New-York tribune., 1878-05-30
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

This years meeting OF tne AHlcIiCdn <A0S'
citation for the OF Science will be held al
81. Louis, August 81
The A Grammar teachers in Cleveland get
nm animal stipend OF $500 the carpenter eplo''" ~
the Board has salary of 5000
The abolition of the English schools
OF Baltimore voted down in the school Doaru hee"
ing last week by IL nays to yea
The new Board of Education in Rochester
,reconsdering the Of the last board reducing the
Free Academy to the grade ola grammar school
About fifty young women will take the
Harvard examinations this sCmmer-twenty In Phia-
uelpha, eleven Cambridge, five in Cincinnati, anu
tho Others in this city
The American Institute of Instruction Will
vod its meeting TIE White Mountains July D. 10
IL and II. The headquarters are to he at fabyahs'
There is possibility that President Hayes VIII oe 'ncle'
An institution for colOred students, to he
known ps CLARK University, shortly 10 be built near
Atlanta 1t will rot be sectarlan. and it VIII oner poor
students work which will help them TO pay Their col
lece expenses IL will he in part an agricultural schoo
The new school law proposed i'll Ohio contains
this provision: "No pupil in said pubc) scnool snail ne
required against the wishes of its parents or guardians
10 pursue any study other than orthography readlue'
writing, arithmetic. geography. and English grammar
The Detroit Board of Education has adopted
report adverse TO the present introduction OF drawing
of teaching industrial drawing soon as the finances
of the Board Will admit the employment of special
teachers.
Union College will give at commencement
time TO its successful students four new prizes III the
Art Department. and six for essays five for oratoy one
junior) for Latin sighreadng and scholarship ana
new fellowship The scholarship will yield to Its Iecl'
emf comfortable little sum in addition the entire
pepses of his four years course MI T. G. Johnson OF
Schenectady. Will have it this year
The school population of South Carolina Is
22sl2S OF this number 144315 colOrcd The school
attendance during the past year was l0239G-coored
J5.952 There 24s3 public schools, employing l''2'
white and 99 cOlorcd teachers The average salaries
OF male teachers SOS 81 per MONTH OF female
teachers S26iS7. OF the S226O2O expended upon the
schools 100000 was appropriated by tie state and
S4,1O0 bestowed from the Peabody Education Fund
The committee appointed by the late Legs
lature thoroughly examine the aud the needs OF
Norma schools reported IN favor of continuing tic
academic departments of those schools on the ground
that they established or continued uron express
assurances that they woud be sanctioned by The STATE
anu that good faith requires their maintenance. Just
before the of the session the report was adopted
with resolution requesting tic state superintendent TO
revoke his order Of last june dsconnung these ac"do
mic departments
Greek is not now one of the requisites for
ndms on TO Wellesley College for Women, but it will be
a.
for arithmetic algebra through the progrosslons and
plane geometry in Latin, four books OF Cesar six ora
lions OF Cicero, and SIX books of the ned and modern
geography, physical geography, English ard Latin
Grammar and English composition. MT. Dulant Is re-
por,ed 10 considering scheme for devon6 tie pres
ent college building which accommodates 500 pupils TO
the preparatory department ana erecting another build
ing with a capacity of 200 for the college proper
The following excellent hints were given by
practical speaker at the recent meeting of the Detroit
teachers Have a clear, weldeined idea of the kind
pf q school you want. Have in mind an imaginary
apode school, do be discouraged II you fail many
times before you attain this each days determined
work will bring il Teach pupils how to study
Teach them how TO get from book the thoughts which
II contains Much time is wasted in getting ready for
work. Too often when you enter the room there j. the
appearance of getting ready for inspection. Teach
pupils to attend TO business to do the work assigned
them at the proper time and do thing at time.
IN hearing Iecitatons be interested yourself; be en-
lhusastic have soul IN the work you are Obliged
80 punish, do it out Of school, II anything unpleasant
has occurred during tho day between the teacher end
any of the pupils never allow the school to close with
out dropping some pleasant word which will cause all
TO leave the with good feeling Cultivate III pupils
ss far possible, selfrespect and sclfgovernineut
Never attempt to ferret out mischief without certainty
OF better let it pass than fail IN the attempt
In governing your school do not lower yourself to the
level of your pupils but always be dgnfed and gentle
manly your department in all the little things that
perain to the government OF your school thus silently
aud eceptbly lifting them up into higher manhood
The Boston Committee on Public lnStTUc
ton has Just given a bearing the petition of Edward
Everett Hale. :. r. Ruggles, c. A. Bartol Thomas c.
Amory and others who ask that the city take the Bd-
tive in establishing DEVELOPMENT schools by giving tie
use of the old Franklin schoOhOusc and making grant
of $4,000 or $4,000. Mr.. Edward Everett Hale said
that If what the petitioners asked should be granted
would enable them TO establish school which
the they leave
the grammar school. who could in years be taught
any trade for they might be suited, the first few
weeks being used determining what business the boys
aIe fitted for The petitioners ask to have this done
as part of the educational system Of the city and be-
eve that five years they will Sic best boys in the
>ammar schools camOrns for admission to this instilu
fon. In reply TO inquiries from the members of the
committee, Mr. Hale said he thought it was the duty OF
the city boys for taking positions at the head
OF shops as well the foot. Reference being made
10 fact that many Of the manufactures OF MaSsacu
sets and New En gland are conducted by foreign super
intendens Mr. Coo Of tie committee stated that the
company with which he Is connected employs forty over
seers and super 'ntcndcnts, OF whom only five
Americans. Mr.. Wendell Phillips said that he did NOT
think the present system lett such people III good con
0ton for the future it leaves the candidate for liter
ary hOpOr Ia this respect he considered the present
system not good that Of fifty or 100 years ago,
when BOYS ana girls went to school months and out
10 work tine other mouths He thought nine ont Of
ten people would naturally rather work than steal but
The present y stem Of education great hndrance
10 a person who obliged TO earn his own living.