New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-30
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Senior class at Cornell will graduate over a
hundred members
Trinity College Hartford, has 101 students the
Freshman class numbering twenty-five.
Iowa University has III students. The State
Normal School nj Cedar Falls has 231. There are
COG O57 pupils in the public schools OF the State
Its pleasant to know that teachers growing
zoo wise to take starvation wages. In county
IN Kansas there are several schools unable TO secure
teachers.
II is now settled that Oxford University shall
dow Professor Monier Williarnss Indian Institute
with 81 $50 year on certain conditions. No site
for the building has Yet been selected. and nobody
seems to know what tie Institute is really TO De.
The sixteen Southern States with population of
52l4,0Oi have enrolled in the puplic schools
1878, s22 children. The average salary paid to
male teachers is $3i 5l and 10 females S31 OF. The
total income of all these schools is S13,71S COG,
Missouri having the largest amount. The schools
are improving greatly IN conCltion ana III support
all over the South.
Wesleyan University. at Middetown. Conn., has
l62 Students ten of whom women. The re-
Qurements for the admission os freshmen have been
increased by tue addition of English composition.
ancient history and geography, and optional ex-
animation in Latin aud Greek, which allows the
applicant 10 offer sight reading instead of the usual
required work The elective course In history.
year, has been made half study for each OF the
last two years OF the course.
The Baltimore School Board has rescinded its
previous resolution place colored teachers in the
co!ored schools and has elected four white teachers
10 ill vacancies in those schools i'll spite of the fact
that twen,y-oae colcred candidates passed the
teachers examinations. There is much indignation
III iltlmore over the action of the Board fresl
dent Morris and five other members stood by the
RESOLUTION honOrahy. but oUtvoted. Ii is posi-
bic that the question " Ill enter the next election
Mr.. Buckingham of the English High School
Boston argued m the recent meeting of the Massa.
chusetts teachers that the teaching of morals in
school was as necessary the teaching of prescribed
branches of study. The sentiment of the Associa-
tiou was with Mr. Buckingham. The backwaTGness
OF pupils IL responding aud questioning was dis
cussed, aud Superintendent stone OF Springfield
that the great tToaDie was that teachers were
generally too haTd on pupils. ana did not suilclenty
encourage them MAKE an effort. The pupil should
be made to feel that even If he fal he IS not TO De
crusiel. Volunteering and asking ques. lions should
te made easy.
Baraes's Educational hoathly complains that while
we nave graduated FROM public schools pupils
well enough trained IN grammar and arithmetic We
have also sent item out with no sort of knowledge
of the practical noralities of life how to resist
corrupt influences and how to do right. The ten
commandments, The pTecepts of Christ, and the doc
tfiues Of the Apostles belong to no branch OF the
church. Catholics and Protestants alike agree III
the duties Of honesty. virtue and love. All Chris
tans alike b lieye an overruling ProviGence, a
conscience aud a final day OF reckoning. WIN the
special doulnas of the sccts we should have nothing
10 90 u tbs pubic school, but ali that wh,ch relates
To tie iu development OF all our pOweis-inOl'ti,
SPIRITUAL, mental ana physcai-sbould carefully be
aut3Aue& to-"
The total receipts for school purposes in Ohio
dining the past year have ben S11,O75G1 W
the expenditures. S770L44S So. There 5 sc1ool
& 10 % SSchOO
houses in the State and 23.6s4 teachers. The
average salary of male teachers the township
high schools IS SJ7-Of tie females 500 Male
teachers In the primary schools get 1874 and females
SOB In separate district primary schools male
teachers get $50 and females $i2; in the nigh
schools the former receive $71 aud the latter $t3.
Therc 1876 col0red teachers IN the schools II ne
percentage OF average daily attendance on the en-
rolment III townships is I'm separate districts IL
is SO.
The rule that whenever a female teacher marTles
she must resign her position in the schools based.
says The Sacramento Record CRiOR upon the theory
that the puDlc schools be regarded asyiumS
CT refugees for the destitute; that the positions OF
teachers are given to them in order that they may
be eaabled to support themselves; and that as
when female teacher IN rrles II is prcsumable
that her husband will thenceorth MAINTAIN her, 1t is
no longer necessary that she should draw pay from
the public treasury. THIS is of the school
system whlcn as completely ignores all conSidera-
tons Of capacity and usefulness tue teachers
tie spoils system does the nlng OF po itIcai
Offices. A. The ReCord Union poi rs out, the rule
operates to mdint,il ine miscmevouS condition of
amateur teaching by Young glris We want pm
money and real capabiilty. Uhtil u IL
recognized that teaching ~ an honord Die pro ession
that lis members must have natural GIFT as well as
acuuired learning, and tnat II Is not thing 10 be
tdheu up a. q max rshft, the schools Will suff r. So
long as her hODe duties do Dot III erfere with heI
school iauOr the teachers mari age docs not concern
the ScHOOl autnuT ties; and 10 dismiss ti0l0ng ~
competent anu iuspr nc teacher because she be-
IA wife is al aosurd mistake.
young MEMS Society for Home Study" mas
been organized at Cambridge with rules resembling
those of the q" Society TO Encourage Studies at
HoIie." Ii aims 20 guide and eucoura sc the earnest
desire among men for systematic study aud
reading at hOIne The society of r. Eve courses
Au,rr.can aud English History, under the direction
of Mr.. g. Il. Palmer English Literature. under Mr.
Il ebert Grant German Literature, under dr. q. +.
Arnold; Natural Science, under Mr.. ). H.. Scudderj
and Mathematics, under Mr. W. f. Byerly. Each
member Of the society must paw so year, and no
one is admitted under iiteen years of age. The
FIRST term for correspondence in 1881 will be from
January | a. june IN succeeding wears from
October / tn Jupc l. Students VIII be expected 10
purchasr books for tI-mseiycs and are ADVISED 10
consult heir 3pondcnt brfore purchasing
Necessary roOks viii be loaned by the society WIN
q charge OF | cent day aud postage returning
Small collections Tor the study OF geology anu oi
ogy will also Oc seat to the student By mail Per
Sons wishing 10 JON the society sbould ADDRESS me
secretary. Frederic Gardiner, Ir, Camoridg., Mass
the corner OF the envelope PresldeI Eliot Ischair
man of the Advisory Committee. which includes