New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-13
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Michigan
S22G9 54. 90 among her SCHOOLS
Gold Hill Nevada, has gone so far on the road OF
education that it has o normal class IN 'tS n'Kn
School.
ur,on COLLEGE has now 1914 students. 1t mas
lately received liberal gifts in money IRON many
friends.
Wooster University is prosperous, having al
students Among the countries Represented "io
China and Persia.
Male teachers in the Wisconsin public schools
receive S51 80 month; female teac ne F' '-'
The cost per capita of instruction IS % 44'
Haryards Sumner school in Geology WIN p 's4n
its work at Cambridge July q and VIII eoh'."" '''
four weeks. There will be excursions Iva
work three or four times weeA' -,
The Chair of Gaelic at Edinburgh University VIII
-, No to,malv instituted until next year, when IL
Il heped that the endowment Iona Will nave III
creased to an amount over $6o'OOV'
Mr. 7 Eakip, of Washington College, Penn Is
,,o;no In Siam To act as Professor Of EnSiIsh La"
vrooa and Literature in the Royal college, ~
RI ISkok. He will receive 81, 500 year
The Regents of California University have form
.nv disanproyed of Secret Societies and require
students entering the institution to relran ihou'
Joining any such while under the coheHe iu'0
Glasgow has a very large capital sum IN GNU"
ments for educational and charitable purpOSeS-Ho'
less than $7.5OOO0O. large proportion "i 'nFS'
andowments are not properly utilized aud II IS pro
Tnsed nv the different trustees to take some deh'e
action in the matter.
Mr. Redpath member of the Board OF OoNernoi'
of MeG,Il University, Montreal, intends 10 cree, VI
the college grounds beautiful buiidihs lor .
museum of geology and natural history of Pis
Dawson is to give 10 this museum 'no ""oi' -
private collections IN geology
There are several hourishing schools in China con-
translation department of the Empire more than
On 600 vo,umes of translated works i'll science art
etc nave been sold. In the schools OF TINS county
I2O Chinese youths are receiving insTnctlon
The importance of teaching correct manage
ent of the voice is illustrated by an ahecdoCe 'o
by NJ Legouve in recent lecture OH tue art W
reading. He said that Berger, the great orator.
used to declare that he once lost his case DIV having
onaned his pIeadlnr in too high-pitched tone;
HIS voice rapidly became tired, hls inleilye'h4l
powers felt the effect of his vocal 1a!lYue, ana s
arguments were not deiFereu Win e"'o''
energy to obtain a triumph.
Superintendent Peaslee, of Cincinnati, says that
the greatest mistake that is being made Ill the
American schools is the constant drive Ill authme-
tic of the EXPENSE of composition aud literature.
Mr.. Peaslee wants less examining for per cents and
more education-tu set before pupils higher aims
for study than monthly averages. His CONVICTIONS
have led to the establishment IN the Cmclhha.l
srhoolS of Poets DAYS. ana inc systematic stuiS
of literature. The chi ldren are maIe 10 nor OnlV
memorlze poetic selections CT the h%heSI chalHe'ei'
hut 10 learn something about the authors ana 10
talk about theni
At the recent meeting of local Massachusetts
teachers association one Of the speakers urged the
need of improving the reading OF children out OF
school hours-the especial necessity OF mingng
history and biography with the inevitable fiction
He asked that the quantity of the reading OF the
vounq should be reduced aud the quality improved,
and mentioned with some severity the sort OF BOOKS
furnished by Sunday libraries It's pity
that this kind of literature should not be 0ftcner
examined By competent persons. worse collection
OF milk and water trash almost wholly without
nobility of purpose or excellence of style could
bordly he found than the books OF the average Sun
dayschoOl 3rary. 1t seems TO pe tllne ina. GmuFch
religious and that children are capable OF aSSniiat-
ing something better than the feeble stun they pre-
sent 10 them.
The Cambridge (EnGland) Local Examinations
Syndicate have examined about sixty public, high
and middle-class schools for boys and girls during
the mast year. in addition to examining G73S junior
and senior candidates last December. Arithmetic
and grammar exhibit much improvement. as well ~
1he New Testament subjects. The English history
nauerS show that girls care much more for the sub
ie t than boys, ard in political economy many ap-
near 70 have acquired a most useful grasp of prn-
cinles. Latin and Greek evidently do not flourish
in the schools which supply the greater number Of
candidates In French many juniors did well, bat
many seniors failed deplorably, not knowing the
simplest rules Of French syntax, and being ignorant
nj common words. In German the UapeTs were
very badly done. In Euchd many did fairly. but
Too few took riders ; and in algebra the examiner
reports that more tnan half failed, and very many
could have had no reasonable expectation OF pass
ing. In applied mathematics as wei as IN chem
istry many succeeded fairly. Geology and zoology
snow Improvement, but botany continues unsatis-
factory. The music papers were taken by Large
number of girls, VINO dld wen, ana Tue BOYS sent up
some frst-Fate papers.
Colonel Higgnson says that among all the letters
from the Harvard professors giving their opinions
IN regard to the Annex for women, lie saw not q
trace of intellectual contempt or disrust of the
willingness of young women to do their share in
tie undertaking. Some even expressed the wish
that the college could do more and could afford to
women official as well as unofficial instruction.
Their whole attitude" says the Colonel, seemed
very different from that which a body of German
professors for instance, would have TAKEN and did
credit not merely to the themselves, but to the
intellectual position already by American
women. The Annex cannot at present be called
in any full sense co-educative institution vet it
secures some Of the most important results Of such
institutions in giving to both sexes the same
teachers and the same examinations, and in bring
ing them dwell side by side in the same collegiate
atmosphere. This does much to secure that mutual
self-respeet which is SO important Tor both young
men and young women. When women were first
admitted to the Rotations and lectures of Univer
sity College, in LOndOu-theSe being preparatory to
the examinations of London UniveTSity-the new
corners were kept in separate classes but the III
struetOrs found it so much more convenient to com
bine these classes that by one fell nto the habit
of doing it, aud now there very few N
which there is any separation whatever.