New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
The Fall term at Hamilton College begins

The Fall term at Hamilton College begins
to-day
In 1851 the population of Italy was o.
100000 Of whom 100000 were unable to read or
write. The population at present is about 28OOOOoO'
Of whom 900 IN the public and private schools
which number respectively 1925 and 9,l56 AS lae
rs 976 62a per cent OF the people who had married
were unable TO sign their names on the marriage
register But while the Government schools are now
prosperng the ancient universities falling to decay
The one Padua founded in 1888 and for long time
the noblest Of learning in Southern Europe Calico
Petrarch TassO and SayOnarOla having studied there
now has only 974 students, against LAO in 1867 At
Pava, the number has decreased from 1.475 in 1850
TO $50, and at Naples from 800 to $500.
The past year. in spite of its business pros
traons has not been fOrgetful Of the colleges Inc
total of gifts and endOwments is than $lOOOOOO
Harvard oldest OF the colleges, leads with S3S4OOOo OF
nearly Onenird Of the whole. Yale has received $780,
OOO the Universe ~ Of Virginia, $4,000; Brown' $3O
600; Wesleyan $4,000; Dartmouth $4,000; Union'
$4,000 besides legacy increasing the gifts OF James
Brown to $4,000; the University OF pennsylvania
$4,000; Cornell S25OOO Williams, ST., 900; The Mar
shall and Franklin College, $4,000; Pennsylvania
College $50 600 while other gifts TO various collegiate
institutions amount to $4,000.
The dispute at Waterbury, Conn.,, few
years ago between Roman Catholics and other citizens
IN regard the control Of the public schools readers VIII
recall Out OF that dispute some three years since
grew an institution known the English aud Classical
School, modelled in respects after the Philips
Academy at Audover, Mass. 1t is under the manage
ment Of Mr. l. Jennings, graduate OF Williams college,
who was called 10 the position from Ingham University,
at Leroy n " where ne had held the pr0iessorshp OF
Natural Science and Higher Mathematics and under his
management the school has been graded and classified
until it now has good position among distinetyey Gas
steal schools It's Rotations hour long, and Its
Instructors have each special department Its examn-
atons are rigid and the Master guarantees admission TO
any college, without condition. TO those graduates WhOm
he recommends The inception end growth OF this
school have been instanced showing indication OF
reaction from present public school system that pre-
walls 10 some Of the larger towns aud cities OF Con
necticut
At DR.. Sauveur's Summer School OF Lam
agcs it is said that in some cases, graduates of many
years standing and college professors recited Greek
and Latin In the classes with beginners TINS having
been due the plan Of teaching through the ear instead
OF through the eye old students OF the languages oJen
being deficient with the Both question and answer
were in the tongue that be acquired and they fol-
lowed in such rapid succession render translation
impossible so that the pupil was thus compelled
TO 90 his thinking we'll as his talking
in the dead language The number in attendance was
pa more than double the attendance Of last year. and
among the pupils Professors Field of Amherst Col
leee; Gibson Of Williams; Newton, Of oberlin; Hemp
hill, Of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, s. G.;
Round Of the Centenary Biblical Institute OF Baltimore;
carp and Bassett, Of Asbury University OF Indiana;
BOlsen and AtTater, Of Bloomington Ind and others as
well known Together with these many younger stu
dents of various grades Of culture. About hfty
took Latin, about thirty Greek, ten or twelve
Hebrew, aud seven sanscrit. Among the interested
spectators of this novel method, besides the Faculty
OF Amherst College President Gilman, of the Johns
Hopkins University Professor Rchar dson OF Harvard
President seeye of Smith College, Professor Norton Of
Harvard, and many others.
The average cost of supervision and in
strucon each pupil in OF the large cities OF the
Union varies 10 interesting degree. In NeW-York
and New Orleans for instance, it is nearly the same,
being S21 80 and S21 90. In Boston and San Francisco
It is the highest in list Of seventeen cities being $25 "a
and S24 81. Richmond pays $13 II per pupil, while
Philadelphia pays So H. the lowest sum in the list
incidental expenses for each pupil in similar
ratio, as follows New-York, So IS and New-Orleans,
IS II; Boston, $40 81 and San Francisco, 50 81 Rich
mond, 50 81 and Philadelphia ian exceptiOn) 81 90 In
point of salaries paid Boston first in the table OF
average annual salaries to principals of grammar
schools paying 5000 to male teachers and $1,000 to
female San Francisco pays $2466 to male and $4,000
TO female But in the high schools principals arc paid
$4,000 in San Francisco and $3.50 in Boston Pri-
mary teachers also best paidiD San Francisco recey-
ing an average salary of 81 800 Chicago ranksnext with
S1OsO, while Boston pays only $780, aud New-York
$780, with Cleveland last IN the list at S546 Teachers
S0,oO
same while at San Francisco 81 $50 paid the and
S21OO the other Cincinnati pays 81 800 to both, and
Chicago the same female teacher Of drawing wac en-
gagged at Milwaukee last week for 81 POO and Of the
commissioners explained that It impossible to
cure the services Of gentleman"
The public schools of Boston opened last
Monday, and programme Of studies went into
effect Henceforth in the primary schools instruction is
20 be almost entirely oral Pupils will learn from OBJ
soJ,o- of frorn honI An
exercise known Language" Will consist OF oral les
sons upon pictures plants, animals and what else the
teacher may think useful in leading scholars TO express
what they know words Oral instruction will also be
given upon form, color, measures, animals grouped
by habits vegetables. minerals, hygiene and the human
body The metric system will be taught from the metric
apparatus No spelling books will be used at all, the
reading books taking their place In the grammar
Grade the study Of grammar, generally studied, has
been abolished with the spelling book. In the stead OF
parsug and other technical work, lessons VIII be given
An composition in the OF capitals In letter writing
and in the arrangement Of sentences Much OF the time
formerly devoted geography will be given TO natural
philosophy and physiology Oral instruction will be an
important feature OF all the classes, and IN tie lowest
two il will predominant In the lower classes the sub
feet for oral instruction Will he natural history plants
from Nav TO November animals from November to
Nav trades, occupations, common phenomena stories
anecdotes mythology, metals ard minerals. In the up
er classes physiology life in tae middle ages, biOgrapL
zeal and historical sketches and experiments in physics
The library of Harvard College, which was
founded IN 1885, only years after the college re-
ceved its first impulse and eight after Boston had
been settled now consists Of nearly 100000 volumes
and pamphlets John Harvard, from whom the college
received It's NAME gave in that year by bequest his en-
tire collection OF books and at the end OF 126 the
library contained only 5000 volumes. In 1894 1t was
nearly destroyed by fire, and only few Of the original
books now remain. Twelve years afterward contribu
tons had increased the number TO 1000. Harvard Hall
was the building originally in use as the library but IN
cfodf fort no nd vaap