New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-19
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Five ladies passed the Harvard examina-
lions in Cincinnati in June
Divers Western schools are using newspa-
pers instead Of readers in their reading classes.
Smith College for women, at Northampton,
Mass has begun its fourth year with l44 Students OIL
whom sixty-nye are IN the entering class.
The income of the Peabody Educational Funu
has fallen OF 40 per cent Twelve hundred doarS nave
Just been appropriated to North Carolina
Vassar has received two young japanese
girls as students They have been preparing to enter
the college for the last five years in Connecticut.
Indiana has q school fund larger than that OF
anv other State IN the Union II has increased $4,000
within year, and now amounts to $s,OO7O9o
The Ohio Wesleyan University has just be-
gun its Autumn term with prospect of much larger
attendance than last year. when it instructed 6l2 stu
dents
The University of Pennsylvania has fresh
man class of 1O2 which is about equally divided be-
tween the Department OF Arts and the Towne seiennc
School.
The "whole day" assistants in the st.
Louis kindergarten scboos-that is to say the teachers
who spend the whole day in teaching in these schools
receive the munfcent salary Of $500 a year.
Williams College offers to poor students TINS
year nothing but tuition. the hardness Of tie times
making retrencbment necessary Exceptions will be
made however in the Of those who take special
A professor for the new chair of Natural
History at the University of Virginia, endowed by Mr.
Corcoran will be appointed before the board meet
ing on February a. the board desires to deliberate
upon the purposes and methods Of that new depart
ment
1t is proposed to present a bill to the next
Congress appropratng $4,000 from the sum now held
by the War Department account Of the freedman's
branch OF the AdjutantGenerals Office for the building
Of schoohouses the coored children Of the District
of Columbia and for establishing free schools Tor the
higher instruction of the race.
The total number of freshmen at Yale Is
21O. English succeeds Latin optional study and
is so popular that Professor NorhrOps required Eng
lsh has dropped from the course the sixty juniors
who have chosen the optional have been placed under
his instruction and Professor Beers takes charge of the
seniors in English The juniors will be given some SCI
entifc study the place Of the required English
Amherst has freshman class of 1O5. The
seniors have chosen opdonals as follows: Astronomy
40 geology %, history Co. The following changes have
been made in the board o. instruction: b. E. Smith.
appointed instructor in mathematics; W. g. Blscoe, IL
brarian; J. NJ Clark instructor in geology; H. b. Rich
ardson instructor in Latin, and the Rev Dr. Field and
Samuel Green professors of sacred history and Biblical
interpretations
Oral instruction illustrated by object lessons
is now the chief work of the Boston primary schools
No spelling books are to be used the words VIII be
chosen from the reading lessons from familiar objects
Lessons In English composition are TO take the place OF
grammar and easy blossoms in natural history and the
sciences will be given in interesting ways There Is
good Judgment in these changes, but such methods
quire the best NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. who at natu
ural and well trained teachers
Trinity College, Hartford, expects to have
about 40 students in the class of 49, Mddlebury Col
lege has begun It's term with % freshmen, and Hobart
College with -. Wesleyan University has class
of 40 members, including ladies. Bates has large
freshman including 3 ladies' Dartmouth has IS
freshmen additions TO the sophomore class, and to
the junOr the scientific and agricultural departments
have accessiOns alsO the medical class has 80 mem
beers.