New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Dartmouth has now 3S4 students; the net
toss OF students since 1877 IS forty-one.
In the graded schools of Minnesota 62S pu-
ps study Latin 46 Greek 9O7 German and l45 Ffeneh
II is said that 100000 is spent yearly
mon the teaching Of music in the elementary schoo
England
The total number of students attending the
,,,a,,, u,to A-ricpltnral College during the past
year was 222.
Brown University has 243 students, four
teen Of these being postgsduates The university mas
now nearly 100 scholarships, sxtyhree OF them Oeng
scholarships Of 81, 900 each.
West Virginia has now " Journal of Edu-
cation as well as q university. Tne paper mas "u
attractive guise is printed at Morgantown, ana begins
its work with an excellent editorial on the unWlsdo o
economy in the pay Of teachers.
A formal application for an Injunction 10
restrain the School Board from teaching German auO
other Of the higher branches in the public schools u"o
been fled in the Circuit Count Of st. LOUIS Ine case
has been taken under advisement.
The San Francisco schools, among many
other good things have corps OF twenty-five suosu-
tue teachers. They paid So day for aetu"l ser
vice in primary class 81 grammar class and Sloo
for remaining at the Office half day to answer calls
They report regularly every morning at the rooms OF
the board and are out to various schools on the
receipt OF telegraphic signals.
Superintendent Harrington, Of Bridgeport,
Conn., makes good suggestion In advising teachers 10
encourage their pupils in thoroughly good reading. II
teachers" be says would devote part OF each Friday
afternoon TO an exercise in which the pupils should give
short account Of what they have been reading during
fine week il would help 1mpant love for better class
of literature or course this implies thought and care
on m part Of the teacher since teacher can lmpant
love for good reading unless he enjoys IL himself"
It is of good omen that some of the mem
hers of the courses in political Of Harvard Col
lege have established club for the discussion OF IMAM
caI matters Students have heretofore confined their
researches in this direction to the question Of pocket
money. The president willing TO encourage this enoft
10 obtain knowledge absolutely necessary TO every one
who would vote intelgently has placed a room at the
disDosal OF the club for meetings. and several pro-
fssors have expressed their approval Of the new
organization
The writer of an article on " Nearsighted-
ness in Children" printed in The Educational WeeEtH
gives this excellent rue Encourage the pupil TO look
of the book frequently 10 change the focus OF slGh by
regarding some distant object 1t is not enough to look
around vaguely; the eye must be directed TO something
which is to be clearly seem like picture or mOtto
upon the WALL bit OF decoration. The greatest DAM
age to the eyes of students is the protraced effort to
focus the printed page. 1t simply barbarous the
way we use TO be 'whack,d In school, when we looked
off the book. easy for teacher TO know the differ
ence between resting of the and the idle gazing
around that cannot be allowed regard this rule as
the most important and the disregard of 1t the most
prolific OF trouble"