New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Franklin and Marshall College is in iourishlng
condition, having altogether 100 studeh's'
Union College has received an endowment oil
CO ooo from, tho sons If the late Asa Packer as
memorial of their father.
In Indiana during the past year oo3o92 ch'idreh
were enrolled in the schools ont of school pOpua-
tion of 7OS 101. OF this number |'ozo were
colOrcd.
The salaries of the teachers of the San Francisco
evening schools, which reduced per cent
have been increased to the original amount Oh @oV
per month.
The specimens in the Peabody Museum at Har-
ward have more than doubled in number during the
last four years. In few months the South Amerl-
can room will be open 20 the public.
The trustees of the Peabody fund having with
drawn aid from ale South Carolina schools TO oppy
il 10 the education of teachers institutes are TO be
held throughout that State during the summer
The school population Of Virginia numbers
100000 about three-tenths being colored. The
enrolment m the public schools for the past year
was 100000, One-third of this number beng
colored. Male teachers get an average nontnly
salary of $50 female teachers receive va TO-
The California Legislature has made some changes
in the Educational bill. Among them is an amend
ment making vocal mnsIc compulsory branch IN
all schools. The section prohibiting the election OF
q teacher who has husband, father, uncle brother
or cousin member OF the schOoi boaru WAS
Paris is to have a Municipal School of Horticul-
ture; all species of plants used for ornamental pur-
poses in manufacture or medicine. Will be carefully
cultivated and preserved in a museum annexed 10
the school. public course of practical botany
will be gwen. and the pupils OF the mliulcipai
schools will be taken by their teachers on stated
DAYS to the gardens and museum, where the nature
OF the plants VIII be explained to them
The patronizng fashion in which the mass of old
fogy, roie-teachiug educators are metaphOrically
batting Colonel Parker on the back, aud blandly
telling him they knew all about the methods he IS
using long ago. is decidedly amusing. If they knew
so much about them and knew them to be wise why
didn't they make practical application of them'
Here is the State of Massachusetts long cited the
bestower of the best common school education IN
the Union; and yet Massachusetts IN the banGs OF
the people who are alternately palrOnzinG and md
ing fault with Colonel Parker has some glleN0uS
defects in her much vauated system. MI Nalt0hs
official report concerning tIe schools of Norfolk
County onght TO he interesting reading 10 schooi
conservatives "Grammar. parsng, and oIaI
sDellingv saws The BOStOR HerGld, "aTe being
palmed off on u In place OF facility in writing
ipOuthing in place of Observation-Disclosures rules,
learned bv TOtc, in place of familiarity with figures
More utterly useless results or ialSer lnethouS II
would be impossible to suggest. Inc scholars can
rattle off rules of grammar and parse IKE aUOIla-
tons; but they are not taught to frame written
sentence! Up. l44.) They can gabhe rules OF arth-
metic like parrots but they cannot solve the sim
plest unaccustOmed problem! ~. 1861 They can
painfully initiate with the pen sentiment at tAe
head of page IN co0Y-hOOk. bat they gaze III be-
wIldermeut at the examiner who calls on them 10
write letter. (p 1881 They can spell anything III
the spelling class. but when they SIT down, pen IN
hand the word {" too" is spelled wrong III compost
tion by $50 out of 1872 OF those who use II; while
the various misspellmgs of the word scholar MI
whole page, and are e numbered by hundreds" MT
Walton SAYS that the Norfolk schools fair sam
pie of those throughout the State.