New-York tribune., 1879-05-01
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There are S6,961 children of school age ID
Baltimore ana of this number 46,77s attend school,
The receipts for school purposes in Ohio last
year were s21 o. and the expenditures SS'o'
125 As.
Atlanta is TO have new colored school-a
Bapnst semnary-wbioh will be under the control OF
the American BaptstfIome Mission Society
The st. Louis School Board has adopted the
plan providing for the experiment of teaching German
by one of the regular English teaching nstructors
Friends of the Harvard Medical School say
that it could not successfully enter upon the instruction
female students without additional fund OF $780,
600.
The Harvard statutes have been so amended
that there will hereafter be four grades of degrees OF d.
A. two grades OF degrees of Il. H. and three grades o
the degrees of Bachelor OF Science and OF Mining En-
gneer
The School of Art Needlework, which was
opened IN Boston last october, has been remarkSoV
successful II has had 1s4 paving pupils and 30 Tree
pupils their work, for originality aud artisuc ee
ing, is said to be wonderful
The Philadelphia Board of Education has
been unable hitherto to agree upon schedule OF re-
duced salaries. 1t has been stated by mel hers that
proposed determinations in regard to saatles were
unjust and the reduction OF IL per cent was 700
much.
hereafter very cheap. The president has determined
TO utilize about ono hundred of land and give the
products to the person who the boarding club
on condition that he furnishes satisfactory board at
reasonable price. possibly 50 so per week
The school population of Georgia is 433,-
444 and the entire school fund Is only about 100000
about 90 cents per capita for education State School
Commissioner Orr endeavorng TO nave laws enacted
providing dog tax. and for the introduction OF the
the educational fund
BY the bill recently passed in the Senate OF
this state provided that uniform textbooks are 70
lie furnished for period Of fifteen years by the lowest
bidder The superintendent Of Public instruction Is To
determine the subject matter OF the books and can re-
wise them in five All school officers will be
compelled to introduce them, under penalty OF dlsms-
SAL school districts permitted TO levy tax to
purchase the books.
1t has been proposed in the Boston School
Board that in the evening high school the wing
studies shall be taught and others: Bookkeeping,
Commercial arithmetic penmanship, the elements OF
algebra and geometOry and English composition. Ad-
vanced mathematics may be Taught should twenty per
petition for instruction therein who have preyl-
ously passed satisfactory examination in the whole OF
plane geometry and IN dusdratic equations in algebra
Mr.. James B. Jermain. of Albany, is mem
TONED candidate for of the vacancies now ex-
listing In the board OF trustees of Amherst College He
was graduated that institution in the class OF 1881
pOssessor of large fortune and his g,fts TO
the charities OF Albany and Its vicinity have been
numerous aud ample. fine stone church edice cost
ing about 100000 which he built and gave TO a Pres
byterian society West Troy of the evidences Of
his liberallty.
Another straw showing that the people are
of necessity THE TRIBUNE long since declared,
from Ohio At the recent meeting of the Central
Ohio Teachers Association there was read a clever
DEM ne
OF the country and asserting that there Is in
education too much neglect OF moral training Several
OF the principal members Of the association heartily ex-
pressed their agreement with this opinion. There Will
hope the future of our country when teach
er and parents realize that education" does not mean
alone the putting OF certain number Of facts and de
duetons into young minds
Lecturer Allen, of Harvard, holds that in
many Of topics taught 1t would be an immense gain
If textbooks common schools were entirely abolished
with the exception Of very brief manual Of dates
and results guide TO memory. History, physics
and astronomy, for example, should be taught orally
and Mr.. Allen adds that in the growing accumulation
and cost Of textbooks and the crowdng Of schOowork,
this method will be the only escape from breakdown
of the entire system. Perhaps but people are not
willing to pay righteous wages to good teachers-and
oral instruction requires thoroughly good teachers
such method cannot possibly be adopted.
There is a good deal of suggestion in this
Paragraph: "a state superintendent who had made,
during long office, hundreds OF visits to I'M
graded country schools declared that he never once
saw teacher conducting q recitation without text
book Ia hand that he seldom saw either teacher or
pupils at the blackboard that he school
globe actually use that he teacher give
IN object lesson that he heard lesson on morals
OF manners that he but one schoolcabnet;
that he reading class trained TO stand erect
and hold book properly; tnat he never heard teacher
give q lesson in local geography; that classes when
asked 10 point north uniformly pointed upward TO the
zenith that heard spelling lesson dictated
in which teacher did not misprOnOunce more
words and that he found school where the
pupils had trained TO write letter. either of bus-
ness friendship"
Any young woman will be admitted to the
new instruction az Harvard who passes salts
faeOriy any eight OF the following subjects at the
preliminary examinations l. English q Physical
geography. 3. Botany or physics l. Mathematics, l
(arithmetc algebra through equations Of the fist de-
gree, including proportions, fractions and common d-
visor). g. Mathematics, (algebra through quadrat-
les plane geometry. 6. History. z. French g. Ger
man. g. Latin. TO- Greek. These examinations will
be held on Wednesday. May 26, in Cambridge New
Yors. Philadelphia and Cincinnati The examination
feeisSI5 This year will be held in Cambridge, during
the last week IN September, special examination for
those who may be unable TO attend in May. Those who
pass Oh smaller number Of subjects than eight may be
admitted at the discretion of the managers TO such
courses as they seem qualified to pursue Special stu
dents " no wish 10 take only higher courses OF study
will not be required pass the above examinations,
provided they satisfy the instructors Of their ability TO
pursue these special courses with advantage. Two
hours Of week will be given in each course
OF study during the academic OF about thirty
weeks Four courses OF advanced studies five OF
more elementary studies, Will he regarded as fun
years work The fee for full years instruction will
be 5000 The for single will vary from $40
TO 800. The advanced examinations in Greek Latin