New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-22
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Massachusetts, lady. whose name is not
rcnae publc mas given sos 600 for tGeendowment OF
tlseoloeical department Of obern College as pa' ~
the 100000 which Il has been proposed shouiu NO
raised as a fund for the college.
A new department has been established IN
the University OF California known as the hastings
law College OF which Professor John N POmerOy' Vi
Rochester has become the head The college opens WIN
seveptvsx studens as follows Senior class, TO- mid
die class, IL; junior class, 40
From the proceeds of the sale of the Moody
and sankey hymn books, MT Moody has gwen so'VOo
20 Wellesley College for Women. l. is specneo "at
use shall be made Of the money, but it is said thatn
win be permanently invested ss an endowment Iun"
for Moody and sankey scholarship
The Summer School of Languages at AM
berst has nov been IN session six weeks ana the cat
logue contains the OF 214 pupils ana hiteeh III
struetors Twentythree states have been represented
besides japan and India The languages that have peeh
studied are Latin. Greek, Hebrew, sanscrit, GeFmSn'
French, Spanish and Italian
It is proposed that new university DE
founded in Siberia and 100000 roubes have been gwen
for that purpose. The Government has sanctioned 'he
ENTERPRISE and the town Of Tomsk has been seeeeu as
fhe cite The suggestion made In Russian lournsi
HAT year 1882, the third centenary OF se & for
pssesson Of Siberia, would be an appropriate ue AOI
he opening OF this new seat OF learning
At the annual meeting of the Agricultural
Convention of Georgia last week the Presidents ADDRESS
in referring TO the present drawbacks to farming III that
state cited "a means for counteracting them the ex-
tension Of popular education. Professor Grote, OF Ana
hama a member Of the chronological Commission,
spoke Of the cotton caterpillar and explained the WORK
Sf ths Department OF Agriculture, and resolution was
passed recommending that the commission DC PeIn"'
nently sustained
AT the meeting of the Minnesota State Edu-
rational Association Minneapolis last week President
Johns his annual address gave some interesting sta
hstcs Of public schools Of that State Inc average
wages Of teachers the schools per month are
R37 81 for male teachers and S2s SO for female Allow
ing ten months as the term Of service this gives an
average salary to male teachers Of only 1876 60 and to
female Of only 1888 S0-sums he said (which DO not
exceed, taking board and washing into account the
wages Of ordinary day abOrers or hired help But the
average length of the school year in 1877 was not ten
months but So from which 1t is evident that their
Iang-I will not dignity it with the name of profession
cannot supply them with the necessares OF ife NO
sne with a family to support can subsst 10y teaching'
and hence people cannot make 1t life work. Inc re-
mt that schools are taught by young ana
inexperienced persons who adept the profession as
TEMPORARY expediency. or teachers in the graded
schools similar remarks were made Inc aversge sSy
1859 49, Among the defects growing out OF te sch9ol
Iystem, President Johns mentioned the fOoWlrt. me
.xtremo youth Of the teachers their insufficient knOW-
EDGE, and their lack Of professional preparation
Canon Farrar, in Social Notes QOpdOn),
speaks Of the need Of arOusng attention in the student
and relates some amusing anecdotes Of mistakes that
pupils have made for want Of 1t. " When boy ne
proceeds said that Algebra was sort OF wild donkey
All over stripes It did show that the boy was stupd
lr ignorant bUt only that nobody had ever told him
what Algebra was" When he teacher at Harrow
and MARLBOROUGH Canon FarIar says he used often In
Ioke to tell his pupils that no answer however ignorant
.oud possibly amaze him because they bad ossihed
The power Of establishment" He further relates that
one Of the most powerful and lucid lecturers who ever
dyed told me that occasion he had been delivering
leeture upon BRAIN which seemed to him TO be as
clear as human words could make it, but at the end ofthe
lecture a lady came smiUg up 70 him. comphmented
ann on the interest and value Of his lecture but che
Iaid Professor Huxley. knew before that we
bad Of our brains OUTSIDE cur Skulls! haYe
seeS IN escrbe the Chief source Of revenue in the
Shetland Isles, remarked that the lnhsDltanIs ao-
0ured a precar1Ous subsistence by washing one an-
bthers clothes without it's having occurred 10 MIN
bow very precar1ous revenue OBTAINED from Washing
one anothers clothes would be u
The recent close of the academical year in
France was solemnzed by the distribution Of prizes at
the sorbonne for which all the public schools Of the
country had permitted to compete The three chief
przesthose for higher mathematics Latin composition
aud French eOmposOnall fell for the first time 70 one
college, tnat Of Louis le Grand In Paris The same
yeee also took away twentOne minor prizes ana ninety
one acoessts" The College stansas Of Paris received
twepty-hree prizes and ty-One accessits" and next
In order came the other chief ye6es Of the capitaCOn
dorcet. Corneille, st. Louis FOntanes and others
10 the provinces only the prizes for geography and
chemistry were awarded through the colleges OF
Ieeoure and Montpelier; but the hole the PROV
pces were immeasuraby behind the city correspond
ent of The Pail MaH Gazette explains hiscuriOus fact by
pointing out how the managers Of the Paris schools
strengthen their year with recruits from
The brightest boys u the country schools Every August
pzes are distributed in each school in the country aside
from those given at the general distribution at the sOr-
bonnie 90 that manager need only glance at the class
lists 70 find who are the lOngheaded boys Every lycee
In Paris has a certain number Of scholarships, some OF
which bestowed by favor OF the Government on the
Sons of needy gentlemen while the rest are at the dis
posa OF the managers. When boy has been selected
m the country the arrangements with his parents are
mere question Of and Of course they viii try 10
make the best for him. In general the agreement
s that lad shall get his board schooling, clothes ana
pocket money all free and that his travelling expenses
shall be paid when he home for the holidays This
bargain may involve expenditure higher than the
value Of the scholarship but an enterpsing manager
lt il intimated by Pail MaPs correspondent, will
seldom hesitate to draw little the school funds in
favor OF boy who looks clever and Is Industrious On
the WHOLE conc aides the correspondent this artificial
forcing Of prizeboys be said TO have much in its
favor By all accounts the bOrsers goaded ON by
the masters who devote the largest share Of their time
60 them leaving ordinary pupils TO shift for themselves;
40 that the fact Of a school having won plumber OF
prizes il no indication Of the education commonly given
there II proves that the manager was lucky III
onded by his asss ANTS in examining particular DOysi
buf h Affords nc guarantee that the hundreds OF other
pupils in schOOl-tke paying onesget an equai OF
even q sufficient share OF tntofial attention.