New-York tribune., 1880-02-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Rates College has now 143 students, Tue
freshman class numbering ffty-Seyen.
The University of Missouri, at Columbia
,.s snleodia new telescope and is immediately to
have new Observatory TO containit'
A magnificent new church and college OF ST.
Ionattus haye lust been finished San Francisco The
college has 600 students boarders being received
The Chicago Board of Education have
ordered thai when teacher marries her marriage shall
be considered a res gnation from the school service
The Agricultural and Mechanical School OF
South Carolina University be opened as sooh as
possible. The opening and maintenance oi 'ne o'n''
departments is urgently recommended
Tennessee has 5,612 public schools ana
12s7 private ones. The former are attenoc" "
1885, 162 pupils. the latter by $4,000 Ihere Is An ~
crease this year over last year OF l4OOo'
st. Louis now has ffty-two kindergartens,
fifteen of them beng above and five below the s'anuru
required by the ST. Louis system. Win all tDese eio
Is not room enough to accommodate all tuo o"'"ie
that parents wish send TO the elementary SCHOOL,
Two petitions-one signed by eighty mem
bers of the Republican County Committee ana Tue o'
by 10000 cizeus-askng that teachers salaries in's
not be reduced have received and led py 'ne 0"
Francisco School Board. There is no probab'y OF any
reconsideration of the absurd rerenchment arrange
ment.
The small school boys of Sacramento nave
had their dearest liberties attacked The Board OF Edu
cation has resolved to suspend any pupil having SING
shot In his posspsson; and has also appointed com
mttee TO with the City Trustees to oota 'he
passage Of an ordinance to prevent the carrying Oh
slngshots.
committee of Illinois ladies have begun
movement for presenting the voters OF that state te
oueston of a changen their Constitution giving women
the right to school officers Petitions asking loi
the presentation OF such an amendment VIII De lhuo-
dueed in the next Legislature The State already per
mts women TO hold school Offices
The report of the Commission appointed TWO
years ago TO make thorough examination Of the Bat
more school syste has just been concluded It's prh
cipa is that the School Commissioners
should number only seven and should be nominated by
the Mayor aud elected by the Council As at present
arranged there are twenty Commissioners ana they
are selected by Wards and appointed by Councilmen.
This method of appointment brings the possibility OF
political influence into school government.
Nevada has been able to sell only about
100000 acres OF her school lands wing TO their mou
famous situation or desert the
school fund has not been much benefited by the grant
The State proposes to renqush these lands to the Gov
ernment condition of grant OF 2,OOOOOO acres OF
non mineral lands, which be sold to advantage 1He
Nevada Legislature passed bill auth0rzlngthls eA-
change and Representative Dagscit is preparing an
other bin 10 the same effect TO he introduced in Con-
gress
The new term at Dartmouth has opened
with full attendance, five students being added 10
The list Mr. G. W Morse OF Boston, has lately estab-
lshed two prizes of $50 $75 be given annually to
the two students of the second class OF the Cha""h
Scientific Department who shall prepare the best oTiS
nal defamation At the recent large meeting ID Boston
OF the Dartmouth Alumni President Bartlett said that
In every department the college IS capable OF doing
the kind educational work it is weak in none
He suggested however, that its sphere o nseinncss
might be broadened and that the alumni should SET on
foot some measures By which to endow Daniel Web
tter professorshp Of Latin and Rufus Choate profes
torshp Of Greek
The popular system of appointing teachers
Is condemned by The Scranton Republican. Which says,
wisely enough, that the teacher has but TO follow
routine prescribed probably by board OF directors who
have not the faintest idea of either the theory or
practice OF teaching, or may be by county or CITY |
srperiutendent who meapders along In rut that ne
hasn't the enterprise energy to get out Of Under
such system what inducement is there for teacher
to act independently and pat into practice original
methods Of teachings There is always room for I'M |
provement in this respect but unfortunately improve
ments can only come TO our common schools through
the development of superior intelligence in school d.
rectors, necessarily tedious and at most doubtful
eonsummation.
Ar excellent instance of the way IN which |
the children in the average Public School learn with
w. teacher of public schools had been ac-
customed require her pupils TO The equator
an imaginary line passing around The earth etc II
had never occurred her that the boys aud girls OF her
school had idea what imaginary line meant until
Que day a visitor asked them how wide they thought the
equator is Some thought it 5000 miles WIDE !
Others 1000 and others said they could jump over It,
The visitor then asked how they thought ships got over
IT, One pupil said he thought they got out and drew
them over, and another said he had read that canal
had been dug through it! "What is the name OF this |
eanali" was asked The suez CaDalw the |
A committee of the Boston School Board !
complains that the primary schools all habitusly
overcrowded-a state OF things fatal 10 good nsInc
ton They add that forty children are all that ono
teacher attend to properly ffysx are allotted TO
her and fact, she has usually many more under her
care. The committee submitted the following orders
which are to be decided upon by the Board
Ordered That at the regular meeting OF the Board,
held in the month March, $780, director OF primary
schools TO be called neutrality-suspicious. OF Public
gchools shall be elected, to hold office for two
from April l. 1880 Ordered, That the superintendent
shall be empowered designate two supervisors to net
with the Assistant superintendent In the supervision OF
primary schools with the powers given 10 the super
'yisors In charge Ordered That wherever the number
Of pupils upon the list OF teacher giving instruction
children of either the fifth or sixth primary class
shall exceed fysx, and shall be less than eighysix,
that an assistant teacher shall be appointed at salary
10 be fixed by the Committee on Salaries.
Miss Eastman, clever New-Englander, in
recent lecture at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore,
quoted Professor Agassiz saying that lie afraid
bis grandchildren would have TO learn to SPELL he
would not be here to prevent It, Oar methods, he said
waste tiue and give children class OF words that are
mere lumber 10 their minds. They dull instead OF
sharpen the perceptise faculties and oyerax the mem
ory Miss Eastman added that it is an unfortunate
thing that schools do introduce young minds TO
more literature Outside OF the text books particular
science supposed TO be learned when the scholar gets
out of the book have found this constantly in my