New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-02-26
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Oxford Is to nave frolesS'oi'Nip VI
e,osy.
The Harvard professors are to have larger
saiare. The advance VII tc from s4ooo 70 s4'ooo
per year. Toe assistant professors go frO" s-ooo
IS eco.
Tie State Of Mississippi is about to establish
z college fer young women. The state university now
has SIT students and is prospecting.
The St. Louis School Board proposes to en-
large its number. admitting two members from each
ward thus providing for board Of ffty-six members
President Welch, of Iowa Agricultural Col
lege says that OF 165 graduates 81 are all w"rKne
directly f., the Inc OF industrial education given at
the college.
Hannes Arnason, professor of philosophy at
the Theological School OF iceland Just died eavn'
10000 crowns granting stpenGs to tbeoloslaHs WIZ
wish study philosophy abroad especially III germany
The names Of twenty mine ladies appear III
the list Of candidates who passed the marcuatoh eN
animation at .ac London University in nuary seven
teen passed III first division, and hVe ID he tecO"u
division.
The "Frecdman's Educational Society is
newly organized ASSOCIATION, which proposes 10 start
night schools for co.ored people industrial schools I'D
which girls be trained 10 household WORK. anu Iieo
libraries and readinE-rOofns
The higher schools of Michigan appear to
he 0ourishing Michigan University has 1.376 students
the Agricultural College ct Lansing has 232 the state
Normal School, $40 Adrian College 100; Albion college,
233 Battle Creek College. 425; Hope COLLEGE III
Kalamazoo College. 11G Oivet, POI German Amer'
ean Seminary at Detroit, 125.
The meeting last week in Washington OF
sThe Department OF superintendent OF the National
Educa ona Association" accomplished little save the
ADOPTION Of a resolution calling upon Congress 10 pass
,he bill appylng the proceeds OF the sales OF pubic
ands 10 the education Of the people, and especially the
Southern people.
The cost of the Quincy schools, in spite of
the thorough ard brilliantly effective teaching during
tie past year. was not extraordinary The average
amount expended for each scholar was SIG 49, AGAINST
$40 "a in 1873 The amount expended for each scholar
of the average number in daily attendance was vi 4o
against $23 10 IN 1879.
Miss A. c. Bracket, in The New- England
Jo,,raaI OF EGucaon complains that tho public schools
ore nismanagcd 10y who do not belong TO the pro-
fession; and that wise skilled specialists should be
chosen for the school work and left unlmpedrd by an
eteur interference she says, also With our system
of departmental schools everything is at loose ends
The thread when is one thread, is shown TO the pul
as many different bits with no connection; and what
wonder that he makes soA rapid and astonishing prog
ress and graduates with percentage of 81 per cent anu
unable to write decent letter, or to read stanza OF
poetry or a paragraph OF prose without laundering
dozen tmesv
The fourth anniversary OF TIC Johns Hopkins
University celebrated on Tuesday MI LvaIts max
ing pleasant cOngatulatory speech on hc success OF
the institution. The trustees report mentioned partic
uary that during its four years existence there mas not
been reason for any officer to single student
for disorder or discouIesy and that those who have
won degrees have also the confidence and regard OF
their instructors, and worthy to win IN socety posi-
lions of usefulness aud honor. They hold that The
maintenance of this high standard has been due IN
great measure TO the system Of feOwsLlps MesSrs.
Edmund A. JARVIS Edgar Goodman and Carl f. Gram
or received their degree Of b A. They intend 70 con
tjnue toeir studies at the University. The degree OF
PHI ID. was bestowed upon Mr.. Fabian Franklin. stu
dent and teacher the institution. who presented math-
eoatics as his principal subject 1t also given to
Professor II. A. Rowland Of the Chair of Physics.
NJ. Jules Ferry reports that in France, be-
tween the years 1887 and 1877 the number of schools
Of all kinds has increased IN the proportion OF 90 per
cent while In public schools the Increase has been some
thing like rs per cent The number OF grls schools las
been more than quadruped and there has been un In
crease OF nearly pev IN The staff Of teachers
In the public schools forty ago there was only one
teacher for fythree pupils, while now there Is one Tor
every fortyeigh OF the pupils Taking the increase In
proportion the population 1t will be found that while
In 1887 there only 752 pupils at primary schools TO
every 10 600 Inhabitants there l2Sl, or an in
crease Of 20 per In 1920 only 81 per cent OF the
women married able 10 sign The register az against
20 per cent at the end of 1877 M Jules Ferry goes on
to show that spread OF primary education has been
particularly rapid since the and that IN the seven
years 1871 1873 the state grant was raised from
81 coo, 600 to Sl,OoOO00
The Jersey CITY Teachers Association have
issued address to tho public complaining that the re
tucton OF salaries In that city has compelled many OF
the best teachers to resign aud seek occupation else
where that whilo the wages OF labOrcrs have justly
been increased 20 ceut during the past year. the SOL
aries OF the teachers have during the same time, been
reduced an average Of II per cent. notwitI-
standing the cost OF living has advanced at least
Is per cent; that it is unjust to Obige the
teachers ana other employees OF the city to pay so
large proportion OF the interest on debt cen
tracted wholly for the benefit Of real estate, and that
While there been large increase In the number Of
pupils salaries have been reduced TO point below
living expepses The Supcrn,eudents report says;
Within two years the average reduction OF teachers
salaries has been 33la per say nothing Of the
iucrease of work aud the loss incurred when the pay
mcrt Of monthly salaries been delayed In tic New
York schools teachers are paid from 90 TO 100 per
larger salaries than are paid In Jersey City"
Colonel Parker, of Quincy, In his annual
repot inst ,ucd SAYS that his method OF teaching and
good treatment have nearly, If not quite, settled the
question Of attendance there. AS rule. children at
tend school when they possibly can There IL
notceably a growing love for school and all that per
tains TO II. Means OF stimulating attendance be-
havior and study outside Of real teaching are becom
ing les and less necessary Hardness has been greatly
reduced during the past year, aud the t:uanccs are con
fined to few trivial cases. most OF which are due TO
changes III teachers There have been only two trnans
who seemed ncOrrigble and they have been cured by
kind treatment. There have been few punshmehts OF
any kind and they, Ike the truancles are generally
caused by changes IN teachers. The results seem TO
prove that the attractive influence OF real teaching will
render punishment and cOmpusion in attendance I'm
necessary There is in this direction far higher result
than this-to be ny those who follow the children
from step TO STEP and grade 10 grade II is The steady
growth In good character Of the boys and girls In our