Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-04-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


the superintendent of schools in sew
eral New Hampshire towns
Michigan University has just con-
ferred degrees upon 1913 legal graduates,
l05 young doctors and fifteen dental sur
geOns.
The Junior electives for the Summer
term at Amherst are latin, Greek Or
ganic Chemistry, Zoology, Physics,
English Literature, German and Bot
any.
Professor Mark W. Harrington, a
graduate of Michigan University, and
recently a teacher in the Imperial Uni
versity at Pekin, has been elected to
the chair of astronomy in the former in
stitutiOn.
A bill giving Boston women the right
10 vote for members of the School Com
mittee has been passed in the MasSa-
chusetts Senate, and there is a fair pros
pect that it will be carried in the
House.
In every Italian school, public or
private, girls are taught 10 sew and en-
brOider, and as soon as they can they
take their own dresses To school to make
there themselves. The Government
teachers of plain sewing, cutting, em-
bordering and fitting have To compete
for their places like any other probes
sOr.
Cornell University has just establish
ed an experimental station which is pre-
passed 10 analyze different kinds OF COM
mercial fertilizers in the laboratory and
-, H.. Eaf.ls e., .xafnfnn
seeds that are suspected to be adultera-
ted and to identity and name grasses,
weeds or other plants. The board OF
CONTROL is formed OF several professors
OF the university and of the chief Off
GERS of several agricultural societies OF
this State.
The estimate for next year expenses
OF the san Francisco public schools has
been reduced SS9,9SO This will prOba'
bly reduce the teachers salaries about 10
per cent-which is extremely pOOrecon-
omy. Boston PAYS the highest salaries
Ia male teachers, New-GOrk comes next,
and San francisco third. Female teach
ers receive higher salaries In San Fran
cisco than in any other city. They get
an average salary of 500, while in other
cities their average salary Is 500.
The instruction about To be gwen ut
Oxford 10 women will be such as To as
SiSt those who are preparing to pass
the Oxford examination Tor women over
eighteen wears of age. The passing oil
this examination, however, will not he
compulsory on the students. Two halls
of residence are 10 be established Tor
those coming from a distance to attend
the lectures provided by the association.
Elch student is to have a room to her
self. and the charges for board and
lodging will be about sos per term.
The plan for consolidating German
English instruction proposed IN IT.
Louis and mentioned in this column
last week. is TO be tried in six OF the
schools and the results reported to the
school Committee According To thus
plan a German, English teacher will be
placedin charge of a room on each tiOor,
and will give German instruction on
that floor i'm addition To the regular
work in her room; and while she Is
tearhing German in another room, the
REGULAR teacher of that room VIII con
duet the regular class recltatlonS IN the
German teachers room. IL Is also pro-
posed To retrench in the matter OF draw
my.
Charleston, s. c., has a population,
white and black, of $1,000; OF this num-
Der 4. PSI are children between the ages
of six and sixteen. The private schools
of the city are said to be literally sup
ported, while i'm the public schools there
are the guodly numbers of 2,Ob white
.9O7 colored pupils. The course OF IN,
struction i'm the colored schools Is SAID
to be- the same rs in the white schools,
and the public performances OF the pu-
nils i'm former are nowiSe inferior To
those generally 10 be heard on such
occasions in other public schools. The
Charleston N,7rs saws that IL Is common al
the North 10 sheer at Southern schools.
This is a very great mistake. Since the
close of the civil war the South has
greatly improved i'm educational oppor,,
tuuitirs, and the North Is not backward
in rommendation and congratulation,
There il no necessity for South Caro-
lima to put that chip on her fair shout
der: nobody wants to knock tod.