Sharp County record., 1879-09-25
School and Church.


The Bishop of London has S50,0OO
a year and the use of two houses.
The eighteenth annual session of
the National Educational Association
has just been held at Philadelphia. The
opening address was delivered by Pres
ident John Hancock of Dayton, Ohio.
The exercises were of great interest.
President McCosh has fears of a
decline of the ministerial supply of the
Presbyterian Church. He says the three
Younger classes in Princeton College
contain an unusually small number of
students who intend to enter the minis
try. He thinks it time that the church
should be aroused.
The United States statistics of in
ternal revenue show great increase in
the consumption of lager beer, which is
becoming the beverage of the masses.
The consumption is now nearly l 100000
barrels a month, or something over H.
100000 barrels annually, or about eight
gallons to every individual in the Unit
ed States. The consumption of whisky
does not appear to have diminished in
quantity.
Lucy Stone has been paying a visit
to Wellesley College for women in Mas
sachusetts. She gives little account
of what she saw there in the Womon's
Journal. At this college "the cooks
are men, the professors are women"
The visitors were invited to look at the
microscope work of the school. The
girls have more than 50 microscopes
constantly in use, and gave an exhibit
of animal, mineral and vegetable speci-
mems which was much to their credit.
They also have row-boats, each with its
own colors, captain and crew. The
girls are accustomed to exercise them
selves at their oars, on the lake, every
evening, and are said to look very rosy
and healthy.
According to a recent and eminent
Roman Catholic authority, that church
is now the richest religious body in this
country. The ratio of increase in its
pecuniary resources from 1860 to 1870
was 1913 per cent. Official statistics,
published in 1875, give the number of
its priests as 5,074, the number of STU
dents preparing for the priesthood l.
273, and the number of churches and
chapels, 6,52S. There were at that time,
33 theological seminaries, So colleges,
557 academies, 645 parochial schools,
214 asylums, and Sc hospitals. The
Catholic Directory for 1879 shows a
Catholic population in this country OF
6,375,630.
The Washington School Trustees
have received from their Special Com
mittee on the Course of Study several
excellent recommendations. Condensed,
these are No new text books, fewer
studies, more oral instruction by teach
ers, less show. work, more of the practi-
tical, less of the theoretical. "The OBJ
ject," says the committee very wisely,
"should ever be not to see how much
can be taught, but how well the instruc-
ton can be given" Among the sug-
gestions is one that natural science and
physiology be taught orally in each
school, and another, that lessons IN good
morals and polite manners be given
each week by each teacher, enforced by
anecdote and illustration.
President EGot's views on educa'
ton, as expressed in his recent address
at the Smith Female College in Massa-
chusetts, are the cause of considerable
comment. 81 may as we'll abruptly
avow," he said, "as the result OF my
reading and observation in the matter
of education, that I recognize but one
mental acquisition as an essential part
of the education of a lady or gentleman,
namely: an accurate and refined use OF
the mother tongue. Greek, Latin,
French, German, mathematics, natural
and physical science, metaphysics, his
tory, and esthetics are all profitable and
delightful, both as training and acquisi-
tions to him who studies them with in
telligence and love; but not one OF them
has the least claim to be called an ac-
QUESTION essential to a liberal education
or an essential of sound training"
This, coming from the President OF Har-
ward College, sounds rather radical.