New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-01
. NOTES ON EDUCATION.

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The 'exas Agricultural and Mechanical College
has sev ,nty-sx students and is reported to be pros
perinc The standard of the literary department Ii
reasonably high.
SIEVE al Of the Baltimore School Committee are in
favor of providing the colored schools with colored
Teaches and the Board is now considering tile
matte.
To Kindcrgartcn syCtcm has become so popular
in 81 Louis that the cOored citizens have peitoned
the school Boards to establish it in their schools
The authorities are considering how TO comply Will
this quest.
tn. Boston School Committee is about TO consider
the o. continent of special instructor in hygiene
whose work shall be to teach in the Normal and
High Sc.o"is-and to perform what other duties
may Je assigned to him by the Board.
Professor Fricze, who now becomes acting Presi-
dent of Michigan University in Mr.. AnselPs alb
sence has been since 1854 Professor of the Latin
Language and Literaingc in that instli ution The
university is about TO buy an equatorial, transit
instrument add thermometer. the ones which have
hitherto bsen used there having been loaned oy
Government TO Professor Watson. and withdrawn
when heleit Ann ArbOr
An amendment to a school bill authorizing the
election of women to the Cincinnati School Board
was recently proposed in the Ohio Legislature " as
ajoke." Tho Senate in merry mood adopted it.
The House not being funny at the time, objected
and the result was that the Senate relrcated from
lis position and the door of the School Board was
shut on women again. Wherein 1t is supposed
Ohio showed it's immense superiority in wisdom to
England. tn Massachusetts. and 10 n dozen other
States of the Union which permit women OF good
I'VE voice in the education Of their sons and
daughters.
sharp critic interested in THE TRlBUNEs ar
ticle on the Massachusetts, Educational Report and
wondering what was the cause of the failure Os the
children in schools to write good English,
picked up "a little Volume defining the New
Course OF studies fOi the Public schools Of the City
Of Brooklyn adopted by the Board OF Education.
and enriched With Instructions by the .nperln
tendent' presumably of Public INSTRUCTION." AS
this volume for the use of teachers and pre-
pared by an official of high position. the critic ex
pected to find i'll it the most precise and correct
English. The result of his reading he gives to lie
Edglc. of Brookiyn in the shape of number Of alb
surd grammatical errors quote from the volume.
What its cOmpilers have to say about it is not yet
known.
Mr.. Hullah has been studying the subject OF the
musical instruction given in elementary schools on
the Continent, and reports to the British Educa-
ton Department that these schools present three
striking points of difference from those of Great
Britain: First the scholars remain longer in, and
are more regular in their attendance on them, than
in England second. the amount of teaching force
brought 10 bear upon them is GREATER third more
power of attention and more eaeerness TO learn ar"
generally exhibited by Continental than by English
natural" musical power of tic English pecpe Is
equal to that OI tho German or that of any other
people. II the greater musical fecllndity OF the
German nation be adduccd as evidence TO the con-
trary, it must lie borne in mind that this fccuHdy
JIG Of receut growth, aud may in It's turn prove 10 be
but temporary.
Wisconsin during the past year has expended |
81 513 sol SO upon her public schools, which have
been largely increased both in number and efficiency.
The State has 1865 school districts, not including |
the independent Cities which number tweni; seven.
The school population is Asa, 1885, the attendance |
during the year was 900, 2SG Adding to this the |
number cf children attending other schools. the
total number receiving Instruction proves 10 be
2l5S2. There are G:S44 teachers employed, the
m e teachers receiving in the country districts
37 - per month, aud the female teachers $50 ~.
Tde average salary paid TO maze teachers u The in
dependent cities 1888 u per aunnn. aI:d the
female teachers S341 S0-a decrease of DO. The
highest yearly salaries paid to male teachers are:
~ acinc, Sl.5Qo; Ill Mineral Point ard Oshkosh,
p 750 in Madison. $1,000. and il! Milwaukee.
s. 200. Female teachers received in nine cities
$500 and n9wards: in Racine $500. aud III Mil
81 900. Superintendent Whittord mentions
tbc heed of better qualified and more permanent
teachers the grading Of the country schools and the
general institution If the township SYSTEM in place
Dt The district system.
Onc healthy sign Of a coming revolution in school
matters is ;hc thorough frankness and common
sense with with they are discussed nv the news
PAPERS. few years ago most public journals nell
IDIcu tnc S'uibn system OILY ~ RiOllly II, dLu
c.ool ouhortieS of all grades in reading tn, III,
we're only c.';iirmed in slipshod ways. There haS
,ecn Who'll some changc-aud a change which THE
TniDC ~ may, with no undue vanity. claim to Lave
lorn jOrcm st III bringing about. The PhtadCipkid
le"gy Is Cne ct the journals whose discussion OF !
.,udat ional points are usually most WISE thought
n. and practical. 4 recent number contains these
ri * sentence: "'Ihe meeting of school superiil-
e"tcnts of this State at Harrisburg will probably
GLOW the usual prOftless routine fer such gather
li-,s made and provided. The list Of papers to he
re'rn'ci Is z full oae and even if every nan gets
me to have his paper say, there IS no room AT all
rf~ for the consideration of the most important
cpcs, and the whole time is spent over dyspeptic
al hatulent cram. The interchange of views on
My one subj ct that IL called OUT III n Sharp and
vclv discussion is worth shelf full of monographs.
Tie real superintendent needed is woman
O man WHO can 50 inspire the teachers thai the
c.lOo shall be a living thing and not a clankIng
nd otherwise grooming machine Whatever helps |
s life and tends 10 bring IT about is the necessary
nd almost the only topic for discussion by super
ltententS just now, ana We shall be clad to lear
rom Harrisburg that tie previous question cuts off
II Others from the list"
Acting under it's new departure" policy, the
ostOa School Committee have provided four
,ecial volumes of supplementary reading for the
weI grades Of the public schools. These consist
two series, of six books each, Of popular fairy
les selected and edited by Mr. Henry Cabot
odge, OF The International Rerie,c six stories from
TO- Arabian Nights; and volume of Poetry for
two last edited by Superintendent
liOt. So far as appearance goes as well as in tho
,ture OF their contents, these little volumes mark
new school era. They have clear type, fine and
,avy paper, and many excellent engravings, |
hich enhance the charm of the books for the
lldrer, ard make the elders greve that they can
Vt live over their school days again. All who arc
millar with schools have remarked the readiness
it'll which the childish memory apDrOpriatcs
ores and phrases which tickle the fancy, without
o slightest regard to, or knowledge Of their mean
@. Ii is this habit which often leads to list
and frutcss Use Of the regular series Of school
aders. II is by 10 means uncommon 10 detect %
uhful pupil reading parrot-like. with his boa * held
,side down. Although these supplementary vol
res are ,iripIifcd and adapted as far as feasible
the apprehension of the children. there Will yet
need OF care the par: Of the teachers 10 avoid