New-York tribune., 1878-11-21
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Nebraska has a school population of 1O2'-
1877.
Union College has two Indians among her
sudents Not single case Of hazing has occurred 'nS
year
Johns Hopkins University has now llo
,,uderts for,v.three OF these being new admissions
this session.
Several of the Illinois schools have adopted,
with excellent results, the reading ana uScu9'0n "
newspapers a class exercise.
Examinations of applicants for State certih-
Gates will ba Iegun December 10, at the Normal SCHOOLS
Mt Albany Brockport Buffalo Cortland, Fredona, G'h
eseo, Ncw-YOrk, OsweeO, and Potsdam'
At the L. A. examination held by the Uni
yersty of St. Andrews the papers IN political economy
scn IN by the ladies far better than those luT
nshed by the ordinary students, while those u history
were of exceptional merit.
A majority report recommending the re-
teuon Of the old devotional exercise in the schools mas
been adopted by the New-Haven Board oi Education
This action was in accordance with the wish of the peo-
ple expressed at polls. The manual prepared by the
committee OF clers ymen is therefore set aside
It is asserted that hundreds of the country
schools in Ohio are inferior both in pupils and In teach
ers 10 those OF twenty years ago. many OF the schools
having very small average attendance, ana proper
qualifications in the teacher being overlooked in the
ease Of such light attendance Consolidation or the
smaller districts is recommended as remedy
Matthew Arnold has been very much struck
with the superiority of secondary educatOn in France
secondary education in England He looks al France
with its 81 tycttS its 2J2 communal colleges, tS $40
teoles HbTes and its tota something like 100000
scholars receiving solid secondary educatio an" theh
he turns with feeling akin TO despair to EhElahd'
with at 10000 scholars unier secondary nstut-
ton which may be called guaranteed" including among
these all the boys the great public schools, many oil
whom belong in no sense to the middle class.
A speaker at the recent meeting of the De-
tot teachers said that children should be taught gram
mar when they young TO read but that the
teaching OF technical grammar should he reserved until
the last year at the High School He held that no one
ever changed from bad speaker TO good one bv cor
recng his sayings by the rules OF grammar II Is con-
practice that correctness There is great
deal OF truth in ths who that has ever attended aeoun-
try school but remembers how the talk Of the pupils in
spite of ceaseless recatiOus in grammar, remained
crammed with blundeIsl
The professors in the East Indian medical
schools complain OF the lessness and ignorance dis
played by the Junior department generally. The Prin-
cpal OF the EagpOre School Of Medicine also reports
very unfavOraby the general character of the stu
dents This unsatisfactory state of things is ascrbed TO
the system recently inaugurated by Government,
under which students selected by military COM
mttee after passing the prescribed test in reading.
wntngand arithmetic and are then sent for one years
preliminary training civil hospital before entering
the medical school, This system deters educated and
energetic from entering the service while 1t at
tracts the idle and worthless.
This apt presentation of the salary question
comes from The Sterling Ill.) Gazette: The kitchen
girl can save than the teacher Lady teachers in
Sterling receive. an average, about $40 per month
which for nine months amounts to 1850; hftytwo
weeks board at 81 so, $234 forty weeks washing at
81 $40; clothes. SlO0 incidental expenses 500 total
1894; salary ,$36O loss, $34 Kitchen girl: ffy-two
weeks at g. $IO4 board, nothing; washing nothing;
clothes, $50; incidental expenses, SlO balance, $44
The above figures will show balance in favor Of the
kitchen girl or S7S per The teacher cannot, II
she would do her washing sewing during the school
year. The teacher mns dress well, she cannot hold
her situation She must spend time and money TO pre-
pare her work. The only preparation the kitchen
girl needs Is q strong arm, snewy hand and willing
heart"