years and who has
since thoroughly qualified himself II render opinion
rcrorts that Greek erltur, and Greek civilization
not f TO be taught % girls" Dr. Warren adds, in refer
ence b. this absurd statement; ''Ihis distinguished cy
professor TO the tender mcrcies Of Elizabeth
Barrett Browning. Madame Daccr Margaret Fuller ami
such Ike or No. prefer his old friend Of Latin school
days Dr. Helen Ms gin. who is abundanty able to debate
this astonishing thesis with him in Greek if thar be
not suitable. in sanscrit
The course OF instruction in botany, at Cor
nell has been considerably extended As before students
in the general required 10 take only
term Of botany the Spring term OF sophomore year
For students the natural history and special courses
this folio we'd by work equivalent to five terms OF five
hours a week and sixth term ia which botany Is made
optional with work in geology and zoology Thera have
been added 10 the old standard courses OF lectures ia
vegetable physiology Systematic botany and hOrtcu-
ture a course Of lectures and laboratory work the
and fun fungi each Of one term Of three
hours a week. besides full course the m0ssos and
alggp, term Of two hours a week. Opportunities for
additional laboratory work in most Of these branches
are also afforded the student. Tor the present erm
EruetlOn being given i'm composition, the ferns and
fungi. Professor Preniss also giving cf
tures tho lave governing plants under cultivation.
The has received by ci; during the year a col
lection Of several hundred specimens Of foreign woods
in sections from Professor Johounot collection Of Bra
lillian woods from the Centennial Exhibition and large
number OF valuable ferns from South America Small
collections Of fungi and lchens have been purchased
The museum has a nearly perfect local herbarium OF
mounted phenOgsmous plants and ferns, besides nunor
Gus collections In the lower groups.
Professor Barbour, of Yale, told the Con-
nectcut Association the other day, that not
every dun recitation is be laid TO the charge Of tie
scholar The teacher the school committee the town,
or some one else away the domain OF secondary
causes may be cbargeable for the failure The
teacher should be the heaa OF the school in good
spirits as well good conduct Let every teacher try
d. Begin the school II you had just heard
and took pleasure imparting Il. and keep this up ali
day. Those whom we teach have right Of am inteli-