New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-08-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


The ST Jouis Pablo School Library now contains
about $4,000 volumes.
Nell ournc University is to admit ladies az SUI
dents except as regards the classes Tor ineuieho'
The Russian schoolmasters and educa',onai
officials arc 10 hold conference at ST. fe'eiso''s
next month.
The teaching of morals and manners - incuue" :"
the course of the San Francisco grammar scnoo,'
bookkeeping has been made speclai STUDY Ia wv
first grammar grades and in the High ochooi''
Lincoln University has received from Mr.. D. H.
Cass,dav of this city, gift of $4,000 Tor the en-
dowment of professOrship. The university I iaS
now an endowment fund OF SIloooo anu ANo
students.
Nearly enough money has been raised to secure
the telescope which Mr. Mccormick proposed W
present to the University of Virginia on certain %
d;tlops Only S14. 900 more rs necessary, anu tno
time for raising il has been extended TO NOVEMBER
In tho last examination for London University
ladies take five out of the first fourteen places all
of thess attaining the number of marks qualifying
for prizes and sixteen names ont OF elghty-nNe Ill
bouors are those of ladies. Twentytour IN the hrst
class are also ladies, and only one lady ls IN tue
second class.
Mr. Henry Leslie notes that the enormous sum Vi
5000. 900 is annually paid out by the British GOV
eminent for musical results in board and denomna-
singing NV ear and that very much ont or tune.
He thinks the money utterly wasted, ana proposes
that at least part of 1t should be used for the en-
dowment OF artistic musical cducatiOh'
At the recent meeting of the Pennsylvania teach
ers Professor Morris, of the Westchester Norman
School said that he found that one OF the ABUSES III
the examinations in the Normal Schools was that
the best students were broken down by being COM
nailed 70 prepare to he examined on all OF the
-tN a.
or Franklin and Marshall College. READ stIoh9
paper in advocacy OF women as teachers spe"hi"s
Of them aS natural educators.
Trsncetor Stewart. of one of the English school
districts, makes a complaint which might justly De
repeatsd by many an American school official lie
saws that schools not now as successful as tcy
once were i'm giving children that real education
which i never wholly lost and their nfeTiority, nc
believes, rs que 20 the neglect OF the ART OF teaCu
ing; tbs conversion of standards OF eXamina t'on
mo standards Of organizations and tue AMBITIOUS
nut,plicy Of subjects which teachers put III theIr
timetables
The jesuit schools in France have broken up FOR
the HOLIDAYS. aud it Is understood that when they
reopen IN October they Will have nominay or really
changed hands The London Times SAYS that they VIII
sill be the property of the eccesastlcs; they VIII be
conducted IN the spirit and some at least OF
The teachers will he the same, bat the schools VIII
he the propertv of secular priests of one CT the
rs.no,,zed orders The question whether these
transfers are colorado or real promises some
legal skirmiShng. unless, indeed, the Government
resigns itself the virtual failure OF us ueclees'
Nb,ch though frs: enforced against the non-teacl-
ing Jesuits were mainly directed against the
Jesuit schools.
The salaries Of some OF the Rochester school teach
er nave Just been raised after much discussion by the
Board Each male principal is to receive an annual
addition of 500; the principals OF all the inferno
date schools except four will get $50 more, and the
OH Ixsill aIIvQo ans IL
ton of $50 This last addition is not ii IS stated,
so generous as it seems since the lady has in charge
more scholars than anv other principal in the city.
j. said 10 be one of the best, If not the best of these
officials and with the ADDITION receives &-'o o less
than the male prime pals. The salaries OF me asss-
rant teachers remain unchanged. One OF the Com,
missioners recommended that they 90 further ana
increase the pay of tie primary teachers also ana
ne added that whenever there had been an eXpeud-
tuTe of useless work 1t was made up by cutting the
teachers salaries.
DIR Fraser. the wise and eloquent Bishop of Man
chester. made the other day some well-deseTved
criticisms on the great fault of the American school
system He declared that his experience In TINS
country had convinced him of the preJudclal
affects resulting from the introduction of multi
fanous subjects how children quilted school with
an almost useless smattering of many subjects. but
with complete and accurate knowledge OF none.
Now that know ledge was advancing so rapidly, 1t
was difficult to fix limit, but the question would
have To be fought out Later and the earlier
If was decided the better He trusted the education
of English boys and girls would be concentrated OH
a few subjects, and not scattered over many
'Thougbtful minds were beginning to inquire
whether quality or quantity was peSt
,yhetner II was preferable that large surface
should be slightly scratched or smaller surface
Thoroughly cultivated lie did not desire to see the
old curriculum materially changed and. wlnIe al
mittinQ that III respects 1t had been prudenly
Widened he feared there was danger oi running tC
extremes by including too many ana varied SUBJECTS
IN the educational programme.
AT the meeting of the German American teachers
in Newark the other day Director H. Won der Heide
read an interesting paper advising the abolition, III
this country at least of the present German alpha
bet. both IN writing and printing aud the substitu
ton of the Roman letters. He pointed out the con-
senuept advantages in the simplifcaton of the Ian
puage and the saving of time and added that II
was wrong in this country TO compel the children
10 learn the two alphabets, while they could study
the German language as well with the Roman let
ters. There cannot be any doubt that tho
opposition to the introduction of German In oul
pubIc schools is mainly due to the dl1icutles at
tending the requirement of the German alphabet
The peopIe proposed gradual abolition of the Ger
man alphabet and sald the teachers IN German
American schools should make the beginning 10y
teaching in the first years the Roman alphabet
only He referred 20 the fact that this change II
the alphabet bias already many frlenos III pei
aud hoped to live to see the day when one alphabet
will be in use all over the world lhe Association
aGopted resolutions acknow Lodging the necessity o
the change aud asking the cooperation OF the Ger
man journalistic Convention and that oil the con
yention of the German teachers.