New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Nearly all salaries in the New-Hayen schools nave
INST been increased-an excellent piece OF WORK
Rochester University has now 155 students, the
senior class numbering 80. commencement comes
June 80
Tn Milwaukee. 1914 children out of n daily at
tendance of 1 .O92 in the public schools, are study
ing German.
It's stated that the sum of $140.212 81 on the
educational account is duo to the City OF New-Or
leans from the state of Louisiana.
The endowment of Worcester Academy has beer
increased by $50 900 dGnng the past year, chiefly
through the efforts OF Professor Greene, OF Browr
University.
MARYLAND Agricultural College has seventy-hye
students. Twelve students are STUDYING TO DC
special arrlCulturists. Seven gold medals VIII Oe
given at the coming commencement
It's said that there is to be stirring cont est Tor
the chair of Logic in Aberdeen University, lately
vacated by Professor Balm. Professor duncan,
the literary assistant of Mr.. Herbert Spencer Is
mentioned one of the candidates.
The expenses of the Peabody Institute during the
past year amounted to $31 ,143 so. The Gallery OF
Art has been shut for repairs and for the collection
of treasures The musical classes OF the lnS!,Gte
have had $50 members. with gain Of $1'2O3 20
over last year.
Teachers salaries in Troy have been in some
cases generously increased for this year. The prn-
cipal Of the High School gets $3.50 more than last
wear, and his frs and second assistants each 500
more. The prnci pals of the grammar schools Also
get 500 more.
KatO president of the University of Toxic, sends
to The TRIBUNE the calendar of that institution ex-
cellently printed in English and japanese by Jap
auese firm. This calendar shows the total number
of students to be o02 The university now closely
resembles those Of Europe and America, and the
standard of scholarship has been scadliy raised
SINCE lis esta Enlistment. There are sixteen foreign
professors and twenty-one native ones
A writer in BaIWf8's Educational Monthly complains
with much justice and force of the way In winch
history taught i'll our schools. The minds OF the
pupils are cranmed with dates and numbers which
they soon forget and there is 10 intellectual grasp
of the deeds customs and characters of the times
concerning winch they study. And tins, 1T must ne
SAID is chiefly the fault of teachers Tor even poor
textbook may be mace OF worth III the hahus Oh
wise and skIltui teacher.
The Harvard Board of Ovcrseers has accepted the
Legislative act providing that non-rcsdents may be
eligible to the Office of Overseer. The Board has
also voted to throw open the library for The use Of
students on Sunday afternoons. The college cor
polaton has offered to open the Museum OF Material
Iis DIV, the botanical garden, the mineral cabinets
III BOystOn Hall the fine arts collection and the
Agaslz Museum for public Inspection Oh SUNDAY
afternoons during the Summer. IheOnly condition
made is that the City of Cambridge shall supply
police for tie buildings.
Commencement week at Union College begins
June %. The University Grafton will be given by
Mr. John Welsh. of Philadelphia, on the Odd. Har-
ward also begins its commencement ceremonies on
the 2O,h. Wesleyan's commencement occurs June
81. The annual examinations here begin on the
18TH as do those of Dartmouth Madison Uni
verSity has its commencement on the 18th, and
Hamilton College on the Oath. The annual Grafton
before the Hamilton Alumni VIII be gwen by Mr..
uli9m Dwight. Y.
poem by Mr.. Guy Humphrey McNla>tcl, of Bath.
TUFTS holds its commencement on the 10th.
The amount of Greek required at the previous ex-
aminatiOns of the English Universities are said by
The IGV Mail GGztttG to be so small that man, if
lucky, can scrape through the examination before
he has emerged from that first mechanical stage OF
learning which is about the limit OF an average
school6Oy's attainment. To be able to translate
easy passage at sight is not, an outsider would
think much of au accomplishment vet it Is
which exceeds the powers Of the ordinary pass
man. At any rate, the examiners for some reason
decline to apply obvious test. In short IN spite
of the opinions of the tweutyseven head masters,
is dlicult TO nave much Ialth IN inc euucatiohaii
value OF Greek for boys OF average ability"
Whatever merit the lan-uag has as a means of IN
tellectual discipline IL shared III common with
Latin; and tIcre must De great waste oi time ana
energy ia system which sets two efficient ma
cliucS at work to produce the same effect. Latin
aid Greek are cOnfeSSedly taught not Tor their
trns!c value, hui for he sake of the mental GYM
nastics afforded by their study The result is that
a 10y when ne reaches manhood may may not
have an admirably trained mind he is certainly de-
fcient i'll every KIND Of Knowledge.
There were on the public school registers of Eng
land and Wales last year tho names of 3,7lOSS3
children. of whom 1,20601G were under seven
years of age. OF the whole number, 2,59I995
were in average daily attendance, and 1,0S4,G22
passed the prescribed test without failure Ill any
one of the three subjects-reading, writing and
arithmetic. The Government grants TO elementary
day schools rose i'll the year from 81, S20,GG1 to
81 ,9S1 .720. The grant for the current financial
year is estimated at moro than this. The exptnd-
ture per scholar in England aud Wales is in voun-
tary schools about So 70 for each scholar; and in
board schools about $40 90. There were 1861
night schools in operation. containing $3.50
scholars above twelve years of age. Out of every
100 of these examined S0.04 passed in reading,
7I95 in writing, and CLAP il. arithmetic. The
inspectors found 29,71G certifcated teachtrs at
work in the aided schools which they visited, while
the fOrty-One training colleges, from which the sup
ply of such teachers is manly recruited, were at
tended i'll 1879 by BIOS students. The elementary
schools in Eng land and Wales, which i'll 1869 pro-
vided for S.34 of the population, were in 1870 suf
fcient for 1G46 Of the estimated population, an adj
ditiOna provision Of room for 2376,26O children
being thus made.