New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

boy.
The French Government has ordered that course
of teaching in agriculture be introduced INTO every
primary school IN the country.
Hanover, the oldest college in Indiana, has Just
de,lded 10 admit young women to It's INSTRUCTION. vi
the same terms as the young men.
University Normal School is now in session AT
the University Of Virginia This school was organ
ized with the help of the Peabody fund
The study of the National and State CONSTITUTIONS
made obligatory in the public schools or Wisconsin
has been attended with excellent results
The colored school at Allegheny has been aool-
ished after fiery fight in the School Board. mere
after the colored children will go to the WHO
schools.
The salaries of some of the teachers In the Wor-
cester schools have ben slightly raised. The gram
mar masters who have received lately only 81 ,62O
year are to have again their former salaries oi
$500.
San Francisco paws school carpenter Sloo
month, and is haggng over proposition 10 pay '"0
new kindergarten teacher $50 month ms SHOWS
the in 'ellicence and common sense Oh 'ne "'o'"s'
school board.
The movement for the higher education oil women
~ Oxford University has been successful that II is
rooessorv To enlarge Somerviile Hall. meeuhR'
conducted by Lord Aberdare, has Just been held ID
l,ondon for the purpose of providing lor .hlS GU
laigement.
Mr. II. C. sheldon for five years past assistant
professor of practical theology IN Boston o"'-
yers,ty has just been promoted to the l"il pio-
fessorship Caroline T.. Hastings NJ. -: 1or stVel,
1850 Iectnrer and demonstration IN the Universities
Scroll OF Medicine has been made Professor u
Anatomy.
A donation of $500 900 has been made by an uu-
known gentleman to Hudson College. Inns Is 70
be the means of removing the College TO CieVeI"nu'
The Gift is unconditional. There seems TO De
nI a. of WIS Al
fSecollege the Case school of Applied Science
which Is soon to be estaDIisneu'
The Louisiana University is to be entirely reor-
capized the Board having become convinced th"I
the decrease IN the number of students is dne TO
some inherent cause Of mismanagement. All tne
chairs of the college have been declared vacant.
Tleetious 10 ill these positions Will be maze az
meeting of the Board at Baton Rouge August r.
Ills pleasant to note that some of the young pu-
nils of the schools of Rockland, Mass, have organ
lied themselves into Natural History Association
which promises TO be full OF entertainment as "e'I
Ms instruction. They are making COLLECTIONS auu
have q room in which they often hold meetings ana
read naners They deserve hearty praise. and thelr
man is cordially recommended 10 other schoOIpoys
aud girls.
President Newell of the Maryland Teachers AS
kociatioB mentioned IN severe terms at It's meeting
fine other day the " teachers by accident"-Ihe men
wpo ara making the school-room a halfway house
school-house would be prison were 1t not that 1t
gives them tho means of dressing in a more capti-
waiting STYLE and when the days of hiring are ac-
compl shed. to purchase wedding rousseau: no
uttered a bit of advice which teachers ueclueuly
need trite as II Is-that Is. to accept n0thlh9 a.
right merely because 1t is customary, ana holhing
as wrong merely because 1t is new.
SUPERINTENDENT Pcaslee, of Cincinnati. advocated
at the recent meeting of the Ohio teachers the IN
cueation of morality in children, by means OF the
reading and nemorizng of carefully selected litcra-
ture in schools Heretofore" he SAID, " the boys
education has been broader than his business ex-
pec;atoms; his happiness as a man and his worth
rs ci.izon have not been taken into account.
These principles are too narrow Tor an age that Is
looking for good men, as wen as goou accountants
and Crammarians. They are unnecessarily narrow.
They leave broad fields of noble soil untitled"
What IN this wear of grace. 1880. the old fogy is
still capable of saying may be seen in the recent
address of Chairman Banks of the Flintshire,
Wales. Quarter Sessions. He complained that there
was tendency in the country to over-educate; the
laborng classes being educated above the sta
ton which Providence had intended for them. lie
wanted the laborer instructed to read, write, and
kean sncb accounts as were useful to him in his
walk of life but to give him superior education
was to set class against class and make them als
salisied with the position which PROVIDENCE hau
allotted TO them He used to 90 INTO Infants SCHOOLS
in that nclghbofhood thinking he could impart
some knowledge to the young but now when ne
vent in he found the young people so highly edu-
caod that he could teach them nothing, and he left
quite ashamed. Laughter)
Ex-Superintendent Phbrick is quoted as saying,
at the meeting of the American Institute, that No
first-class university in Europe IS open to both
sexesD Mr.. Philbrick should be sure of his facts.
Putting aside all the other universities instructng
women hc might be reminded that in the Unve--
sitv of Cambridge alone the ordinary academic lee
tures of twenty of the professors open to
women as well as to Among these professors
are Fawcctt, Harcourt and GOWN. Mr.. Phil
brick, as well the students of Column
bia. may be interested in hearing that the
late Frederick Denson Maurice Professor of Moral
Philosophy at Cambridge, a man OF deep and bril-
liant mind aud lofty nature, once said that there
was nothing about which he found the younger
graduates at Cambridge more jealous than Ill en-
deavoring to put every academcai advantage at
n1rcb the higher education OF women is indebted to
the sympathy and courage of anunber OF camor1dge
men. Tins tie formal statement OF Principal
Davis Of Queens College. OXFORD University,
Kings College. aud the University OF London arr
among the foreign institutions of Che first rank now
insfrnctiue women. At Oxford the girls are not
classed separately but with the boys IN the result
OF The examination.
An English writer says wisely concerning cas-
steal teaching: "Ioo many boys have been allowed
to 90 through their school career under the impress
sion that Greek and Latin were only invented TO
worry them with grammars and dictionaries and
without ever realizing tnat these languages were
used ia daily lie by men OF like nature with our
selves whose deeds and sayings ere of personal ill.,
terest to us still. Grammar and idiom must be
taught, and with strict accuracy, or language VIII
never ne really graspsd but a master cannot too
soon begin 20 draw upon the human interest of the
classics. hint here, an snecdote there, parallel
between some event and one OF recent occur
renee skifuliy thrown when the interest OF boys
Is tagging would believe. do much 10 make the
teaching both OF Greek and Latin moro really use
fall Grammatical knowledge weuld not suffer from
bows being made aware that tins was not The whole
matter Father the dry bones of accidence and SYM
tax would be breathcd upon by lite-giviDg spirit,