New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-03-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Tho University of Nebraska has ZoJ SUI
dents large proportion of the number being wo"en
The Boston Committee on Public Instruction
nat for an Appropriation for the schools TINS year Vi
81 ,i2s ,24e.
The Cincinnati public schools cost during the
wear s74l PA 40 Yet it is stated ls623 children
In the city attend no school.
The Ohio State University has again secured
the services OF Professor Meudenhal IN the cha VI
physcs lie will not however leave his WORK lu 'aP""
until September. 1881
The Washington School at New-Haven has
ndopted the Quincy method Of instruction. ana large
audience of citizens has just witnessed with great ha
faction an exhibition of the pupils powers as cultivate"
by TINS method.
The people of Portland, Oregon, are repre-
sented az dissatisfied with their pubic schoos aS sr"N
an education at once expensive and superficial mere
ceos 70 be an openng for the Quincy fashion Of exam
lining and rcmOdelling.
The Cambridge University lectures on the
pracfiec OF Education have been attended ibis past
winter by more than hundred students, large pro-
norton of whom are Eeu The fret examination ioI
teachers will be held in June and large number OF can
didatcs expected to present themselves
The three gentlemen who under new rule
have been actin4as supervisors OF the Boston plin5
schools say that the step M primary instruction On n'
lin AT 1iucY mcthOdl WI len mas Dtch 'dh'H '"
ises the best results Not only the new methods Of
teaching but the supply OF supplementary reading so
generously furnished t. all tie classes, has created an
interest and enthusiasm never before Witnessed ana
which alone gives the best evidence Of complete ADDING
success.
The report Of the New York State SupeIln-
tendent OF Public Instruction shows that there "Vio
during the past year 69S727 children in the state De
tween the ages of five and twcntyone The number en-
,.ala was
nee daily attendance was 57O3e2 There were ll%so
school districts the State and 30G69 teachers Iher
average salary was 1914 Is for the yearnot an enor
mons sum. The expenditure for all school purposes
during the year was 81 O,3iS9lS Os.
The new spelling is to be introduced IN all
tho Prussan schools on April l. Al new Sc"oo'-ho"As
are beuceforth TO be printed with the reformed spelling
and no educational works with the old spellng NH o'
permitted to be in schools after the lapse Of GER
tain interval The Governments o. Austria Bavaria ana
rt.mbe1g had adopted the new spelling some niue
time before that Of Prussia With the exception Oh one
or two limited classes of words, the reformed orihoS
raphy has already received the adherence OF the e""h%
organs of the daily and periodical press
A legislative report on the Name state
College Of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts SHOWS
that the work accomplished by the institution hardly
sttcs the expense to the state and II Is suggested
mat II should limit is Of instruction TO branches
OF study nearly related TO agriculture ana '"e
mechanic arts, even If il is compelled to omit ffehch
and German and the higher mathematics; TO charge tu
ton for instruction ana 10 limit Its expenditures 10 us
income The Legislature is considering 'lu which re-
strlcs the course Of study three years and does away
with some OF the branches now taught.
Milwaukee will establish this Spring free
kndcrgarten upon the pan of the ST. LOUIS knderSar
tens 1t Will be under supervision Of Miss 5 A stew
art principal of the Normal Dcpa tmcnt ana VIII DC
considered a branch of that department. The san
Francisco Board OF Education has appointed commit
tee TO Investigate the whole system OF kindergarten in
strucon and to consider the advsability of adopting
1t in connection with the public school system OF Cali
fornia This action is apparently the result OF recent
vigorous discussion in the San Francisco newspapers
and schools Of the Quincy methods
Girard College now contains $50 orphans,
and its income has increased since Grards death
that the new udngs necessary 10 receive this large
humber have bu 1t entirely from that income with
out trenchng on fund The college has thus far re-
ceved and educated AGA orphans and has ndentured
under the provisions of the Will 1.O2S boys. large
proportion of those who have left its walls are doing
satisfactorily in life. while some have already attained
distinction. Tue development Of Mr. Girard's coal
lands in Pennsylvania has raised the gross income OF
the estate from 1888 "A in 1888 he year after his
death) 70 $s77, 1G5 - in 1879.
Baraes'S Educational Monthly says, very
truly The conservative teacher who drives hls pupils
an obstacle tells them to search it out and investigate
for Themselves not capable Of apprccatlue either
the the sOcratic method OF questioning OF the
Pestaozzian manner OF teaching. lie simply tells ma
pupils to learn principles and rcce the textbooks, and
when they are older they Will see many things now dark
aud obscure The difference between the precious
metals and the base is not more apparent than be-
tween the golden methods OF tie education, APP
piled TO modern thought and teaching, ana the eaden
plodLing discoura ging teaching Of the Old masters"
President Angel, of Michigan University,
mentioned ut the recent meeting Of the TrlSiate Teach
ers' atOD Of the disadvantages of the teach
er's profession Among hen was the temptation TO
the teacher limit HIS lea rnug and his intellectual de-
veoDmen 10 the amount required in his daily duties
the tendency TO do his work ia the spirit OF dull routine:
tie danger OF falling into exaggerated professional
habit or prggish air; and temptation TO become con
ceited, TO hold undue estimate OF his ability and
learning 81 have sometimes heard II SAID" added Mr
Angel, that you VIII see more evidences Of this con-
cet a convention of teachers in an ordinary teachers
institute than In most assemblies OF men"
A memorial to the Vice Chancellor of Cam
bridge University asking for wider xtensOn Of the
higher education given TO women at tnat institution
has been circulated in England and already beaIs
large number OF signatures. The memorial says: That
the present irregular admission Of women TO the various
tripos examinations OF the University of Cambridge dc
pending as does, on the courtesy Of individual ex-
aminers ia unsatisfactory regards the University,
and is liable to cause disappointment to candi
dates who may possibly find themselves refused admis
sion to examinations for which they have been working
for years memoralsts, therefore. pray that the
Senate OF the University of Cambridge Will grant 10
propery-qualied the right Of admission to the
examinations for University degrees and TO the degrees
conferred according to the results OF such examiaa
tons"
One of the professors of the University of
Pennsylvania, acting THE TRIBCNE's suggestion
that college information other subjects than boating
and gymnastics should be given TO the public, kindly
writes: At the University OF Pennsylvania pure
alect,Ne with hi.torY md Englsh liiera