New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-01-22
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

lecture TO the German students OF the UNIVERSITY !"
Vienna.
There are 1,63S public schools in Connec-
ticut. attended by 30594 pupils The schooi revenue
amounted last year 10 $1,39O,912 "a ana the eApe"
lures to 81 1915 ss1 OIL
The decrease in the number of pupils study
ing German In the st. Louis public schools Is since ~
year nearly 700 Nevertheless 20,12s pupils OUT Vi
3s.4s5 are still taking the language
The SAWYER prize at Amherst has been
awarded TO Mr. Donald Harvey. OF Calais, Name Ior
the best examination in physiology, anatomy ana ny
giene.
Superintendent Harris, of st. Louis, has re-
signed his Office nearly fourteen years occupancy
His resignation effect in May and is rendered nee
essary by "a gradual but constant enieepiemeH' u
health"
The Philadelphia Teachers Institute has Voteu
in favor of city superintendency. II stated tua'
the Board OF Education has than once trieu W
ganize such supervision but the Councils would not au
vance sufficient money 10 pay the salary
Harvard University owns in Boston property
exempt from taxation of the value of S4O43oo Al"
taxable property valued at Ss93.9Oo The university
property in Cambridge which is exempt amounts u
$685., 1000. Very little of ITS property there Is taxed
The Indiana school system Is said to be
specially defective in two parcuars-in mat INC 'o""
ship schools have trustees dstineuvely the to"h
trustees acting also as kCuOOl trustees
the schools are not entirely Free the cost OF textbooks
being burden to parents.
The night schools for white pupils in INDIAN
apolis are reported by the superintendent TO be not
worth their cost, while those for coored pupils are re-
muneratve investment. The anxiety OF the pupils WHO
are mostly adults and often grayheaded, TO learn is so
great that they require no urging
A technical school with shops under the
charge OF experienced workmen as instructors is soon
TO be established in Philadelphia The course OF thirty
lessons thirty lectures and sixty hours practice divided
into three terms weeks EACH costs altogether $lo
So per term This Will include the use OF materials
and tools
The total number of public schools in Mary
land is 2OC9. instruotng 165.4sG pupils The average
number OF months the schools were open astyear was
In Baltimore 10. and in the country ooG. Inc lott
school expenditures 81 55l $50 81 There are o'5
colored schools IN the counties, employing 3S7 teachers
and instructng 22,331 pupils.
Mississippi is said to have school popula-
tion white and colored, OF $4,000 OF this number
$50 600 arc growing up without even the knowledge
OF the phabet The schools are open on an average
only two and one-haf months in the year. with an aver
age attendance of 10000. The present average
monthly pay of teachers is only 500
Some wise changes have been made In the
public schools OF Philadelphia. The amount OF TIC
studies in some The departments has been reduced
some Of the studies, especially drawing and Writing,
have been simplifed; and the ridiculous memorzing
of the description and analysis OF letteIe-a piece OF
idiocy-has been done away with
Governor Talbot and his Council have recon-
mended the transfer OF the Massachusetts Agricultural
College to Amherst College to special depart
ment of the The needs OF the Agricultural Col
lege are 90 great and its finances are in so deporabe
state that will hardly possible TO keep 1t up much
longer at present 1t is understood that Amherst
does not object to the plan.
Boston University has this term 669 stu
dents the largest proportion 15l. being In the Law
School. There 178 women students Twentyfour
graduate students representing almost many col
leges attended the university last year The univer-
stys total receipts for the were $lO5569 3D. and
the total expenditures were $1o4,s6s 3s.
President Eliot in his last report quotes the
recently adopted resolution OF the Massachusetts Med
zeal Society authorizing the admission OF women 10 ex
animation as candidates fellOwshp and says there
after: This action cannot but suggest the inquiry
whether m be expedient that Harvard University should
MAKE provision for educating class OF who
are admissible members of so ancient and respecta
be professional body the Massachusetts Medical
Society"
The cleverest and most successful teachers
OF Plttsburg endeavoring TO eliminate technical
grammar" frm ist of studies In which pupils are
examined preparatory entering the High School, and
depend upon the MS prepared other subjects as
test their practical knowledge of this particular sub
ject Any plan that will give practical working knowl
edge Of grammar will be preferable TO the ordinary
stupid method which, while enables young person to
gbly recte whole pages OF rules does not teach him to
write even simple, wellexpressed letter.
The life of the French schOol-boy is singularly
hodged in. He knows nothing whatever OF tho world;
throughout his schoole from the nursery TO his en-
trance upon mans duties every of his movements
ia watched. regulated and anticipated Nothing Is left
for him TO do blndly submit to the school discp
line He has occasion to exert his mind beyond the
ordinary course Of studies, with the exception
of inventing devices to infringe the stringent reeu
lations and escape detection and punishment.
All external rumors carefully Kept FROM him, and
he is brought up perfect stranger TO the people with
whom 1t will be lot live. and the society Of which
he is TO be active member The precincts OF the
lyeee his universe and the walls are the bounda
res Even all the boys OF one lycee are not allowed
to play together iet alone having any intercourse with
the inmates Of similar institution.
THE TRIBUNE has often deprecated the en-
ployment Of half young girls the teachers Of
country schools and in this II is far from being alone
Among many who preach the doctrine OF thoroughly
prepared teachers is writer in The Educational Reetv
who says "Ony short time ago, We inquired OF a
primary teacher II she taught arithmetic orally. Her
look OF wonderment the objective reply, do not
know WERE us, complete index OF her intelligence
upop the subject OF adequate and thoroughly prOfes
sional preparation the work there Is special lack
among the greater portion OF our common teachers
Upon what other employment can girls enter. having
given no time thought study 10 the work The pfo
fessonal spends aud fortune IN severe APP
pcaon before he is fitted TO undertake his life work,
but our sixteen ear-od girls teach school without
thought or care as TO their skill or ability"
The "Quincy System has been given a
trial in one Of the Boston primary schools, aud thorough
success was the result. writer In The Herald, OF
Boston, says that In a few months the little ones many
of whom did their letters have learned TO read
end write correctly not only in printed textbooks but
In script They also do in simple arithmetic with