New-York tribune., 1879-05-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Indiana has just apporuoned tne sum u
81 o62 164 05-a per capita allowance Oh 81 a'' A WV
ance remains in the treasury
The Prince of Wales says he has encouraged
and shall always welcome any effort to raise inc s'shu
ard OF intermediate education.
The Inter-Academic Literary Union OF this
State will hold its contests at Albany in Convocanon
week July Sill Essays must be mailed TO the secretary
on or before June Is.
At the women's examination for admission
10 Harvard instruction to he held at Cambridge next
September real equivalents will be accepted IN any
department of the studies provided for
According to the new arrangements at
Tufts College. there Will be no salutatory ana vaie-
dcory years the rank of the students for the Io
years will be printed the commencement pro-
srammes
The Oxford Local Examinations for women
are going on in thirteen places There are 900 so
pior candidates and 375 junior ores--a large number
aud one which should to the promoters
OF the Harvard scheme.
Senator McElroy, of Michigan, recently said
In an address textbooks in the Legislature OF that
State that two years prominent bookseller Warheu
him that voted for the bill to provide for UNIFORM
and cheaper school textbooks he never Wouu DC se W
the Legislature again.
Mr.. ]. II. Camper, the cOlored man who has
inst successfully passed the teachers examination in
baltimore was one fortysx TO pass out of 136 candi
dates examined He has already had experience I'D
teaching aud is thought that he viii be appointed 10
position in the eolored schools.
Civil engineering in connection with rail-
way construction has hitherto been carried on almost
exclusively by foreigners in Russia. There now
few country for the training of railway
mechanics engineers, and these schools have been
found so useful that twenty more are about to be
opened.
The total collections of school funds in Ken
tucky this year give only about Sl35 TO each OF tue
6OOO school districts which the State is divided
this Is not enough to keep school in working order
three of the year. There are in the state
white school population of 100000 and cOlored OF
600 and It is stated that the whole number
are without instruction of any kind. The CoererJour-
nal warmly recommends seltimposed local taxation.
A majority report of the Boston School
Boards Committee Salaries recommends reductions
aggregating S43,336 for year. or this reduction
the part by each grade Of teachers would he as
follows: High schools 7-10 per cent for male teach
ers grammar schools, 310 for female teachers
OF the and primary schools TO- for special
teachers, 4-10i average reduction OF $40 per
cent The matter has not been decided by the Board
The Washington School Board has been
Systematically examining the question OF Cramming
schools and finds that the teachers agree that the
course OF study burdensome. They complain that
the studies is far too great for either teacher
or pupil do justice to IT, and the children are obliged
20 study too much and too hard at home. One Of the
teachers recommends that pupils should not be allowed
20 study more subjects cOntempoPaDeousIy
except perhaps in grammar schools.
Professor Alexander Balm, in his latest con-
yioons on education takes heed of the classics He
believes the essentials Of curriculum OF the higher
education to be these l. "Science, including the prl
mary sciences Of the natural history
sciences-mineraogy. botany, zoology, geology-to
which may be added geography" 2. a course OF the
mol branches
OF social science, together with view, or less
fun, OF universal literature" 3. English composition
and literature These studies he thinks should alone
be exacted q condition for university degrees
A revolution, it is reported is about to take
place at Cambridge University. Mere technical ac-
quantance with the classics is yield to more inti
mate and vivid comprehension of Greek and Roman
barbsrsm and civilization including ali phases; Greek
history including the literature Of Greece and Greek
antiquities which Will necesstate close acquaintance
with the recent discoveries Of Dr. schliemann and
others; Roman history, literature and antiquities
Greek grammar and criticism, aud Latin grammar and
criticism are subjects which will henceforward
engage the attention Of the student desrous OF hOnors
In addition 10 these some OF them, he Will be ex-
pected prove knowledge of ancient Ian
guages by transatOns from the best authors and by his
power OF writing Greek and Latin prose and The
examination be divided into two parts. Certainly
those VINO distinguish themselves under this
tenn will have far culture than their predecessors
There are now sixty-four Indian students.
Including niue girls at Hampton Institute. General
Armstrong reports that the younger and especially
the girls, are the best material TO work upOn-though
all are less reasonable ractable and interested
IN their work They have made excellent progress IN
their studies language especially and they compare
favOraby the brightest class Of colored students
They very anxious 10 learn English, and are very
eager TO get book their hands, being particularly
attracted by the paper that talks" The girls to
school five davs in the week. and are besides, taught
sewing, household work and gardening The boys In
addition intellectual instruction, are taught farm
work and mechanics in the training shop" They are
mechanically quick. interested in tools and willing to
work but yet they will shirk when left alone. Gen
eral Armstrong thinks that the Indian has the only
American art and says that it is curously suggestive OF
Egyptian Oriental styles. Several of the In
dian paint fans and pottery and their
OF this sort is popular with outsiders The danger
to this experiment OF Indian education is In the matter
of health; change from Dakota air 10 that Of Hamp
ton Is risk, in many bringing trouble Of the
lungs
A sum of money was last year offered by n
lady 10 the Harvard Medical School condition that
women should be admitted that school equal terms
with a special committee appointed by the over
consider the matter have just sent In majority
and minority reports The former. TO which
attached the name of President Eliot, recommended
that women be admitted to the school experiment
period OF years the two to be separated
personal in laboratories for recitations
and a few subjects specially concerned with the
medical attendance Of The minority report by
Dr. Russell opposed the admission OF women to the
school but recommended the establishment OF separate
school for them possibly under the protection
OF the University, and giving particular attention TO
those branches important TO be studied by them
The oyerseers after long discussion OF the reports
finally concluded that they could not advise the college
authorities to accept the ady's offer money under the
condition Imposed but that in their Opinonit is