New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Harvard Scientific School is reported to have
twenty-five instructors and only sixteen sludents'
A college for young women is about to be
established Mt Norfolk. Va, by the citizens OF 'ha'
place.
The school receipts in St. Louis during the
were sss4 eo7 o. expenditures amounted
TO Sss1,112 So
The Atlanta Baptist Seminary for colored
ou,n mas inst been removed from Augusta to Atlanta
It has now thirty students.
The chief English Literature prize of Trinity
coeee has been awarded this year to Mr.. W. L. Crosby
Of Wisconsin, the second prize bestowed upon MI.
T. NJ Peck OF Connecticut The subject next wear VIII
be /" The Prose of the Reign of Queen Anne" Trinity
has now log Students the freshmen numbering twenty
four.
The School Committee of MelIose, Mass,
have done thing worthy OF imitation. They have sent
circular to the teachers of the primary schools asking
them 20 be careful about the children at recess e 10
see that they are properly clad aud 10 danger OF TAX
ing cold They are requested Also 10 permit no chdrcn
10 attend school from families wherein there Is any con-
taglous disease.
At the recent meeting of the Hartford
tConn1 County Teachers ASSOCIATION one speaker
wisely said they tired TO teach too many Things anu
that they GO too fast for the chids understanding
Another speaker said that children should learn as
soon a. possible TO understand and deal win tne
reasons and relations OF facts, and added that the IN
suciency Of mathematics to secure the result has peen
demonstrated.
The average salary of the regular teachers
IN Boston 1915. Their average length OF service Is
between eleven and twelve years. but there are many
instances OF very long terms lady teacher mas re-
Gently resigned service in the city OF over forty
one years. Thirteen teachers are now employed VINO
have taught thirty years; 1Ol nave taught Dc
tween twenty and thirty years. and 26s between ten and
g.. faff
proposed pension is certainly deserved benefit
Superintendent Eliot at the recent dinner of
the Boston Latin School Association expressed the
opinion that the system needs the personal ue
60 thar the good influence OF the School Board shall be
perpefuaed long after the pupil leaves It, The Hon. u
G. Crocker said that in his experience as pupil Eng
ish was grossly neglected both In the Latin School and
OF Harvard he had been educated In Latin ana he
had found that knowledge of the grammar OF That
language been OF great use to him. especially wnen
he had been compelled TO speak before o mixed
audience.
DR.. David Murray. formerly Principal OF the Albany
Academy later Professor Rutgers College and later
still organizer OF the new system OF education IN
apan has been appointed by the Board Of Regents OF
this State 10 adequate plan for the establish
ment higher collegiate examinations The object CON
templated is the establishment OF higher COLLEGIATE
standard in the of New York. and the more direct
and tangible connection Of the University with the
higher Institutions learning. The legislature Will
be remembered made appropriation for the establish
ment OF these higher examinations last year.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams in letter to
The Chronicle OF San Francisco thus illustrates the
Quincy reform Suppose, instead OF education, u
had farming We had cultivated the soil for years
in the traditional way, producing certain results We
suddenly determined to introduce an educated farmer
who had studied chemistry and applied science TO the
soil. He set to work what the English have long
used and called the principles OF high farming ana
we at larger We then describe to our
neghbors what have DONE AMI write them to come in
and at process This is the whole story, and
when people talk the Quincy system-of its having
nothing In it, OF its having long been In use, etc
they simply make exhibition of their own ignorance
The Quincy system nothing but little Intelligence
and science applied TO education and the only matter
OF surprise to is the attention which my paper re-
gardng IL has excited. II shows very clearly that
our educaonsts terribly behind the times. AS to
the success OF method as compared with the
old-to question to my mind very much as If some Of
your Cahfornans were TO undertake doubt whether
the scientific mining of to-day is any improvement on
the old wash-tub hods Of the miners camps of 40"
One of the Reforming Committee of the
Quincy Mass. schools says that when they began to
anime the children reading IL found that they
would stand up and read in very loud tone, with
great of emphasis and Evolutionary display, selec-
tions with which they familiar almost 10 the point
OF memorization. But when a book presented TO
them simple but unfamiliaT-such Hans Christian
Audersen's little storeshey were unable TO read
that the committee listening could understand them and
when they asked TO close the BOOK they were ut
terly unable tell except the most aud ndeh
mite ay what they had read themselves The whole
capaeity OF the children exhausted in the effort
distinguish and repeat the words suceessvelv and the
idea was grasped at all. In primary departments,
when teachers required to the pupils
a certain number Of pages within gwen time, 1t was
found that Of the pupils had memorized the read
ing Lessons and were III many able repeat
entire pages II q hint gwen them by reading the
first line. 10 geography II found for instance.
that many pupils would answer promptly IN reply
10 the question, What island ~ "A body OF land
surrounded by waler and responded Mop with equal
promptude the question, Have you ever seen an
isandf- although out of the windows oil the in
which the examination being Conducted Boston
Harbor with a score OF islands, could be The
children had naturally enough, to associate with
lar masses OF land did lot strike them as bodies This
Is the OF complaint that may justly be madecon-
corning "a number vi the mecDaulcal public schools
IL tins republic.
Professor Huxley, in his recent address on
Technical Education, said that whatever might be the
merits or dement's the old system OF apprenticeship,
A was as thoroughly doomed In different branches Of
ordinary handicraft 1t had been long doomed in
physc The only alternatives appeared to him TO be Of
two Kinds the first place, there should be brought
together within the reach oil the young people who
employed IN great manufactures the OF carrying
on their education in the particular branches OF bust
ness with which they were respectively occupied be-
yond the time during which the necessities OF practical
life Obliged 20 be at work In the workshop-tat Is
"a saw for a period corresponding virtually with what
used to be their apprenticeship One OF his suggestions
therefore was there should be established in the
peighorhOod of the great centres OF industry schools
10 which Young boys who learning certain handi-
crafts could order TO receive instruction which
would qualify them to work skilfuy and intelligeDtly
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