New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-16
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Inc university VI Virginia ha9 "' f
500 students.
An effort to cut down the salaries of teach
ors in Baltimore hasjust been defeated.
The salaries of teachers have been reduced
In Plttsourg on an average of from to per cent
Secretary Northrop, of Connecticut, is op-
nosed-aud wisey-to the multiplying OF text BOOKS
holding that there too many and that they are 100
yoluminOus going too much into details
The meeting of the National Educational
Association is to be postponed until next year. The
prpcpa reason for this postpOnement the absence
Of many of the leading members at the Paris Exposition
The French Government is at work making
improvements in public instruction 1t is preparing Tor
new professorshps at the scrbonne and the Ecoe dc
Medicine NJ Bardoux, Minister of Public Instruction.
saws that the time when every village IN france
will have its school
The University at Athens, has seventy-tWo
profes ors whose salaries paid by the state anu
500 students students only expense is Tor supsis'
ence Men from the other great universities OF Europe
GO there 70 study modern Greek. The great work OF
this university it is said is to restore classical Greek
The curriculum of the Kensington lectures
for women includes Holy Scripture and Church history
logic and moral philosophy modern and ancient history
the English Latin, French and German languages ana
hteratures. mathematics, mechanics and botany TX
detrimental physios chemistry and drawing VIII also DC
taught as soon suitable arrangements can be made
The Cincinnati Wesleyan College has GER
tanty of existence at least five years longer Eve
thousand dollars year for five years has been sub
scrbed by the various congregations OF the city ana
vicinity and the president Of the college undertakes to
pey 50 600 more per year toward the interest account
nnd all the current expenses Of the institution lncudDR
repairs insurance etc. out of the business OF the college
itself.
It is proposed in Utica to reduce the school
course 70 twelve years. The Herald of that city says
The lsess idle method of dragging through the com
mon school system is practical denial TO large mum
Der of approach to the academy and often to the al
yanced school The pupil viii adhere TO inc
course Get before him. He viii not run before H. he
will be more likely fall behind it. Yet the average
pupil has no sixteen years which he can afford to gveup
TO education" q
The school population of Connecticut is
1909 The school receipts for the past year nave
been 81 ,5O621S 81; the expenditures, Sl5lO222 o.
The number of teachers continuously employed
during the year 1904, an increase OF Ia
The number of new teachers engaged was 4'o'
decrease OF 61 The average wages per month OF maze
teachers has SG4 55 being decrease OF 81 50 as
compared with 1877 of female teachers, $50 20 being
q decrease of 96 cents per month.
A new kind of instruction classes for women
has recently been organized in Switzerland and has met
with great favor especially in the great orchard dis
trcts scientific gardener gives practical lectures on
the cultivation of fruit and vegetables and an expert
mental field is granted for practice Such course has
been instituted in the busy town of Burgdor where Pes
talozz began his great educational revolution eighty
years ago No less than hundred women and girls have
already given in their names students
A committee of the Worcester School Board
has prepared a majority report stating among other
things that drawing has been given far trial IN the
schools of that city, and except the case OF the evening
drawing schools has not been success The report re-
commends that hereafter the teaching Of drawing in the
high school, and all the grades above the third primary
except the eighth be wholly discontinued its contnu
ance the excepted grades being sufficient to answer
the legal requirement and further try the experiment
according to the existing policy Of the State.
The Educational Weekly says: "The faculty
of Indiana Medical College at indianapolis, have refused
10 give medical instruction to women in their institution
hereafter The prOyOcation Is said to have been the
election Of worthy woman, who graduated with high
honors % viee-president OF the Alumni Association.
Such action Is unworthy body Of educated men, and
we are not surprised learn that there great deal OF
excited discussion OF the position thus taken by the
faculty. We do not how the position can be held
against tide of public sentiment which is daily grow
ing stronger against such exclusiveness in education
Various changes are to be made in the cur
riculum Of Michigan University now course Is pro-
posed which will be devoted chiefly to instruction in the
modern languages and literatures history and the
sciences its degree be that OF Bachelor OF Letters
The second change will be the admission OF mature
students to selected terms that shall make
certain their for and need of the proposed work
The third change will bethe adaptation Of instruction 10
the individual by allowing all undergraduates to choose
their studies and by permitting each student to complete
his course in tie shortest time compatible with thor
Oughness.
The Cretans are reported to be very eager
in the matter OF education They not very learned
themselves but they wish their children TO learn and as
the teaching necessarily in Greek it binds the young
folks all the closer the mOthercountry Of Greece
This is why such teaching for long time opposed
by the Turkish authorities and why many thought vi
Turks saw III it source of danger Young Cretans who
could read wodi get hold Of Atheuian apers and
be set against their sovereign the Sultan. However, the
stream strong to be thus damned up by selfish
rulers The desire OF the Creans for schools had to be
met in some degree and before troubles which
began In 1885, Ismai Pasha had made considerable con
cessons In regard TO Cretan education. 1t would now
be difficult 10 find family Of the better class in the
whole island which has not either secured some sort Of
teaching for its chi dren in Crete ITSELF sent them TO
Greece TO be taught.
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