New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-08-30
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Rates College has forty freshmen at present
The salaries Of the teachers of Rochester, NJ
Y, have been reduced
San Francisco gets an apporioument oil state
seiooi Funds TO the amount OF T'o'04o oo
Pennington Seminary, Pennington, N, D. be-
rim, it, school year September 9Th, with the prospee; Oh
a larger school han IL has had Tor many years
The japanese students for Asbury Unlyer-
sty have arrived They s. Chiada. aged twenV-one
years: X Kawamura, tweuty-one years; j. Nasu' SIX
teen; A. Soto twenty. They are greatly pleased WIN
Al erica They can an speak English
There Is still much tal6ing concerning the
removal OF Albion College to Detroit and tne consequent
incarceration OF University to be called Detroit Uni
yersity beautiful site has been given by citizen;
Detroit Medical College wishes TO become part OF the
proposed institutions and the Detroit Scientific Assoca-
ton would probably sivo its excellent material
The nav Of School Commissioners in South
Carolina has been reduced 20 1900 year The last
Legislature also abolished special taxes for educatoh
and deprived townships ami school districts Oh tue power
70 tax themselves FOR the support OF schools ana
fused 20 provide salaries for the teachers IN the state
University where 200 colored students have boon study
ing.
German writer saws of educAtion in Eng
land. Attention l. almost exclusively directed to he
denonsrablc fiual From time TO time soihelhs
Ike an aarrnbc sounds Throughout IN" country Ooi"
and be examined! And they come boys ana girls youDN
and Old having crammed into themselves as mueh Know
sre as they could How they have acquired what they
knox is never asked they shown what the best
method: and yet what work could after all be more
worthy Of a university han point this outs Results
rcaults tins IS characteristic Of England and best eN-
plains The present high value set upon examinations IN
schools and universities
Superintendent Wickersham Of Pennsylva-
MA in the recent meeting Louisville said OF technical
education: 81 have large classes come out OF our
Hlg4l school and 90 back home without qualification
for anything. Our people partly right III saying mat
the schools not doing what tLey should loi
the common people. It woud not be bad thing If half
The time Of the girls we're taken up in learning sewing
telecraphy wood-earyng and other arts OF like nature
Ibeeve that it is practicable that the work for girls
may be divided in this way With boys the case would
be more difficult but find in Europe that they d2 'h0
same with boys / am not sure but that If hat INC
money expended in the schools OF our cities were eN
pended in the erection Of shops to teach the boys ana
girls trades, it would be better"
The Chinese in San Francisco have petitioned
the Board Of Education for school Iney say IN tnef
memorial: "Your honorable State leyies poll ana olher
taxes for the support OF education and makes no df-
ference between natives and foreigners II from the
first Chinese and Americans had been placed on the
anne footing in the schools it would have been In ac-
oordahc, with right and Justice, aud there would have
been subsequently distinction; but your honorable
State has established schools of all grades and have
not admitted Chinese. which is contrary to the original
intention Chat they should be open to ALL We there
fore respectfully and earnestly beg that you will open
schools for the benefit Of the Chinese and that you will
nppont Mr. Kerr who is familiar win language to
have charge Thus the original excellent design viii be
realized and the learning of your honorable country VIII
be disseminated"