New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-03-20
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Hobart College, Geneva. has now college
monthly called TIE Herald.
Miss /. C. Allen has just been elected Pro-
fa.sor of Domestic Science in the Illinois INDUSTRIAL
University.
Tho hest argument made against phoneuc
,peng is that It would in most cases utterly ooherato
the evidences OF Latin and Greek Derivation
President McCosh declares that he does not
.np,ove the English University system of organizing
small classes each man pursuing special subject lie
holds that IL Is wrong student TO make spec'siU
of any one subject before he has had thorough edu
cation
bloomington, Illinois, has female supern-
tendept OF the schools. Under this lays manage
mont the school work has greatly improved, parents
have taken new and strong interestln H. anu 'he Po
centage of hardness has during the past year
amazingly
The proposed reduction In the salaries OF
the PHILADELPHIA teachers does not please me zee
ydph OF that city, 1t very truly and Wisely urges 'na
beore the reduction planned the rate OF compensa
ton in the highest scale more than skiliu me-
ohanic could earn and in the lowest not so much do
now paid to q cook chambermald
The. German language is now taught III
fty-sx public schools OF this city There were ninety
eight classes examined during the year, OF whch num-
bor eiehy-sx were reported TO have excellent lDstuc
instruction in French and Of the fifteen classes three
had good instruction and the other two excellent
largo majority OF the pupils in almost every class III
these languages read and translate the foreign teAt
the textbook correctly. Great improvement Was nU
las wear I'm the written rausatOns from BngllSh lho
the foreign languages which pupils are generahy aSAeu
10 make in the presence of the examiner
II is the statement Of The Morning Cal, OF
San Francisco that 20 per cent of the public schooi
.l,a o{4y iss ed
salo11es in expensive ornamental studies, III running
costly machinery and like extravagance. "A primary
teacher t adds "whO would earn $3.50 per
had pro rata tuition her class actually recelVeo from
$50 TO SO per month. The bulk Of the work OF
The department is done by these teachers The
difference between what they would receive OF prvate
rates and what they do receive is devoted to paying hsh
salaries for fCure-heads very many Of whom are an
injury to the department"
The Committee of the Boston School Board
on the revision of the school system has recommended
among other measures OF economy the cutting down OF
the number OF supervisors the dlscontlnuDg OF the
services Of special and perhaps neeuIesS
teachers and the abolition Of the Kindergarten 1ho
Board in discussing these recommendations, voted 10
reduce the number OF supervisors to four' anu
agreed that plan should be arranged TO give the TASK
of teaching sewing to the regular instead OF TO speca
teschors-he regular teachers to DO under the super
vision OF one more directors in this branch' An
amendment tacitly abohshlng the KnoeIEr'eh "HS
passed.
The Washington School Trustees have
adopted report providing for the division Of schools oil
one grade sections, so that one section snail DC
studying while the other is recng. In assigning les
sous for study at nome the following directions are 10
he observcd No lessons shall be assigned to pupils IN
the first or second rade the lessons for pupils IN the
third fourth grade not TO require more than one
'hour IN the fifth, sixth or seventh grade not more
than one hour and half, and IN the eighth grace not
more than two hours. Neither arithmetic nor penman-
shin Is 70 be assigned for study home. In all cases
where studies required at home the work to be done
Is to be definitely stated and thoroughly exp by
the teacher that nelGentpupls can master 1t without
assistance