New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-12
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Owing TO the prevalence OF scarlet IeVer 'ne
pubc schools Of Ann Arbor, Men, have been eOSeu io
the term. :,
The total endowment Of the public schools
OF the United States is $sOOOO0O, and Is esta'eu
fiat the average daily attendance is 100000.
II ia cited az a curious circumstance tnaI
The best scholar IN the Irish language now living
German-Dr. thinner, professor IN the university VI
Berlin where he will lecture on that Language 'ni7
Winter.
Somebody in San Francisco got possession
OF the examination papers intended for the candidates
for positions in public schools aud they were printed
in the newspapers. The examination was therefore
abandoned and an investigation Is IN progress
The building for the new Colorado State
Agricultural College at is finished and ready to
pass from the contractors hands TO the state autho
Ties To furnish 1t another appropriation will be needed
and il lie believed this will be granted in time to admit
Of opening the college for students early In the coming
year.
The expenses of Swarthmore (the Friends)
College last year ST. 2G4 o. and there is balance
ON hand Of $3.50. The number OF students is 25O. A
wider range OF studies allowed. French may be
substituted for German. Provision has been made Tor
comprehensive study Of English classics and depart
who intend to become teachers
Cowley County, in Kansas, had in 1871
only three public schools. Now it has just 100 one
schOohouse only OF log and one Of brick Five are
OF stone and eighty-nine wooden structures. The
nuaI expenses S27, O92 There 1877 teachers. and
the average salary OF male teachers is S3l 20 per
month, and Of female $50 90
Returns from twenty towns IN OhlO-tOwns
ranging from the size Of Columbus to that Of Ravenns
-show the average cost Of each pupil in the common
schools TO be S5 o. Across the State line, at Wheel
ing w Va the cost is only $40 43; winch Is just %
cents lower than at the neighbornG OHIO town. steu-
benve The OHIO cities have 81 "a pupils who study
German 1851 who study music, and 80 497 who study
drawing.
An educational council in the interest of
Syracuse University will be held in Syracuse December
IS and 49, Among the subjects to be discussed are the
following: Relations of the Methodist Episcopal
Church to Syracuse University History of Syracuse
University" "The Demand for Syracuse University"
"Undeveloped Resources OF the University, and "sy-
and the Commonwealth"
Phillips Academy aud the Andover TheO-
logical Seminary are in fair way TO increase their en-
dowments by handsome sums Somebody has pledged
100000 to the endowment funds OF the seminary on
condition that the proposed 100000 endowment Of the
academy be completed by June g. next or If any one
prefers give 10 the seminary, eud thus makes up
100000 as the given both institutions within
year from the semcenteunial of last Summer, another
wav f6st each institution shall receive 100000 over
$4,000 has already been pledged to the academy.
There are over 1000 Americans studying
in German schools aud universities The American
Consul at Wurembefg estimates that S4.jO00OO
are thus annually expended by Americans IN Germany
This amount no thinks would go long way toward
building up and sustaining similar institutions OF home.
Among the evils OF students life in Germany he cites
the free and easy ways Of social lie that surround
them" and an attachment to foreign customs which
makes them "rest!css under moral restraints, ana
weakens Their attachment to the laws ana systems Of
their native land"
The endowment of Colby University is now
100000 and a meeting Of the held last
week. Tuesday, for the purpose Of increasing I'll to
100000 The FOR the increase was stated 10 be
the large additions to the number OF students the an
nua catalogue showing that the institution was IN
more fourishing condition than before The
gesfOn OF Commissioner Eaton that the catalogues of
the college should follow the German OF print
ing every careful article discussing some topic OF
vital and permanent interest has been followed Colby
President Robbins contributes paper " The Rea-
tion Of Education TO Evsngelization."
Virginia until last year had been losing her
school funds by the diversion OF them to other purposes
at the rate $4,000 annually and last year che lost
the surprisingly large sum of $4,000, about
half proceeds Of taxation for school purposes The
annual report or the superintendent says the result s
1.-THE breaking down Of the usefulness Of the school sys
tenn" Whether the State able to carry both her
schools her entire debt is question which Dr. Ruff
thinks lies beyond the province OF his office, but be
takes pains to add that Reputation is moral death
is more il Is eternal damnaton" The total amount due
the schools from this diversion Of their funds he est
mates at 81 100000. The report further shows loss
for the year Of 43 white schools but total gain in
spite of this of 541 pupils, But the blacks lost 81
schools and total Of 327l pupils. II having been pro
posed special schools for children be supported
by the State Dr. Rufner dismsses it as idle" The
proposal appears he says absurd WGen TWO aGis are
and the natural pride Of Americans.
1t is ten years since Dr. McCOsh took
charge Of Princeton College, and PIttsurE last week
he told company OF Princeton alumni what had been
accomplished for material welfare Of the college II
that time For the first three years he said he received
gifts in money amounting every regularly TO 1000
week. After that subscriptions to $4,000 at
time" In all there has been received about 80 100000
al do not know" he said "whO sent all this money
but sometimes have suspicious. The stream Of do
nations has continued 20 this day" He went Oh TO tell
how the money had been laid ont in additional build
ings Improvements 20 theod in books for the
library; articles FOR the museum, and for apparatus.
TRe number Of instructors has been doubled, and now
amounts 10 tweuty-scyen There are nine ten Eel
lowsblps One OF them Is worth $1,000, and the most
Of them $500 Those holding them study either at
Princeton in foreign university under the direction
OF the Faculty. Reference was made with evident
PRIDE" says the report the fact that in gymnastics
Princeton had beaten Harvard Yale and Columbia
holding the championship foot ball those nstu
lions for 1s7s-'79
At Buffalo last Friday evening some ex-
suggestions were offered to the Teachers Associa
ton by Miss Mary A Ripley. Of the Buffalo Central
School, on the Importance Of leading the pupils mind
out school into the current sairs Of the world.
few minutes every day-twenty perhaps-shOuld be
given a talk on these subjects The pupils thoughts
should be taken out OF Buffalo of TO Cyprus or
Afghanistan China-teaching him to be interested
every part Of the world, in its people, its government
its education its business Whether knows or not
he is very deeply interested In the whole world. HUI
manty hangs together in such way that il member
suffer all the others suffer with IL. Ten or twenty
weeks would be worry delightfully."- spent in making a
school acquainted with certain great statesmen who
leaving their mark upon this nineteenth century. Look
at Gladstone and Bright OF England rehearse the wis