The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-22
EaucasIOnal.

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Adrian College, Mich, has re-
ceived donation of $4,000.
A plan is talked of at Harvard to
form faculty for the superinteDd-
enee of postgraduate studies.
There are twenty-five female stu
dents in the Women's Laboratory
of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
St. Louis does not feel rich
enough TO give text-books gratui'-
ously to the pupils of her schools;
but she proposes TO furnish them a.
cost price.
An agricultural college, to be
conducted on English principles, In
the subutbs of Toxic, Japan, wa
inaUgursted by the Emperor, JAnu-
airy oath.
The authorities of Monmouth
On.) Coliele are determined 10 abol-
Ish all secret pcieties ia the lns /
untion, and threaten so Students OF
both sexes with expulsion, ii they
don't at once disband.
The five tribes in the Indian Ter
ritory have I8I school houses, in
which are maintained II boarding
aud l6S day-schools, employing 1876
teachers, who instructed 1896 nu-
pills. OF the population OF .56,7l5,
there can read $1,000. They spent
on the schools last year $131 ia.
The Educational Weekly says:
''The enthusiasm of the true teacher
never dies, neither does he become
sour or peevish, nor does he fail to
make due allowance tor youthful
long student. He grows in knowl-
edge and wisdom as he increases in
years. He preserves the freshness
of his spirit by copious dranghts
from the fountain of youth, and by
cuIuvsting those graces of charac-
ter which attract. rather than repel
the sympathies of those whom he
instructs."
The Bishop of Manchester, who
was one of the British Commission
that came over to America twelve
years ago. to examine the schools,
has lately given it as his opinion
that the American elementary
schools attempt to teach too much.
Every movable and teachable thing
under the sun was crowded into the
curriculum, he said, and the result
was that there was no solid instruc
ton; and IS au instrument of
mental discipline, that farrago of
muItifarious, and he might say ON
hilarious learning, was a great de-
fusion and prOdigrous snare.
OPENING OF MORNING SESSION AT
THE NEW YORK NORMAL COLLEGE -
At ten minutes to nine O'Clock one
morning last November the writer
took n seat with the president on the
chapel platform of the NOrmol COL
lege. The vast hall was then empty
and reverOerant; the day outside
was cloudy, and the long Gothic
windows let in gray twilight
which gave the interior an ecclesias-
ic SO lemnity, the effect being heigh t-
organ in the gallery. On the plat
form with us were the professors
and tutors, both ladies and GENTLE
men. The body OF the hall was
black with seats, aud the gallery On
DOl1 SluOS VI lu6
Their accommodations. Precisely a,
five minutes to Hine-not minute
earlier or later-a lady seat ed at The
piano in front of the platform be
gan 20 play lively march, and al
that very moment the doors leading
into a wide corridor, with class
rooms on each size, were thrown
open, and what seemed to be al
endless procession of girls came in,
the patter of their fest sounding like
| he dripping of a fountain, and har-
monizIug prettiiY with the allegret-
to movement of the music. They
were fo,med in single file, and
stringed in with measured pace, 81
ent aud demure-giris all the way
from fourteen to twenty years OF
age, from the farther edge of child
hood to the farther limit of mside,-
hood; girls with every shade OF
complexion and degree of beauty !;
girls ia such variety that it was
amazing to contemplate the reduc-
ton OF their individuality to the
simple uniformity OF their well
drilled movements. We looked tor
the last of them: the seats in the
body were fast filling, without the
least noise or coufusion; but the
lady at the piano was still beating
out the ailegretto air, and we could
see the long lines threading in
through the great corridor, and
hear the steady rain of footsteps.
The clock in front of the gallery
marked niue, aud the body of the
hall was now filed, but the stream
continued TO pour into the gallery,
until nearly every seat was occupied,
and at four minutes past nine the
last of The procession had entered,
the doors were closed, and the pi-
ano became silent. What a triumph
of systemI The first thing 10 ex-
cite our wonder and admiration was
the number-there were I,542 pu-
pills the second thing was the earn
estBess of the discipline; and the
third was the suggestiveness of so
many girls at work in assemb
with their own education as the pri.
mary aim, and the education of
countless thousands of others as the
fiual aim or their toll. When the
doors had been closed, aud the last
football had died away, the pianist
struck one note, and the girls, who
had been standing, erect and silent,
before their seats with the faces di-
Fected, TO the platform, turned half
round; another note was struck, in
response to which they uufolded the
seats; and upon hearing a third,
they sat down in a body, not one
being the tenth OF second later
than the others.
The students being seated, a chap-
ter of the Bible was read by Mr..
William Wood, president of the
Board of Edncatiou-a venerable
gentiemsn, whose name is identified
with one of the historic banking
houses of the metropolis, and a non
Esecsarian hymn was surg to the &C
compartment of the organ. a
pause followed, aud we instiucsively
became aware that Mingled ezpec-
tation and hesitation were rife in
the assemblage. 1t was time for
quotations. To exercise their mem
cries aud inspire seif-confidence,
the students are INVITED to vo!un-
teer personally selected Quotations
from authors, aud s'the muItitudin
Gus seas" of literature, from the
neare st to the farthest, are explored
for sphorisDs, epigrams, odes, aud
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