Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Dartmouth has now 1854 students; the
net loss of students since 1877 is forty
one.
In the graded schools OF Minnesota
62S pupils study Latin, Al Greek, SO7
German and las French.
1t is said that $500, 900 is spent yearly
upon the teaching OF music In the ele-
mentary schools OF England.
The total number of students attend
ing the Michigan State Agricultural
College during the past year was 292.
Brown University has PAS students,
fourteen Of these being post-graduates;
The university has now nearly lOo
scholarships, sixty-three OF them being
scholarships OF 1900 each.
West Virginia has now a journal OF
Education" as well as university. The
paper has an attractive guise, Is printed
at Mornantown, and begins its work
with an excellent editorial on the unwis-
dom OF economy in the pay OF teachers.
A formal application for an injunction
to restrain the School Board from teach
ing German and other OF the higher
branches in the public schools has been
filled in the Circuit Court OF 1t. Louis.
The case has been taken under advise
ment.
The Sun Francisco schools, among
many other good things, have corps of
twenty-five substitute teachers. They
are paid s. day for actual service in Q
primary class, "a in agrammar class, and
$3.50 for remaining at the office half a
day to answer calls. They report regu-
larly every morning at the rooms of the
board and are sent out to various schools
on the receipt OF Geographic signals.
Superintendent Harrington, OF Bridge
port, Conn, makes good suggestion in
advising teachers to encourage their pu-
pills in thoroughly good reading "lf
teachers" he says, "would devote a part
0f each Friday afternoon to an exercise
in which the pupils should give short
account OF what they have been reading
during the week, it would help implant
a love for a better class Of literature. Of
course, this implies thought and care on
the part OF the teacher, since no teacher
can implant love for good reading un-
less he enjoys it himself"
1t is OF good omen that some OF the
members of the courses in political econ
omy of Harvard College have estab-
lished club for the discussion OF tinan-
cial matters. Students have heretofore
confined their researches in this direction
to the question OF pocket money. The
president, willing to encourage this Ell
fort to obtain knowledge absolutely
necessary to every one who would vote
intelligently, has placed room at the
disposal Of the club for its meetings; and
several professors have expressed their
warm approval OF tho new organization.
The writer of an article on "Nearsight-
edness in Children, printed i'll The Etfu-
Cafiondl Weekly, gives this excellent rule:
Encourage the pupil to look off the
book frequently, To change the focus OF
sight by regarding some distant object
1t is not enough to look around vaguely;
the eve must he directed to something
which is to he clearly seen, like pic
turc or motto upon the wall, or blt
of decoration. The greatest damage to
the eyes of students is the protracted
effort to focus the printed page. II was
simply barbarous, the way weused to be
"whacked" in school, when we looked
of the book 1t is easy for a teacher to
know the difference between the resting
ui the eve and the idle gazing aronnd
that cannot bc allowed regard this
rule as the most important, and the dis
regard of it the most prolific OF trouble.