New-York tribune., 1878-07-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The salaries of female teachers in Chicago
IAnge from $3.50 to $3.50.
Seventy per cent has been fixed as the aver
age for graduation from the Chicago High Schools ana
tho passage of pupils from department to another
There has been for forty-six years British
school in Paris After the Franco German War; the
present master reopeDed the school with six pupils
and aimee then about 500 children have entered the
elasseE
A speaker at the recent meeting Of the Ohio
teachers said that there too much crammng and too
many textbooks In the study of natural science In the
public schools He thought the present system OF exam
lnaton should be suspended and no prescribed course
followed.
Chancellor Benedict, at the University Con-
vocation on Tuesday said that have great UniVer
Hty consisting OF thrtyve Colleges and 234 Academies
IN prosperous activity, spread out IN all parts OF the
State all bound together In one great bundle OF UnNe
atty life aud strength At present the number OF stu
dents seminares which properly constitute the UNI
Versty are SO 2OS and their property amounts to $2
a1SS10 The students 10 the colleges proper are oOS'
Professor Edward North, in an address on "A Post
Graduate Examination" ended with these conclusiohs
al. That the Regents examination for college entrance
certificates has been wisely naugurated, and should be
heartily approved by the college faculties. That the
Regents will seem loyal their position and trust as
guardians Of higher education II they admit to the pro
posed examinations only those who represent the lns
tuons their either graduates or teachers
g. That undergraduate competition for prizes should be
ef where it now b to several colleges OF the State
Upward of 100000 acres of land are now
set apart in New-Zealand TO provide funds for her
educational establishments There is university whose
degrees are recognized equal those Of the English
universities. Having examiners of its own, II mas
st to conduct the examinations for degrees through
OF the professional staff of the colleges which are
affiliated TO it, The Canterbury College thus united 10
it, where the course includes classics mathematics,
modern languages, history, English literature, natural
philosophy, political economy and Jurisprudence This
college has received endowment $4,000 acres OF
land udciOusy selected in various districts ana pro-
dueing rental Of several thousands per annu In the
course OF years this will doubt prove to be OF enO-
ous value addition this there is also landed en-
dowmen for educational purposes, Including not only
the elementary schools but those Of technical science
Cor classics and superior educitou museum and libra
~ college OF agriculture and normal school Tor the
instruction OF teachers Besides these there is the
Canterbury Museum and Public Library, and various
similar institutions in the country towns. Lectures are
given in the museum and ii is hoped that in course OF
time the library will become as large, or atleat as
useful, as those OF Melbourne and Boston. Twenty
scholarships of 5000 year. tenaDe for two years for
students Of schools, colleges or under private tuon
have already been founded by the Board of Education
and Is intended to increase the number. At Dunedin
the capital OF Otag0, Whlch Is cIeny ocOVCh
settlement the eagerness for education prevails
There is a university and school OF art boys and
girls high school, and district grammar schools besides
which there are athen8ums and public libraries In
nearly all the country villages Here, at Canterbury
large landed endowments been made for the above
named objects Two hundred thousand acres have been
settled upon the university The buildings have already
cost S15O,O00; they handsome and well situated
AS yet number of students does not exceed eighty
to instruct whom there are five professors in addition
20 one Of moral and mental philosophy, endowed
with $4,000 a year by the Synod OF Otago
valuable library is attached which it is intended
shall be utilized free public library. Although this
has styled university, it only be looked upon
as a college affiliated to the University OF NewZeaand
royal charter has deem refused to IT, and degrees
are not recognized Nearly thousand OF the elder
pupils the other schools receive, at the School OF Art
instruction in freehand drawing, painting from copies
from nature, and from the human figure, designing
practical geometry perspective mechanical and arch
tecturaI drawing. in the provinces Of Wellington, Nell
son Auckland there collegiate bodies affiliated
the University Of NcwZealand, and there are also
provisions for elementary instruction.