Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-26
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.


1t has been determined by the
School Board at St. Louis to add TO the
course of studies in the public schools
in that city series of oral lessons on
etiquette. .r
"A clergyman of the Free Reformed
Church in Bohemia, according to
correspondent of the London NeiOS, has
been fined l, 100 florins (about $500 for
preaching the Gospel.
THAT which interests most chill
dren, the studies which they most east
ly understand, like history and the
natural sciences, is reserved by their
teachers for the upper classes. 1t is
necessary first of all that when one is
very small one must learn Latin and
Greek" says French essayist, sar-
castically.
"A woman has Just been placed in
IN important educational position in
France. 1t is Mile. Juliette Dodu, who
has been appointed by M. jules Ferry
delegate general for the inspection of
the schools established for the reception
of little children under six years of age.
Milo. Dodu last year received the ribbon
of the Legion of Honor for splendid
conduct during the war 'i'
There are two or three ways of de-
stroying our public school system. The
first is employing incompetent teachers,
whose sole recommendation is that they
will teach cheaply. Second, by the
parents having such confidence in the
teachers and school board that they will
never visit the school for themselves.
The third is for parents to take the
words of their children, and on the
strength OF their reports to find fault
with the school. = Wisconsin journal Of
Education. ..l ....'
Miss Elizabeth Beach, of Paris, adj
dressed recently large audience in q
church in Cleveland, o., on Protestant
ism in France. Her voice was clear
and her manner easy. For the last two
or three centuries, she said, the French
have been vibrating between absolution
and superstition on the one hand, and
anarchy, infidelity and revolution on
the other. The reigning monarchs have
been in great part controlled by the
priests, and it was not till the close of
the Franco-Prussian war that religious
liberty was given to the people.
The highest salaries paid by any
American college are those of the pro-
fessors of Columbia, who receive
amounts varying from 81, 800 to 50, 1878.
The University of California pays full
professors 50, 900; Yale and Princeton
about $500; Brown University from
$4,000 TO S2,50O; Amherst, S2, 500;
Washington University, st. Louis,
$1,000; Williams, $4,000; Tufts,
$4,000, which, however, is only
temporary reduction from S2,-
500; Harvard psys from $4,000 to $2,-
500; Michigan University allows pro-
fessors %, 300; assistant professors
81, 900, and instructors 5000; Cornell
pays its three classes of professors re-
spectively s2,250, $1,000 and 81, 900;
Wesleyan University, $1,000, with a
recent discount of ten per cent; the
Ohio Wesleyan University from 80, 400
to 81, 800; Dartmouth, Trinity at Hart
ford, the Northwestern University and
the University of Wooster, Ohio each
pays $4,000; La Fayette allows 81 900
and house; Illinois, 81, 800; Bowdoin,
S1,700; Western Reserve and Beloit,
$1,000; 0berlin, 81, l,4OO; Iowa, Oliyet
and Kalamazoo. Mich, 1900; ANTI
och, 81, ,050, and Hillsdale, Mich, from
81 900 to 5000. ...