New-York tribune., 1878-10-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Mount Holyoke Seminary has 247 pupils
this year.
The recent steady increase in the number OF
students at Brown University is said TO be in connec
ton with gradual increase OF the requirements for ad
mssiOn.
The professorship of Astronomy in the Wis
eonsn State University has been offered to Professor
Watson Michigan University and it is thought that
he viii aeceptit.
Michigan University is reported TO have
freshman class Of about 100 members 1t is expected
that the number Of students in attendance at the uni
yersity this year Will be about 1900 Among them are
nearly forty ladies' three Of these in the law depart
meut.
Mr.. w. E. Forster notes that the ruling
principle Of the Scottish universities is hard work. The
students are, rule, very young as compared Win
English drawn from all classes OF
the community even the very lowest Nowhere doVefy
slender funds 20 further and nowhere is a sounder
average scholarship acquired in so brief space
Tufts College has this year 11O students,
eighty-twO OF them being undergraduates Inc con-
tnued depression business has seriously affected the
revenues of the college The advanced requirement IN
mathematics will be maintained, as the rule has had
good effect In Freuch student has been called upon
10 translate from the text book, but from the lips
Of the instructor The faculty are in favor OF the eiee
tive system far as they have tredit
Teachers salaries ought to be the very last
expenses to oe cut down, says superintendent
Eliot. of Boston. 1--WE can get on" be ADDS
without vast buildings materials; we can
wait for better times TO fiji our libraries or
our collections we part forever with drills, e1-
hibitions and festivals, with all that is expensive
about them but We must have men and women Whom
nature as well as training has made teachers we must
have the heads and the hearts that are not found
wherever we seek them; we must have the personal
force which beyond all other forces in earth as well
as heaven. II everything else were sold that we might
have these treasures, they would not cost TOO dear
Economy beginning with them is not economy out
wastcfulness"
That English scholarship is langushing, and
stands in need second revival is the opinion OF Ihe
SATURDAY. RepieC. Not that scholars fail In actual
knowledge Of Greek and Latin but that they do not
sufficiently consider that these languages open to
life ancient Greece and Rome, in which the life OF the
modern civilized world is rooted 1--WE have fallen into
etter-worshiD The Reviee and our excess o zeal
for the classics has defeated itself In our anxiety 10
master the languages have neglected the purposes
for which the languages worth knowing; Greek and
Latin have become yrants, and have overshadowed
Greece and Rome. The has Its analogy IN other
branches of learning In one university at least the
physical applications Of mathematics have been assldu-
Ously emptied OF their real meaning and power, ana
turned into au exercising ground for the manipulation
of symbols"
There is in Boston a school in which thirty-twO
boys are taught to practically their juvenile taste Of
whiting course Of twentyOur lessons in wood carv-
ing is arranged the greatest amount OF nsrue
tOn with the least expenditure for tools and material
instruction given the evening The founders OF this
school are by their experience the belief that three
or four hours week one year only Of the grammar
school course would be enough give with
tools and encouragement TO the Unborn inclination 70 han
dicraft and "that would be easy to establish IN COLI
necton with all grammar schools for boys annex
aN fho hQlf
universal tools e., the hammer plane saw ohisel file
and square," It is questionable whether 1t would be
worth while TO have such workshop connected Win
every grammar school, but it would be far wiser to es
tabish few workshops where those who wished or
needed such instruction could it in the evening" than
10 add to the curriculum OF the common schools tech
meal studies compulsory on all pupils alike
Several very wise and uncommon sugges- |
tions are made the report of standing committee on
Industrial Education to the California Teachers AssO
citation. They specially recommend that In all schools
attention should be given TO thoroughness" In
reading writing and spelling the English language-a
recommendation which is far from being unnecessary
Arithmetic should also be taught in the opinion Of the
committee, IN such O way 20 secure readiness and
accuracy the four rules the tables common aud deer
NAL fractions and nterest-again not unnecessary |
suggestion. Specific instruction in the principles OF
morality for at least hour every week. the nstruc-
tion OF girls the general principles Of domestic econ
opy the talking TO boys concerning the necessity and
nobility OF labor, whether manual or mental and
Instruction in the laws of health, recommendations
AZ excellent unusual in addressing teachers. In all
schools" the committee say further, pupils should be
trained by Language lessons to express their thoughts
correctly In speaking, and to write English with sufh
cent accuracy and readiness to be able to WRITE SPELL
punctuate and express in grammatical sentences letter
Of business friendship II necessary to do so, sacr
fee a part OF the book grammar In favor OF the
above recommendation" The establishment in the !
he
Education, and the payment Of money by school trus
tees only on condition frstcass work by profess
sonally trained teachers" suggestions Of particular
value In Short there has been for long time no
educational report surpassipg this in good and
practical conclusions