New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-07-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Union College expects a large freshman class next
rear. Eighteen candidates nave aireao9 P"''0 w
cellent examinations.
Three Young ladies have Just received the hrs'
A,n,omas gwen BY Bedford College, Oxford. lhese
6iplomas are granted to regular students who nave
Aeen nj the College for three sessions ana VINO ha'0
obtained Mt least wo-thirds of the possible nuniuo
of marks in four subjects at the annuai eA"
ton
ST. i,ouis's mammal training school VIII opo" ="
Geptember @, with workshops and recitation i'o"s
completely arranged. The prospects LOT 'h' n'S %
wear are said 10 be encouraging ony on share are
Afty or sixty students will be entered anu lle go;
already large number of applications ifoin ''A
lies OF high standing
President Barnard in his annual report orings
together with admirable neatness the iac's con
corning the higher education OF women III "io",
Britain and restates his own just ana pfacuoa'
opinions the matter In spite oil lnf ba, pColum
Of the students il is more than p0sslole INA. 20
ba will IN some measure presently ADMIT wonien "
its instruction.
The authorities OF the Georgia State University
ore discussing the question Of free tuition ana thc'e
is probability that the institution VIII soon tn'o"
omen generous doors. The discipline Of the uh'Nei
sity Is now in the best state; the stnuen.S and
treated like men, not boys: lawful oheoiente nnu
courtesy are expected of them; they are Pu' "poH
their honor and the reform is working WE'LL
The University of Pennsylvania will lose $92 900
80 ,ha ,eoaces of the late DIR. George B. Wood,
the estate not having been found productive
enough to pay them in full. The causes are deprec'
alton IN the values of real estate ana tne laiio "a
the testators cranberry fields to realize ms
mons. The university will receive instead Oh 'ne
pecuniary legacy of $1S5,00O only $42'ooo'
Colonel Higginson in depreca Sng a slayish foi-
lowing of European methods says: we nai
waited 10 organize our public school system on the
German svstem-a university graduate halt starv-
ing in every village school-house-we should nave
waited for centuries, Ii will be centuries icy US
hone before we shall here that surplus OF hisH t
educated men, and that want OF vaTleI ou;,e i0'
their services, which Germany no" eAhio''S'
This year nj Louisville the school year was
abridged by two weeks for lack OF fuuds 10 CARY
II ON TO the regular term. The same cause mas cut
off the night schools. crowded the school ouiid'ngs
uncomfortable, and reduced the salaries OF teach
ers until now Louisville pays less than any CITY IN
tho countrv Next month the citizens are 10 De
called upon 10 vote on the question OF an
tax of . cents on each 500 worth oil property
Dnrinc the seven years of its existence the Society
for the Encouragement of Study at Home has IN
structed by correspondence 1887 students us
last years work as useful and successful as tiae
of the preceding years One hundred and thirty
seven teachers among the Se| instructed
The ladies of the society sent to students more imam
\ 600 letters and during tins term ana tue iast
1553 volumes were sent out from tle lehu'bS
library ONLY one volume was unretuIneu CCiiec-
lions of fossils and rocks are either leaned OF SOFA 10
students So, too, are materials ior ootanica stuuS'
It's proposed IN England to establish and lncor-
porate Royal College of Music. which shall absorb
the existing National framing School at kensng-
ton Gore BY the charter the Prince OF wales is 10
lie the first president and any vacancy IN the once
is TO be filled up by the Grown. There are to be
priucipal and vice principal, both professional ml-
sicians The council is to consist OF the PRESIDENT
principal and vice-pripcipal and thirty ordinary
members retiring annually by thirds. There is 10
be n staff of masters and assistaut-masters and
Roard of Studes The pupils are to be divided INTO
three casses-p1 Scholars whose education ana
maintenance are either wholly or paItiaiIy ue
Dfrayed gratutously: ~ Government pupils. whose
education is conducted IN manner ana on tne terms
agreed upon between the College and the Govern
Soc Of their education There are to be graduates
ana fellows, as at university.
The appointment of politicians to educational
Offices is the subject Of satrical editorial In 1he
Mil,caakee Sentinel which declares that we have
adopted the principle that educational offices es
pecaly shall be the spos of politicians. We select
men as School Commissioners and as School Irus-
tees not for their interest in educational matters
but because they good workers for the party.
This is the established system" Ii is pity that
the people are in this matter tame and ndifer-
49,
nerd in this generation. Any politician who has
sufcient force and shrewdness can get himself into
An Office of school government; and while the peo-
ple may grumble they endure. Public schools VIII
always be poor while commissioners and trustees
are balf-taught politicians. wholly lgnorait vi euu
rational science with no notions 10 sanitary con-
ditIons and little of moral responsibility lhe
What schools NAV become under dsinterested man
agement the Quincy experiment shows. 4 school
beard should be composed of educated. cultivated,
nractical business men, who have no purpose TO
serye save that of seeing their children's minds
trained in the best manner