New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

posing the high school system as undemoeratc'
1t is reported that 131 of the English School
Boards have given their practical assent to the spens
reform.
II IS prOposed at Harvard to take steam
ug IN the Spring and thus give students a practical
knowledge OF dredging in cruise on Massachusetts Bay
A Manchester (England) lady has taken
second honors Ill two su6eets-Mahematics and Moral
scicnce-at the Cambridge examinations. She is the
first TO accomplish this.
Forty-one girls in early teens have already
entered the Latin School Tor girls in Boston No pu
pills under twelve years old received although boys
In their Latin School may begin at nine years
A curious proposal is made by The Sc'enhtc
American is that exhibitions should he held Oh inc
head and hand work Of the children OF the country or
of different States, best work to be rewarded WIN
prizes.
The Virginia Legislative Committee on Con-
sttntiona Amendments have agreed 10 report in FAVOR
NJ ahoisbinc the Office OF County superintendent OF
Public Schools and Of giving his work to school board
composed Of the school trustees.
President Angel, of Michigan University,
has been prasing the high schools OF his State lie
says that Whatever success the university is achieving
IS due in no degree the excellence of the schools
which give their pupils so good foundation
The Summer school Of zoology of Union
College will next Summer be stationed on one OF the
Bahama Islands or somewhere on orr Southern coast
During the past few years the school has added cOec
tions much value to the museum Of the college,
The majority report of the committee of the
New-Haven Boald OF Education, to whom the citizens
petitions in relation to devotional services in the schools
were referred says that they fail to find any reasons
which would lead them TO recommend the Board 10 re-
consider the vote in question:
DR.. Vulpian, Dean of the Faculty OF Medl-
cine Paris says thai since 1865 thirtytwo women stu
dents have pursued medical studies under its guidance
OF thus number nine have received their doctors dip
Iona. He expresses himself satisfied with the con-
duct and assIduous study OF these ladies'
There are 1867 pupils in Massachusetts,
elk normal schools. The School fund OF the state
amounts to So o67, 100 There are in the State 1856
free schools. the attendance Of pupils being
2227O4 The average pay OF male teachers per month
is $50 %; OF female teachers, S3i 90. The amount
raised during the past year by taxation for the support
OF the schools 1881 675 So the amount expended
for schools, $46200o6 OF; expended for erection and
repairing schoOhOuses $9564S3 80; the cost of ninety
two evening schools thirty three cities and towns
S7sS50 80 1.-THE amount for tuon paid TO Incorporated
academies Sl3l COZ 90; and TO private schools and
academies $i39003 H. The statute relative TO the
establishment of technical schools in every city or town
Of 10000 inhabitants stands dead letter, for the
that the act amended by substituting may
The teachers of New-Orleans have certainly
pitiful They say that at no period during
the the last five years have they received the full
amount of their salaries The delay in paying them has
forced them TO sell their certificates at prices varying
from 20 so per cent below their par value Or at ruin
Gus rates. borrow them cOllaterals Two years
ago their salaries reduced - per cent: last
st further discount of 40 per cent was required and
then followed the suspension at the schools and conse
n so1a fort 10 We
made an eloquent and thoroughly goodempered appeal
the citizens to act with justice in the matter OF cltY
education. Justice is the word which must be used
for Orleans, at present. makes larger appropra-
ton police than for the education Of its chldren
that gives for the arrest and punishment
the offender than for his from penury pauper
ism and crime.
The London University is the only British
University which insists conditions of collegiate
residence as qualification for degree The Chance-
or Earl Granville is in favor OF admitting women to its
degrees and the late Mr.. GrOte, aViceChancellor in
1862, strongly urged the measure. 81 maintain" he
said, in q speech in council, that when University is
constituted is for the purpose of encour
aging high measure scientific and literary studies
the plainest principles of justice require that we should
take the literary and scientific world as 1t is and deal
equally with both that should acknowledge
the female minority well as the male majority and
that after having determined proper conditions Of ext m
natiou should admit persons OF the OF Mrs Som
ervIlle examined well persons of the OF
La Place. Whenever woman has that genuine
inspiration to attain independent and seifmaintan-
ing position which in my judgment is virtue alike III
both sexes the prospect Of access TO our examnaons
and certificates will stimulate that diligent and
serious application in early life which Ia now wanting
because goes INFESTED and unrewarded" It's pass
age which many smalLmnded men ought to read with
humility. Chancellor Granville. in recent letter 10 the
Chairman of ConvOcation, says "As member Of the
Senate have recorded my vote against the admission
of women to our degrees; and on one occasion 1t was
only by casting that the motion for their admis
sion rejected Nv own opinion, however, has grad
ualy changed and at the annual presentation OF grad
ates in 1876 alluded in general terms to the
Importance of considering whether women should be
admitted the medical degrees of the University"
The eminent English Physician, DR.. Rich
ardson, in recent lecture the London Institution,
emphacaly declared that in days health and ed
ucatiOn not going hand in hand He denounced
the first serious and increasing evil bearing eduea
ton and its relation to health the too early subsection
OF pupils TO study The present modes OF education he
said are not compatible with healthy life. Children
often taught lessons from books before they properly
taught TO walk and long before they properly
taught to play. Play Is held out to them not as a
natural thing, something which parent should feel
1t duty to encourage but $ reward for much
work done and rest FROM work done, though
play not itself a form OF work, form OF work
which child likes while he dslkes another form be-
cause it is untitled to bis powers. For children under
yeas of all teaching should be through play.
Through play letters and languages can be taught, ami
NAL life can classified and the surface OF the
made clear and history can be told as story. Under
such system the child grows into knowledge, learns
well, eats, sleeps, and plays WELL and acquires the
habit OF happiness To put horse in harness and
make it work hard while growing" scOrnfully said the
Doctor acknowledged to be cruel and ignorant but
10 mai Ia "A
vigilance" In the past year four victims of overwork
have been under his care 10 one ahsence OF mummy