New-York tribune., 1880-06-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

dents in attendance this year.
Nortb Carolina during the last fiscal year DIS
bursed 1926 O4O s5 for the public Schools anu no
a balance on hand of $l47.i7o S4'
The salaries of the teachers IN the lnoiAhap0l'S
schools have been increased The salaries are "
Ss nrr Dortoned 60 their teaching experience
Brown University expects freshman class OF az
,.os+ oiol,ty members. More than 100 candidates
presented themselves for examination last "eeA'
The resident tutors at Oxford are discussing tne
,,osshity of comforting the Arts degree in certan
cases without requiring kno @ledge Oh UrceA'
Tbere is very general feeling in fay or OF DONG ~
in tile case Of homer students IN matnelna'os ''"N
natural science.
Dr .Jobn w. Beach, a graduate of Wesleyan Um-
~ors;.s, !. ,ncnticusd MS possible candidate for
tbe aresidcncy of that institution. New cnalrs Oh
nbvsits and of political aud social scence are ~
ka cr,eated this week, but no occupants ior Vncln
have yet been selected.
Brown University has more than seventy-H'o
scholarships The amount of the university Iunus'
not including the ground and DnildiigS 10
sso, A45 o3. Tie scholarship fund is $6s,3o6 le'
Hatters are 80 arranged that worthy student
,,eedinr help can reduce his college Mis- eAcusNF
OF board, fuel, ETC., to the small yearly sum VI
$2s 40.
South Carolina has now in active operation six
colleges of high grade each having full corps oi
comnetent instructors. There are also in the etate
nx 6ourishing serninaries for young women three
military academies, and q university for eolored
persons 1t Is expected that the od S9u'n II tho
lima College VIII % s9Ha e1 SG snd the public schools
are in excellent condition.
The system of instruction by correspondence mas
now been in operation for nine years IN i-nei
and it's use In promoting the selt-educatoi Vi
women unable to obtain efficient Oral teachlhg nus
been proycd by the success of many of the students
an the HIGHER Cambridge Examination Among
four ladies
Tripos examination. Glasses IN the hstoIy it anu
theory of education have been added 10 tT liSt
In connection with tnese claSSes "nei' 10 " e
library at Cambridge
The trustees of Hampden-Sidney College, VIZ
g;nia have arranged to hereafter bestow the
degree of B.A. upon those students VINO snail SUI
stitute German and French for Latin OF OreeN
6rr;no the whole course-that is. two modern IAN
puages for an ancient one; and upon those % S WH4 f
having studied the ancient languages 10 t1c % cn I W
fbe sophmnore wear, shall take one modelh I!n-
cuage for the junior and senior years. sun re'n an
ing ancient language 1he 00ii'eo W '
graduated nine students.
Fifty vouny women have just been admitted to
Smith College at Northampton, Mass. When the
Fall term opens the membership will probably oe
about 25O. Probably a fifth dwelling mouse lor
students will be built during the coming year 1he
trustees have voted to begin the erection OF new
library and art building at once; the sum ;od oi
S3 0l0 has been subscribed and they hope TO raise
tbe balance during vacation. A permanent pro
tessor of history is likely soon TO he chosen, al
thoagh DR.. Adams, OF Bat!moTe, may SnInn he
work for another year. Miss Kate A. oithoOIh oe-
comes the instructor i'll English literature
Nassau College. 1t is stated by The Poa9hkeepHe
Eoole. is not rich The faculty remains nearly the
same in number as when the college opened. only
one professorship has been added, and no endow-
ments have been made since the death OF matthe"
Vassar No provision rs made for deserving persons
unabe to pay, and plans for broader and more
hoya
want of means The only money ayallao!e IN lne
way of scholarships is the income OF the AnXlnary
Enid which is only $4,000. This is used TO ASSIST
stndents of superior capacity and attainment; Dut
fbe MD given must not exceed half the cost Oh uoaru
aud tuition
At n teachers institute held in Gold Hill, New,
the other day, speaker gave voice 70 some
strong opinions on the modern fashion OF teaching
geography. He declared that the making OF de-
tailed maps is waste of labor, and that compelling
n nunil to hound every State in the Union is
niece of barbarism for which q teacher should bc
indicted. He added that the mere memOrizing OF
facts and figures without the association of ideas
is Of no benefit to any one; and that he thonght
better to have general knowledge OF geogTaphieaf
ouIlInes and an understanding OF tine topography o1
fhe oountry than to pay so much attention TO
worthless details which load the mind witloat in
proving it. Particular attention, he thongni,
shOuld be given to local geOgraphy-tthat OF Ihe
State and county IN which the pupil lives. lie
illustrated the unntelligent fashion IN which ad-
v"mnS v"e~ Woman in the California Normal School,
whose betrothed is fireman on the I railroad vas
asked: q What is a watershed II She answered.
place where the engiue stops to take in water"
The London Spectator says that the great danger Of
the teachers in the primary schools is thattbey may
become mere drilng-machines. machines capable
OF mechanically imparting to children the proper
articulation and spelling of words. eproper manip-
ulation of the pen- and the knaek OF counting and
"c,phering," without imparting to them any OF the
desires which these arts were chiefly discovered TO
gratffy. For there is routine OF physical labor
half so deadening rs rOutne-iabor OF the rudimen-
tary mental kind man who works in saw-pit
has his mind fresh when his work is over; man
who works at teaching dull children to articulate
and use their pens, has his mind utterly fatigued
when the work is unless be can refresh 1t Oy
total change of occupation: The frst ct all reqai
sites is to get teachers in the primary schools who
are anckened by fresh intellectual interests them
selves and who have the talent Of awakening these
fosteripg the taste for studies outside the routine
course. aud inviting teachers, when they &c their
routine work well to share those studies with their
brightest pupils.
Judge StaIlo, OF Cincinnati, in recent address
gave some diseouraging details Of the way in which
various educational institutions thoroughly organ
lied and prosperously started, have been suffered
to langush and in many cases die in that city. He
declared that il had been so with everything look
ing to the development of solid culture among the
Cincinnatians alt is," he said. 1" disageeable
truth. perhaps, and one not polite, probably, to
utter IN this presence, but truth, nevertheless
Cincinnati IS not distinguished for learning, and is
m ncongeniai abode for people of literary attain
meuts Years ago she had in her bounds one of the
se1nost accomplished physicists of the age. DR.
Locke, who while here had TO earn has daily bread
teaching arithmetic in ladies' school His partner
Dr. Grove an eminent man. left the city in disgust
] once heard Emerson lecture here. He had re
Gently returned from abroad, and was giving ou
the thonghts ON comparative civilization which IN
afterward embodied i'll book. remember one o.
his epguams as he compared the French with TIT
EneIisL nation. The Frenchman,' said he, iil
vented the dickey. the Englishman added III,