New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-12-09
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


The bonded debt of the University OF virginia
has been reduced TO $So00O.
PHILADELPHIA has at present no night Schools as
all the appropriations made for the purpose were
long ago exhausted.
The preparatory department. OF Lincoln oni'o'
sity has sent altogether 400 Young colored men 70
the South as teachers orsninisteis. Inc co"os'"''
department has graduated loo stuueh's'
The Siberian University is rapidly becoming cs-
tablished. The Russian Government before the
foundation Stone was laid had expended S365OO0.
A library of 80, 600 volumes has already peea coi
lected.
The last school report from Georgia shows pup
lie school attendance of 147, 1872 white and 1880
colored children. The school expenses asst year
amounted TO $3lo,71S Inc schooi Popui""o' 10
433, 444.
very large majority of the classical teachers ana
of the classical frst-class men who recently Votcd
on the onesriou of the establishment OF scienthc
degree at Cambridge University were on inc losing
eide-that OF Science
The teachers of New Orleans are still only par
tally paid and are obliged TO sacrifice their GER
tcates of Indebtedness to brokers for the pitance
which is necessary 10 support life. The faliure 10
pay in full is caused by the delinquency OF the TAX
PAYERS and delay in the collection OF the State re-
cepts.
Mr. W. H. Chew has made application to the
Court or Common Pleas in Philadelphia, TO make
rule compelling the Board of Education TO admit
colored children to the schools of the Third ward
All the school authorities have in turn refused his
r,onest Tor me adIssion of his daughter and niece
to primary school for white children, ana there Is
no colored school, near his home.
There are six cosnopotan schools in San Fran
cisco in which French or German is taught. lhere
arc ass pupils studyng French and 2,OG9 Studying
German. or all these pupils $50 arc the children OF
mol a
schools amount sc. 52S; and The progress OF the
pupils is exceedingly satisfactory. 1t Is proposed
TO establish cosmopolitan primary school,
South Carolina has now 1913 public schools,
317l teachers and 1902 pupils The school
fund amounts to 1891 415. OF puplc and private
schools and colleges there are altogether 1851 III
the Stale The State superintendent does not
recommend any increase in the general school tax
and 10 Ks TO local district taxation as the means OF
SUPP m 4itlBg the State fund. The and heretofore
grant d the schools from tn Peabody una Is 10
be devoted 20 the education OF teachers.
A wise proposition was that which NJ Camille See
made recently IN the French Chamber. He wished
that the deserted palaces OF the kings and empcroIs
-Compiegne. Fontancblcau, Rambouillet and Cha
teau de Pari.-shoud he converted into State board
ing schools for girls. II pity that the committee
threw out the plan. for at present those palaces are
living Idle and a charge to the State. The schools
are .dly needed, for from reports sent IN to the
Minister of Public Instruction, 1t appears that IT Is
rot rare for young lady OF hfieen, suppoSed 10
have received brilliant education III convent 10
perpeirate many rs forty errors IN page OF OF
biography and not 20 know who Mohcre was
In Kingston. " Y, the graded school system is
pronounced failure by the Board of Education.
One of ITS members SAYS: 1--WE are obliging every
pupil TO prepare to 90 into and through the Acad-
envy we are bound down with too much red tape
and all the energes of teachers arc exhausted ID
forcing compliance with certain prescribed rules
and regulations, and the poor victmlzad boys ana
girls arc gwen to understand that the SumNm 6OHuD
of existence is IN remembering the necessity OF
turning out the toes a certain angle when stand
ing in class" While this statement may seem
little too I'M etuous 1t is not without reason There
is nothing so destructive OF thorough and intelligent
teaching "castron rules. and OF those the Amer
lean school system IS full
Cambridge's requirements as TO Greek are not
reasonable. 10 say the least. The Spectator points
ont that great many men with real gift for
mathematics OF physical science. and whose educa-
ton at the University far as it is of any value at
ALL is carried through in the sphere of mathematics
or physical science take up Greek for the Previous
Examination in the most perfunctOIy way, never
obtain even rudimentary mastery OF the language
or the literature and even lose something IN the
thoroughness of their early studies, by entering on
q subject which they intend to drop as soon as ever
1t has answered their temporary purpose Now, for
such as these, the compulsory erammlng OF little
Greek enough 10 enable them perhaps. to cOnstrue
decently little New Testament or little bit Of the
"Anabasis" of XenophOn. after they have been
carefully prepared by a tuior,-!s OF no Kind OF
good and yet takes the place of acquisition
which might be of very real use to them IN the ca
reer they actually propose 10 themselves
Cambridge University has rejected the heretical
proposal to do away with Greek as an imperative
study. The dread that Oxford, which has deter
mined to keep Greek elementary subject of
examination should monopolize classical reputa-
ton and honors the apprehension of a decay in
tone arising from the neglect of the classical Ian
guages and the unwilhngness of the clerical ele-
ment in the Senate TO exempt any student from the
study of the Greek Testament. all contributed to
bring about the vote OF rejection Tile London Times
thinks that it will prove in the end impossible TO
protect from modification system which is the
relic of a time when Latin and Greek were the only
things worth learning. We have no hesitation in
SAVING declares The PaU Mall Gazette, " that a
clever man might with months study acquire suff-
cent Greek to pass the Litte-Go. BIT the language
is the stronghold of the classicsts, and we shall be
told that have ignored the grammar paper.
which guarantees thorough grounding In the acct
dence of the most perfect of all inficXlonal Ian
guages. Irae there ls grammar paper but 1t IL
such as might be answered without difficulty by
any boy III the Remove at Harrow or the Shell at
EtOu."