Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-18
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

New York Tribune.l
Professor Hitchcock. of Dartmouth
is about to publish a geological map Q
the United States.
The university Of Nebraska has %.
students, a large proportion of tn
number being women.
The Boston committee on public in
struction ask for an appropriation 70
the schools this year of 81, 428, GAG.
The Cincinnati public schools cos
during the past year $741, 274.40. Ye
it is stated 1853 children in the cit,
attend no school.
The Ohio state university has agair
secured the services of Professo
Mendelhall in the chair of physics
He will not, however, leave his worl
in japan until September, 1881.
The Washington school at Ney
Haven has adopted the Quinc
method of instruction, and a larg
audience of citizens has Just wit
messed with great satisfaction an ex
hibition of the pupils powers a
cultivated by this method.
The people of Portland, Oregon, arc
represented as dissatisfied with theil
public schools, as giving an education
at once expensive and superficial
Here seems to be an opening for tn,
Quincy fashion of examining and re
modelling.
The Cambridge university lecture,
on the practice of education have beer
attended this past winter by more
than a hundred students, a large pro.
portion of whom are men. The first
examination for teachers will be held
in June and a large number of candi-
dates are expected to present them
selves.
The three gentlemen who under a
new rule have been acting as super
visors of the Boston primary schools
say that the step In primary instruc-
ton lin the line ofthe Quincy method)
which has been taken promises the
best results. Not only the new meth
DDS Of teaching, but the supplemental
ry reading so generously furnished to
all the classes, has created an interest
and enthusiasm never before wit
messed, and which alone gives the
best evidence of complete. abiding
success.
The report of the New York state
superintendent of public instruction
shows that there were during the past
year 1882 children in the state
between the ages of FIVE and twenty
one. The number enrolled in the pub
lie schools was l,030, 041, and the av-
erage daily attendance was 570.382.
There were 1920 school districts in
the state and 30,669 teachers. Their
average salary was $374.45 for the year
NOT an enormous sum. The expen-
diture for all school purposes during
the year was Sl0,349,9l8.08
The new spelling is to be introduced
in all the Prussian schools on April |,
All new school books are henceforth
10 be printed.witht the reformed spell.
ing, and no educational works with
the old spelling will be permitted to
be used in schools after the lapse of a
certain interval. The governments OF
Austria, Bavaria and Wurtemburg
had adopted the new spelling some
little time before that of Prussia.
With the exception of one or two lin
tied classes Of words, the reformed
photography has already received the
adherence Of the leading organs of the
daily and periodical press.
A legislative report on the Maine
State College of Agriculture and the
Mechanic Arts shows that the work
accomplished by the institution hardly
lustities the expense to the state and
1t is suggested that it should limit its
course of instruction to branches of
study more nearly related to agrieul-
ture and the mechanic arts. even if it
IS compelled to omit French and Ger
man and the higher mathematics to
charge tuition for instruction, and to
limit its expenditures to its income.
The legislature is considering a bill
which restricts the course Of study to
three years, and does away with some
ofthe branches now taught.
Milwaukee will establish this spring
a free kindergarten upon the plan of
the st. Louis kindergartens. 1t will
be under the supervision of Miss S.
A. Stewart, principal of the normal
department. and will be considered a
branch Of that department. The San
Francisco board of education has an.
pointed a committee to investigate the
whole system of kindergarten i~nstruc.
ton, and to consider the a~dvisability
of adopting it in connection with the
public school system of California.
This action is apparently the result Of
a recent vigorous discussion in the
San Francisco newspapers aud schools
OF the Quincy methods.