New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-22
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

DR. L. H. Blanton has been elected Chancellor OF
Central University, Kentucky.
The University of Vermont has just graduated a
class of twenty students, six of whom were young
women.
Samuel Martin, a Quaker of Kenneth Square,
Penn. has left $50 900 10 various educatiohai
causes
One Of the objections urged against the remoVp'
of Hudson COLLEGE TO Cleveland lies IN 'ne lear
that it will gradually be deprived oil It's religious
basis.
Superintendent T. Wilson, of Newcastle, Indiana
has an excellent idea Of encouraging teachers. lie
proposes TO his County Board of Education that
teachers who have proved themselves 10 be COM
petent sould have their salaries advanced IN pro-
portion 20 their success and the length OF hcehso
they hold.
The New Orleans schools were closed last month,
{. to be reopened when there shall be money enough
on hand 10 pay teachers salaries and other ex-
pensesa Ii is feared in many quarters that this
time will not soon arrive. The city appropriated
100000 for school purposes this year, and 1t is
estimated that il Will require I'll. o,OOO 10 pay to
teachers for the six months already pasJ, ana nc
amount allowed them for one vacation MONTH
State taxes cannot bc collected until December o.
Among the duties to be performed by the four IN
spectors who are to be appointed by the San Fran
cisco School Directors, is the enforcement OF the
rules excluding sectaran books and teachings
from the schools and prescribing such instruction
as shall enable pupils to earn living and enid
vate a respect for truth labor. and industry" ms
Board Of Iusp2 tors has power only TO cxdnine tlo
schools to report concerning them. and TO enforce
the rules OF the Directors, who will limit It's term
OF Office AT pleasure
The expenses Of the Boston schools have, since
the It organization of the School COMMITTEES, been
reduced by $3sO.4S6 The total amount expended
for the Hugh Schools last year was $1S2,713 70;
.lo tai
priu ary schools instructing 20.S9S pupils, cost
1855 534 So. The grammar schools had 2I,3SI
pupils aud cost S77237S "a. On salaries Tor all
school officials 81 23G, 500 OF spent. The
Committees estimate of the sum needed next year
was 81 44324G; the City COUNCIL mas NOleo
$685., 900.
IL is a profound but very common blunder The St.
James Gazette says, TO suppose that the work OF
teacher IN an elementary school Is necessarily dull
That depends upon the teacher himself If he VIII
work with fine intelligence and spirit he will not
only vivify the dry bones of the textbook for bis
pupils but find himself keen pleasure in the
awakening of their curiosity and pertlnaGlty. III
can't too often be repeated III this country thaC the
true teacher must be born TO his Work there Is
something more then, in his NINA ana heart, IMAM
the mere earning OF livelihood.
There is II curious statement going about in
England, 20 the effect that Mr.. William MDtO was
appointed to the chair of Logic and English Litera-
ture at Aberdeen University because its late Occu-
pant, Dr. Balm, wished that the continuity OF bis
teaching should not be broken. The Spectator says
that the true principle of patronage in appointing TO
n chair of philosophy or theology should be TO get
the most earnest and living teaching apart from
any special school of thought; the measure OF
ability to be the proved power 10 open tho minds
of pupils and TO interest them IN the piooieHs 10
be discussed
The Irish University bill provides that the honors
and degrees of the new Irish University shall be
omen to women as well as TO men. society has
been formed to procure the endowment of scholar
ships and other means of aid for the higher educa-
ton of women in Irclanl. 1t viii also take meas
ures to obtain for in the principal cities Ol
Ireland the university education which Will enable
them TO avail themselves OF tie privileges OF the
new university The president of Queens College,
Galway has announced that as,soOn ms a suniclent
number of ladies have entered. the classes for arts
as well as in science will be opened to ladies'
Mr. Philbrick makes the extraordinary statement
that as civilization advances the sexes are more
and more separated in educati He mentions as
one of his most forciblo arguments that they are
entirely separated in the French schools This is
singularly unfortunate argument as will be con-
coded by most students of Continental education.
The bows schools Of the French towns and cities
will never be held up as seminarics of the manly
virtues 1t might be worth while to see what a
little coeducation would effect in the Improvement
of their tone and character: State superintendent
Sale of Illinois, CrtlcSlUg Mr. 1nliiTlCk NplD-
ions said that be believed the morale of mixed
schools is better and the discipline easier than IN
those schools where separate education IS proyde9.
Tie Rev III. O. Ladd complains that Mr.. fhlibrlc
advances the education OF the past as a model and
he urges the adoption OF new ideas
The Athea0um Q-ondOn) says that the admission
of women to the Arts and Science classes at Uni
versty College, London, has been justified III
every war. There has been during the session now
closed perfect working of the system the number
of men in the college, instead of being diminished
has considerably increased; and Mt the late dstr1-
button of prizes in the Faculty of Arts the women
took a very honorable place among their fellow
workers. OF GS prizes the men took So the women
10; of 1913 first class-certifcates the men took Co.
the women IS; of 90 second cass-certiiicates the
men took 40 and the women 10 of 80 third-class
certificates the men took so, and the women = Al,
though i'll former gear the highest matheinaiical
prize, a scholarship of $3.50. has been taken by q
Woman. this year women have not DISTINGUISHED
themselves III mathematics; they nave been als.
fanced also by the men III the lne-art CLASSES; but
they have first places III political economy ana
III Latin ana Greek.
The new Higher Council of Public instruction in
France has bern considering the reform of secondary
education in that country IL realized that public
opinion had long pronounced with eveI-ncreasing
energy against the nadequacy Of the old methods
sent down by the teachers of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. 1t has provided by divers
regulations that attention shall be paid IN the
future to developing the faculties of the understands
ing than those of memory, and that scientific and
linguistic studies shall be imperative. BY the new
plan the nine years allotted TO secondary studies
divided into three periods. In tn. first the study
of French. of foreign languages, and of the rudi-
ments of the natural sciences holds the foremost
place Written tasks will thus be, as far as pos
sible, avoided, and will be replaced by viva vOce
exercises In the second period the pupil Will begin
the study of Latin Latin verse will no longer form
a subject of instruction in secondary schools. With
the third period the study Of Greek begins, and
the study OF Latin and Of living languages is con-
tnued. The historical instruction given through
out tue whole course will deal more particularly