New-York tribune., 1878-01-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Baptist denomination have succeeded IN
ontainiuo the 900 needed for the endowment OF
shurtlef College, at Alton
The two colleges of Alabama-at Auburn
ana Tuscaloosaare reported TO he very lnosIero" INV
useful. Each has about 200 students
The annual disbursement for educational
pur,oses IN MARYLAND is over S1500000. The cost OF
instruction per capita So o. The number of pupils Is
150,276
The salaries of teachers in Chicago have
been reduced about S154 in the past three years N"
over 3O teachers receive annually $780, While o'o
are receiving pay varying from $3.50 to 5000.
An organization to be called "The Home
Education Society,"" is proposed i'll Milwaukee, IL ~ 10
resemble in its work the Boston Society ior 'ie Ell
couragement Study. and is TO benefit thoseSoung men
and women who have left school and desire 10 continue
intellectual work.
At the last meeting of the New-lfaven boalo
of Education petitions with 1000 signatures were ie
ce,ved which expressed approval of the action OF te
Board i'm aboishing devotional services i'll the schoos
At the same time remonstrances against the acuon'
signed by 5000 names were presented report on 'ne
matter will be made at the next meetng'
The total value of school property in Ne
braska as estimated during the past year is 81 lSoZoo
ss The total of school expenditures was Sl021l92 "a
There are 1892 teachers employed tagainst 536 III
1870 the average salary OF male teachers is $50 46 per
month and the average salary of female teachers If
S3 So There 56,774 pupils enrolled in the schools
The annual report of the Superintendent OIL
instruction for this State Just issued. shows that here
are 2s7 school districts in the State; that Solol
teachers employed; that the school popui&uoh Is
1855 pa of which number,1 023 are in tie SCHOOLS
The average salary of n city teacher is S729 OF
teacher in a town, $262, State, S1Ol since lSoo 'he
State has expended for the schools 17o,472,5i6 Ia
The entire amount expended during the year for the
maintenance of public educational interests not cnd
ing appropriations made TO orphan asylums ana other
public charities in which instruction is given SlI
366926 81, being decrease of S49s,5i5, rrom 1915
MI Gmour again recommends that the Legislature SUD-
sttute township system FOR the present system OF
school districts. The capital of the Common School
Fund now more than $3,006oOO and the surplus rcve
nue. in the treasury September 80 was about S21.ooo
The capal of the United States Deposit Fund which is
also pledged TO educational purposes, is over four NH
lions OF the Free School Fund, sO-called-wtch is
simply the fund raised by taxatIo-thcrc was balance
I'm the treasury September 80 of about S225,00O Mr.
Gilmour says n regard to compulsory education in the
State that steps IN regard TO il have been taken ana
that the law IN the cities enforced with the exce
tion perhaps, OF this city.
Superintendent w. T. Harris said in his re-
cent address before the Spelling Reform Association:
this matter of ST. Louis speak with positive
experience. in the Fall of 1866 the phonetic modfca-
tion of the alphabet, invented by Dr. Edwin Leigh,
was tried in Of public schools as an experiment
and the following year il adopted throughout the
public schools of this city, where it has since re-
tanned its place. By tins system the child has pc
fecy phonetic alphabet in far one sound for each
character is concerned, although 1t violates the third
law of Latham in having than one character for
the same sound Yet even with this, we find the fol-
lowing advantages in the system, which is still III use
with us after tenyears I. Gain in tlme-a saving OF
one year out of the three years usually occupied IN
learning call off easy words at sight. 2. Distinct al
ticuaon removal of foreign accent and of local anG
peculiar intonatOns. 3. The development of logical
power OF mind in the pupil. lie safely he taught to
anayze a word into its sounds and TO fnd the letters
representing them, whereas. with the ordinary orthog-
raphy IT an insult his assure him that
sound is represented by any particular letter. Hence,
analytical power is trained instead OF mere memory
from the day of entrance into schooland analytic
power the basis OF all thinking activity"