Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-12-02
NOTES ON EovcAroM.
Nebraska has school population Of l02,.

| Nebraska has a school population of l02,-
7A.
Union College has two Indians among her
students. Not single case of hazing has
occurred this year.
Johns Hopkins University has now JIG
students, forty.three Of these being new ad-
missions this session.
Several Of the Illinois schools have adopt.
ed, with excellent results, the reading and
discussion of newspapers Is class exercise.
Examinations Of applicants for state GER
tifcates will be begun December 10, at the
Normal schools At Albany, Brockport, Buf8a-
10, Fredonia, Cortland, Geneseo, New York,
Oswego and Potsdam.
At the l.. A. examination held by the
University Of st. Andrews, the papers in
political economy sent in by the ladies were
far better than those furnished by the ordi-
nary students, while those in history were of
exceptional merit.
majority report recommending the re-
tention of the old devotional exercises in the
schools has been adopted BY the New Haven
board Of education. This action was in ac-
cordance with the wish of the people ex-
pressed Al the polls. The manual prepared
| by the committee of clergymen is therefore
set aside.
1t is asserted that hundreds of the coun-
try schools in Ohio are inferior both in
pupils and In teachers to those of twenty
years ago, many OF the schools having .
very small average attendance, and proper
qualifications In the teacher being over
looked IN the Gaze Of such light attendance
Consolidation Of the smaller districts Is
recommended as remedy.
Matthew Arnold has been very much
struck with the superiority of secondary
in England. He looks at France, with it's
81 lycees. its 252 communal colleges, its
8O3 ecoses tibres, and its total of something
like 10000 scholars receiving solid edu.
cation, aud then he turns, with q feeling
near akin to despair to England, with at
most 10000 scholars under secondary in-
struction which may be called guaranteed"
including among these all the boys at the
. great public schools, many of whom belong
, In no sense to the middle class
A speaker at the recent meeting of the
; Detroit teachers said that children should
be taught grammar when they are evan too
. young to read. but that the teaching of
+ technical grammar should be reserved until
!, the last year at the high school. He held
that no one ever changed from bad speak
'
by the rules of grammar II is constant
: practice that causes correctness. There is
great deal of truth in this; who that has
e ever attended a country school but remem-
}, bers how the talk Of the pupils, in spite
{ of ceascless recitations in grammar, 1e.
: NAMED crammed with blunders?
: The professors in the East Indian medical
: schools complain of the listleseness and ig-
e norance displayed by the Junior department
e generally. The principal of the Nagpore
9 school Of medicine also reports very unfa-
vorably upon the general character of the
!, students. This unsatisfactory state of things
is ascribed to the system recently inaugura-
ted by government, under which students
are selected by military committee after
passing the prescribed test in reading, wri-
: ting and arithmetic and are then sent for
. one years preliminary training at civil
hospital before entering the medic Il school.
This system deters educated and energetic
tracts the idle and worthless.
This apt presentation of the salary quea-
tion comes from The Sterling (Ill.) Gazette
"The kitchen girl can save more than the;
teacher. Lady teachers in Sterling receive,
for nine months amounts to $500; fifty-txo
weeks board, at $3.50, 1924; forty weeks
washing, At 81, $40; clothes, sloo; inciden-
!. tai expenses, $50 total. 1894; salary, $500;
loss, S34. Kitchen girl ffty.two weeks, at
!. 81, Sl04; board, nothing; washing, moth
ing; Clothes $50; incidental expenses, $40
, balance, S44. The above figures will show
, balance in favor of the kitchen girl Of S7s
per anuum. The teacher cannot, if she
would, do her washing or sewing during the
school year. The teacher must dress we'll,
: or she cannot hold her situation. She must
! spend time and money 10 prepare. for her
= work. The only preparation the kitchen
y and willing heart"