New-York tribune., 1878-12-19
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

An effort to increase the pay OF the Phila-
aelphia teachers has just been defeated
The courses of lectures at Harvard are COM
blamed of as being too simple and elementary
The total number of children of school-age
IN ST louis ia 1856 The attendance at the public
schools is 42,22S.
II ia probablc that bookkeeping and com
nercaI arithmetic will be taught the regular High
School course In Memphis.
Hamilton College has at present 16O stu
aapts Instr,cton will hereafter be given there TO
special or students in assaying OF metal
lurgy.
The total cost of education in West Virginia
for the past year is estimated at S6s6sl9 81 Ihere
has been large increase of attendance and coiTe-
sponding reduction in expenses
Chancellor E. o. Haven thinks that the
value OF the modern languages for the acquisition OF
information much overraed and is one OF the forms
Of idolatry to which college professors are prone
WESLEYAN University has now 163 students.
new scholarship has been founded which furnishes an
income Of $780, TO be awarded to the member OF the
Senior Glass passing the best examination III Greek
The chair of English and Comparative
Philology at Lafayette College, which has been filled
for 40 MANY years by Professor A March, is probably
10 be endowed by has taught and always here
after TO be called by his name.
Bowdoin College has 40 students in the
Acsdemjcal Course thrtyseven of these being Fresh
men, The juniors are now required tOread course OF
English and United States History, in order to pass an
examination at the close Of the year.
There has been an increase of 439 schools
In South Carolina during the past year. The school al
tendance OF this number 62l2l are coloreu
pupils The increase in attendance since last year 10
l3s43 There are 2O91 white teachers and 1,O26 col
NJ fha hpla
Northeners Male teachers receive average monthly
wages OF 1921 &C. and female teachers the dspropOr
tonate amount of $3s 20.
At the recent meeting of the Northeastern
Ohio Teachers Association OF the members read
paper on political education in the public schools He
recommended that these schools should teach Rnowl-
edge OF our government its history and its institutions
and complained that threeOurths Of the highsohool
graduates 60 forth without lesson on the science OF
government and without definite knowledge Of NUM-
cipal county State or Federal government. Consider
ing the question OF time for such study the
speaker suggestvely sHd " Here in Cleveland we
spend before entering the high school, time equal 10 one
school year in drawing, and what is the RESULT Among
the graduates not more than five per cent can make
simple sketch of tree"
The catalogue of Brown University for
1s7s79 published and gives many indications OF the
continued and growing prosperity of that venerable in
sttutlon The total number OF students s 243 slight
increase over last year. The Freshmen class has sew
enty-four members while that of last year had only
hftyOne President Robinson continues to elevate the
standard OF the college by adding moro requirements to
the different courses of study. The number OF graduate
students is increasing and now numbers fourteen The
faculty has been strengthened by the addition OF
Alpheus s. Packard jr., professor OF zoology and
geology. Among the various forms OF aid offered 10
students there about hundred scholarships and
there ia also an aid fund OF So 0O0 the income Of
which applied to the assistance either by loan OF gift
to deserving young Of limited means. plan for
the new sayles Memorial Hall has been agreed upon,
and the building will be erected Immediately. 1t will be
an elegant structure, containing capacious Alumni
hall and several recitation The new dormitOry
IA already far advanced and will be called Caswe Hail.
after the late president OF the university.