New-York tribune., 1879-03-13
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Columbia Law School has 436 students
OF whom Gas IRE college graduates
The Buffalo Common Council has resolved
No, 70 reduce the salaries OF the city teachers
The Senior Glass ut Harvard has now zO%
membors Il has lad altogether 27l members
Yale receives by bequest from the late
George Bncy $4,000 Of which the larger part VIII po
taken in books from the sale Of ishbrary'
The authorities of Colorado College have
established academies at Salt Lake City and AT santa
81 whence they hone TO take candidates for the college
classes.
II is said that out of 719 men in the four
classes at Harvard 2ss are excused from prayers or
the 900 snor GO are excused OF the ia juniors 66
are excused OF the 21s sOphomores, 81; and OF the
o27 freshmen, 70.
The new West Virginia school law provides
that the retail price Of school books shall not exceed
the present whOesae price and that the retail price
sha be published the backs of the books, aud also
posted up in school houses.
There are in the South 1,579,097 negro
children Of school age. o. this number the schools
reach 100000. The Aid Society Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church has sbursed 5s5 40 in its eleven
years OF existence for the education OF the negroes
The percentage of female students at Bos-
ton University continues to grow. The first year 1t was
90 per cent, second 21, the third o. the iourh
1892 the fifth last year, 1913. The university has
received 81 900 the nucleus Of fund for the endow
ment Of a wouan's professOrshlp.
Tennessee has school population of 449,-
OH; Of this number, 1910 are Colored children
There are 34G schools the State 1141 o. these arc
for colored pupils Tue attendance lsst year
was l72l9s. OF the 5,502 teachers employed 1l35
are coored The school expenditures last year were
Ss15,34I 81
A member of the Baltimore School Board
advocates the ventilation schoorooms by means OF
boards from twelve to fifteen inches wide, ana
fastened on the inside the window frame, the window
10 be raised from fOur inches. The foul ar Will
be forced out by OF r fan venulaor placed III
the roof and having proper connections herewith
1t ought to be an established fact that the
COMPENSATION Of teachers must not depend on length
of service the capacity tho teacher There are
teachers years at the work, yet who
are creatures of routine. Of ecbnicaty utterly WITHOUT
the inspiring quality. Then there are teachers still III
the first year OF their labor who born for that
labor and who nearly suggestive. as adaptable
and as iudlcious as they will be years hence
The degree of A. B. cum ldude will, after
June OF next year. he given Harvard every gadu
ste who atsns 70 per in his college course or re-
ceves honorable in study, provided in the
last case that Ac attns 20 per cent in his college course
or 70 per cent FOR last three This new plan
also provides that faculty. far from being bound
by marks IN making the awards, win give the student
the credit him for proficiency in any special study
The president of the Chicago Board of Ed
ucaton very wisely suggests that something may be
done TO counteract effect Of sensational siorypa
pers by calling the attention of parents TO such books
as would be beneficial to children, and through the
schools melting pupils read them. Tnis last is most
neoessary Young people will rarely read really good
md useful book which their taste docs demand.
TIE right sort OF teacher-One full OF TACT cutiva-
ton and judgment-will know bow 10 inspire the
proper taste The ten-mnutc talk which has interested
bright boy suggestive and valuable book NAV
serve to bend his mind for life in noble and useful dl
Iection.
Wisconsin has 1926 regular school dis
tricts and l0S5 JOINT districts. The school population
Is 47S.692; the whole number attending school last
year was 297 500. The number attending private
schools 25,532 There are eighty-fve free high
schools the STATE. The total school receipts Of the
year were $2749,955 90; the expenditures were 81,
14s329 54 The average expense for each scholar
81 "a The average monthly salary of male teachers III
the country districts was $3S as Of female teachers
s25 So The salary of the male teacher in the cities
was Sl05 OF the female teacher S36 53 The aggre
gate value Of school property Is S5115555 90. There
are now in the denOmnatiOna colleges 05l students;
the total number OF their graduates was 7l3.
This paragraph, from the report of the Port
land (Me school Committee, has world OF excellent
suggestion In those willing to understand "SOme
teachers by nature. are better Atted 10 the
yOnng to mpart instruction, 10 apply proper stimulus
10 the mind, than others They have peculiar
adapteduess this particular calling facility IN the
use OF language power OF Illustration, an intelligent
Enthusiasm an earnestness OF manner, which cannot
fail to INSPIRE in the minds OF their pupils and
make them eminenty successful as teachers We have
some among teachers who belong 10 this class. II
always visit their and witness the
0uietude with which they govern, the facility
and cearness with which they impart instruction. and
the eager and respectful attention which, without any
apparent effort, they receive from ALL"
Superintendent Eliot. of Boston, says that the
great do for primary pupils is to keep them
fresh and unpressonablr Iustoad of snLrng them in
The mechanical routine which is often spread for ihem
they should be LIFT free be natural not noisy il
behaved but childkc even childish, priCg'shness Is
the only alternative. child likes 10 assert himself
SIN more than Most OF the defects attributed to
primary instruction arise from mistakng is obj tct
Instead OF being contented with the initiative strike
into the very substance Of education and aim at effects
belonging a later stage. In this earlier oue We
should be satisfied with opening expanding the minds
Of our pupils; should not try to fin them. We have
TO the intellectual powers conscious exercise, but
not exercise them all, any OF them entirely
Primary teaching is impulse rather than complete
movement.
A speaker at the recent meeting Of the Buff
falo Teachers Associ on said that the present system
of examinations does show what the pupil knows
does IT demonstrate what tae candidate knows who
sspires become n teacher Two things he added
especially noticeable ia popular school education. II
usually lesGs to interest iu literature. nor ecqusin
ance with it, nor any of the value OF history for
modern and It's most Characteristic and general
suit dstaste for manual labor Ii is notorious that
pupil could through system Of sOcaed liberal course
of study and graduate with honor highest nsttu-
tons complete ignorance of that vast body OF facts
md principles which has in modern times under
the name o science. and the object Of which is TO