The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-10-01
NOTES OF EDUCATION.

The Freshman class at Amherst is ex-
pected to number about seventy men,
bers.
The French minister of public in
struction has appropriated 100, 900 francs
for the establishment of q normal school
for young women.
The school statistics of Iowa loom up.
She has 1000 school districts 200
schools, II 900 teachers, 300, 600 scholars
III average attendance, and her school
fund is in excess Of $500, 900.
CINCINNATI now has seven colored
schools, giving the same course of in
struction as the white ones. Thirty
teachers are employed in them, all of
whom are colored except one.
The Albany law school has this term
students from Germany, Brazil and the
Choctaw nation. The Brazilian has
been sent to the United States by the
Province of Ceara, to study American
education.
THERE is said to be marked tendency
in the New Haven teachers to govern
their pupils by the mildest means. This
IL tendency perceptible throughout the
country; the day OF knocks and thumps
and rods is over.
Mr.. GEORGE l. SENEY, of New York,
has just added seventy-fve thousand to his
former gifts to Wesleyan university,
Middletown, Conn, and has promised to
give $50, 900 more if friends Of the uni
versity will raise 100000 within the
coming year.
MIR. MOODY wishes TO educate Chinese
as well as Indian girls ut his Mortified
seminary. The autumn term is about to
begin with nearly 100 pupils. Board
and tuition will be furnished at the cost
of 800 to each pupil. The homework
is to be done by the pupils themselves.
and good health is insisted upon. Mr.
Moody says that no one should apply
who il not "hungry and thirsty for
knowledge"
THAT great difficulty in our system
Of schooling is that education is not
made sufficiently enjoyable is the coln-
plant of the Pittsburgh Gazette. One
of the great objects of going to school il
held to be the maintenance of nm I'M
moved position, AZ il the children were
wax-works or craven images. Order in
school il good in its way and has an in
innate relation to the requirement of
knowledge, 1t is generally frightfully
overdone, and the poor children who are
cowed and restrained into rigid formality
suffer grievously from it.
A MAJORITY of the teachers at Port
Huron, Mich, get salaries of So cents Il
day. The Commercial, Of that city,
says that they spend years preparing
themselves for teachers, and get barely
enough to support themselves, and il
adds, not unreasonably: "If the neces
sites of this city really demand such
disgraceful salaries, we advise the schooI
board to turn the high school into an es.
adjustment for the teaching of young
ladies' the dressmaking business, as there
il not dressmaker in Michigan who III.
derstands her business but can make
from 81 to 81. 80 per day and board the
whole year round"
Texas has apportiOned S7S2, 900 fol
the support of the schools during the
current year. About thirty cities and
towns levy special school taxes, which
will increase the fund about 800, 000
Many of the counties have school funds,
and some of them have left over balances
from last year. Altogether the sums
available this year for school purposes
will be about 81 200, 900, enough to af.
ford an average school term of five
months. The state apportionment in,
cludes $l4, 900 for the normal schools,
one of which has ninety-One students
and the other fOrty-six. The available
fund for the annual support of the
schools in Texas has increased only about
800, 900 in ten years.
The results of the last Oxford Eng.
local examinations show that out of the
senior candidates who passed 217 We're
girls. Among the Juniors 1875 girls pass.
cd. Among the Juniors the percentage
of girls who failed was smaller than that
of the boys; with the seniors it was the
reverse. Five ladies showed sufficient
merit to he excused from the first ex.
animation Of women over Is years of age.
The candidates ut the recent Cambridge
examinations--nearly all Of whom were
women--numbered 81, and of these only
209 failed to obtain pass in one or Other
group; some passed in several groups.
The Divinity prize was awarded to q
woman; and another who took the prize
for italian, passed in Greek, and with
distinction in Latin, German and French.
Mr.. Jon NJ. NASH, wealthy citizen
of Layfayette, Ind, has excited much
comment by SO altering the will which
| he had made in favor Of certain institl.
tions, that q bequest of 800, 900 for an
observatory and apparatus for the state
| agricultural college and SIS, 900 for a
public library have been Cancelled. One
| Of the causes leading to this action IL
said to be certain articles which have re-
Gently appeared in the Journal of La-
fayette, which Mr.. Nash took rs person
al to himself. The Journal is owned by
Messrs. Water 4 White, the latter being
son of President White of the college
above mentioned. Mr.. Nash believes
that Mr.. White was knowing to the az.
| ticle in question and has an interest in
| the Journal, but this both the paper and
the Dispatch IN Democratic paper pub
lished by one of the trustees of the col
lege) unite in denying. Efforts are be-
ing made to have Mr.. Nash reconsider
his determination.
The omission to teach in the public
schools the principles of good citizen
ship is the subject of M energetic com.
plant in the Boston Traveller. "Who
doubts" says the journal "that if the
common schools of the country had
taught the principles of good govern
ment, correct theories of finance and
true citizenship, as faithfully during the
past twenty years as they have taught
the principles of grammar and geometry,
a much smaller number Of their gradu-
ates would have fallen into the green
back, state rights, and other equally
foolish heresies? In the course of study
now followed in this city we find a great
deal about compound curves, symmetry,
harmonies Of color, poetry, mythology,
processes of mechanical repetition, songs
in various keys, subtlety of curvature,
whatever that is, all very important, of
course, but not word about citizen