New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-22
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

A lady has just been appointed school trustee AZ
Is There are now three departments In operation in
4he University of Cincinnati, and the total numDer
OF students is larger than at any periOU IN ''' "'
tesy.
Thirty students took the post-graduats course az
st Louis University during the past WINTER Ok
of them have iust received the degree Of a. M an"
ssyea that OF Pm. b.
II 10 proposed In Memphis to increase the pay Oh
teachers TO $50 per month in the first grade; $e9
tie seeos.d grade: $40 in the third grade ana @oO
IN the fourth grade.
The Missouri State University has just finished a
second course of lectures on pedagoRics-Iouf VI
then, having been delivered by female professor
and has published in one volume UhoSo S''0"
season. .o,,,,
The Boston School Committee is about 10 Iorn'anS
discuss the matter of corporal panishment III 'n0
pnblie schools and to consider what means can ~
adopted to remedy the existing eyhs, a H ,
Instructor of hygiene for the schoois ~ W "0 "f
pointed. rAuai
The question of teaching sewing in the Fhiiauei.
mia schools has been considered by committee oi
the Board of Education, and report IN opposlLiod
has been made The same committee las iSp tGin
AGAINST che introduction OF purely teehnlca ua III
mo in the Sc hools and the Board will act upon ene
report ut its next meeting, :,
Rv tbs adoption of the German-Engsh plan IN
the ST. Louis schools there are now thirty FEWER
speeial German teachers than there were a! t1 az
number Of GeRman-A Americans taking Desiian; az
CHIT decrease In the number OF ADgiO-AbleAIean'
pursuing the same study.
The German Empire has now twenty universe
ties. all having essentially the same constitution.
As they are partially supported by the STATE 10
ela,ms n general right of control, But at present
each university virtually manages ITS own analIs,
even the appointment of the prefe ss0rs depending
IN the main on the faculties to which they Deiohg'
The question of cOlored instructors for colored
pap;Is in Baltimore is to be decided by a9tuai eN
per,ment. Divers eolored applicants for teacheIs
nositions will be examined next month, and II
snffeient number be found properly qualified. Two
sehnoIs will be established in the Autumn, anu In6
reIatiye progress of their pupils be compared Win
that of coored pupils under white teachers here
is an excellent chance for eoored teaehef5 30 snoM
their abilities ana there is little u0uDt mat LnSy
will do it creditably. The cOlored schools OF 81.
L0nis are exhibiting surprising prosperity see 'n If
EMPLOYMENT of eolored teachers. The increase OA
those schools this year Is "a per cent
writer in The NGiioaOk Journal of Education aptiy
eomplains that there are too many cOmmon-plaees
uttered at teachers meetings. too many settled
matters stated and Iestated as IL they were START
hngly new There is much truth III these eonl-
plainfs as no Que knows better than the lcurn2lSt
10 whose desk III the proper season comes Weekly u
hnsketfnl of reports Of these meetings. Inc ad-
dresses and discussions mostly present longaccepteu
tYutbs stated in variety of ways: there rs s0he,
fines in hundred such reports not one fresh ana
saggesye paragraph 1t Is no wonder nt %nss
SO much stuff of the cut-and-dr1ed SORT. ana SO
6ttla wholesome evidence of vital growth. twenty
sentences relating 10 actual experience WITH some
knotty point of method or discipline are worth IVY
columns of Northumberland entirely untnterest-
mg-essay on facts and theories that were Old NJ
teen years ago.