The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18

All the colored schools in ST.
Louis are to have colored teachers.
Illinois now has $4,000 teachers
and there are 10000 pupils intrust-
ed to their care.
DIR. SchliemaR said in a speech
lately that it didn't take him more
than six weeks to learn to speak
and write modern Greek with great
fluency.
More than twelve hundred citi-
zens of New Haven, Conn, have
signed a petition asking the board
of education TO reconsider their
vote excluding the Bible from the
public schools.
Six teachers, three ladies and
three gentlemen, left New York,
Dec. 3Ist, TO become instructors in
the two national colleges for men
and women, to be esta blished by
the government of Honduras, at
Teguciqalpa.
There are 421, 163 pupils enrolled
in the public schools of Iowa; the
average attendance is 25l ,372.
There are Is, S66 teachers employed
by the State; the male teachers re-
ceive monthly salaries of $34.8S !;
the female teachers, $3.50.
H. D. Bacon, of California, pro-
poses to give as a donation his IL
brary and collection of paintings
and $4,000 cash to the State Uni
versity, provided the State or other
parties will give $4,000 for the
erection of a building suitable for
library and art gallery.
The Iowa Normal Monthly wise
ly suggests that every teacher who
has some literary taste, and can
read respectfully well, should or
ganize a reading club of the young
books for reading and discussion
which arel thoroughly Interesting
as well as useful.
DR.. McCosh says that there are
two many colleges; but he adds
that he does not share in the rigor-
Gus opposition of some to the new
er colleges, and while believing that
their existence was perhaps to be
regretted, they were entitled to ex-
ist as long as they could be useful
and were supported.
The German University Annual
states that there are 81 uniYersities
in the Empire, with 20,229 students,
of whom $500 do not attend any
lectures. OF the 1879 others more
than q third follow the lectures on
philosophy, which comprise the
sciences as well as those on philos-
ophy strictly so called. The facul-
ty which has the smallest number
of students is that of theology, the
lectures on which are only attended
by 1928.
Says the Educational Weekly,
"The best way to advance higher
education is to increase the demand
for it by improving the quality of
the lower schools and extending
their blessings to the millions now
practically excluded from them. A
general desire for advanced learn
ing once created by a wise and thor
ough system of elementary teaching,
the ways and means for gratifying
it will not be wanting. Where there
is will there is way. Make the
foundation secure, and there need
be no fear of the superstructure.
A bill has been introduced in the
California Legislature providing
that reading. spelling, writing, ar
ithmetic, and geography shall take
precedence of ali other studies in
the district, primary, grammar, and
cosmopolitan schools of the State.
Efficiency in them must be attained
hoe ok-1S2a h.
menced. Not more than two other
studies shall be pursued contempt
raneously with reading, writing,
and spelling, which are to be con-
stantly taught in all the grades of
schools enumerated to all pupils
old enough to receive instruction
in the same.
A prominent Eastern paper says:
ave are disposed to hold that
the good of society at large de-
mands that, as a general thing, girls
ought to be better educated than
boys. Women have far more in
fluence upon people in general So
ciety than men, for purposes of NOR
al and esthetic culture; while in the
training of their children, in the
family circle, their superiority is
still more decided. We do not
speak here of the few who are emil
nent in art, or letters, or science, and
who have had special university
training, but of the educated classes
generally, including ali those who
have pursued q college or merely
an academic course. If, in institu-
lions of these grades, it were so or
6araH that tbs State ahnnId o6ncata
either the men exclusively or the
women exclusively, we believe the
common good would be most pro-
NOTED by the latter. Why not,
then, give Thorn equal privileges?