The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1880-03-01
School and College.


The students of the University of Virginia
have begun the publication of monthly mag
azine.
At the New York university medical college
on Wednesday evening class of 189 new doc
tors was graduated.
Graduates of the city high school in Atlanta
are prepared for the usual sophomore class at
any college.
Just across the Canadian line, to the north
of us, school teachers salary is regarded as a
bonanza If it reaches as high as $500 per an
num- Chicago Journal.
The Yoo Gijinku college at Hirosaki, Japan,
furnishes tuition at from so to 10 cents a term.
The Japanese students have remarkably good
memories, and therefore excel in languages.
The late DR.. j. W. Taylor left money for the
establishment of a Quaker female college at
Bryn Mawr, Pa, 5000 for professorship in
Haverford, Pa college and s., 900 to the Old
Mems Home in Cincinnati
Ninety-fve per cent. of those graduating
from the Massachusetts, normal schools teach
in the public schools, and yet only about 81
per cent of the whole number of teachers in
the State have had a professional training.
The Chicago school board having decided that
teachers must leave the schools when they are
married, the New Haven Register thinks ''this
makes it very unpleasant for young men who
are looking for support"
Father Dannehoffel, Roman Catholic pas
tor at Morris, Ind, was fined $40 by justice
for whipping pupil in parochiai school. He
carried the case to the highest court possible,
and is now compelled to pay the original fine
and S4OO costs.
The Chicago school board have abolished
the study of German and music in the public
schools in obedience to public demand for re-
trenchment Efforts are making in st. Louis
to abolish the study of German in the schools,
and are likely soon to be successful.
The friends of Fisk University, at Nashville,
Tenn, report that the present is its most pros
porous year. There are 331 students, of whom
90 are from outside of Tennessee, and repre-
sent 13 States. Several hundred former stu
pupils now in attendadce spend a part of each
year teaching in the public schools. 7-.
The Germans are much disappointed that
the natives of Alsace do not make more use of
the University of Strasburg. Very few of the
| students belong to the province at all, and of
| those who do, the majority are the sons Of Ger
mans who have settled in the country since its
annexation. Native Alsatians prefer, as a rule,
| to have their sons educated in France.
During the past year Massachusetts, has in
struoted 81 ,52s pupils, in 1858 public schools.
The teachers numbered S,749. There were PIG
high schools, having 595 teachers and 1881
| pupils. In the State there are 37S private OF
| parochial schools, with 15,16S pupils, and
l 66 academies, with S,662 pupils. Alto.
| gether there were 335,35S children in the
schools during the year. The average length
of the public school service was eight and three
| quarter months. The total cost of the schools
was 50, ,994 ,S24.41. The average monthly sala-
| ry of the male teacher was $67.44; of the fe-
male teacher, $3.50.
President James of the Northeastern Ohio
teachers association says: There has grown
up IN this country very unhealthy ambition
to make common school education so chear
that even its enemies shall be satisfied. I am
ready to say that our school taxes should be
twice as much as they now are. For the work
to be done there should be twice as many schoo
| houses and twice as many teachers employed
| The difficulties Of too much written and toe
little oral work, too many written examina
tions, too little individual instruction too little
personal influence of teacher upon pupil, and
many other evils might then disappear"