New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-02-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


students.
South Carolina is to have n new school sys-
ten with a state Board of Examiners for its centre
A bill prohibiting the teaching Of languages
and music the Francisco schools has been intro
dUced IN the California Legislature
bill has been introduced in the Ohio Leg
islature ~ oyidug Cor abolition Of high schools and
OF instruction in languages III the lower grades.
The Dartmouth Faculty have determined not
TO require candidates for admission next year to pass
az examination in solid geometry required this
year.
Columbia students complain that the trus-
tees do any trouble to become acquainted Win
the opinions of under graduates questions affecting
the college. and they an Illustration OF shis neg
ioct the abolition Of the study OF history.
The Faculty of Michigan University have
resolved Mt 10 graduate students who may on class
DAY. oct with dlsrespect toward the Faculty IMs
course Is reported been made necessary by the
former insulting remarks OF the Class historian AM
Superintendent Corthell, of Maine, says with
great good thai examination written or oral IS
test Of a candidates n teach; and adds thai an
examination should be test not only OF knowledge oi
subjects hut liability to instruct-knowledge of meth
ods-and evea OF the candidates fitness in respect to
tie Organization and discipline OF n school.
under consideration the Wisconsin Legislature. bur
there probability that it will be passed The com
miuee ordered 10 consider ex-GOvUncr Washburn'
gilt Of property for industrial school for girls, nave
reported that at present necessity for such
an institution and that they recommend Governor smith
respectfully TO decline the gift
The next literary contest Of the lnter-Aca-
deuic Literary Union this State will occur at Albany
In COnvOcatiOn week, next July. Tie competition h
open to al the academies belonging TO tie union. Tie
subjects cssays these Victor Emanuel Pres
donj Iincon's Emancipation Proclamation" The Bat
tie Of saltwater" "Modern Reforms" " Culture Better
Than knowledge" Pleasures of tie Imagination
'shakespeares Delineation of Remorse in the Play of
Macbeth"
The first term of the North CarOlina Col
Normal School has been very successful The stu
dents were diligent persovering, and made rapid
progress. The superntendcnts report says: The
presence Of females has "a refining influence The man.
Of the males and their recitiug together III the
same class creates lively interest and ncies spirit
Of healthy emulation. In department and scholarship
the females have shown themselves in no wise Inferior
to the males. and the school would be deprived Of
OF Its brightest students and most promising
teachers il females were not admitted"
The average salary of teachers in the Bos-
ton schools is males $156 Il months females s64 81
The standard admission to OF the principal colleges
having been materially advanced for better IL
ahusctts add preparatory class to the high schools
so that pupils who intend to college have the
benefit extra years study of Latin. such class
has been established at school, and II it ulfs the
expectations Of its friends the college preparatory
will be made distinct throughout and as separate
as it could possibly be while connected vita another
school.
A clever colored man III Ohio protests
against proposed repeal of the school law providing
separate schools for coored children. He "If
coored teachers are to be given employment In mixed
schools the same white teachers measured solely by
their qualifications and fitness and in the same degree
white teachers measured then the coOred peo-
PIE the State Will interpose objection to the pro-
posed CHANGE the colored teachers of
the be thrown out of employment as teach
ers with prospect Of entering upon any other calling
vocation commensurate with their education and IN
teligence then do they most earnestly protest against
any change that contemplated by the passage of
this new school BILL
An important mistake has been promptly
corrected The English report the Centennial Exhi
bition contained the following " 1t is but nat
ura that the England schools should lead the way
from the antiquity OF their organization all haye made
great progress within the past ten years. NewJersey be-
ing the sole exception" letter from 81 Charles Reed,
the English Commissioner who wrote the part OF the
report relating to education says: This is stupid
OF tho print r. who unaccustomed to the short
way OF putting Of the States has mistaken
ii. for N. J. Ny notes Of the exhibit OF New-Jefsey
show that since 1867 that State has made great
advance as any other. 1t was conspicuous at Phadel
phia the excellent work presented and the number Of
schools represented being 95 per Of the whole
Der in the state" Sir Charles adds: al viii take
that the shall not be perpetuated."
Provost Stlle. of the University of Pennsyl
vania does believe in the Harvard examinations for
women. "Let ASK" he says, what would be thought
OF any college which would give TO young man who
had passed creditabe examination for admission to
the Freshman class certificate which should be called
Of culture Alas the browning vice OF sys
OF education, every college professor well knows
is the hasty imperfect yscmatic preparation Of boys
for advanced studies This is the great reproach Of
education every teacher Of advanced studies knows
TO his sorrow. He is called upon to build upon the hay
and stubbe which have been sent 20 him by the
tory schools and wonder he so often falls The de-
fecs OF such system visible every where; the pro-
fessons are filled by l-trained because they
early trained, and these Unframed called
do the work Of wciltraned men in the best
they Ii ruin boys by this system let
girls from the fate. Do when they ask for
bread only give them stone, but pretend ALSO that
Il il bread Our girls may be ignorant. but there ~
somethin2xS0rse than igbOrancea pretence 10 kDowl
edge whi0fhey do not possess, and to capacity for
work FOR which they have not been thoroughly trained