New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

BelOt loliCSc ude J"Se
students.
San Francisco had at last accounts a school popu-
lation OF o9.9of.
Out of $50 applicants for admission to Harvard t
the June examinations, POS have been admitted
The Cambridge England local examinations
grow IN usefulness every year The total nnmoer
of candidates offered this Summer is sll' as COIL
pared with 573 in '7s and 741 In 10
Cambridge University has just conducted It's hrs'
examination for teachers The examnauo"
practical as well as theoretical each candidate oi
the practical portion being required teach oeioio
the examiner.
Yale's academical department has professorsmp
funds TO the amount of 1871 800. The prize anu
scholarship funds amount to SloZ'-lo' Inv
total income of this department last year was
Sl35 697 the expenditures were Sl3ZZo9'
The total amount of school taxes collected in
North Carolina last year was 1927 3S. Of TINS
sum sci COG 81 were collected from black polls
The only addition to this school money was INC
sum OF So 269 65 in interest on Ihi'eo o'"'0'
bonds and from entries OF vacant iahds.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, Belgium
has addressed new instructions 10 his clergy up
holding the same principles which he previously
promulgated. The public schools remain cot
demned and the refusal of absolntion TO the parents
OF pupils and to the teachers is maintained.
The new revised Education Code of Great Brit-
ain permits more latitude in the subjects 10 oe aHen
ND by children in the second and higher STANDARDS
in order TO earn the capitation grant Inc mn
imum now required for this purpose is that ch'id
shall pass creditable examination IN one SUBJECT
geography natural history. physical geography
natural philosophy, history, social economy, gram
mar, needlework, OF some other-which mas oeeh
"tanght throu0h bout the year hr'ugh readlng les
sons illustrated if necessary by maps; dlSgT maGs
specimens. &C." Needlework is no longer maoe
com pulsory in the girls schools.
It Is stated that the majority Of those entitled 10
vote in Louisiana are unable to read and write
OF these persons 900 are whites and so far from
being foreigners are mostly natives of the state
When at the close of the war the schools were
opened in a certain rural parish and the inhaDi-
tants were requested to send their children. some OF
them informed the superintendent that they ha 1
accumulated fortunes by making their cross mars
and that they desired their children to do hke-
wise There is widespread and lamentable IN
difference in large portion OF the state as u 1ne
necessity and efiicacs OF pubhc educauoh'
Professor Baldwin of the kirksvllle Normal
School. Wisconsin, said recently at meeting of
the State Teachers Association that at least one
half of the teachers OF the country are mere school
keepers One-half the better class of teachers he
added either fall into ruts else leave the school
room for some other profession. Only one-fourth
of the children of this REPUBLIC are IN the hahus OF
live, competent teachers me at ;r aar
girls of this Winter are our teachers neXu NinteI.
They assume the duties OF the schoolroom Withouo
any preparation for the great work incumbent upon
them and with little OF no interest in ther GAZING
A large majority of the classical coaches " at
Cambridge have formed an association. win
view to organizing their work so far as Is compati
BILE with individual interests. The chief points OF
the present scheme arrangements for teaching
large and small classes for small fees, for giving
composition and translation papers separately and
for supervision of reading including ADVICE ana eA
plantations of difficulties also announcements OF
The various books or branches OF study In whlch
the several members consider themselves especially
nj home 1t heI proposed to circulate printed
composition and translation papers wlthih 'he asso
citation.
There are no elective studies in the Freshman
year at Bowdoin. In the Sophomore year there are
spherical trIgonometry and analytical geometry.
Tn the Junior year there are Latin, Greek,
diferentia and integral calculus zoology, Anglo
Saxon science of language, physics, and botany
and in tho Senior year, mineralogy, analytical
chemistry German and English literature, The
scientific department under that name is to be
given up entirely, but all the studies taught IN IL
will be transferred to the Academic course either
MS required studies electives. No degree or b.
s. will he given hereafter, the college Limiting itseIi
10 the b. A. The President reports that haZlng at
Bowdoin {" is outgrown." The students vol unfairly
behave themselves like decent men. 1t is pity
that so few colleges have faculties whose personal
infinence is strong enough to keep students from
the dirty blackguardsm OF hazlng.
France has instituted several new observatories.
and now finds that thoroughly trained astronomers
are needed course of study has therefore been
arranged at the College of France and the Paris OBJ
ssrvatory by means Of which the want Will he bril-
Gantly supplied. The first year will be chiefly de-
voted to the theoretical and practical study OF the
meridian service the fundamental basis OF astron-
omy of observation and the use OF protaDie instu-
monts. comprising those with reflection for each
astronomer in an observatory should be able toteach
the use of the various instruments required by
travellers so many of whom now amply for sucn
Instruction before leaving The second year will
be occupied with the serves OF equatoriais anu
physical astronomy. The first half year VIII ee
spent in lectures studies and exercises and ID the
second half the students will go through the regu-
lar service of observations with officials.
The salaries of the over-worked professors at Will
liams College are to be raised and the faculty VIII
be enlarged Better facilities for the study OF art
are also to be provided. The college has $31O,4ZZ
of invested funds In the recent alumni meeting
the question of commencement expenses came up
and the extravaganza of students in procuring nigh
priced music and other attractions was rigidy con-
damned and the various secret societies were taken
70 task for an alleged desire their part to exclude
moor vet worthy men for the sake OF adding wealthy
and more fashionable students to their ranks Ihls
matter aroused much discussion, and hnaiiy vote
was passed requesting students to be as economical
ms possible in commencement expenses. The de-
parimcnt of natural history Is to he div1ded Pro-
lessor Southworth, who has chemistry. Will take
miperalogy. Dr. Chadbonrne will teach botany, and
Professor c. H. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth. is
elected provisional professor of geology and zoology
Bowdoin now applies the ter.ls of admission with
great srictness and moreover holds up the student
10 good scholarship during the course. To pass the
term examinations requires mark of six on scale
of ten, and unless the student can attain that he
IS not allowed to go on with his class The college
is able to pursue this safely and it is greatly
.l..l <l,ot tlarc nj
vould follow ITS example There is far too much
nj what tie students call "sCraping through
is graduating for various eXtraneOus rea-
sons students whose lack of capacity or