New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-18
NOTES On EDUCATION.

fhere are now 400 students at Dartmouth,
the largest proportion lto-comins from New H~mp-
shrr.
profcssorship Of political economy is TO I've
s<tablishcd NJ Mddlcbury college. It Is endowed py
xev-Scrscr
A vOnnq woman has entered the course III
Architecture Al Syracuse Universythe arft " her sex
Who hs done this The number Of entrances IN inc COL
l.ee ~ Art Il unusually large. Tho course OF music mas
ben taken hs about forty students
The South Carolina school-tax must he ap-
pcd NJ present to she payment OF the claims incurred
uu.,~r fhe lat administration. There viii be hte eit
after rms is danei thc state supcrntcnoen nccofuhSy
recommend that tho schools be closed until after Jenn
any
California University has 3l4 students,
folfynine ~ them women The total receipts " funds
Tor tue past two years were si5os21 %; the dishurs'
mcrfs Including invcs,mt nts ia bonds end seminary
land frnd AMI derosts In bonts, s4061o7 So There
ar i4.Oo0 volumes in the library.
The subjects for sophomore compositions at
Vale are ne follows Publicity IN administering JUS
toe essential % liberty . The Swiss. g. Progress IN
crime l. Prospects OF the B0naportlsts In france o.
Importance On hfe az things not necessary O. P"ufs
Journey 70 Rome T. Robinson Crusoc and his imiiaiors
Professor Seeye, OF Amherst has lately made
Che excellent suggestion that there should he college
exchaneo" where the faculty and students could meet
pnd exchange orinious upon live questions II Is pro
posed u hold such meetings once week There rs
thorough good this idea Such talks would help
70 brighten the professors and to cultivate the man IN
them a. wen the scholar.
The Johns Hopkins Pathological Association,
society organized for the furtherance OF ornnai re-
search and ire maintenance Of intercommnn'ca'ioh
among phuolorists. has Just held its first regular
session its President, Professor Gldersloeve, In
the chair. The principal paper read was ono Nv
DR. g. Ianman, on the double ka sound IN oriR-
raj Indo European. and the degrees OF kinship OF
Indo Eurorean languages The next meeting OF the as
eoeatIon Is to he held the first Friday In November
when the main PAPER will be by Mr. T. q. shler on
a subject from Plato
At the meeting last week, Of the school SUI
pcrnendents belonging the Northeastern Ohio Teach
ers Association. the plan OF teaching arithmeuc 70
children OF six was generally disapproved-at least IN
numbers higher than ten The question was finally de-
cidcd by favor 81 adopting ten a. the rule to be
praccod Young pruiis Dr Williams, OF Cleveland,
advocated different grade OF text books. which would
give the child information instead Of combining him to
,rmula which means nothing but words by rule
thought too reading they ought TO be supplied
with the best class of library works. His associates
agreed with him.
The report of the President Of Michigan Uni
versy says: The proportion OF women TO men scarcely
changes from year wear The women form little less
than nine per cent OF the whole number Of STUDENTS. II
Is gratifying to see how readily the gifted young
women who have graduated here especially those who
have taken the m classical have secured con
spcuous posons ms teachers in the high schools, semi
paries Of advanced grade and colleges for women r.
those positions they justiyng the wisdom Of the
gents who Oponed 20 them opportunities for thor
ough collegiate training and doing their full best In
earning a reputation for the University" 0tnerwhere
the rcport proposes that Summer school Of mines he
held in tle mining districts the cost beng estimated at
only about b 900 year The report closes with an
assurance OF tho continued and prosperity Of the
institution.
At a recent meeting in Boston, Of the School
Committees and superintendent OF Norfolk County one
sneaker said one result OF the teaching in common
schools was the inability think Our schools are al
wrong. Ask "A question OF young lady in the HEN
school II she has quotation from book on the
end tongue. she replies that she does not know
Another member said that It is hour to teach that our pri
mary teachers want understand. rather than hdt 20
teach. That Il the main idea. He would have pupils
saught by topics rather than from page to The
aty Of teacher is regulated ny the freedom which is
allowed to him or her Colonel Parker OF Quincy at
tackled the method. which is opposed to the science
or education. Our method OF teaching by Textbooks,
also from page page, is false science is taught hy
seps The first wo year- primary education the
important; and If hat is there is 10 teacher
in the universe who eradicate the viation the child
has received The schools with teachers OF ignorance
nre common. "How many stupid, ignorant teachers
there IN this Commonwealth! Don't rear your costly
and magnificent reform schools let the children be
sent into the wide wide woods and by the airy shore
Do not them in the presence of much pet
-. Il, 81 lunar