New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-12
NOTES ON EDUCATION,

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total Of $4,000. There nine colored Schools Wm'h
exhibit an increase OF 300 in total Of 576
Since the London School of Medicine for
Women was established in 1874, it has had forty-ve
students Last October it had twentyeight. SIX STU
dents are going abroad medical missionaries
The new year at the colleges: Yale opens
the FAN term to-day; Union the 18th; Princeton
opened Yesterday Williams and Hobart opened o week
ago. Williams with sixtysix freshmen and eleven addi-
tons TO other classes. At the universities: manson
opens to-day; Des Moines the 18TH Cornell the l7th;
Brown the 18th Northwestern the 1Sth Syracuse the
10th; Johns Hopkins the Gath; Vanderbilt opened The
list and Wisconsin the 4th.
In Queens College, Belfast, DR.. Henry, the
president reports that single instance Of religious
issenson has ever come under his notice In this re-
spec he says well in its general success and In
huence this nOn-sectarian college Is npshng the
noble designs OF its founders, and Of Parliament ITSELF
He makes strong plea for the granting OF representa-
tiOn in Parliament TO the university, saying; ITO leave
it In state Of isolation the only unrepresented uni
versity in the empire when IL already presents con-
stituency Of nearly 1000 graduates, unsurpassed by
any other for general intelligence, would njure the
great interests Of education" He also expresses his
hope that now, when the question Of intermediate
education is engaging attention. the Importance OF e1
tending the proposed benefits OF the measure to women
may not be lost sight OF.
At the Central Turkey College, in Aintab,
town Of Asatc Turkey northeast of AeppO, English is
studied In order that pupils may use English textbooks
here being for the higher branches in the native
tongue The Turkish and Armenian languages are also
taught Physical Geography, Higher Algebra, Geom-
etry Astronomy, Physics Political Economy, Aualyti-
cal Geometry and Chemistry among the advanced
studies. The college is a missionary work from Eng
and and the States and although the Porte gave
permission TO the buildings two three years ago,
At was until time later that special sanction
given for the opening Of the college At the last
commencement the governor of the city and other on
cas we're present Prominent among those on the plat
form was Yaa Efend, the wealthy Mosem who gave
the college ITS site.
The Northern States, in the money given of
late years to higher institutions Of learning, in
striking contrast 10 the Southern This column last
week gave summary Of the gifts which colleges and
universities had received in the past year. In total OF
over 81 600 the of $4,000 to the University OF
Virginia was the only gift mentioned going TO the
South. The Baltimore SUM- discussing the future Of the
Johns Hopkins University cites these facts and then
says: "The sum thus lavished liberal culture IN the
Northern States is really mmense-footing up In the
aggregate some millions of dollars What amount has
been donated during the period to institutions OF
learning in Maryland and the SOuth7 In Maryland
nothing. Only to the University Of Virginia has been
given within the past two about $4,000 by Mr.
Corcoran, OF Washington. and about $4,000 By the
late Lewis Brooks, Of Rochester, n. Y"
About month ago Leo XIII, in reply to
address of the professors Of the Roman University
spoke OF the service which had been rendered by the
POpes to the of university education ia Italy and
Europe as follows: History has registered in golden
characters the signal avors largely bestowed by the
Roman Ponts upon universities. 1t sufficient to call
10 mind among the most celebrated univ ertes, the
sOrboRne Of Paris hOnOred in most special manner by
the immortal Innocent Ill, by Martin w. and by Hon
Orius w. the very ancient University OF Bologna en-
ricbed with remarkable privileges by Innocent w. ard
ZaHov
rmed and enlarged by the Fourth Aexander the cele
brated University OF Padua which was erected canon
ically by Urban ~. and snglarly protected by Urban
"; the University of Perugia famous by Bartolo and
Baldo, favored among other Pontfs by Clement "
who declared it Studio GeneraIij and many Others
which it would be too long to enumerate."
The friends of Syracuse University are urg-
lng upon the MethOdists Of NewYOrk the necessity of
further work place that institution in the front rank
for which its founders intended it. 1t pointed out in
The AdUOoae that the present site Is sufficient for all
time TO come" But the library contains only 5000 vol
umes against 100000 Harvard, 900 at Yale,
5000 at Amherst Brown, Cornell and Princeton. Har
wards library fund amounts 100000, and sew
era OtheE institutions have funds OF between and
100000 Syracuse University has expended S4OOOfor
apparatus and natural history collections while the other
institutions mentioned have spent from $50 900 TO $780,
600, Haryards expenditure having been 100000. At
tenton is also called to the incomes Of other colleges
$50 600 Columbiss $3.50 600, Cornes 100000 and the
income OF several others from $4,000 to 100000 An
immediate enlargement OF the faculty is not considered
imperative yet says this paper, lin order to retain tho
established for university at the outset it Will
evidently be highly important at no distant date 20
gage persons of equal attachments and established scho
arshp the various branches of collegiate university
instruction"
In the western part of the Twenty fourth
Ward Of Philadelphia considerable commOtion been
caused by the withdrawal Of Roman Catholic children
from the public schools Father sharkey of the Church
of Our Mother Of Sorrows, at FOryeghth-st and Ian
caster-ave established time paroobia school
building but had not It seems been put into actual
use or September for school The public schools
were to open Monday, September g. and the Sunday
preceding Father Sharkey at the church services
minded his congregation Of their duties 70 the new
school he had established. The following morning a
number Of Catholic children not sent to the public
schools and many others during the week taken
out Of them. At time It feared that the with
drawas Of the schools would reduce the number
OF pupils TO point where it would be necessary dis
pense with of the teachers There those
who think however, that there viii be sufficient add
tions from those who have been attending private ins
buttons to fiji the vacancies.
Since distinct educational department was
established by the Government OF Japan in 1871 signal
progress has been made In tine public schools In 1875
the number OF schools had reached 2OOl1 or nearly one
half as many as there are in Italy The number OF pupils
was TIA 764. in population Of 33574,90 OF high
schools there were 80 with 1853 pupils and Of normal
schools SO, with 5O72 pupils Between 1874 and 1875
the increase OF primary schools 7,459, and Of chill
dren attending them, 56s,966 In the primary schools
there were 662 female teachers and 362O4 male, while
the normal and high schools there were no female
teachers at ALL Few female pupils in the higher
schools. OF 3153 students, JOS male, and only
% female In the primary schools, Of 1,714,76S
children 297 24O boys, aud 4l7,52s girls while
in the normal schools, OF 5.O72 students. 409s were
male and only ~ female. There are several institu-
tons for higher education, among them Toxic Daigalu
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