The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-01-23
SCHOOL TOPICS.
CONDUCTED BY LYON COUNTY TEACHERS

Items and communications Tor this depart.
ment TO be sent to o. d. Wharton. Emporia
Kansas
Items
The University of Berlin has 3,GOs
matriculated students.
Iowa State University has 51G students
The state Normal school has 1873.
In some of the counties in Colorado
the pupils in the public school are oblig
ed TO 90 from two to six miles 10 school
The public school for colored children
in Dubuque was discontinued in 1877,
ana colored pupils are BOW admitted to
the other schools.
The Boston society for the encourage
ment of studies at home had on its books
last year 500 students, $40 taking the
course in English literature.
1t is stated that since 1870 Mississip-
pi has spent upon Alcorn university and
the two cOlored normal schools the
sum of $500, 700. This is exclusive of
the expenditures for the colored public
schools.
The Indiana teachers propose to Or
ganize a mutual benefit association, as
there is no preparation by the state or
otherwise for the support of supcrannuat-
ed teachers, or those who have been
broken down by earnest and faithful
work in the schoolroom.
The colored Baptists of Atlanta, Ga,
have just dedicated seminary building,
which cost $1,000 and is all paid for,
thanks to the vigorous efforts of Rev.
Frank Quarles, colorcd pastor of the
city, and the help Of the American Bap-
fist home missionary society.
Superintendent Stone, of SPRINGFIELD,
Mass, has obtained good results from
written tests. demanded on the spur of
the moment from public school pupils
1t is an excellent way Of judging of the
penmanship and of the intellectual read
mess and accuracy of the pupil.
The late Bishop Haven was an init
mate personal friend of the late Isaac
Rich, and to his influence must be large
ly attributed the fact that the millionaire
merchant SO literally provided for the
future of the Boston university, which
at the expiration of a specified term of
years will come into possession of
property.
The native schools throughout India
are not supported by the government,
though voluntary schools are subsidized, |
the government paying for results as re-
spects their secular education 1t does |
not appoint teachers nor regulate the
but whenever there is Il certain
of proficiency in secular objects
certain payments are made.
Says Mr.. Gladstone: THE habits of
mind formed by universities are found
ed in sobriety and tranquility. They
help to settle TIE spirit of IL man firmly |
upon the center of gravity, they tend to
selEgovernment, and that
genuine selfrespect which has in it
nothing of self-worship, for it is the
reverence that each man ought to feel
for the nature that God has given him
and for the laws of that nature. 1t is
one thing to pillow and sow with the ex-
pectatiOn of the harvest in due season,
when the year shall have come round;
it is another to ransack the ground in IL
gold field with the heated hope and
.raving for vast returns tomorrow, or
o-day"
The Illinois State Teachers Associa-
ion held its twenty-sixth annual session
N Bloomington, Dec 20-31. The session
vas largely attended and many papers
If more than ordinary interest and value
Ipon the various phases of the educa-
ional work were presented. Prominent
Imong the speakers were DR.. Anderson,
If the Chicago University; DR.. Hurt, of
Blackburn University, and DIR. Adams,
If the Illinois Wesleyan University
The Place and Value of Denomina-
ional Schools" the lecture by DIR. An
lerson upon Fundamental Principles
in Liberal Education" and Attacks
lpon our Public Schools" were among
he most interesting themes on the pro
Sramme. Prof John W. Cook, of the
State Normal University, was elected
president for the ensuing year.