New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


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rba Jrn;vers;tv of Berlin has 4107 students this
session. Philosophy claims the largest Number
1881.
Mrs. Stone, of Maiden, has offered to give Ripon
College 500 600 as soon endowment innd OF
$10J, 900 can be collected
Nearly 1000 young people have recently offered
themselves for the Cambridge local examinatlons'
third of the number are young girls
The San Francisco School Board has made rule
declaring vacant the position of all lady teachers
who marry while employed III the Schools
The instructor in Anglo-Saxou at Columbia says
chat majority of the students have done fairly
we'll IN that study; eleven have done excellentiy.
The fund of $780, 600 for the Harvard Divinity
School has been completed. This will provide lot
the enlargement of the faculty and the consequent
greater usefulness of the institution.
Williams College has now 227 students. The
freshman class has seventy-two members The re-
ouircments for admission have lately been increased
and now include additional Greek and an Enghsn
composition.
The trustees of Cornell University have appro-
priated 100000 for immediate improvements
Fifty thousand dollars are 70 be spent IN building
and eauipping physical laboratory /, is proposed
10 establish departments of INNING eng.neellng
metalluTgy and music.
Superintendent Smart. Of Indiana, has been study
ing the ublic schools the South, and has found
surprising growth OF the system especially IL
Georgia and Tennessee. The cOlored people take
great interest the education of their children ana
the new generation can. as a rule, read and write
The Harvard students are reported TO be discuss
ing the Annex" in lively manner. Many OF them
think that It is time for the college authorities 10
declare emphatcllly against coeducatio1, OF 10
officially open the University TO women. The half
To-
University privileges causes divers inconvenience
III library and laboratory work.
That there is no necessary relation between the
gross revenue of a college and us educational ELL
eieney is the opinion of TIE London Times Balliol
is one of the poorest OF all the colleges at Oxford,
yet it educatcs 214 undergradaates-and has nuT-
turel "a remarkable number OF Engsand's most brll-
liant men. Magialen, one of the richest Ot the Ok
ford colleges educates only 10; while keble. with
no corporate revenue whatever, educates l62
Governor Hoyt of Pennsylvania. has written let
ter in which he approves as valuable the IDEA oil
reading newspapers in school. He thinks however,
that school authorities would find some difficulty IN
selecting the papers, considering religious and pO-
litieal differences of opinion. President Anderson,
OF Rochester University, Las an excellout method
OF using the newspaper for the instruction OF his
students Two three times week he takes up
before the classes important matters Oh eHtreht
news and discusses them eXhaustlvcly and Win
reference To then effect upon the time.
There are now OH the rolls of Johus Hopkins Uni
ycrsity eighty graduates of other colleges who are
receiving the instruction which a generation ago
they would have gone to Germany 10 get. Ot the
1G gentlemen who have held the position OF fellows
in the University % have taken excellent posts as
instructors III colleges aud other institutions OF
high character; 2 are attached to the United States
Coast Survey aud to the Metropolitan Museum OF
Art, New-York 4 are engaged in the Application OF
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thing about the University is the enthusiastic liz
dusry of the students. For four years there has not
been a single case of discipline and no form OF DIS
order The University fixes no limit or time wherein
the UNDERGRADUATE must alta the A. H. degree. lie
is obliged to accomplish definite amount Of work,
ard If lie dIiigent, can considerably shorten his
course.
President Capen, of Tufts College, reports the con-
tnued success of the elective system which. though
it makes a heavy drain upon the working powers of
many of the professors, is thoroughly relished by
them Many of the older graduates who did not
think the Master of Ats degree worth taking under
the old rule are applying for 1T on the present
terms. These make the degree conditioned upon
year of solid work its equivalent, done under
the direction OF the faculty in at least two kindred
departments The president has right to be
proud of the record OF the college as regards the
81 udentS behavior. lie reports that q young man
loses caste among his fellows by rOwdyIsh or dis
orderly conduct each to feel that the reputa-
ton of the college IN bis own Keeping, ana lie VIII
NOT suffer II TO DC furnished without protest by the
Inisbehavior of his associates mus II appears that
IL is quite possible Tor undergraduates 10 behave
like reasonable and courteous men instead OF Ike
naughty little boys fact which the observer of
divers famous colleges may find some difficulty III
believing