New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-29
NOTES. ON EDUCATION.

The school registers of San Francisco lndl-
cate an increase IN attendance OF about |oV over 1s
year IN total enrolment OF 307OS. The city mas TWO
Sgb schools and fifteen grammar and thrty-siK primary
schools.
member of the Louisville School Board,
At meeting three weeks ago. said he had been offered
s75 by an intimate personal friend on condiuoh Una.
he would vote in the board for certain textbook ana
thereupon resigned TO escape -" o repeuuoh Oh INC
offence" Another member then remarked that ne khe"
trustee who had been offered $500 for his vote in favor
of particular geography
The University of Virginia, which recently
received gift Of S50OOO from W. W. CoFcoran' the
mmincent Washington banker, has added TO It's colec
tops IN natural history specimens numbering seVefa
tbousands AT cost ofS39 900. They comprise minerals
FOSSILS casts of FOSSILS those Of the rares shes ana
re,tiles 10 the megaherium skeletons, from those OF
the hummngbrd and fishes TO those OF the reindeef Hnu
camel geological maps and models eorals sponges'
eripods mOllusks and echinoderms.
The enrolment of pupils Tin Russia shows
only 100000 against total population OF S0'ooO'-
600 In Finland, which has moro Independence thah
any other part Of the En- nire which is mainly Froles
ant and has Teutonic Their than Slavonic popua-
+iop srp contrast appears or 1t is said that every
child in that province of sound health and MIND is aoe
10 read An ancient custom, confirmed by recent
,taue requires parents provide home instruction 10
the extent of reading and certain knowledge OF tile
oatechism.
II il prOposed in Buffalo to make change
of text books in the common schools and considerable
interest in the subject has been aroused Ihere are
letters in the local newspapers declaring that no one
INT the publishers and their friends desire the new books
one man. who signs himself "A patron of the Schools,
saws that the change proposed by the superintenu-
emit would be such Outrage on the people OF BuHao
that could he accomplish It, he would never be able TO
atone for it," The German ctizeEs are apparently oil
one opinion. The YoikgreUnd says they " mani
mously condemn any change" The argument in favor
of the new books is that they cost less but the books
now in use will also cost less next 1t is said as
notice of reduction in price has already been made
Each inhabitant in the United States pays
e. OF for the support Of the public schools and 81 81
for military purposes. These two items OF expenditure
in other countries Of the world follows Prussia
81 cents and 50 20 Austria, 81 cents and II 80;
France 20 cents and 81 so; Italy, Is cents
and 81 81; England and Wales 60 cents ana
IS SO; Switzerland, IS cents and 81. A writer
IN The Rerue Pedagoqique PARIS, who has visited
California gives these figures and then asks the cues
tion If those scourges OF society antagonism and
envy are far from asserting in California the force that
they have the States Of Europe not to be attrbu
ted in great part the effect Of her public schools
Vassar College, on July 1, 1873, had sur
plus for the year then closed Of $15S47 H. against
deficit OF S14O3S So for the previous year Its total
receipts we're SI73716 81. of which S12966O so was
from board tuition and $11623 go from music Tie
stewards books show that the students consumed
Sl,0S2 pounds Of fresh meats, 23,200 clans, 2760O
pounds OF sugar $50 gallons OF moassss 4,oO2 Dan
anas 49, 32 oranges and twenty-one kegs of pickles.
The property of the college valued at more than
slOOOOOO, of which S2S2,35O is invested in State
Poughkeepse city aud first mortgage railroad bonds, IN
bank stock and in bonds and mortgages on
real estate, yielding in the past year an aver
age income Of per cent. The other property
Is divided as follows: Real estate, S5l5311 40; furn-
ture and apparatus S143,65s 43; farm and garden
stock and TOOLS $5104 % cabinets, S25lS2 Al; max
ing q total Of S6s9,256 40.
The course of instruction at the Johns Hop
Rns University which is designed as preparation for
the study OF medicine, will be organized with the
ing Of the coming term, and the trustees have already
issued the prospectus 1t is designed to cover three full
years OF study, but any who is able to pass a
thoroughly satisfactory examinations on the subjects
studied during the first year will be allowed to advance
into the second year class Students who have already
mariculated at the university will be allowed to enter
upon the studies Of the first year without any new eX
animation. but all others will be examined In the follow
ing subjects Arithmetic algebra three books Of Euclid
or an equivalent amount Of geometry he examination
IN algebra to extend far simple eQuatonsl aud
Latin including the translation OF passages from the
first four books Of Caesar, De BellO Calico and from
the sixth book Of the neid;" also examination in
the elements Latin grammar, especially the rules Of
Aocidence II permission be obtained beforehand equ
vaents for these subjects viii be received by the
aminers Excelency in spelling and conformity to the
rules of English grammar Will be sine qua Of sue
cess In the examination.
There are in England and Wales %, 900
school departments visited by royal inspectors and ac-
cOmmodating 3,650,OO0 scholars There were enrolled
last year on the registers 315OOOO scholars that
room remained for 100000 more The average daily
attendance 215O,OOO, showing that out Of every
three children the registers only two were in attend
ance. In the year 1877 voluntary subscriptions Tor
schools increased from 2751 600 to a7S6O0O Gn in
crease of a35 600 the number Of subscribers from
$4,000 20 900. The children's pence increased
from O34 900 10 s1,O3s 900, and the Government
grants from sl,316.OOO Co 81,543O00 on addition Of
R227OO0 To meet the various demands upon the Gov
eminent in the current year. is estimated that ap
preparation Of 81 I49 600 win be necessary increase
over last years grant of R596OOO III 1870 the amount
of the grant was only RsO400O which indicates In
crease OF almost $50 per in eight years Bishop
Fraser Manchester lately pointed out that the Gov
eminent board schools had rot single training college,
and that OF the 4S41 ceriAcated teachers fully 10000
must have gouo through the UNCONVENTIONAL training
colleges or these colleges there forty, and at the
date TO which he referred they had 3027 Students OF
whom 2,I44 were in Church Of England schools He
might therefore say that twentyone out OF every thirty
teachers thus trained had trained by the Church Of
England.