New-York tribune., 1878-11-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Oberlin College has now l,oIo s'uueh'S'
The Wisconsin State University has 449
students.
swarthmore College has organized norman
course. which will be opened to pupils next week.
Professor David Swing is much trouOleu
concerning the want Of educational facil''eS III 'ne
south and makes manly appeal 10 the North 10 reeu'
the evil
LADY received the gold medal at the recent
o,,,notion in the faculty of law in McGill College,
Montreal There is lady student in the Law schooi
Of Boston University.
The Art School of Washington University
Missouri has lust received gift OF $4,000 fOr the p
nose OF building gallery and museum OF hne ART An
other $50 900 will be applied TO fund for purchasing
works Of art and sustaining the gallery
Hamilton College instructs 16O pupils ths
aar No further examination is there required from
student bringing regents college entrance e"rthca'e
Special students who not candidates for degree are
allowed to study chemistry, metaurgy and mining en-
gneeriDg
BOSTON now has school for art-needleworK
which offers free scholarships to be bestowed by any one
contributing So. To the free pupil everything lS lur
nsbed and at the close Of the tuition the pupil Will re-
ceive certificate, and after paying the school Iof ma
terials etc., she will be employed on orders
The course in dressmaking at Lascll Semln-
nry began last week. The lecturer measures some one
taken at random from the audience. and explaining
each STEP performs the entire work OF cutting ana
finishing some garment before the session ends Dress
making is also to taught in the advanced grades o.
the girls schools in indianapolis.
The total school population of Georgia is
a43444 There $3.50 schools, and the total nulDef
OF pupils black and white in atendaneei is l7Sl'o' III
the colleges aud semnares for white students ere are
BiS males ana 1916 females The cOored colleges nave
I3O male students and s4 female students Inc schoo
fund of the State amounts to 100000.
The Rev. Joseph Cook says that he asked
the other morning Of the best specialist on this theme
In the United States the number of children growing up
in our midst without any instruction, either public or
private He had replied that he estimated ten years
ago that there $4,000 such children To-day lie
thought there from Is, 900 to 10000 Of them"
The estimate of the Philadelphia Board of
Education Of the required for teachers sal res
year-Sl 152 379-has been cut down by the Council
Committees of Finance and Schools TO $1OO0,OOO The
Item of Salaries for music teachers, Sl73oo was al
the time abolished altogether but the sum OF
$500 was afterward voted furnish some musical IN
struction in the schools.
1t is always pleasant to read the reports con-
cernng education in Francisco There is no other
city in this country where sOmuch wise lberaty prac
caty shown in the conduct OF the
public schools and the arrangement OF studies Judging
from their reports, the supefluteDuents uVpuVJ
superntendcnts chosen as being men OF thorough
good sense and OF large and active minds-men who
note the smallest fault in the schools and Immediately
20 about to remedy It.
France has now 252 colleges and sc lyce-
ANS The total budget for public instruction at the end
Of the reign Of Charles X 900 francs that for
the church SO 900 francs the King and the royal
family cost the country 100000 francs Then came
the Constitutional Monarchy and in 1916 the budget OF
blfof aDnofI ed 70
der the Second Empire this increased by 3OOO
900 francs The Republic, however, mas been more lib
eral for in 1876 it voted 100000 francs in 1877
a9OOO0 600 fapcs; and now it is asked for 17623l14
francs-3O 100000 francs OF which sum is for primary
instruction.
Tho Emperor of Russia believes III the
right OF women study surgery and medicine and take
degrees at universities Some time ago ne granted
charter to a university for women. and the Russian
Minister Of War hes officially taken up the subject
Of training lady doctors for army practice mas been
decided upon consequence OF the PROOF given IN the
late war OF the utter inability OF the regular medical
staff to cope with the enormous number Of sick and
wounded Classes will DO almost Immediately estab-
shed in st. Petersburg for the instruction of female
medical Students who WILL on the completion Of their
studies be regularly attached the medical staff OF the
army.
The Girls Latin School, organized IN Boston
last February, has seventyeight pupils and Is e1-
tTemey successful its work The students have made
remarkable progress The school. arranged, has
four cassesa second class of eight pupils, who will
graduate in year from June next; fourth class Of
about twenty fifth Of about thirtyfve, and sixth Of
about twenty. This classification provides properly for
all the pupils at present in the school, the Of whom
range from twelve TO eighteen years. Each class has
four Rotations daily In Greek Latin etc. one OF which,
reading at sight previously prepared. They have
also exercises in English which not previously pre-
pared Two hours study out of school each day
required and the teacher obliged TO keep study within
the prescribed limit
In the public schools of Tyrone, Penn, a
course much like that described lately intro
duced in the Belean and Boston schools has been
gradually arrived at. For some years the principal or
the abes his assistant teachers has had charge of
the entering sixyearolds during their first term. The
only book now used is a reader at first the easy
phrases of Monroe's chart and then an ordinary first
reader They read these by sound they copy the letters
in simple print. and they make simple signs for the
sounds They also make figures and begin to count on
their little states. Their spelling consists in writing
words they have read and familiar with from seeing
only the hOmOgrsphc sOund-signs. They delight In all
this, and in the Doctors talks; and every fifteen OF
twenty minutes they are allowed to break the wonder
full stiffness and talk themselves; or they sing
march, gesticulate otherwise exercise physically
There are over hundred in the roOm all taught more
effectively than would bemOTe pleasantly and per-
haps as easily. They are a happy crowd Their pre-
decessors are pressing on upward with eagerness
which shows that they have been imbued with the
sacred love Of knowledge; and that leaven intro
duced into the infant school ia eayenng the whole