New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-01-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


bhonocraphv TO their course of study
There were 1873 South Carolinians attend
inc colleges outside the State last year The number at
tending colleges within the state was 'iJl.
Tho nor capita cost of instruction in Mill
rtoo schools based upon the average daily attend
once is SG6 60 Based upon the whole number en-
rolled It Is Sl' ~
The meeting of the American Institute OF
Instruction will he held this year. as IT was last year.
IN the White Mountains New and even better arrange
mcnts than those of IS have been made.
The average daily attendance in the san
Francisco schools for the calendar year ending D'oe
Der 81 was 2Gl27s The receipts FOR the support 81
the schools were SsJ7sj5 90; the expenditures were
S9Gl ,i2j %.
Miss Ada Heather Bigg is young E'oy
who was one of the recent competitors for the c'ruo
scholarship political economy at OhveiSiN Io'''Se'
Ion1on Tne examiners Professors Fawcett andJeNonS'
specially commended her.
"Cramming" in the public schools was some
What severely discussed last week by the Mihs'eraI
Association Of Dayton, Ohio Several members agree"
that children should not spend SO much time III h'u"S
ont Of school hours 51d suggested that the Ger
Cymen should shortly in connection win 'ne p"!
sicans Of the city give the subjects more careful con
siderauon
There has been much discussion in the Chi
c,ro school oari recently about the teaching Of Ger
man in the schools. one member declares That Ill inc
more than twelve years since that study was INTRO
duced INTO the schools the instruction in 1t has had
STEADY and unbrcken decline. In November last Tue
average number of grammar pupils taking German was
but 100 TO the school
The Maine Legislature is about to inquire
the cxpcdIency of ab0lsnuG the free hGh sch"o
az The STATE 1t argued that these schools are needed
To Keep MP supply OF teachers for the public Schools
~ the two normal schools said 10 be itt" more
than costly failures. The Portland Argus reports tu"'
only one in twenty Of the thousand teachers IN
Inc common schools graduates OF these normal
schools.
The Regents of the University of Michigan
have Just asked the Legislature of that state To give the
institution a new hospital; $500 year for the IL
brary rc-pro0f building for the museum ana library
steam-heatns apparatus for all the buildings, ana al-
preparations OF nearly S2G0 900 to he divided among an
fcrcnt departments. All the colleges OF the University
are IL prosperous state and the total attendance -
$50 students.
The principal of the Northern Indiana Nor
NAL School has recently made Judiclous experiment
with his students lie placed each week fifty copies
OF a good daily and other papers and magazines IN the
tcadinCrO At first the students seemed Indifferent
bu, gradually they began TO read and IN short time
they showed great interest in the leading topics OF the
day, and conversation at the table and elsewhere
changed very much iOT tho better. His experience
leads the principal strongly recommend the use Of
newspapers general exercises and IN reading classes
The average number OF pupils attending
Rhode Island day schools last year is reported at 20"
G64 the enrolment II .O93 There were sol schools
and So teachers The average wages paid per month
10 male teachers SO; female teachers received
$40 -. There were 50 evening schools with an
average attendance Of OLE The school receipts Of The
State were S7O9.lii 49, the expenditures &G79,77o 9G
The cost per capita OF average attendance in The day
schools was ST. 90; in the evening schools SO 81
The average town for public schools on each 800
was 10 cents.
Twcnty-One ladies presented themselves at
the Harvard examination Tor women in Philadelphia
last year Three OF tcs" who took the advanced course
passed one receiving certificate FOR mathematics one
for phiosopy and for languages. The last PASSED
with distinction" OF the eighteen in the preliminary
course one received q certificate, and ten were entitled
10 proceed another year, having elected to divide the en-
animation into two years The committee say that this
examination showed that the applicants OF the prclim-
mary course were better prepared IN tie literary
branches Of languages literature and history than IN
in the mathematical and scientific ones. The interest in
the examinations is steadily increasing Ill PAiladelpa
School affairs in Missouri are III a miserable
state The remedy said To he IN the election Of comfy
supcruteud4rts. who shall thoroughly supervise the
schools receive fair salaries for Their services Its
also accommodated tina, the length Of the school term be
increased toss months The school OF Mines at Eola,
isin crippled condition, which few thousand dollars
would relieve. Each of the three normal schools u in
hourshns condition, but they Obliged TO charge
contingent fec which very hard to he borne by the
class the state is educating them The colorcd
teachers of the state have organized association
which is in successful operation. The state school fund
j. S2,909A57 II.
Said President ChadbOuIne, Of Williams Col
cse 10 the Massac huscs teachers at their recent meet;
ing: II all moral and religious cducatiOns neglected,
we shall some day be swallowed up by corruption. We
want the same deep OF responsibility and moral
honesty that the Puritaus possessed though We want
by no means 10 go back 10 those DAYS Enforcement Of
the principles honesty love Of law, respect OF labor
should never be forgotten and should ever ann To
develop honest manhood ana wOmanAOod. Education
does not consist in mastering languages but is found in
that moral training which extends beyond the school
room 20 the play ground and street. and which teaches
that mcauer hing can be done than TO fail in recita
ton"
The schools of New-Oreans had last year
174@4 wnte pupils and GS5G colOred ones. The
teachers are suffering from the nOnpdymcnt o. their
salaries The payroll for December, 1871 still remains
due and for 1873 four months salaries which
cannot probably be settled IN fun for several months 10
come Inc teachers are Obliged 10 sell their october
claims for 90 tie dollar; the November and
December claims cannot be disposed OF at any price,
and some Of the teachers driven 10y hard necessity,
have anticipated their January and February salaries
The teachers have appealed to the citizens TO call mass
meeting for the expression Of opinion TO the