New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-06-06
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
Amherst graduates eighty students this

Amherst graduates eighty students TINS
term
Superintendent Neil Gilmour, in accordance
with the request Of the late legislature has revoked ms
order of last year dscontinung the academic uop"l'
ments Of the Normal Schools OF this state
The San Francisco Board of Education mas
hean mentioned 10 establish school for the large num-
Der OF natyeborn children of Chinese parents resident
in that citv The document has seveny-four Chlnese
signatures
There is a class of fifteen Indians at Hamp-
ton They have studying there only short tme'
but show good capacity They are from twenty 10
twontysx years old and belong to the Arapahoe Chey
enne and Kiowa tribes.
The beauest of $4,000 to the University
Of Pennsylvania made by the late Reese Wall Flower
has been lost to that Institution by legal decision oe
Claring that he was insane enough at the time the WI"
was made 10 render that instrument void
Mr.. A. P. Marble, of Worcester, has Deen
chosen president OF the Association OF
school superntendents At the recent meeting nc read
nor containing among other things his opinion that
the npbc schools should teach only those studies wDcn
vopd spply 10 every station in life and develop char
acter.
II is stated that the Greeks in Turkey as an
incorporated nationality and also in each district long
ago cared for education, providing welEadmlnstereu
schools even before the establishment OF the Hellenic
Pathological Society Of COnstantnope. The Armemahs
have also done much educational WORK. ana OF te years
the Hebrew nationality has taken a share In 1t.
The Philadelphia Board of Education has
lust adopted report providing that the pupils OF the
Girls Normal School shall be graduated and receive
their diplomas at the end Of the third year OF the course
rs 20 their scholarship and fitness to receive certii-
eaies OF qualification" this ground alone The cct-
rates 70 teach are only to given to such as show in
addition TO proficiency in study, teaching capacity.
While some OF the studies taught during the fourth
year are discontinued. the following are retained:
Logic, chemistry, astronomy, music, methods OF IN
ttruction and to add drawing as means OF ilustra-
ton in teaching review of grammar school studies
It is proposed to reduce salaries in the
Springfield ILL., schools. According TO the rates pro-
posed principals Will receive SIG &c per month, mex
perenced teachers $685. and teachers OF one years eX
nerence S35 This last exactly the pay proposed Tor
apitors of the buildings. Aud when reflects that
the teacher OF a years experience may have
started with thorough education and great natural
s for nstructng it cert nly appears to be rather I'M
wise TO rank her successful efforts in one OF the most
important intellectual works in the word-that ofteach-
Ing young children-with merely manual labor Amer
lean schools will never be what they ought to be until
people realize that the first years Of teaching are quite
rs important as the last years; that an incompetent
routine teacher in primary school will dull sand
beclog little minds which should early receive an lnspi
kaon Of love and desire for learning, and that given
good teacher 1t ss well to reward him-or herewith
Justice