New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


young women.
The Collore for Working-women in London Is
thoronehly successful 1t aims 90 provide for women
who ora accounted dur aC the day higher education
Than is ordinarily within their reach. COOKERY II
taught therein well as the intellectual OiaucheS
Practical medical examination of tie eyes OF
school children a habit which is becoming es'au-
lshed IN this country and abroad. An oXtraordi-
nary number of children found 10 haNe eve
troubles. These examinations are heartiiy TtC,'nr
uended for in countless eases the bcclhnlhs "a
disease may thus b. perceived and eradieA'eu'
At the recent meeting Of the council ofthe College
of Physical Science at NewcaS;ic-on-iyne E"aH"-'
At was agreed without q dssent'onl voice. 10 "u'''
q lady who hsd been successful in the eNlu'""''O"
70 hold Az exhibition in the Coiie'r. as nIS
lady was Miss Isabel NJ ADDS. wto won we " h
siicsI nrIze for iuuor candidates in the last Gam
bridge local eXainuatlons'
Oriental education is growing broaHer every He"i'
At the last matrioulaticn examination OF Ma"I"S
University. $500 candidates presented themselves
and | O94 passed. TwothirdS OF tbs number came
from non-goverrmeni schools. and It rs sand q at me
schools nsuagpd Dy native gentlemen are iatEVH
Increasing. TIE majority OF the candidates VINO
passed he 4. \. examination were BrahmlnS
Illinois has a school population of l,010S51, an
enrolment Of 70i 041 and 1852 school as
tric;s supporting II. 9j4 schools. The State mas
moreover GGl private schools, nstrueting OO'4fV
pupils There are only 4.015 llllteraieS IN IHAols'
During the last school year The public school M
lures of tie STATE amounted to S"2"I'9 co. 49,
average amount paid monthly 10 the mae te"cuots
was $44 %; to the female teachers, $35 %
The German educational code provides for a chl'd
who can only attend school five hours a uiy io' VIC
eipht years between six aud fourteen diSVihcl
,ourse of Instruction. Tins includes religious ana
moral teaching the speaking, reading and WH1nE
of the mothor-tonguc, arithmetic and the elements
- / ,rt, ~rof4 la p.,upfr Y,
natural history. natural science, singing, CRAVING
mud gymnastics Those pupils who can CIV" lnole
years and more hours day 10 study 20 I" Ct-Cl-
ent school and pursue different course o. l"s''"'
tion.
The half trained young women who teach Tor pm
money in the public schools may perhspS De inter
ested in reading The london Spectators summary OF
the business of a skilled schoolm1ster; To know
by what devices knowledge may be most effectively
presented to the mind Of a beginner; t. know how
TO kindle interest and enthusiasm IN a new sicaY'
whom TO appesl TO the iudcmcu. and When 70 the
memory how 20 puf wise questions. how 10 arrange
and correate different studies. and what ere Ihelr
respective values rs instruments OF mental develop
ment how TO test the results OF work. what Is the
rlgat mode OF discipline, and how rewards anu pun
,shlnents be most judIcousy used"
The students Of the ST. Petersburg University are
privately circulating for signature an address EN-
bodyiug apeti,iou already submitted to the rector
for presentation 10 the Minister OF Public In 'rGc-
tion 1t demands, firstly the establishment OF
special student corporation, with the rigaJ OF max
ing renreseutatons TO the authorizes by deputies
secondly. the right OF holding periodical meetings :;
thirdly the riclt Of association for objects TO be
submitted TO The autl critics fourt.ly the ins'u-
ton Of a court Of honor with the object o1 e1ptiins
Offenders from the university uliIN, the feIt q"
Matchmaking ln the alterations OF TIE Iroc~ oI-
Council: and. siXthiy, It demands that mo student
shall be sal, lc, 10 summary tIedidcut dN the ponce
OF deposteI without the previous cv2A1@hCc GA re
rector. or without having been eApcId from tIt
university.
4 special committoe Of the Boston School Board
has presented a majority report showing that the
tendency of modern civilization is toward the re-
stliction or abolition OF corporal punishment. and
thai those teachers who most frequently resort to
il are tie inexperienced or the incompetent. Their
report is followed by an order prohibiting corporal
punishment upon any pupil in primary OF
high schools and on girls in the grammar
schools When it is inflicted on grammar school
boys 1T must be only by the principal, and that at
session sub equent to the one at which tie oei c.
was committed. Reports OF every case are to be
sent every month to the s. Rotary Of the School
COMMITTEE ana mu, b. open to inspection by the
members oil the committee. Tnis order Will prob
ably be adopted by the Board. The sooner the bet
Ter. for the record OF corporal punishment Tor the
school year of 1o7J60 is disgrace 10 Tie
CITY Of Boston. Tie numbe2 Of corporal
punishment iuG c,cd in the male grammar schools
was 6ll2 per cent OF tie whole number OF boys.
AVID IN one school 10 2f1 per cent. aud there
were 1919 cases IL Il single m0ath. Supcrln' endent
Eliot N nm, last ScmI-aHnull report says: Teach
err OF both sexes personal violence with tier
pupils in sJch forms AID such frequency mat ire
Iacts II published would cause uupic2santucss.
Some put The children INTO PAINFUL ana even dii-
perous post .ons; some shake them al times Win
such r0ugnness as t. tear their clothing, ""le
MANY Stil piy the rattan as lfctiy as 81 u we're II
feather, aud strike not merely the hard, bu, the
head and body. NIthiu he last month or two IN
pteous cases have been reported 10 me by parents
whose children hal suffered. He m"u'i'iy
reports OF some grammar schools come IN nna'ng
with the echoes Of tioWs-IoO corHtrai puIisi'-
yuents ~ or. scno" 1J1 ~ another, IL cocn ior a
month, aud a month averaging twenty-one and q
half days Of five hours
The Syndicate appoiutedby Cambridee University
to consider tie memorial from headmastcrs Of
schools on the subject OF the obligation OF passing
an examination in Greek, have re-
ported that the Greek and Latin require
meuts Of the University doubtless exclude
many able and industrious students, THIS exclusion
being uiurious to the students, to the University
and TO tie preparatory schools. The Syndicate
therefore recommend ~ That the existing obi
CATION 10 satisfy tbe examiners 4or the previous eN-
animation in the two classical languages be relaxed
in certain cases a proper substitute being provided
for the language omitted. o. That this relaxation
be confined 20 the candidates for honOrS who
may desire II. 70 It would seem that a knoWIcdEe
of the two principal languages Of Continental
Europe might fairly be recognized as a substitute
for that Of Greek or of Latin especially particular
attention IS usually gwen to modern languages III
those schools and departments Of schools IN which
Greek is not taught The Syndicate therefore recon-
mend that in case Of those candidates for hGDors
who do NOT take mp LO,h tie classical languages.
French and German be accepted III place OF one OF
them. ClI HE syndicate further TecOmuc nj that
candidates for houoTs be- permitted 20 take, n place
OF one of the two classical languages, paper on
French aud German cou5is ing o. "a prepared pas-
sages for translation not too difficult, With plain