New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-18
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Principals Of the Chicago schools must hereafter
hold certificates from the Committee on Teachers OF
The School Board.
The coulsc in arithmetic in the IT. Louis schools
has now been changed from FIVE years ana the
superintendent is arranging divers rcvisons
md notifications tending To equalze the work IN
ali toe grades.
Mr. Edwin p. Seaver. head-master Of tho English
High School in Boston. la, been elected Supern.
tendent Of Schools in that city. Mr. Seaver is 4
successful teacher a graduate of Harvard. aud fl
seven or eight years tutor and assistant professor
there.
curious defect In the Scottish universities has
lately been criticised by Lord RcSehcry-they "a
not teach modern history Even at Edinburgh il IS
only sudeats or law who have opportunity OF r.
ceiyipc instruction IN history students in arts NAV
take their degree without knowing ANYTHING OF ihe
great political names and movements OF mo"cin
times
Another movement has been begun in England
for the encouragement Of the higher education OF
women This is in the SHAPE Of a memorial from
nonresident members OF the Senate Of Cambridge
University in favor of granting the b. a. degree TO
women The memorial has already been sgacd by
many distinguished men. The prospect tor women 5
higher education looks much moro chCcr:ully IN
Conservative England than IN Liberal America. so
proud OF her schools.
The Syracuse Board of Education is considering a
request made By ladies of that CITY to introduce in the
public schools textbook which shall treat from the
HYGIENE standpoint the evils of ntcmpcrancc. The
teachers are now required to give oral instruction
on this mat ter 10 their pupils. Temperance rs well
as other moral duties should unG"u )tediN he t3uGu'
in the schools of great Republic, hat the hTac icH
billy of doing this by means OF ie&tD0ohs Suouiu
be thoroughly discussed
Boston has abandoned the system of special IL
s,ruction in drawing in schools of all grades. The
regular teachers attended drawing-csSses last
winter and spring. and now teaching that
branch to the pupils under their charge. These
teachers will coatiaue Ia study during the next
two terms-flom the lowest classes III the prl-
mary schools to the most al vanccd in the h Oh and
evening schools. Boston has now progressive
course in drawing. lt has taken nine years TO
reach this end
An election TO the Davis Chinese scholarship is to
be held at Oxford in January. The subjects of eX-
animation viii be the text of the first four books of
the COniucan Analects with the commentary on
the third book; the Sermon on the Mount, in what
is called " The Delegates Version y" the practice of
composition in Chin Sc; ana lysS of characters and
the history and topography of the Chinese Empire.
The scholarship Is OF the annual value OF S2oo pay
able termnally, and enable Tor two years from the
day of election.
Cardinal Manning gives these facts as to Roman
Catholic education in London " We have made
fall provision for the children of poorer brethren
in the mission OF par1chial schools. In the books
OF these schools we have $4,000 names inscribed
For the education of children who require n higher
instruction We have also been steadily making pro-
vision. For the girls of the middlcclass there is
already abundant room in converts and private
schools For boys there are II grammar schools
and two cOllcg 5, in which over 700 of the of
the mddle-cass are receiving higher education"
The Washington School Board is discussing tie
question of reducing tie number OF studies in the
public schools, the ground that the health of the
pupils suffers from too much work. Ii IS also DIS
cussing the abolition 'of corporal punishment. In
Mem Dhs, Tenn, tins matter has just been cODsid-
cred by the School Board with the result of a vote
OF 10 III favor of bodily correction. The rules of
the Utica. N Y, schools were recently changed as
TO do away with corporal puuishment hut at a
meeting of the Board last week this wa re-
considered, and permission to administer punish
ment alowed-but in careful and moderate mar
ner "'
A free school of horticulture IS TO be opeDed in
Pais, the objects OF itte Be the culture and accl-
mat'zatlon OF alPlants useful alike i'll arts indus
tres and l1edcine; also of all shrubs and trees
sutaAle'ior the ornamentation of the squares and
public walks in Paris Regular courses of lectures
il practical botany are to be given 10 students Of
both sexes. with examinations, and pupils Of tie |
various municipal schools will receive invitations |
on special days when practical lessons OF an ele- |
mentary kind will be given them by professors at
tached 10 the school Delegates are t. b, forthwith |
sent 10 England and Belgium Tor the purpose II |
studying the most approved methods of horticulture |
Ill both countries.
The five girls who passed the diploma examina-
lions IN the Boston Latin School last term, and who
then applied for admission to Smith College entered |
there without question and with honor. of them
receiving the prize of 5000 awarded to the candi-
da.e passing the best examination. This speaks
well for the instruction of the Girls Latin School. |
The report of the Boston Board of Supervisors says
that the new Latin school is full OF promise il |
has already proved that girls be prepared for
colleges as thoroughly and accurately as boys"
Whether college and bOardng-schOO lie gives the
best possible general framing to young women is a
Question still ODeu to discussion; but il must be |
ACKNOWLEDGED as settled that the intellectual tram
ing which is gwen to sch0Ol-bOys can he as easily
received and assimildted by schoolgirls.
Mr. Smart, the retiring School Superintendent of
Indiana, says that there is school population of
703,55S in the State. The illIterates number 900
males and 9j7 females. The school attendance dur
ing the past year was 51l,2S3. The State has 1O4
coiored schools and 10 cOored teachers. OF the
white teachers there 1871 males and 5,732
females. The pay of teachers varies greatly in the
different counties Ia townships the daily wage Tor
male teachers varies fro mSl 30 10 - 30 ana for fe-
teachers paid for their daily service all the way
from 81 76 10 81 80. ana female teachers from rs
cents 10 ~ 49, In city schools the payment of male
teachers ranges from - to 81 30, and of female
teachers from ~ 90 t. 50. The school money avail
able last year was $i.SS3. 900 81, the amount eX-
pended was So 00G, 1872 or
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