The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-06-04
EDUCATIONAL.

TIE Quincy system is being tried in
one of the Philadelphia schools.
AT O recent school teachers examina-
ton in Vermont the word "impOster
was defined "One who drives in posts"
The translation of European works
into Chinese is now being systematically
undertaken by the professor and pupils
in the college for the study of foreign
languages at Peking.
PROFESSOR in veterinary science:
"Mr. S., to what class of animals does
the mule belong?" Mr.. s.: 81 think,
Professor, it belongs to the Sophomore
class. "-COrneU Era.
II. b. RICHARDSON, who was graduated
ut Yale college in 1869, and has been for
four years tutor there, is appointed a
professor of Greek in the Iowa state uni
versity at Bloomington.
The regents of California university
have formally disapproved of secret So
cieties and require students entering the
institution to refrain from joining any
such while under college rule.
A GIRL was subjected to ostracism in
the high school at Fitchburg, Mass, be-
cause she would not dress for class day
Ill UIc COSIullt WOIu ny Gilc EtSt.
The school committee will provide pen
alties for such cruelties hereafter.
The new testament has been made a
daily reading book III the schools of
Greece. The demand for it has become
greater than the missionary repositories
are able to supply, and an enterprising
publisher has begun to publish it as a
speculation.
Mr.. JOHN WELSH accepts the post of
chancellor of Union college, saying:
"An association of SO honorable char
acter, which brings my namo into con-
nectiOn with the names of men whose
memories / 80 much revere cannot be
other than most agreeable to me-"
G. w. HOss, LII. d.. has resigned
his chair at the Indiana state university,
to take effect at the close of the present
collegiate year. He has bought the
Kansas Educational Journal, and will
leave about the 18th OF June to take
charge Of it, making his home at Topeka.
PROF. JOHN +. COULTER, formerly of
Hanover College, now Of Wabash, Ind,
has been appointed an instructor in
botany for Harvard university. The
Madison Courier regards this as n rare
compliment, as Harvard "seldom goes
80 far west for members Of her faculty."
In Great Britain last year 5000, 900
was contributed by private donors for
church education. Three hundred and
seventy-eight new church schools were
opened and there was an addition of 3d.
472 to the number of children in average
Attendance. The board schools opened
did not equal by So those started by
voluntary agency.
The Concord school Of philosophy will
open this summer on July II and con-
tintue until August IA. Among the lee
lures will be five by Mr.. A. B. Alcott ON
mysticism; ten by Mr.. L. w. Harris on
the history and nature of speculative
philosophy; four by the Rev. w. H.
Claiming on oriental and mystical phil
osophy, and one by Mr.. Emerson. Mr..
AlcOtt will conduct the sessions.
Ex-Gov. FREDERICK SMYTH, of Man.
chester, has offered 500 year for five
years in prizes to the state college of ag-
riculture and mechanic arts to be divided
as follows: S25 for the best essay, S15
for the next best, the essays to he writ
ten by seniors Oh agriculture or mechan-
ical subjects; S25 and S15 for declama-
tons, open to both the senior and middle
classes; Sl2 and SO for the best and Sec
ond best junior readers.
THE professors of the Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore, publish three
periodicals of scientific rank, one devoted
to mathematics, a chemical journal, and
a pathological quarterly. The marine
geological laboratory connected with the
university has been removed from the
Chesapeake to the vicinity Of Beaufort.
wnere II uIessur w. X. D.voks will con-
duct original investigations on the
marine fauna through the summer.
AT the recent meeting of the local
Massachusetts teachers association, one
of the speakers urged the need of i'm
proving the reading of children out Of
school hours-the especial necessity of
mingling history and biography with
the inevitable fiction. He asked that
the quantity of the reading of the young
should be reduced and the quality i'm
proved, and mentioned with some severity
; the sort Of books furnished by Sunday
school libraries. The New York Tribune
says it is pity that this kind of litera-
ture should not be oftener examined by
competent persons. A worse collection
of milk and water trash almost wholly
without nobility of purpose or excellence
of style could hardly be found than the
books of the average Sunday school
library. 1t seems to be time that the
churchmen should realize that the goody-
goody is not the religious, and that
children are capable of assimilating
something better than the feeble stuff
: they present to them.
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