The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-04-12
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.
Rem8 of Interest for Teachers, Pupils, and
Parents.

A delegation of Japanese students,
from the Imperial College, is now on its
way to this country and Europe, to spend
several years in the study Of law, and OF
the sciences.
The Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton of Iowa has decided that male teach
ers in the public schools must not be un'
der nineteen years of age and female
teachers seventeen.
The total number of pupils attending
the Chicago schools is 5I.I28. By the
last school report the population of the
city is given at 4o7, COL, 1t cost $82I.-
3o8, 20 to run the Chicago schools for
the year ending July 3Ist, 1876.
1t is very sad for man to make him
self servant to thing, his manhood all
taken out of him by the hydraulic
pressure of excessive business. should
not like to be merely great doctor, a
great lawyer, a great minister, great
politician; | should like to be also
something Of man.-[Theodore Parker
In Memoriam The Kansas State
Legislature has adjourned. The cause
of Normal schools received not one cent
at the hands of these Solons, while the
State penitentiary was remembered'in
an appropriation of S243 SSI97 Grave
diggers, not immigrants, wanted that
way Journal OF Education.
Applicants for scholarships in Dart
mouth College hereafter must submit to
the faculty an exhibit of their income
and expenses during the preceding year,
and pledge themselves not to spend any
money for liquor, tobacco, billiard play
ing or dancing, while receiving aid from
the college.
Miss Mitchell, teacher of the First
Grammar grade, Washington school,
Pittsburgh, has established system Of
discussion upon the news and topics oi
the day among her scholars. The
pupils support paper called the Bulle'
tin, which is issued from blackboard
and which contains synopsis of the
Pittsburgh papers Of that day.
In the Harvard examinations fol
women the first or preliminary certifi'
Gates are given to those young women
not less than seventeen years of age who
pass a successful examination in regu
tarly prescribed course of study. The
second or advanced certificate is granted
to those young women who, having at
tanned the age of eighteen years, have
passed the preliminary examination, anc
also thorough examination in specia
elective studies in particular branches
Ohio has adopted a bill making pri
mary education compulsory, requiring
"every child between eight and fourteen
years of age to attend public schoo
| for at least twelve weeks in each schoo
year, and prohibiting employment TO
the same time in any form of business
but it makes exceptions to both provis
ions-6rst, when the child is physically
incapacitated for study; second, when !
has already acquired the branches Q
learning ordinarily taught in common
schools third, when it is under privat
instruction; fourth, when II relies on it
own efforts for support; and fifth, wheI
its labor is necessary for the support o
its parents or relatives" We are afrai'
that the compulsion of such law vii
/ not be very forcible, with so man,
I exceptions as ''loopholes Of retreat.
] we believe the statute books would b
better off without such flimsy Legislation
and we are sure that educational pre-
gress gains nothing but weakness
TNew England Journal Of Education.