New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-04-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Sheffield Scientific School las 19o stu
oints.
The Ohio Teachers Association will hold its
animal meeting this year at Putin-Bay, Iay = o.
and 4.
The annual apportiOnment OF school moheys
made in Missouri this year amounts to total OF So3'
SOC ~.
The Williams College trustees have been
Obliged by the hard and their dimnishcd eo'e
% reduce the amount OF given TO poor students
DIR Drisler. who will be acting president OF
fou,oba during President Barnards absence. will lee
ture 10 the senior class schliemanns discoveries al
@yceD@.
There are in Michigan BITS male teachers
and 9,2l2 female teachers. The men receive TaI On
MONTH the women S27 As. The school population Is
46s, 30s and the attendance II 3o5,2oi'
Sixtv-seyen students of medicine and sur
gerry fourteen students OF dental surgery, mne'een
s,nden,s in Homeopathy, and LAT law students were
graduated at Michigan University last week Ihey u'u
not However receive their degrees, disagreement AZ
the BOARD On Regents preventing the assembling OF
quorum.
DIR. Jeffries of Boston, has been examining
the Harvard students eyes for the purpose OF seeing now
many are colOr-bnd out Of 300, twenty cases "eIc
found Dr. JeIres will also examine the eyes Oh inc
young ladies at Wellesley and AT the Girls High ana
ing the Tenderness OF coorbndness in men and women
The lengthenng of the Law School term at
Michigan University contemplated The prooabllues
are that next year the incoming students VIII De re-
oured to pass an examination In the English branches,
and will also need 10 possess moderate knO"euge o
Latin II this Is not carried ont the juniors VIII u'
doubedly have to pass examination before entering
the senior class.
State Superintendent Troutdale, Of Ten
nessee SAYS that in those counties where snfcleh
supplemenary tax levied, and where an active ehe
eetlc and intelligent County superntendentls eeceu
aud compensation ia allowed him sufficient 10 JUSTIFY
him ia giving his services and talents TO his high ana
responsible duties the schools efficiently conducted
and satisfactorily administered. and public sentiment
strongly sustans them One county has LEVIED as heh
ms 30 cents on 500 worth Of property and others
o. 90 and IS cents besides polltax, and, in some Ill
stances, privilege tax
Lasell Seminary for Young Women, at Au-
burndalc Mass is very practical institution 1t has
INST begun to give course of lessons in cookery under
The direction Of Miss PsrlOa. a mistress OF the art
Both wholesome and delicate cooking Is TO be taught.
There Is also at this school class IN the cutting OF gar
mems; and class in millinery, TO be taught by thor
oughiy competent and successful mne is about 10 DC
formed All this work does not interfere at all with the
regular intellectual work OF the school, and while IL
caches things very and pleasant to KNOW II
also amusrs and the pupils. The cost Of the
millinery course for OF three is ga each; for
classes o: six $40 each. Instruction in cooking is given
without extra fee
Johns Hopkins University has now 104
sudents Ftyfour Of these are graduates OF other col
leges; tweuty.four are matrcuated students and the
rest are special students The authorities, desiring to
promote AS far as possible the higher education in
community, have admitted to certain special courses
of stndy those who were able by of other
cagements to devote all their time 70 university work
and yet prepared by previous culture to profit by
some OF the special advantages which are here Afforded
Some already entered upon the professions OF
law medicine and theology thus pursuing In an or
derry systematic the courses OF history and
political science OF chemistry and biology, and OF
classical and oriental phOlogy Advanced and graduate
students will nd that tho university professors are not
absorbed in details of college routine but are free to
give personal counsel and instruction to those who
seek 10.