New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Allegheny has failed.
There is a movement to make plain sewing
regular branch OF pubcsehool education in Syracuse
Mr.. Emerson will on August lecture be-
fore Mr. Ae,it,s Summer School OF Philosophy and Lit
erature, which will open at Concord next Tuesday
Baltimore has just held her first exhibition
of Elementary drawing in the schools. The best WORK
Is said to have come from the young children
AT the October Oxford examinations for
women three scholarships will be awarded one OF
these the Mary somerville scholarship OF the VaIue
Of $780, aud tenaDe for three years, VIII DO a"aueu
for proficiency in mathematics
Ex-Governor Rice says thathe has rcturne q
from Kansas and Colorado profoundly impressed with
b,t the great West is DONG for the education of Its
communities. lie found IN Colorado that the largest
most imposing buildings in the cities and towns are the
school houses
The sum of 5000, 600 has been appropri-
aed in Texas to carry the school work through the re-
rnainder Of the year; 100000 bad already oeen oS
tr,buted san Antonio the most successful ednca
tional system OF all Texan cities The great heeu III
that state is good, trained teachers
Superintendent Peaslce, of Cincinnati, is
ecbopg the complaint that throughout the country the
public school pupils ignorant Of language ana says
tbatof the thousands who enter the high schools compar
ntvely few have heard the most familiar names OF
the greatest poets and historians He described pro
posed Improvement in school literature which provides
for giving pupils first extracts ana then biographical
studies.
At the recent meeting of the Illinois school
prircipalsi II was advised that political science souo
be more night I'm the schools and II was conpIaneu
that schools are too largely Entrusted 10 inexperienced
aud incompetent hands one of the speakers urged lha
schools should good citizens, very wisely ana zea
ously insisting that education consists IN something
more the completion of the seven studies named ID
the school law.
President Parker, of the Ohio Teachers
Association spoke at the Cleveland meeting last week
I'm advocacy OF the establishment of school shops III CON
necton with the seventh and eighth year the pubic
school and with the first and second years OF the Hlgh
School He thought that boys could spend one hour
av during the school year-hat is say 200 hoars-n
the use OF tools without diminishing In the least the re-
oulstte amount Of mental and moral discipline,
Useful sentences from the meeting Of the
Ohio Teachers Association There is too much afth-
metic studied and too little understood" ave follow
our fathers in undertaking women instead OF weighing
brains we estimate by sex" "The teacher OF to-day
has work DO that, in Importance, rises above the
usual routine OF dues-that is far above mathematics
the sciences the arts classics it is TO make of the
bows aud girls ntrusied him men aud women OF purity
and integrity"
A Washington teacher says that pupils
should not be allowed study than three subjects
contcn DoraneOusy, except, perhaps, IN grammar
schools that all other instruction should come In gen
eral exercises and that than onehalt OF the
Of pupils in the schOol-room, including general e1
ercses should be occupied in Rotations Another
teacher SAYS that pupils should have more time Tor the
matter and manner OF eter-wrng in all its branches
tiucc they do not comprehend the different forms OF
friendly, social and business letters.
The new class at Wellesley College will
probably have about 90 members. Any teacher who
dissatisfied with her requirements may now be received
NJ wellesley without examination. aud may give her
time exclusively to those studies which she selects
Courses Of special sudy are open Latin Greek Math-
eInatcs French and German and in the Physical and
Natural Sciences. The teacher can devote all her
time 10 reDt classes in study or she can pursue
several studies by going from one class TO another III
ngle study she does IN year The work which is 0rdi-
uury extended three or four years There are at
Wellesley fifteen classes in Latin fifteen in Greek, eight
IL German ana eight in French.
The Kings College English) lectures to
ladies continue be very successful the average num-
Der Of entries In each being $50. The Executive
Committee propose TO offer special diplomas to those
ladies who after attending lectures for at least two
years and passing all examinations. shall gam first or
second class five courses besides divinity. Should
any student Object to the divinity course, some other
subject may taken in its place At the annual meet
ing the principal, Canon Barry, spoke highly OF the
ladies examination papers and described them as quite
as good as those accustomed TO receive from the
other SEX and az the same time infinitely better ex
pressed.
One of the great faults of district schools
s. described in a teachers communication TO BlrneS'S
Edleaii1nal M0atbly: " Once in a common district
suIoOl was really surprised at hearing two girls read
They read a chapter IN a reader that was Astounding
with gurave, fourishing passages and uncommon al
lusous; hut they performed It with such accuracy,
ease and rhetorical expression that imagined TO have
two accomplished ladies', perhaps graduates OF some
college before me. But my establishment increased
when found out by closer examination, that they
had not the slightest idea Of what they had been read
ing They did not know what pearl was, and why
knowledge called pearl; they could not tell what
nmeant TO construe a motto they had quite wrong
conception Of the sweetness derived from the Greek
and Roman springs in fact, they were two highly ac-
COmpishcd-parTots."
Principal Russell, of the State Normal School
OF Worcester said many good things the other day TO
his graduating class 1t surprising" he sand in the
course Of ms address, what array facts OF
thoughts Judgments and of feelings skilful qucs
toner can draw from group OF thirty boys and girls
uvou any one o. great of subjects, proper 10
public school What varied experiences, What curious
oJselyatiou- what intelligent conceptions win gradually
show themselves 10 teacher who has the power TO
create boy hs questions comments atmosphere at
genial and aScing to youthful minds teacher who
was giving Ject lesson on the moose which, by the
way he had never seen, found himself good deal
noyeG by rather Ju-oOSing boy. who was not salts
with the gwen Of tho animal. because, as it
tirncl out the boy had formerly lived in northern
Maine and had been present the killing of moose.
Al my side ~ a geography class there once sat quiet
lad had sailed TOgnd the world his fathers ship
Now say That teacher who fails TO discover and
such OriuL sources Of information and interest and
insists, whether stupdy or wiifuily upon making his