New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-02-13
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Princeton now has ffty-ciGht post graduate
students.
The Boston Latin School for Girls now has
ninety pupils.
Bowdoin has Just received gift OF So
600. 10 he applied to the completion OF Memorial Hall
The new professor of physics and astronomy
in the Kansas University is only twenty-one years Oh
Iowa has 675,424 school children. 1886
schoolhouscs and colleges academies. universities
md private schools.
A bill providing for halliday attendance
npon the public schools has been introduced in the Yer
mont Legislature.
One hundred aud seven scholarships are now
available nj Harvard tho sum Of $4,000 being annu-
ally distributed among their holders
The money received for school purposes in
Delaware last year amounted 10 S9s'si3 80 The
amount expended was S93623 90, OF "Lleh sum S0l,-
334 SO was pad out for tuition
The Senior Glass at Tufts College are now
required to have hut fourteen hours Of recatons per
week Five Of the fourteen given 10 elective work.
the largest share OF which is done in the department oil
biology.
Miss Baker n young lady only sixteen
years old has been appointed tutor in Greek in simp
son College AZ Indianoa. She reads and writes Greek
nueuty, and at fourteen had made a complete lexicon
of one of SopAoclc tragedies She has been Instructed
almost entirely 10y her father. She reads and writes
Latin as well she does Greek, and has gone likewise
into French, German and mathematics
The report of the Columbus, Ohio, Board of
Education contains his wise passage from the address
az its prc,idcu We believe teachers should he paii
salaries which viii enable them 10 devote their leisure
hours TO study and TO preparation for school dulles IL
has been aim of our Board to do this Inc growth
of TINS spirit among schOoboards Of tins country
1,p sgnp la tp
lion Of the countless branches that arc on The way
10 hinder al practical instruction.
The Board of Education OF Springfield H.,
have adopted a spelling reform resolution as follows:
Rcsolced, That the irregular spelling Of the English
language serious hind7aucc IN learning to read ana
wrc and is one cause Of The alarming nteracY IN our
country trat il occupies much time in our schools
which needed for other branches Of study and That
n is desirable so request Legislatures, statc and
National o. appoint commissioners 70 irECstEctr l1i'
matter report what measures, If any, can be aAen
10 simplify our spelling
At the recent meeting Of the New-Iavcn
Teachers Association, OF ITS members very scn>i'y
said that he did not believe IN teacher VINO merely
followed textbook lie wanted 10 sec illustrations by
Tho teachers and also wanted them 10 exercise as uch
freedom possible from the books, while cingnc 70
the suh|cc, matter Another fault was that teachers
were NOT prepared for the when they went to
their classes and hardly much Of the text az do
the scholars great fault s that teachers arc IN the
habit Of hearing rather than teaching lessons Anohc'
member said that great fault IN the present system Of
reaching was an ovcr-crowdnc an attempt 10 teach
zoo much. He believed IN making tho student rather
Than the tea, her work. and thought such plan
gould not hut result IN good to the scholar
This bit Of excellent common sense Is from
BaraesS Educational Monthly: 1--WE believe true educa-
ton 10 he exactly what tho word indlcatos-educo
drawing ont of all the faculties Of II Is not
Neutrality-suspicious. ping M or setting IN orter an
army OF facts principles II Is not tabudtnG, aTang-
ing or lrernoruing subject 1t is not learning set les
tous and filing the mind with useful knowledge. II ia
leading the mind 10 think, act judge estimate and re-
feet foritsef Aaa5siz said that the poorest service
tpacncr could render pupil TO give him ready
made answer. We believe he was right II the Cnucse
,fybf os vel abandon all normal schools, teachers in
stues and examiners and simply know that teachers
have the power OF keeping oIuer ana nearing ie0l'"
lions"
No practical difficulties have arisen in the
admission Of women to the departments OF Arts and
laws in Unversity College. London. During the first
fern from October to Christmas the number OF women
in regular attendance on the college classes 90.
Ofthose seyonty-two in the FnoAri School which
has been open women since its first establishment
The remaining 20 in attendance upon classes OF
which some arc open women only, and some are
mixed As general rule mixed classes confined TO
subjects attended 10y the more advanced students, but
the arrangements are based more experience than
theory and have thus far answered perfectly. The
women have Common Room OF their own, for use be
tween lectures, and are entering quietly and unaf-
fcctedly iuio the College nfe. They already e-ab
fishing amongst themselves College Debating Society.
In the mixed clas>c. there i no more dncuItV ion
IN fellowship ~ study men and women than al
lecture of thc Royal OF the London lnsttuon aug
the whole system simply accepted that the fear OF
failure readiness TO translate aloud or answer ques,
tons, among the members OF mixed glasses, HAS IoNeu
rronu dless