Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
EDUCATIONAL TOPICS.
- The estimate for teachers salaries In st.
Louis for the coming year, Is $5s5 0Oe.

Louis. for the coming year, Is $595 0Oe.
- The progressive course" OF the woman's
Medical College of Pennsylvania has been found
SO excellent that the authorities have Determined
10, 10 MAKE axe IL 9ongatory upon all students ener-
Ing the college after the year 1880. Students
taking this course are examined at the end of
the first winter, this examination being In
further medical study.
The trustees of the University OF South
Carolina have formally organized the College OF
Agriculture and Mechanics. authorized by the
legislature last winter. Scholarships win b,
established and tuition will be free to all stu
dents whose parents live in the state The
president is MI. w. T. Miles, eX-member of Con-
gress and eE-mayor Of Charleston. Professor
LIE Coute win leave tie University Of California
and return TO South Carolina and become one
OF the faculty.
We cannot ignore the physical element, the
foundation upon which man is built We are
OF the earth, earthly; few pounds of dirt and
several buckets of water. our chemiStrieS tell us
ana sh yet this physical nature IS the temple for
the fndwelling spirit, and should by all the in.
terests OF the individual, be developed into fulI-
est health, strength and beauty. To-day the
problem OF the country is Intellectual education:
the problem of the next age Will be the physical
eCucation OF our people. In America as In
England, the race is retrograding In physical
power and II there is not a radical reform. even
WIN all the retnfOrcementS Of strength by
peasant immigration, We shall cease to exist as
a nation through physical degeneracy. What
Immigration is dong to-day to keep up the
physical life, edu, alton must do in the near
luture.-Dr. Ederdrd Brooks
- The experience of third of a century. SAWS
foreign writer, has convinced many observant
persons that the aggregation OF children fn
huge scnools Is a mistake. There can. of
acter in such schools. The children are dealt
Win Id masses, and each child Is only a unit in
crowd. They act together with the precision
OF macninery; but they are lost when called
fo
visitors to these large pauper schools have no.
uced, an unJoyous look In the children. They
nave OLD heads on young shoulders, In the
They are dull apathetic helpless. They ara
like plants which are brought UP without sun
snlne. They are, In fact, eXotics. shut out from
an contact with the cares that beset their class,
ignorant OF family life, fed with the regularity
OF well kept animals, but without any practical
knowledge OF the conditions under which their
the world. "-'-
- The teacher must prepare the way for Sue
cess IN the classroom by thoroughly preparing
himself for his daily work; he must gather from
all sources, and carefully select that which the
pupil needs, can learn and digest. Much that
Is In our text books cannot ana ought not to
pe learned; the judgment must be trained to
discriminate. Truth is the necessary food for
the mind. There is much that we must know:
hti,k when he reads, and to stimulate tho,ftht
ana mental digestion, the demand that he must
learn so that he can reproduce what he studes
must be imperative. To secure good Rotations
ana the BEST results from them, teachers must
not assign too long lessons; the pupil must be
familiar with his subject in order that he NAV
present 1t to the teacher and the class clearly;
then he must be made to feel that every mem
Der Of the class is a critical listener. who is re-
Spons1be for all the mistakes that the speakers
may make. There is a fearful laxity in this
respect In schools that are called our best.
Mrs. Garrett Anderson, the distinguished
ETlrrt iSb ro1,v
the following practical suggestions as remedy
tor the complaints made as to the overwork in
girls schools: First-To get the elements of
knoWledge wei and thoroughly taught at an
Tor early neglect by taking a very extensive
range OF subjects as soon as she goes to a GOOD
Sch0o!. Second-To accept two and half or
tn pee ID, aoufs OF Class work as long enough at
or three short intervals of rest-e. g., five or ten
minutes In each hour-during even this time
ThlId-To Insist upon every girls school having
reducing the amount of writing In the home
work. Fifth-To reduce the number OF exam.
nations, and especially to make them as un-
great reserve to the children most likely to shine
IN them. S1xth-NOt to aim at completing the
education by the age Of eighteen.
One of the evidences that the course of In
struction In our public schools does not devotion
moral and mental vigor may be perceived in the
general federation of municipal eXtrayagance
ana corruption. Persons holding important no.
sltlonS are detected In the commission of dis
graceIul ana dishonest acts the matter is pub
llShed ID the daily papers and read by the peo-
pie, out 1t does not create such feeling of in
d1gnatton as is calculated to make the 1nfatth
tul o1fcial feel that he is severely condemned b
his nelghbors and ashamed to look them fn tn
face. Ii he can escape punishment and continu
ia once ne is quite at ease, and in little tim
the matter is forgotten by the people who ar
wfonged Dy the offender. An efficient system
G
the minds of the people an idea of the sterltn
Vaiue OF honesty ana the shameful turpitudeo
peculallonS and neglect of duty by those In
'rus,eo py eitlzens to MI responsible offices.
a SOUND ana manly contempt for men to who's
hands trusts are committed and who make
dlsnonest use of them existed everywhere. q .,
ole would dare to show lack OF integrity. l
IS the good natured tenderness OF the peopIe
mat makes rOgueS of men In Office Practically
Ii may be said that we have no genuine moral
training In the schools. and but little that is eff
glect of moral culture.-TtNa. Ledger.
We believe that the whole method of
teaching boys to write is mistake, that there
is no Igle system OF mecaniQue for writing
ana mat child belonging to the educated
classes would be taught much better and mora
easily If, after being once enabled to make and
recognize written letters, 1t were left alone
and praised or chidden, not for its method. hui
1 1tt the result Let the boy hold his pen as he
write at the pace he likes-hurry, OF course.
belng dlscouraged-but Insist strenu ously and
perslstently that his copy shall be legtble Shall
be clean, and shall approach the good COPY set
before MN, namely Well-written letter. not a
ruDblshy text. On single line, written as no.
body but a writing master ever did or viii
write TIL the worlds end. He will make
mudQle at 1lrst, but he will soon make pass
abie imitation OF his copy, and ultimately de-
Velop characteristic and strong hand, which
may DE bad or good but will not be either
meaningless, undecided. or illegIble, This
hand VIII alter, OF course, very greatly as he
grows Oder. 1t may alter at II, because it is
at that age that the range of The eyes is fixed
and snort sight betrays Itself; and it will alter
at II. because then the system Of taking notes
clamped and temporarily spoiled the writing:
out the character will form itself again. and
Will never be deficient In clearnesS Or decision
the Idea that 1t is TO be clear will have
stamped itself and confidence will not have
been destroyed by worrying little rules about
attitude, and angle, and slope, which the very
irritation OF the pupils ought to convince the
teachers are from some personal pecuIiarity
inafplicable. The lad Will write, as he does
anything else that he cares to do. as well as he
can, and with certain efficiency and speed.
Almost every letter he gets will give him some
assistance, and the masters remonStrance on
his 1lleg1bil1ty will be attended to, like any
other caution given in the curriculum. AS 1t
Is, he simply thinks that he does not write
well, instead of thinking that not TO write well
is to fail short In a very useful accomplishment
Black and Cardinal as sRayeS.,,
[London letter.
just now there is rage among English women
for the new and fashionable tint OF scarlet known
as "cardinal." Which is narhanS tho HIGHEST