New-York tribune., 1879-11-27
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

lOs,Os4 puphss
Dartmouth now has library of nearly
b6.Oo0 volumes.
The library of the late Caleb Gushing now
belongs chiefly to Bowdoin.
Mr.. Robert Lcnox Kennedy's recent gift to
Union College been at his suggestion. employed In
completing the necessary buding Of about 1000 DOCKS
Miss Blanche Edwards and Mile. Martha
Dubois are two youn who have just passed the
Baccaaureate the science Dnd examination OF the
Paris University.
There are now at Yale 1908 students, ISL
OF whom are in the Academca Department, and 10 in
the Sheffield Scientific School There are 80 students n
the Graduate Department
The rebel students of Middlebury College
have returned 10 their work. Of them. however
applying for papers OF dismisson NUMBER OF 'ne"i
will probably leave at the end OF the year.
Superintendent Parker. of Quincy, has pub
li,hed a little manual of Arithmetic and Form as
Taught in the schools under his management The plan
provides for eight years of arithmetic study
The lectures on science and history sub
iccts at Kiags and Christ Colleges. Oxford University
are open this term for The chemical laboratory
at Newuham Hall has been completed and found OF
great advantage.
Professor Dexter. of Yale, announces that
his optional American history for next term VIII nave
To do with the pcIlOu cNtenuhe AI"H Aho "i'N"'NAJ
Columbus TO the Revolution. He will almost completely
dispense With tue use OF a textbook in recitation
The estimate for teachers salaries in Phila-
aepha next year has been cut down S96o47 80 by the
Finance Committee OF the City Council This reduction
leaves an appropriation Of S10O000o. and will cause
reduction OF per the salaries, which are aneauS
very small. .
Cornell University is about to extend lts
or by providing loc al examinations for ADMISSION III
and
he conducted by members Of the faculty. and TO De hed
during commencement week at the same time as 'hose
OF the University.
A new member of the ST. Louis School
Board Is quoted making novel objection 10 German
instruction In the public schools. He thinks that the
present system Will end in making every teacher III CT
Louis German, as it demands condition which can
only be met by Germans-a thorough kho"leuseo VI 'He
German language.
Sir Alexander Grant, at the recent opening
OF the session of the Edinburgh Association for the UNI
Versity Education OF Women spoke heartily IN favor OF
the higher education of women lie characterized 'he
old system O education in boarding schools as mechaI
ca aud dry said that the proposed substitution
was not longer hours Of study, bnt more rational EN-
ployment OF n shorter time. The nburgh Association
begins It's work provided with a handsome and conves
nient college building and considerable paance Vi
funds in hand.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, very wise
and learned gentleman, has made II apparent tnat NJ
heartily approves OF university education for young
women AT the recent distribution OF the o. the
Oxford local examinations he declared that he was
glad To think that nrst-class instruction was
ready TO the hands OF all young ladies' who desired to
avail themselves OF Il and he spoke In commendaon
of the opening of these examinations TO Young women
whose education, after mparatively early age was
left entirely unattended TO- and they had had stmu-
Jus 10 continue IT,
Without counting the distinct organization
fnIa anita uf-
tachcd to Cambridge has this term risen TO 81 Alto
ccther during Is7s-'79, 1Ol women students
have been attending the lectures OF the Cam
bridge Association. Tweniy-iour nrst classes
were obtained in the examinations last June
Two students have reached the standard of the CLASH
cal Tiips one attaining second class. Miss Lawrence
wonldhave been placed the second class IN me Natural
Sciences Trpos II examined otherwise than informally,
Dr NJ Foster and Mr. Bafour for the students of the
Association who are attend ng their courses OF lectures
hysiOlogy and comparative anatomy.
Two committees representing the regents of
The University and Il several literary colleges OF this
State met IN ALBANY last week 10 mature plan for the
comforting academic degrees those who shall pass
proposed postgraduate examinations under the author
ity and direction or the regents There general
agreement as To the advantages OF such system Of
examinations and dences and its tendency 10 hit col
lego standards. The plan proposed contempates the
appointment by the regents OF adequate number OF
examiners each Of whom shall be pert In oartic-
tion no one he "A candidate for the higher Univer-
tiiy degrees until be has Worn Tue eOleslHe ueg rec
fixed length OF time aud the degrees Ia be c0uicrred
nj the annual UDver-ity commensurate. NJ dell
nte conclusion has yet been reached
VI. Herold. Prefect of the Seine, recently
gave at meeting OF the Paris Municipal Council. the
facts concerning the late secuarzaton OF the coDmu
nnl schools Altogether. he stated he had secuafzed
IN Paris thrtytwo Congregational establishments and
there remained 10 TO be secuarzed In the rest OF the
Department he had secularized fifteen schools The
chief difficulty he had found In procuring conipe-
tent teachers. He said that many OF the Chris
tian Brothers had applied for mastershps IN
the lay schools and had been accepted The lay teach
rrs than the Cougregatonasts, because the
authorities paid them higher wages in order TO get more
qualified teachers. He stated that In almost every
quarter freed schools had been started
Nv the side Of the secuarz'd schools but IN spite OF
number OF pupils IN the lay establishments
10 the schools that had been secusrz-d. 1000 had
siued there aud 1000 had Joined the free Congreea-
the Government was firmly resolved TO carry out the
program ne secular education, but at the time
10 b. prudent rune the sentiments OF the peO-
pie by hasy or too sweeping TRANSFORMATIONS III the
public schools.
Ii is stated that at the Synod last week of
the Catholic Archdiocese OF Boston the question Of the
public schools was brought up. The Boston journal
says: The Archbishop read letter from the Pope TO
nm European bishop In which His Holiness urged the
establishment Of Catholic schools, and conferred upon
pastors the authority withhold the sacrameDts from
parents who refused 10 send their children 10 them.
That. the Archbishop declared, was 10 be the
policy In the Archdiocese OF Boston. AT the
same tiue-and this regarded by some as an allu-
sion TO the Cambridge pastor he deprecated any yrsn
meal acton OF priests. He then instructed
the pastors begin al the esrabshment
OF schools In their respective parishes and be informed
them that M after the schools in OperdtOn parents
refused send their children TO them pastors would be
sustained la denvng them the sacraments He went even
further and said that II any priest was satisfied that the
public schools IN hts particular locality were niuring
The Cathoic children spiritually, he should withdraw
them Immediately from WITHIN the OF the bad In
uenecs II there we're no parochal school ready 10