New-York tribune., 1877-06-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Teachers salaries have been reduced ia
Cleveland.
Cumberland University has just graduated
95 students
The San Francisco public schools are to have
gymnastics aud military drill.
The College of Liberal Arts of Boston Uni
yersity has just sent out 80 graduates.
The Wisconsin State University is said to
have an annual income Of about $4,000
The foreclosure of mortgage of $15O,ooo
for the ponpaynent OF the interest is hanging over Ch
University.
Trinity College has graduating classsof Il
members this year. About onefOurth viii pursue s'uos
for orders Trinity now OWES property amounting to
Sl,117,349.
81. Louis has abolished annual school exhi-
bons altogether substituting written examinations 1t
is good precedent public examinations are not thor
oug tests proficiency and the occasions OF much
useless expense and worry.
The Boston Board of Trade held meeting
last week to consider the subject of Industrial Educa
tion and after listening to divers addresses appointed
committee look into the matter IN relation 10 'he
manufacturing and commercial interests OF M@ssa-
chusctts.
An unsolicited gift of $4,000 has just been
made 10 Union college. which gift will he expended III
the completion Of Alumni and Memorial Hail. Inc lltc
John McC GLANDS bequest 10 Union amounts to Slso1V
The Class III is the largest and has tue hEheSt
age grade any class that has been graduated III years
The Johns Hopkins University has just closed
Is first session. The examinations for Inatrlcu"'on ~
reported 20 have very satisfactory especially he e
a,nnati,s OF the many Of whom have de-
ctecs in other colleges, and are now WORKING lot SVe
n the Hopkins University The examinations were parity
written and continued about eight hours DAY ior
week Tie results of tae year have been entirely
gratifying TO the trustees
The Chinese mission-schOoi in San Francisco
has iust held commencement exercises Inc suoo's
spoke excellent English. The school is steadily grOWhs
as the average nightly attendance during the PAST SIX
months has been 90 There are five teachers ana 'he
ciasses are graded so far Is possible The wCik OF
1eoching is carried on under difficulties aud deal
Of scourage1nont, owing the antiathy FELT and eA
pressed 10y so many whites for their Chinese NisitoiS
hut the scholars have boen dgent and respectful anu
certainly deserve credit for the progress they nave maze
considering the fact that they can only ahord TWO hou
III the evening 70 study after having worked nara al
day at their different trades or oaings.
DR.. John Ashurst, jr., has been elected to
the chair Of clinical surgery the University of Pen-
eylyania and Prof r. Warnley to the chair OF cheu-
isy That OF physiology has been Temporarily iied ny
Prof Jaiscs TysOn the trustees desiring TO hOid open
wear or two in order TO fully OF candidates
from q distance Hereafter all future m"ticuates VIII
be required ~ attend trco courses of lectures OF nVe
months duration each before graduation The studies
will be graded, that the first year VIII De dcNOteu %
The elementary branches the second year to advanced
fluly OF these branches together with me practical suh-
joc,s: wlnc the third year will be occupied purely wth
practical branches which viii be taught with great tAoi-
oughuess
Fifteen Williams College students will make
Tie Rooay Mountain expedition und,r Prof sahbofh
,renney aud each man will have distinct place and
ncd Of labor. The party viii leave Chicago on the iith
Of July, and viii spend month at Great ealt LAKE, 'ae
furthcst point which the trip VIII take H. AooGI
the first week IN August the party will return by rail to
Dca,cr, and thence proceed 10 Middle Park, where
somewhat urotraced stay Will De made. Then they Will
40 sot,wifd as far as Pixies Peak, visiting tue Garden
Of the Gods and other points OF interest The party w"
break up at Denver probably about the Isl OF sep'em-
boz As this distinctly expedition SEM Oui u the
Interests Of tie college aud IS to be known as the VII
hams College Expedition the college museum IS to nave
first of all complete Of ali tie specimens collected
Next is to he the college Lyceum OF Natural History,
with which Of the party connected Tie tmId
coice Will be to the collectors III the several &c
tartments There are 10 be seven departments VIZ,
Geology, MiueraloEy Botany, Manrnaiogy, OIhholoGy'
Ichthy eogy, and Entomology.
Co-cducation in American universities is men,
toned with some doubt by The London saturday Eortcc
II saws that tneIe are the United states institutions
without u,nhcr, of more or less importance and PROMISE
STYLING themselves Universities and on winch ultra
democratic Legislatures have sAOwercd with a lavish
hand powers U cOnictllnS degrees III al tue ucti o'S
Of human kuOwlcd G.. Bat there are as yet only two
which their European eolnpcerS would fully recognize as
Univolsitles-Harvard and Yale To neither OF these
have women been admitted. Harvard Is in the very
focus Of New gland radcasn, which has been stimi-
lated of 10 tie highest pi,ch hy tie struggle Win
Slavery; and Womms Rights did not ial 10 Knock
1crcely at the gate Of the University. "Mr Eio the
President is himself offspring Of the new culture
having received scientific rather than classical train
ins and has distinguished himself III is university not
ony by liberal policy, but by somewhat daring, though
successful unoyaton II was therefore from no unSeA
erous narrOwness love OF obsolete monopoly that he
desired time before conseutiug q change which he saw
would profoundly alter the character OF the institution
in order to make a Of inspection through the nsu-
tious at which the system Of cO-educotOn prevailed.
The result OF his tour report Ii the shape OF
paper read before the Social Science Association at Bos-
decidedly adverse 10 the system aud pointing 10 tbe
conclusion that FAR from increasing In popularity as
its advocates asserted, it was On the wauc."