New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-03-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Nashville has not enough schools for colorec
pupils: 200 have applied IN for admission 10 To
schools.
The average attendance of colored children
n their Richmond schools during the past few weeks ha
been 1876.
There are twenty-five female students in the
women's Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute g
Technology.
All but four of the juniors who tried the
auticipatory examination logic OF Harvard passed
Ten passed in metaphysics
In Michigan the public schools heve an at
tendance OF 356.264. Male teachers receive averag'
salaries OF SO "a per mon;h
St. Louis does not feel rich enough to give
textbooks gratutousy the pupils of Aer schools bU
she proposes 10 furnish them at cost price.
At the June commencement of the Boston
University lady Miss Monica Mason, viii be one % tue
representatives of the Medical Department
The American Institute OF Instruction Will
hold its forty-nnh annual meeting among iGc White
Mountains in the second week in July.
The new school bill proposed for Mary
provides that the existing high schools in the counties
shall be continued. bat half OF the expenses must be pd
by the patrons.
With the present provision for the public
schools North Carolina they have yearly terms o.;
but two months IN length "FrSt-OFdOc tttO4.eis IL
ceive salaries which by law are limited TO $40
Wisconsin's four Normal Schools cost last
year total sum OF s75,6S3 O5. The STATE supports 40'
graded schools. The average monthly wages Of mae
teachers have decreased - A. the year, ana t1ose
Of female teachers, 81 cents.
The Cleveland Board of Education has good
sense 1t has resolved to nominate six ladies ana SIX
gentlemen who shall be invited 70 vst the schools and
examine the sdIae and port their condition, SAID Wish
tors DC eonuectod in any way with the sc1ools
The Normal School OF Languages Of Amherst
College, summer school for teacherS-wil open rs
third session July Q. and continue FOX six weeks Pupils
may follow all the principal studles-trench German
Latin and Greek-upOn payment Of SIS; an additional!
fee of So VIII be required 70: each Of the accessory
studies, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew. and Sanscrit
The German universities cost the State just
s2.5O0,OOO year. This is the exact amount charged
or them in the budget OF the Empire, and the money
thus spent is divided amongst 1900 professors Tie
students for whom their services thus retained
number 2O229 of whom 4,5s7 belong TO the University
of Berlin which is by far the largest; while RostccS,
which is the smallest, contains only IA.
Concentration of our scattered educational
forces fewer and better schools, wanted by BGess
Educational Monthly. 1t IS great injury 1t says,
the of education that every corporation and
every church found many colleges az they please
receive donations call professors. elect president.
graduate students confer al literary and theological de-
grces. and after ALL have only name and almost moth
Ing II only be by the concentration OF money,
men, books and museums that truly great and useful
schools can be established. There is great value and
great inspiration in truly great university"
The third session of the Summer School of
Biology will be opened at SaeID July g. ana continue
for six weeks. A lecture win be given each Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday and Friday, at IN,
the remainder OF the time to given laboratory work
and demonstrations il is designed to make the course
practical one that teachers may learn the method OF
study and teaching in Natural History During the
present session. special attention will be given TO Ento
mology the study OF spiders and crustacea well "a
the anatomy Of vertebrates and the study OF animal
Tissues Admission fee. 500 Admission to the lectures
alone So Board can be obtained for from IS TO -
week Dlssecng scalpels scissors and fOrceps be
purchased in salem Students recommended TO sup
ply themselves with Huxley and Martins Elementary
Biology" Siebod's Anatomy Of the Invertebrates,
and Rolleston's " Forms OF Animal Life"