Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-08-25
EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

PROFESSOR ITO nlluUlt-dSeu ot""V
ginning the study OF chemistry )-"Have
YOU any specific object in view Mo
dle-aged student-"Specifc object? l
have no object at all, except thatl don
want 10 be a confounded enormous
when l enter the next world.
SOME watchful person has raked up
the fact that Gen. Schofeld, who pro-
poses to put down hazing at West ROM
by requiring the cadets to report sucn
occurrences to the instructors, got lnto
trouble for refusing TO report a case Vi
the sort when he was cadet, and was
first dismissed and then reinstated.
In the advertisement of his boarding
school for boys, Mr.. Benjamin Mason oil
Yonkers, n. Y, makes this sweeping as
sertion: "The present generation, by
such clumsy devices as the Typewriter
the Edison Electric Pen and the Papyro-
graph have scarcely avoided the necessl-
ty Of writing shorthand. The next gen.
Grafton must write shorthand.
The Boston decorative art society ana
school of art needlework have been uni
ted. as has long been desired by the
friends of both. The classes will re-
main practically under the same manage.
ment, and will be heard at the rooms OF
the decorative art society. The needle
work schools first year has been very
seccessful, over 200 paying and a large
number OF free pupils having received
instruction; and the school has been
wholly self-supporting.
In Alabama the public schools de-
pend solely upon the poll.tax for sup
port, and the amount paid by white
persons is applied exclusively to the
maintenance of schools for white
pupils. According to the last school re-
port, the revenue for white children
was $4,000 and for blacks $685. OO
The school attendance for four months
comprised about One-half the children
of school age, or $4,000 white and $1,000
colored. This is called good showing
for a Southern State. Superintendent
Box says that only a third OF the poll
tax is actually collected, and he prays
for more stringent collection.
THE programme for the annual meet
ing OF 1.-THE American Social Science AS.
ISOLATION" which opens at Saratoga Sep
TENDER 9th, embraces a choice variety
OF important subjects. Among the
specially educational papers will be the
following: "Modern Education, Its
Opportunities and Perils," by President
Portes of Yale; "The Voting of Women
in School Elections" by Prof. Peabody,
of Harvard; Methods of Education,
by j. w. Dickinson, Secretary OF the
Massachusetts Board; college Libra
ries," by Justin Winsor, Librarian OF
Harvard; and Methods of Study in
Social Science" by Prof. w. I. Harris,
Superintendent OF st. Louis Schools.
THE Concord correspondent of the
Springfield Republican, writing OF
"Orphic" Alcott's school OF philosophy,
gives this glimpse OF Mr.. Davidson, who
lectured on Greek art and life: "He is
a Scot, and a scholar, particularly in
languages, of which he is said to know
them better than any man in America.
His friends occasionally submit it to
tests like this: Give a Greek word, and
he will instantly proceed with the sew
eral definitions, with the citations under
each, in their precise order in Liddell
d Scott's lexicon, adding also the page
and column in which the whole may be
found. Mr.. Davidson is fresh-com-
plexioned man, in his prime, with sandy
hair and beard, and constant smile OF
content"
A LADY who had had much expert
ence in teaching both boys and girls,
speaking of extraordinary obtuseness OF
a certain pupil, said: "ln physiology
class, this young lady of 10 inquired
with languid surprise, is there not a
straight passage through the head from
one ear to the Other"-a somewhat
natural conclusion" the teacher com
mented dryly, "if she had ever watched
the processes OF her own mind.
(Which would you prefer teaching,
asked visitor,-"bOys or girls"
''Boys, infinitely" was the prompt re-
ply. "No boy, for instance, would ever
have asked such question as that. lie
would long before have investigated the
subject with a lead pencil. Not, prob
ably, in his own ears" she added med
itatively, "but in his younger broth
er's."
In Anna Dickinson's summer book,
Just published by the Harpers, which
She has entitled, "a Ragged Register
Cof People, Places and Opinionsl," oc-
ours the following paragraph, an
vigorously stated, as the au-
thor's generally are: "If some of the
women who at death bestOw their
store on theological seminaries and
schools that are for the exclusive benefit
of men THAT woman for instance, who |
left 100000 for the establishment OF Il
chair of science in an institution already
richly endowed, the doors of which are
slammed in the face of any petticoated
applicant)-if some such women would
establish schools wherein should be
taught every household and domestic
art, thev would deserve canonization at
the hands of a long suffering and pro-
fessedly civilized though really unen-
lightened world"