New-York tribune., 1879-12-11
NOrES ON EDUCATION.

Rutgers tcueRe nas hV" A'o S'"'
being fr, shmcn.
Wesleyan University has 164 students, OF
them being women
Syracuse University has thus far secured a
Nnd OF 81 900. payable IN five annual instaiments'
The University of the South is to be en-
dowed with three memorial rrofessorshps In hohor o'
Bishops Elliott, Polk and Otey
Marshal Frederick Douglass has just made
an address Baltimore the right OF coored people
10 teach the coored public schools.
Geology has Just been added to the senior
electives at Brown University. The Philadelphia alumni
OF Brown have founded $4,000 scholarship.
Salaries are not to be reduced in Troy, the
School Board bng opinion that the teachers are
receiving nile for their services at present
The University of Wisconsin has now "a
professors tutors resident graduates 81 seniors
~ juniors 81 sophomores and 81 freshmen There are
OF special students and 80 law students
Forty y-seven pupils of the Cincinnati public
schools lately applied examination for scholar
shps IL the College OF Music. large majority showed
decided talent fund at the disposal OF the mu
sica commission SO small that only hve Scholarships
were awarded.
NJ. Jules Ferry, French Minister OF Public
Instruction has written the Projects ordering them
10 organize system of medical inspection for the pri-
mary schools which in some parts OF France are aunt
ted TO be unhealthy lns Wise tnlg mish' "e oe
done in other countries
Professor Olney, of Ann Arbor. holds that
the public schools should not be expected 10 turn out
technical specisiists but simply good boys and girls
And he adds: Character is what should be prodnced
In the schools and often not so highly regarded
as II should be in both teachers aud pupils'
The new University at Strasburg has
teaching 80 ordinary professors, ID professors
extraordinary, tutors aud lectors The dstgshc"
a, Tho
nund and The medical scholar Ku--mau have attracted
n large number Of students The strasburg stuoen's
are said 20 be dgent pursuers Of culture rather hah
fighters and merry-inakcrs, such disturb some o'her
German universities
School of Hygiene" in which technical
instruction shall be siven in the subjects OF sanitation
and public health is O be established IN London GRASSES
ara TO be formed for preventive medicine. practical san
itary science Jurisprudence and sanitary law TO the
twelve lectures each session persons OF either sex VIII
be admitted; and fees viii be low that all ranks
may attend Such school ought TO be of particular
Service 10 teachers and plumbers
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins Uni
versIty that during the past three years that
institution has had 1e7 graduate students, 81 OF whom
have held fen lwships aud o. COLLEGIATE students. He
adds number of students con >tantly increases
and quality constantly improves that there has
not been an occasion for the faculty 10 reprmand or
ccnsure single student; and that II has never been ms
good fortune To live among earnest, dligen; and
enthusiastic company of young than those who are
there assembled
The Committee of School Superintendent
and Commissioners. who have just reported upon the
school systems OF this State declare that the Legislature
Of tie state of NewYork should revise and consolidate
a school supervision and administration under State
Board Of Education and that this Board Of Education
should appoint the State Superintendent OF Public In
struction who should serve at the pleasure OF the
Board and be subject TO its direction and instruction
As the selection Of chief educational onicer, the
Commission recommends appointment by Board OF
Education as mode most free from the tammels OF
political partisanshp.
The ladies' classes for instruction by cOrre-
spondence in England are conducted by women who
have studied al Cambridge Oxford who have
ecived certificates at London University, OF have
distinguished themselves the CHER Local Examina-
tion generally have had long and successful prac-
tce In teaching OF an advanced kind The subjects are
religious knowledge, arithmetic and mathematics, Eng
lish literature, old English 0ncludns Anglosaxonl,
English history, French. German Greek and Latin and
Italian The instruction is given by means OF papers OF
auesrons at intervals If possible not longer than
week solution OF difficulties and directions TO books;
short essays or resumes by the pupils and sent
Tor teachers in the language classes,
VI passages set for translation.
Cambridge University Is to have several
new professorships-in Physiology Pathology. Mental
Philosophy and Logic Astronomical Physics. Ancient
History, aud Ecclesiastical History There are TO be
80 readers at go 900 year each aud many Univer
sty lecturers with 81 $50 each, the Senate and
General Board wish. Feowshps are addet 10 33 pro
fessorshps There fs 10 be reader in History and the
four readershps In language will enable the General
OF Studies to remedy the regreahle omission OF
profe ssOrshpS(l of tue comparative philOOgy OF the
dead and living tongues and t2l Of modern aucuages
scheme provides that eleven special boards or
professors readers lecturers etc, are 10 direct the
Studies the University ana elective General Board
superintend them. Initiate reforms etc. The Uni
verslty ectureshps and readeshps open new career
for who love learning rather than wrangDg at the
bar etc. afford the best training for professors
Very good progress has been made in the
South Carolina Schools during the past year The aver
age attendance of white pdpis 5s36san increase
of4,25O over the previous year. The attendance OF
colored pupils 005 against CO. l2l the previous
year. The number of schools has been slightly de-
creased-there having been formerly tendency TO
establish many schoos-and the number OF teachers
has increased There 2901 schools taught by
5000 white teachers and 1o76 colored teachers The
average session Ia still too short, being only $3.50
months The superintendent attributes this TO the
diversion the poll either in whole I'm part in
fourteen counties. nearly Onehalf the State to the
payment OF past due school claims The c0lored
people constantly show an increasing desire TO
avail Themselves OF the schools. Tie only in
srtution for higher education In South Caro-
Iipa which receives State aid IL the Clllin Univer
sity c0ored young aud women. superintendent
Thompson recommends. nrstThat III providing for the
payment of past due school claims no portion OF the
school be used. Second-Tha Incorporated towns
be allowed 10 levy local for school purposes.
ThFd-lhat provision be made for establishing Nor
mai School. FourthThat provision be made for the
prompt psymoUt OF teachers salaries