Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-26
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS.

"A committee Of the Boston School Board
have arranged plan for pensioning old and
1nf1rm teachers. They suggest the creation of
fund to be under the charge of the committee
on accounts; and any teacher who In 1880 has
completed twenty-five years service and any
teacher not yet forty-fve years of age whose
term OF service dates from the present year.
can join the association. 1t IS proposed to
for each teacher joining the association, the
amount to be determined by the rate paid to
each teacher, said rate to be determined upon
hereafter.
Within the past five years, an association
OF the Leading college men of Ohio has been
formed to elevate the standard of the higher
education, and test the right of score of
colleges" to the big name assumed In their
catalogues. The result has been a practical
league of the few superior Institutions to ..hold
Ire 1ort' OF the higher education against all
pretenders. Ohio has half a dozen colleges
that are doing genuine college work, and 1t
VIII be blessing to her three millions of peo-
pie II some OF them can be endowed and made
the vigorous rivals OF the leading universities
In the older states.
John Bright, in recent speech to some
college Boys, said: Il never had the advantages
OF first rate and complete education, SO far as
we Understand the term In our times l had
only the advantage of attending what would
De called now, am sorry to say, not second
class, put inferior schools; and only look back
upon them with pleasure, because had an OPP
portunfty OF fishing and bathing and acquiring
Wnat perhaps was nearly as good as an educa-
uon, ana that Is the foundation of tolerable
neaIh curing the years of my life that have
nvtd. Therefore do not look back upon my
schooldays with regret, but with pleasure"
On the occasion of the flftieth anniversary
OF The independence of Belgium In September
n mex the educational League will hold in Brus-
SeiS an International teachers congress.
Many prominent teachers and professors have
promised TO take part in 1t. One Of the most
In, eresting features OF this congress will be the
in,
the best and cheapest educational objects for
The use OF primary schools. such as collec-
tlon or instruments illustrating the laws OF
physics and mechanics, collection of survey
Ing Instruments portable chemical labora-
tory, globe and projecting maps, historical
tablets, and book descriptive OF the physical.
mecnanlcai and chemical experiments per-
formed with the simplest and cheapest instru-
mentS and materials, even with such as are to
be found. In every house. All objects for the
competition are to be sent to the Educational
Exhibition Brussels
There were on the public school registers of
England and Wales last year the names CT 8. no.
$50 children, of whoms1 POS 016 were under seven
years Of age. or the whole number, Q 594 995
were IN average daily attendance, and ,Os4, 622
passed the prescribed test without failure In
any one OF the three Subjects-reading, writing
and arithmetic. The government grants to
elementary day schools rose in the year from
81 $40 66l to 81 ,9s1, l2o. The grant for the cur
rent financial year is estimated at more than
thls. The expenditure per scholar in England
and Wales is in voluntary schools about S. IS
Ior each scholar; ana In board schools about
5000. There were SCI night schools In opera
ton, containing $3.50 scholars above twelve
years OF age. out OF every 100 of these exam
med s., GA passed in reading. 1875 in writing,
and CLAP In arithmetic. The inspectors found
q, 116 certifcated teachers at work In the aided
schools which they visited, while the forty
one training colleges, from which the supply of
such teachers is mainly recruited, were at
tended in 1879 by 3,1Os students The elemen-
tary schools In England and Wales, which In
1869 provided for s.34 of the population, were
In 1879 sufficient for 1916 Of the estimated
population an additional provision of room for
2,S76.2S0 children being thus made.
DO not Americans appreciate and encour-
age education? Here is list OF. their bene-
factions: 81 ,3O0, 900 by Mr.. Simmons, of Boston.
Tor the industrial education Of women; ST. 900 900
by Daniel Drew, to endow Theological Semi
nary, to which Abel Menand adds 100 900 more
''for the education OF women for the ministry:
5000, 600 by Erastus Corning, for a female col
lege; 800 600 by Robert Barnes, of Indiana. for
the education OF orphans in the state; $1,000
by Orange Judd, the agricultural book pub
Ilsner, 1or sclentlnc department in Wesleyan
University; $50 600 by Cyrus Mccormick 1.-THE
cago; 100000 by Daniel Appleton (the book
publisher, for the chancelorship and library
10, New YORK University; s10O,oOo by Nathaniel
mayer, OF Boston, to Harvard University:
100000 by Chauncey Rose of Terre Haute''
Ind, for female college; 500, 900 by Henry
Sage, of Brooklyn. N. Y, for a female college
Oull0lDg at cornell University; $500, 900 by Mr.,
Shaw, OF St Louis, for park and botanic garden:
s2o0, 900 by Mr.. Pardee, Of Pennsylvania, for
scientific department at Lafayette College. at
Easton, Pa; So, 900 by Hiram Sibley, of Roch-
ester, n: Y, for library building at Rochester,
University; $4,000 by the Rev. Jesse T. Peck to
the new University at Syracuse, n. Y. which
has been increased by other citizens to a million
and half; $4,000 by Samuel Williston for
educational purposes in Easthampton, Mass;
$4,000 by Henry Wink1ey to Dartmouth Col
lege; $4,000 to Andover Theological Seminary
and the same amount to Yale Theological
school $50