New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-12-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Brown University has go students, 16 being
post-graduate students.
The fund for establishing an East Indian
Institute at oxford, is rapidly growing.
There are now 800 students at Dartmouth
o26 being in the academical department.
Swarthmore College (the Friends College)
IA. now 265 students. about one-haf being Friends
A drawing teacher for the Detroit public
Schools has been appointed. with salary oil Sioo
month.
The MARYLAND State School Commissioners
met last week aud agreed that 1t was unnecessary W
make shy changes in the school laws.
Nearly every county in Wisconsin is repre-
sented in the normal departments of the schools Dur
inc the year the normal school receipts have peen
$1,000 -; the total disbursements have Dee"
s6969s co.
Oberlin now has 949 students. Tbirty-nve
Young women are taking the hard and long cia'so".
course arranged for the male students Inc Aed"o' VI
Cleveland, says that the young women arc 'n many
cases. ahler students than the young men.
The ANTICIPATED intention of the Oxford oni-
ers,,v Commissioners to reduce the value and tenure
Of college scholarships giving rise to some uneaSness
among those interested In university education IN Eng
land memorial submitting the Inexpedience oil suen
change is about be presented TO the COMMISSIONERS
There are 675 coored schools in Virginia,
tansht Inv 4l5 eoored teachers. The salary OF
male teachers $50 o. month: OF female teachers
sol 10 There are 35.76s colored children enrolled IN
the schools OF which nGmbor 21.23l are IN average
daily attendance. In the lsl6 white schools '2Soo
white pupils are enrolled 1880 arc in average daily
attendance The schools during the past year cost
S5ll.9O2 90.
The Je,cish Chronicle (English) complains that
there is not ia Jerusalem school where modern III
structon given. such instruction, 1t ADDS peuE
strictly kept M distance by the Oigory Oh soo VI '
rahbls from the unfortunate children OF Jerusalem Jew"
The result is that very backward population OF jews
Is growing M I'm the sacred city Of Judaism and Christ
tanitv-a very numerous and ignorant population OF
Jews destined to be opprobrum and danger TO their
brethren throughout the world."
The University of Halle has now not so
many students as during the days OF Gesenus Hupied
Thouck and Rocdirer During the last semester iVo4
Young studied there. 252 of these being IN the inc
illogical department The best known of the theoloe
cal faculty is Herr Rehm. former pupil Of Hupieio'
Herr Friman one of the Hegclians now living. and
n brilliant lecturer philosophy, is one or the phO-
sophcal faculty, which includes Ulrici the writer on
Shakespeare. Halle always been especially sparng
IN the besowal of degrees The Phi. d. degree requires
very strict examination, and that OF Doctor IN 1heo
ogy rarely bestowed
The public schools of Iowa are said to be
the tendency divide and subdivde the district until
many of the schools are so small that they lack the IN
tcrcst and have not the financial ability to pay living
salaries. The State superintendent thinks greater
permauency OF the country teachers IN the vocation ana
IN the district absolutely necessary for Improvement
There - n great lack of uniformity In the country
schools During past year 1873 male teachers were
emp.oyed and 1859 female teachers. The average
monthly salary OF the former was s3l n; OF the latter
500 40 The enrolment in the schools vas43l3l7, the
average attendance 264702. The school population OF
the STATE numbers 577.353
California has now 2.190 public schools at
tended by li4 SOC children, and conducted by 7453
teachers The monthly salary of male teachers
Is $50 10: that paid to female teachers is sec 81
The school expenditures during the year have been
s3OlO9O7 10 the total receipts OF the school depart
mcnt from all were S3G5s79s 80. According
10 the census California has school population OF
2l6.iO4 The percentage OF this number enrolled In
the public schools during the year G60l the per-
centage In private schools, 7Oi percentage attending
no schoo 2GO5 percentage OF children Of natveborn
parents 1918 percentage OF children who had one for
eign parent percentage of children who Of
foreign parents. 41.l7
The London City Companies have set aside
sum OF more than S75. 600 year 10 further in that
city the technical education of artisans IL Intended
10 build large central technical college. but the au
thotities do not mean % wait for Its completion
Courses technical physics and chemistry
already been established Professor Ayrton. in
his address in OF these courses cautioned his
against the idea that the object OF technical
education merely gain kuow ledge of facs. or TO
produce gwen article OF commerce at cheaper rate
its object Is rather the mental training which IL nsures.
proof how much more important this than The mere
accumulation OF facts may be seen from 80 many nven-
lions having due TO minds which, although edu
Gated had but small knowledge OF the special details
OF the science which the invention belonged The In
Of Mr. EdiHOu cited In Illus
tratiOn OF this.
In some of the San Francisco primary
schools methods resembling those Of Quincy used.
large clock face is used teach the table Of time and
Tin measures and water are employed IN explaining
that Of In rgctons broken chalss and d.
vidcd fruits Illustrations Grammar is taught
practically, amusing little stories being read TO the
pupils who are aflerward required TO write correctly
abstracts from memory. In one school the teacher
takes her class ont INTO the country without leaving
the The tckeselling and other railway methods
aie defined the OF the country described, with
its agricultural produconst is altogether lesson In
local geography botany business and marathon and
leaves the children with practical ideas OF what they
have discussing Peanuts. jackknives and marbles
appear as illustrations IN the arithmetic class in this
school II is related Of California teacher that several
wears ago she was much troubled by her pupils dull and
stess rccitations geography On her way home one
day she noticed large pool Of water IN the school yard
and was struck by brilliant idea She took her class
out little pond next day. and with the water and
the mud and the worn-away shores OF the miniature
ocean gave them lesson IN geography that at once
wildly instructed and delighted them One prominent
San Francisco educator declares that the great need Of
the schools is practical instruction on current
topics and advocates the reading Of a newspaper In
school every morning. all the valuable nome and foreign
information being impaired TO the pupils.
The Washington Board of School Trustees
b.s received fur reports from the secia committee 10
whom the question Of female representation IN the
Rnarl had necn referIed. The chnnnan,s report de