New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Harvard library last year,
Kansas has now school population of
100000 the increase since last year IL 1882
A class of eighty-nine young women has
lust been admitted TO the Massachusetts state Normal
School at Salem.
OF the SOAPS white children in Cincinnati,
es c6S attend tue public schools OF the 2l9O coored
children l197 are the public schools 993 not being
in any school.
( Governor Roberts, of Texas, is reported TO
hold very much the Of opinions on STATE cou
cation as does Governor Robinson. He is quoted a.
asking why man should be taxed to pay Tor tine
education Of another mans chldren-which is a large
and statesmanke view OF the matter
The Governor of the Province of Western
FLANDERS has suspended the execution OF the resolution OF
the cer cal city administration OF Bruges b wnchit"Ss
forbidden 10 the teachers OF the public primary schoos
20 give religious instruction. The resolution ""S' VI
course. Intended deprive these schools 81 ther pup
Hamilton College is to be brought INTO
closrr connection with the Presbyterian Church. ana
Will TINS be rendered much more prosperous lie
synod NJ ALBANY has Just passed resolution recon-
mending 100000 endowment al the college as
Preshvteran institution. The undertaking Is nmmedi-
atey &C. he p esenteJ to al the synods OF the state
President Dreher, of Roanoke College. Va,
was formally uaugurated last sasarday, ana on me
same dav the Billie Memorial Library Building AZ
tached To the college, opened Among the Naiu"be
contributions the Library are sets oi TIE tribune
Herald and bound volumes, covering the ehlie
period OF the C,yi War these presented by Judge
Haniley. Of Scranton, Penn.
The New-OIleans schools can not accommo-
dat a. now managed large number of pupils ap-
pi,iur f,r admission. The Superintendent proposes
therefore aud very wisely. that only the awm mum
Der of sixty scholars sh constitute class ID 'ne PR
mary ferartm mr. and that applicants IN excess oil
y.l To A sep
Tho afso,u .iuu The of hers Doe dismissed al Tue
close ~ their morning session. This period Cd" lhsuo-
ton wall be- as il desirable TO nhct upon III
tic children Tho city aupropriaos TINS year 100000
for Inc support of the schools
The scholarship offered hy the Birmingham
EngiinD Association the medical education OF
women has Just been awarded. ON examination 10 Miss
Emily Tomiinsou who entered Grton College in 1879.
She took houors IN tnc Nauia Science TrIpos III De-
ceabeT. ISIS. and in Jauuty 1879. matrculai'd with
hanors al thc University oi LonoOn. Last June MISS
Tomlnsnn pass d tire irst division Tor the Prcimi-
nary Scientific Examination. taking honors IN chemistry
and also passln- IN mathematics for the FIRST B.sc
Nv This means she became entitled 10 enter for the
Second Bsc. next year, An excellent intellectual
record" FOR womau.'
In the University OF Pennsylvania the en-
trance examination English grammar. etymoiogy
and Is mad thorough test OF the cand
dates knowledge. aud nearly all the schools which sup
py ID, Ualyorsite ndiug their pupils so well pre-
pared that the number OF conditioned and rejected
steadily grows smaller. The practical and theoretical
course IN rhetoric lasts eighteen months, aud l. supple
mened by themr-writug throughout Voluntary
classes in English literature have necn formed, and an
other class for criticism OF English authors from the
rhetorical point Of is proposed; II is hoped that
these be made elective. worked INTO
the required course.
Mr.. w. T.. Forster said in an dinner
OF England taken there was no idea Of the enor-
NOUS mulItnGo of children who untaught Be
fore the School Boards into operation teachers
disgracefully paid. At present, II Is rdicu-
lousy small proportion of children who learn the
hirher branches. What is makine teaching more costly
IA England than before is iCt the teaching OF
higher subjects the wetodo child. nut the teaching
OF the lowest Misunderstanding writing aud ciphering
those children wao had been swept IN by the COM
pulsory PROVISIONS OF the Education Act.
There never were many women students
IN residence al Cambridge England at present aud
1t is likely that fun term of lectures Will BE- given for
them. Many Of professors tregulTl lectures are
now opeu TO II Is expected that there VIII be
lectures the fereutia calculus in the Lent term
nexi year. aud CA dvnainics and the integral cacu-
us the Easter There are III London, al present.
some evening classes prepare students I'm certain OF
the subjects Tor the Cdmbi dge examinations. They
were begun last year. THIS year the teachers have
formed themselves INTO an drNncidliohs hhu lN'u'u
prospectus Of lessons. including neaiv all the subjects
ncnoneI in toe syndlcatcs regulations. such classes
might be made useful IA NewYork. and provide mate
rial for the Harvard yaminatiOns
In England in the board schools in the
coultrv, the east OF education is per capita -ome-
thing over $40; the London board schools the cost
rises as high as Sl4 Counting in the state expenditure
for building grants. normal schoOls pensions admins
tratiou cost rises Ia more than 81
iu the couatry and IN London to about SD Nh Mat
thew Arnold. discouraged by these figures. 50 much
greater than IN France. begs the boards to simplify their
ideas OF what necessary in instruction and manage
ment He thinks that the scale OF cost per scholar can
be brought within the limit Of - without loss OF Elf
cleucy. Popular education" he says, has had it,
moment of hgn IN this country, and nobody hss
asked questions about It's cost long tine prosperity
OF tie country Increasing hv leaps and bounds.
confess am afraid Of the cold M following the hot
In a season OF less prosperity. AIN AFRAID OF storm
of scontent aad obloquv raised against our very cx-
pensve system II elementary schools. and OF The outlay
upon them being mucn oyershruak As 1t is now.
think, OVers wOlleu."
Those happy beings who are to study Chinese
at Harvard will br obliged 10 give al least halt their
tinc to the work, patience -
good for the distinctions Of the four tones The
University has procured for lis students IN TIM Ian
gliag copies % sir Thomas Wade's text book
The Boston Adceri,Ser says that Mr. Hitler interpreter
Co the Eu.ush legation az Pekn, and an
cellcnt C0iucse schola-. writes 10 Mr. knight
that faii ful student VIII get fir
hold of the language IN three years time. Mr. Edward
T. Drew. Harvard graduate. resident Of Nngpo and
practically acquainted with The language. says that at
the rate Of tour hours and half day the stuGcnt
should master WAGES co loq hal course il from four
10 eighteen months. Ga tine other hand. OF The
Subscribers 10 TINS experiment al Harvard gentleman
VINO hed for .eyerI years ConsuisuiD Ia CHINA says
that acquired in mon, a knowledge OF Chiucs.
which, though imperfect. was nevertheless. Of
great use 70 hun i'm the dscIargc of his Official duties