New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-12
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Medical School have college diplomas
The maid teachers in the st. Louis Kinder
eareus receive salaries Of from S125 TO S6oo'
A fund is being rapidly collected IN le1as
for erection of colored normal school at Ausuh
The latest report from the Milwaukee schooiS
shows that in an average attendance of ll2l' p"pnS
714S study German.
A bill abolshing the Normal School anu
establishing chair Of pedagogics In the e'a'e
sty has been introduced in the California LEGISLATURE
A bill has been introduced in the Louisiana
Legislature reorganizng the State University uu0er ne
name OF the Louisiana National University "hu P
ing for a higher standard OF learning
A Massachusetts, physician says that healthy
child may perhaps. safely enter the primary scno'i ~
seven years Of age but If nervous or inclined 10 Tain
or be restless in sleep, better wait another year.
The Regents are to issue two sets OF ques-
lions during the year-in January and june Cties III
the State introducing the new system oil semi
annual promotion will have TO conform to these cafes
The principals of the two San Francisco
High Schools receive salaries of 1888 50 per month
The principals of The primary schools having eGh'
classes or more set Sl35. Teachers OF the hth sH,
seventh and eighth grades receive respectively $O3'
SIS. $54 and SOL.
Mssouri's State school fund amounts to
SO 400 457 H. With the seminary fund and the county
township and special funds added the permanent iuhd
aggregates 81 542 225 To- The total amount expended
for education during 1879 was $3,202,273 So All the
schools of the state Of whatever grade are said to DC III
excellent condition.
DR.. Peabody is reported as saying that when
he was tutor nc Harvard. a-many years ago. the rae
uty spent greater part OF their time In administer
ing penal discipline although there we're then but ZOo
students under them. Now there are more than Jour
times that number to manage, but such case OF dls-
cpllne occurs not once in three months.
The town of Amherst has voted unani-
mously TO oppose OF Amherst College and OF tie
Agricultural College. President seelye says that he
knows of no professor trustee of Amherst who would
consider the OF the other institution anything but
burden although it should be forced Amherst Col
lege the latter would not prove recreant to the trust
A LARGE meeting of cOlored people has just
been held in Baltimore TO ask for the employment OF
colored teachers in TIC cOOred pubic schools Inc
American of that city says that there Ia no just ground
on which the School Board refuse this requests and
the policy of mastery inactivity which Trey choose TO
pursue on subject based upon the assumption that
race and political preuiices still strong enough III
Baltimore support them in their position
Japan is rapidly improving in the matter OF
education. There seventeen public schools at
Hakodad attended by POI boys aud 40 girls There
are also number Of private schools there. In other
parts OF the island there are thirty Government Schools
instructing 500 boys and $40 girls During the past
year industrial schools have been established wherein
girls are taught spinning, weaving sewing and Washing
besides writing, reading and arithmetic.
The Committee on Salaries of the Philadel-
pha School Board have reported to the Board that
they consider the salaries of the aeacbers inadequate
for the service, ability aud responsibility required
Nevertheless not having power TO retain or advance
the old rates. they have recommended pro rata reduc
ton on all salaries The schedule which makes re-
duction OF S073 per cent from the schedule agreed
upon last year. adopted by the Board in spite of
the statement by one of its members that it DIS
grace to the city.
Mr.. Joshua Bates, an accomplished and sue
cessul teacher, says concerning the Boston public
schools what might be said the schools OF many other
cities "The acquisitions in school study are now too
many and the work too oppressive TO teacher and
pupils. Music and drawing. particularly demand too
much time and lavish expense. and teachers and scho
airs are constantly buried and freted with the burden
of requirements; and, consequently. the sound and
healthy requirements not obtained for which our
common schools were originally established. CrOwding
so much into our school system results in costly extrav
agance."
The success of the sO-caled Quincy system
I'm the primary schools of Boston is unequivocah The
progress made by the pupils III the i've months during
which il has in operation has been remarkable,
and nobody wants to back TO the old fashion. The
TRANSCRIPT notes that very gratifying change which
the Quincy system brought into these schools the
marked aud increased shown by the children
In their work. pleasure with which they 20 Ia school
and master their tasks. The Transcript adds that the
system makes a heavy draft upon the energy and
patience of the teachers, for Its fundamental principle
is that the teacher teach and not simply let the
child learn Yet teachers that engaged IN 1t are
enthusiastic its praise and point TO attained results
In support of their assertions Of its superiority.
The controversy between the trustees of
PENNSYLVANIA University and the retiring Provost Stie
is thus referred to by The Telegraph of Philadelphia
1.-THE trustees have distinctly refused TO sustain the
Provost a matter of discipline, and have preferred
that he shall dscon nue his connection with the iDst
tuton rather than that unruy youth, who has inu
entail relatives shall be punished IN accordance with
his deserts and in accordance with the rules and
latons laid down for the government Of just such
The whole thing is monstrous In its absurdty and It
would absurd for any man with money to give, and
with disposition to give it, to offer to endow the Pro-
yostsbip or anything else in connection with the uni
versty unless assurances can be given that the
Provost ard other members OF the faculty shall be
placed beyond the unreasonable interference OF the
trustees and especially shall have such undspued dis
culinary powers shall prevent them from being
brought under the contempt Of the youngsters whom
they have in charge"
President Warren, of Boston University, and
Mrs Julia Ward Howe discussed Coeducati0n IN the
parlors OF the Rev. Joseph Cook, Monday evening Dr.
Warren said in his that the moral influence OF
education, the mutual watchtulness Of brother and
sister are Of great importance. and that the disiOu
system is the enemy OF the home and the foe OF eiylza
t,on The new age he declared demands tie impartial
education OF every child and every man. Mrs Howe
urged that girls should have an equal education with
BOYS and that they shall be educated together As
90 way from the military ideas Of society, she said,
VIC leave the monasc idea Mr. Cook read letter from
President Chadbourne speaking emphatcay against co
TTuiy
Bascom OF Wisconsin University, as emphatic IN Its
favor lie declared that the young women were the
best scholars his institution, and carried off the most
prizes. young woman get education in Wis