New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-06-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


class seventy are going TO study law.
The Union Law College at Chicago has just gra-
duatcd n class Of thrty-twO Students
Professor Bain's weak health has Obliged HIM TO
resign the chair OF Logic at Aberdeen Univers'ty'
Chancellor Haven is said to have added $15OOoO
to the endowment fund of Syracuse University oy
his personal efforts.
Mr. T.. Gray, of Chicago has promised to give
$50, 900 to Oberlin on condition that SlOo'oOo Gun
be raised from other sources
The Massachusetts Institute OF Technology uas
inst graduated eight Young gentlemen whose ''i'H0'
are said to have been OF unusuai eNcehc"'0'
scboolship TO be called the "Camdens" is 10
he nloced in the Tagus for the education IN Tue
maritime profession of the sous OF poor Io''"-
guese ,:
The teaching of the Indians at Hamilton our'nH
.ba most year has been very successful lhey are
eacer TO learn and are interesting pupils L" "''A
they are slow, but, as rue' "ii'".
The graduating class this year at the UniVers'tE
~ Rochester has a high standing. In the whoie
c,oss tbcrc ia only one member whose STANDING II
moi high enough to permit linn 10 speak III oo'i'-
mencement.
The Agricultural College at Guelph Canada, Is
cold m he entirely succesSful-so successful tnl'
900 applications for admission have Deeh r'I"s'"
The agricultural teaching is thorouehIY pIactCas;
the students work hard 10 learn thei ""S'"'0'
spade III hanu
During the recent scmi-annral examination III
Baltimore of applicants for teachers PoS'''"HS' -"
candidates appeared, 70 of whom were coioreu'
nt .o+o, rrn,ber of successful was G2.
Eiohteen or them were colored teachers-OT =" per
cent of the number examined.
AR Poyuter the distinguished English artist IS
editing srrIes of tex books of Art Ednca'"h' III"
first two Of which have just been nri"ted'' Inc
first is on "Classic and Italian PantinG" ne SC
ond on Got HE and Renaissance "Ichi'o''"''
Both are very fully illustrated
Mrs. Vae.ia G. Stone IN presenting a gift OF
100000 to Wellesley College saws that she has
often and sadly observed the W'iahe worthless
ness both TO themselves aud Others OF tue hNts Oh
women WHEN given up to selfish frivolX or waS'eu III
the pursuit of mere personal enjoyment. She ueS'S,
SHE adds to aid in training women OF learning 700
Senerous for sccptIcal cOnce. and refinement 100
thorough for fastldlouS selhShlesS'
A speaker at q recent meeting OF a Mas
sacbusetts Teachers Association, said very
nptly that too many teachers ana pupilS
seem to entirely loose sight OF the true
end and aim of all study, and instead OF ieachne
and studying to know, devote their time anu Gilee r
pips TO preparing for rPcitaiOnS ana examinations
with little thought Of anything beyond.
SUPERINTENDENT Harris. of ST. Louis, at the re-
cent meeting of the newfoundland SuperiutendentS
said that the high schools had faults III two direc-
tions: he did not believe that geology and hotanf
should supplement Latin aud Greek or wee N'i"-
and he thought there should he SpirtnaHtN III
PRODUCED into the schools. ihe aSse'p'" + SUI -,
intendcnts resolved that the new, depHltu'S ~
educational affairs in New-England lhe1lts thCH
hearty cOmmehdatOn."
The catalogue of the Fail River public library IN
tended to circulate among the pupils c1 tn" p"pilc
schools has these judicOus directions at the emf:
"Becin by basing your reading on your school tex
books. Learn the proper use OF refereh'e-oo4hS.
H., ffif4lS "a
vour own. Acquire wholesome habits OF reading.
iIse imaginative literature, but rot imm"dcratolI
Do not try to cover too much ground. DO nor heGl-
tate 10 ask for assistance aud suggestions at ne IL
brary. See that you make your reddiis " Vo"'''
gam to you III some direction"
Professor Russell of the Worcester Normal
School, describes a sensible and healthy plan
adopted for the noon lunch at that school iuii
hour of intermissOu is given, and large rooil set
apart aud furnished with tables wherein the pnpls
eat their lunch and amusr themselves duiliE th'
bour. In Winter hot closet has been provided toi
warming the food The results Of tins arrangcacut
are excellent. Tic pupils enjoy Themselves, eX-
chance food and the habit OF association has ii vel
onrd the bringing of a great variety of wholesome
food Ii is pity that rhs is NOT done III every pub
lie school l1Hng neG 9aG wP aT ar i sn1
10 cIt il comfortably. Llttl" ones i'll the primary
schools should always havca light lunch. even when
their school hOUrs short. acre i not 80 mucL
nonsense talked now rs Of old conc rnIIg the cNlS
of feeding children between meals"
To dos,nething toward rcmcdying brain pr,
sure IN schools The London Spectator says that II
should lie determined beforehand what amount OF
time may be fairly expected to be required for les
sons to be prepared at hOmc-Say, an hour day for
those under thirteen, and an hour and half or two
hours for those above that ages and parents should
be asked to inform the teachers If the time thus
fixed is exceeded in order that the task, if nccdful
l. in ASf inn "A n
consideration is tie character Of the task pre-
scribed. Ifit consists of new work, and is prepara-
tory to the lesson of tie next day. it may present
problems which will puzzle and distress slow
thoughtcd child especially if he has access 10 no
Intelligent help at home. But il. as rule, home eX-
ercises are supplementary to those of the school
hours and have for their main purpose to illustrate,
deepen and fix what has already Deen explained,
they are not open to the same objection. ne nam
part of the intellectual difficulty should DC solved
at school with the help of the teacher; the solitary
work of the home student should consist of the
easier task OF recapitllatIuganu nethOuislng what
is already understood.
A quantity of evidence on the Greek question IN
college has been published by a Cambridge SYN
dcate which proposed that candidates for honors
shonld be allowed to take up French and German
instead of Greek at the Little Co." let
ter from Professor Huxley is included IN this
evidence. He writes: "AssduOus application
of the method of cOncomitaut variations has
not, as yet, enabled mo to discover any re-
latiou of cause and effect between ordinary
Greek scholarship and literary culture properly so
called and venture to think that 4 knowledge Of
Greek : indispensable element of
liberal education, in tho highest of the word,
than il knowledge of Sanscrit. Of the DIilcren-
tal Calculus, or OF Vertebrate MorphOlOgy. Persons
who happen t. be unacQuainted with any Of these
studies are unqucs ouably shut out from large aud
fertile fields Of thought; but it will he hardly
denied that they nag have obtained a liberal. and,
even in an educational point of view, complete
culture by the aid of other forms Of mental dIsc-
pine" Mr. LIquiCk. head master of Rugby, says:
'FOr the wOIst boys who do Greek public
school II Is not mCrcY useless bit nrrnCluIs. Tho