New-York tribune., 1880-07-01
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

graduated a class OF Is persons.
Drawing is to I've allowed as an optional study in
the last two years of both of study In the
Boston high schools.
The study of bookkeeping has been made compu-
sorry for two hours and half each week IN the first
grade of the San Francisco grammar Schools.
The Ohio Teachers Association wi hold its an
nual meeting ut Chautauqua Lac next week. be-
ginning on "Wednesday. During the week after
beginning with the 18th. the meeting OF the Ma
tioual Teachers Association viii hc held
The requirements for entrance at Brown Univcr-
sitv are very strict and tins Summer an unusually
small number enter uucondtionally, large mum
Der were admitted ON conditions. and it is thought
that the class Of 81 will be the largest that ever
entered the university.
After much discu ussion. the school authorities OF
Hudson, n. Y, have determined tn introduce CO.
education in the schools os that city. The sexes
have heretofore been tsught in separate buildings
CoeducatiOn has Just been forbidden 10y the School
Uoard of Louisville, Ky.
Professor William +. Harris. who has Just re-
signed the superntendeney the -. Lonls schools
has received from divers citizens of that place. III
appreciation Of his services beautiful gold media
and letter of credit for 81 900, 10 dciray the eX-
pcnse Of his proposed trip 10 Europe.
The Cambridge England Local lectures were at
tended during the last session by 500 persons
The Vice-Chancelors certificate Of having at
tended SIX courses of lectures ard classes and Of
having passed the examinations held IN the sub
jectS of the classes has been granted 10 seventeen
persons.
The Committee of the Kings College Lectures 20
Ladies in London are about 10 found a permanent
college for the higher education of women. HE
classes which the committee have provided for
during the last three years have hcen yciy large
and maintained with Il tie variato on, >tiil averas-
ing upward of 800 IN each term.
The London Association for the Development ol
University Instruction has during the last WINTER
held classes and lectures attended by 1lO0 students
in various parts Of the metropolitan area. other
courses in popuouS centres have been carr et ou by
lecturers appointed by the universities "l 'N'"'
and Durham. In Durham aud N0rihuHoer'hu '''
lectures have been gwen IN eighj towns 20 more
than 200 students.
At Amsterdam there is an excellent technical
school in which SIX trades are taught to yonnC
women, aud at Rotterdam there IS another -
America may take a lesson from holland Specl&
schools ior technical instruction ale what IN tnis
country Of ll-tralned workingwomen are greatly
needed: nut what is emphatc1Ilv not nccder Is 'he
introduction of technical instruction ~ tie common
schools. They TOO iull of studies alftadF'
The American Institute OF Instruction will open
its ffty-irst annual meeting at Saratoga next Tues
6av vening with an aldr - by secretary Northrp
on the Quincy Method.' Or. Sears and III.
Bcecler will also read papers dur.ag the meeting
which will end Thursday evening DE- way
land the first president % tins "iG@!"Zl I!4
when has only once before held NEE lu@ out'"c
the limits OF New-Engiapd-thatU was At Troy many
years ago.
The Quincy system is to be introduced in the
schools of Sacramento under the guidance q
teacher trained IN Qnincy. The Sacramento H6c0rG
Union saws that the school children know nothing II
EnesalteIature that they are ignorant oi any h's-
tory beside skctchy acquaintance with that ol the
United states; that they have had their brains near
-ly Caz'o with lessouslh grammar anu "oiu @ "lI" ~
and rheV can parse a sentence Win iHacIhe-iIAe
precision, though probably they could not compoSe
one " lmlna;lc9y, OF write five lines without som"
gross bluuder III OrthoglapAy,
Salaries at Amherst are, it is said, soon to De re-
stored TO the old amount When President S"ely"
began hrs work the college was running behind
$1,000 year. The salaries We're cut down ana t1e
balance at the end Of The year on the night sie
The college is now IN good financial condition. IaIt
Of the S-anc gft Is to be used III founding a pro
fes.orshjp of biology. TIE faculty Is considering
pan for separating the classes into divisions Of rem
on fifteen mcmbsrs, so that ne instruction may pe
more direct and personal the rectatlan~ more re
Uutut and the interest OF tle student hcthci h"'h
faculty and studeuts dislike greatly TIE i'i" .!-
sy>teiu and il would be ab .l.hrd Il tney c"uid te-
eide upon practicable substitute. Amherst has
now about $50 students.
The average axe of matriculation az Oxford A2s
10, largely increased during The last century and
largest number mauicuGtcd was nineteen. In
1742 out OF a fetal number of matrcuiajion>
a,unuUtlnc TO 244, - maiuculated at eighteen. 90
ut seventeen. 80 at nineteen, 30 az sixteen. at
twenty at twentY-onc, q AT fifteen, and one each
M the ayes of fourteen tventy-thrce. tWenty-i0ur
twcntv-six. twenty-seven and thirty. In l||2, cut
of n total number Of matuculations amounting to
ZI4 20 matrculatel at eighteen, 50 at seventeen,
30 at sixteen, 20 at nineteen, at fourteen, . at
,,,. 4 at VT
fifteen. 2 at thirty, and each at the ares of
twsnty-t tweuty-tour. twenty-siX and thirty
one. In : r. out OF a total number amounting 80
376 100 matrlcuated at eighteen, 10 a! seventeen:
rs nj nineteen. 10 N twenty, , AT sixteen. | AT
fourt een aud 81 at various ages between twenty
one ;,nd thirty-hve. In 1872. ont of total number
aynonutt1Q 20 626 225 matnculated at nineteen
223 az eighteen, II at twenty, ~ 1T tWchtyolHe
81 ~ seventeen, at sixteen, at hitee ana % al
var1ous gpes between twenty-five and foftV->eye
In 773 one boy matricuiated at the age OF Twelve
and in IVA of the persons matuculated had
reached the mature age OF hity-olX
The Board of Freeholders convened TO frame
new CITY Charter for San Francisco have prepared
a report providing that the Board Of Education
shall be appointed by the Mayor without respect to
Marty poltics to hold Office folr years. Heads OF
families are to be preferred in the appointment and
tLey are 10 be confirmed by the Board of Aldermen
the first board to be classified By the Mayor lnto
terms of one two three and four years. 50 that
thereafter two shall be appointed every year for
term of four years. the office no longer TO be an
elective one. The Board is required 10 elect four
persons 70 act with tho superintendent of, Schools,
during the pleasure of the Board as Board Of IN
spectors of Common Schools. N teacher is to be
emploved, paid or dismissed, except on the recon
incubation OF the latter Boari. Tie Inspectors are
10 make and enforce rules Tor the schools EXAMINE
Teacher, for certificates to De- granted ou 1hrr rec
crucndatIou; fo rec, mmcnd 20 tie B1aId "t T. uca-
f,o,, The aproiutmelt AMI dismissal If teachers 3ud
clnceln2 of their certificate; 10 ascertain ana r.
II
H. RIard of EdncarIon such measures ~ thcy may
rI .. .ttt of, tIC.t g fi,,ftIf