New-York tribune., 1879-04-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
yonderb;,t University has 400 students.


Vanderbilt University has 400 students.
Charles S. Bradley, Bussey Professor of Law
at Harvard has resigned his position. His successor
ia 10 be Mr. James Ames. graduate ofthe UnNel
sity ten years ago
e Superintendent Groves, of Delaware, IKE
many other wise men, holds that of all schools the pr
mary school requires not only the highest teachnG
power. but the rarest personal fitness.
Glasses IN the st. Louis graded schools are
hereafter required consist OF at least twenty pupils NO
special teacher Of French 10 be employed in the gh
school and the expense OF music is not TO exceed sow
IN the high and normal schools
The average monthly salary paid to male
teachers in NewerSey during the past year was 500 oo
female teachers received average OF $50 ID Inc
total sum set apart for school purposes IN that stae th
yearis 81 927 G32 44-a decrease Of little more than
SIS 900 from the total amount last year The percap
ia apportionment this year 80 81 against % II i''
year.
The cost of elementary instruction in Prus-
sa amounts TO So 900 annually the sum being COW
ered by eleven and half millions OF marks from prop
erty ana egaciCs five and third millions from state
subveutions aud the balance from communal grants
Grautous instruction is given IN seventeen out OF inc
sixty towns in Prussia which count over 10000 mhaoi
tants.
The Pope in letter addressed to the Car
laments that while the public schools scarcely an
hour or two are devoted TO ;hc Catholic Catechisn, IN
those opened By Protestans the minds OF youth are In
bued with wicked doctrines in conformity WITH the
heresy they teach These schools are increased IN mum
ber year by year by the work of strangers and by the
aid OF foreign gold. The Pope sets forth that nc has
named a commission Of prelates aud members of the
Roman nobility which, without interfering with exist
ing Catholic institutions ana the persons connected with
them shall assume the high direction and vigilance over
all the Catholic elementary and primary schools, ana
be far the present condition Of things permits the
common centre from which they VIII derive unity and
Increase.
OF Cornell University The Eimird Gazette
saws at the present time there are but 403 students
of both sexes attending The Uu!vcIiy anu only about
$50 young against about zoo when the experiment
began. There have been vain attempts 10 prove that
this falling of is due TO other caus than the expert
ment OF bsexuJl education bat The decrease 10 the
number students has been regular az Cornell from
1872 to the present time, while OF other colleges there
has been but n slight falling oG, that all efforts TO
aScribe any other reason have proved futile,
That President White should feel called upon leave
the University this the lowest ehb Of its fortunes
and, moreover, should intrust the MANAGEMENT of
Affairs 70 a man who, during Lis former absence IN
Cured the cordial dislike OF professors and students
alike a matter OF regret TO those who have the best
wishes Of the University 40 heart Altogether the pros
poets for Coruelrs future not all That heart could
wish"
The Rev. A. d. Mayo says in The National
Journal Of Edcaiyf IN the OF article on The
present economical fever in education: Zone growing
cause OF the hostility generous school appropriations
is the persistent efforts ecclesiastical bodies
70 destroy the American system OF public instruction.
The bishops Of the Roman Catholic Church, and poT-
tion OF the higher diguitares OF some Protestant
Churches are perpctuay at work to substitute the
podeG system Of European paroobia instruction for the
free schools. IN numerous cites OF the North, uOr-
ton Of the children are Withdrawn into parOchal
schools and then the Common Council or School Board
Is flooded with ward politicians who make this removal
an excuse for destructive crippling Of the common
schoOs AGAIN and again has this been done We are
Convinced that great deal OF the discomfort with the
high and normal schools that finds its way into the
.lrcss is a manufactured discomfort steadily nursed by
u body Of implacaDe foes TO whole stem OF In
'struction."
A Providence medical committee have
made careful examination OF the health of school
children in that city, They state that children ad
mitted too young; that the vitated air of the school
rooms causes consumption epidemic diseases are
caught there and that the premature development Of
the brain nervous diseases; that the young
minds arc crammed with much uniEtelIgIbe matter |
and that the method is too artificial; that tho present
system forms habits OF indoence and that the dScom
forts arising from sedentary confinement often tho
occasion for punishment hatred for schools, ana !
truancy. The committee holds that children should
not be admitted In the schools under the OF seven
At whatever they admitted the hours OF con
nnement aud intellectual effort should be greatly
shortened The children in primary schools should not
be confined their than twenty minutes at
time at the end Of which they should enjoy equal
period of recreation, either in the open air
airy room; and mental and phys steal should
thus alternate throughout the sessions These changes
believed, wOud vastly Improve tho health OF both
scholar aud teacher, call back the uan and make the
school IN general agreeable rather than rksome.