New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-19
NOTES on EDUCATION.

-Four scholarships OF 81 900 each have just
been endowed at Abbot Academy, Andover.
The Boston School Committee has ordered
that the pupils Of the public schOowth the exception
Of the graduating cassessha not study at home dur
ing June.
There promises to be deficiency of $4,000
fl the san Francisco School Fund tins month and 1t
proposed in the Board that the contractors who
have been building tue schoOl-houses shall be paid
instead Of the teachers.
The Louisiana Constitutional Convention
has covered itself with glory after all 1t has main
tanned the state SUPPLEMENTARY which was threat
end; it has provided for the organization OF school
boards and the regulation OF the school fund II
also provides that primary studies may be taught in
French In those parishes where that language predom
mates.
DIR. Nebinger has asked the Philadelphia
Board Of Education circular the subject Of
ighedness in school children. which the Doctor
declares increasing. This defective vision, he was
sured by the imperfect light and the other
unhealthy conditions under which the lessons were
learned occasoned by the position at school, the hours
study and the inability of the chds brain to grappe
with the tasks imposed upon IT.
During the term just concluded at Cam
bridge University there have been eighteen pupils busy
in the workshop Of the Department of Mechanism and
Applied Science. OF the eighteen six intend to be
fessor in charge has aimed at aordng opportunity
members the University engaged in any practical
research Of having such experimental apparatus they
require price under ther dlrec
tons
Johns Hopkins University has just ended its
third academic year by admitting six scholars TO the de-
gree OF P d. and three the degree Of A. Il. Twenty
gentlemen appointed Fellows of the University for
the year 1s79-1seO. Six new instructors have been
added university staff for the year. Among them
Is MI Sidney LaDier. who Will give instruction in Eng
lsh The president and professors of the
versty have made contribution of 5000, 10 be be-
slowed year IN two scholarships OF $3.50 each,
FOR graduate of Johns Hopkins the other for radu-
ate OF any college. The authorities feel that there is
great need additional scholarships for ge
1neut young of marked ability in the prosecution
of their studies. One young lady has come 10 high
honor university In consideration OF her marked
ability in the study of mathematics, exemptfed during
years residence in Baltimore and previously, the
trustees have invited Miss Christine Ladd to continue
her mathematical studies in the university. and have
voted she may receive an honorary stipend equal
10 that bestowed upon those who appointed to fel
lowships.
AT the recent meeting of the Northeastern
Ohio Teachers Association Professor White, OF Obern,
gave an interesting ADDRESS the Art of Question
ing" He recommended to teachers an assiduous cnlt
walton of art. He said, among other things: Nor
Is II wise 10 follow the printed questions OF the text
book they are Olltn wei AZ IiOSVi'SSt Jus
tbev lack the personal element II are worth any
thing as teachers, we have characteristic way OF
uniting things; anOther's questions are saul's
ormor to us. The pupils feel that the work is
mechanical We miss the opportunity OF Endling
their interest by words that come straight from
our own minds. 1t is stimulating TO class for the
teacher occasionally write out questions day in ad-
vance ana put them into the hands Of the pupils
though of course, Overworked teachers must not
often attempt this Reviews can thus be very
effectively conducted The pupils Of certain high
school failed 10 be Instructed in The Science OF
Government in which weekly exercises had been given
principal wrote 200 careful questions, covering the
whole work. These he placed In the hands OF each
pupil and dividing the whole school into two sides,
allowed each In turn question the other SIDE TIL he
obtained satisfactory answer. while he sat by 20 watch
The slaughter Of the inuocents' The first exercise
a failure, seeming merely 10 arouse the schools the
second was successful. and the fifth was brilliant. A
teacher OF mine once out $50 questiOnsmany OF
them pTacucs-upon the subject Of fractions spent
whole term upon them, and remember It better
than any other portion OF my high school course
The ability 10 ask questions upon given sub
feet should be made part Of the test In teachers
examinations. More pains than is customary should be
taken to adapt questions to the individual pupils
Indeed in these days Of large casses this is almost
ony opportunity OF recognizing their individuality. The
questions should be such admit OF exact answers ana
such answers should De secured before they finally
laid aside"