Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-31
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There is at Union College an increase in
the number of students of from 20 to %
per cent. over 1879.
The public schools of Maryland are max
ing good progress, having increased during
the past year in the number of buildings,
teachers and pupils, and in the average
attendance.
Two evening schools for girls and women
were opened in Milwaukee lately and with
remarkable success. Many of the pupils
were middle-aged and married women (;
and a large proportion were Germans eager
to learn English.
The new order of college government at
Amherst provides for regular reviews,
which will take the place of the usual ex-
aminations, each student being ranked ac-
cording to his standing in these, rather
than from an examination at the end of the
term.
Some of the school officials of st. Louis
are endeavoring to make the study OF pen
manship more thorough in their schools.
They propose to make the pupils write out
their reading lessons after reading them,
the teacher to supervise as closely the
writing as the reading.
1t is reported as probable that the Bos.
ton School Committee will order that no
married woman shall be employed as a
teacher except by favorable action of the
Board upon report of the division COM
mittee, stating the reason in each case why
such appointment should be made.
The great temptation of the Oxford
scholar, the Pail Mall Gazette says, is to
be too nice. He is dominated by fear
that he may be, or somebody may think
him, commonplace. He does not care to
speak what is not fit to print. All his ut
terances are to be remarkable for their wit
or their profundity.
The Hebrew Union College is to be es-
tablished permanently in Cincinnati, where
house has been purchased for its accom-
mediation. The institution is maintained
by voluntary subscriptions. There are only
three Hebrew colleges in this country
one In New York, one in Philadelphia and
the other is that in Cincinnati.
The trustees of the proposed School of
Applied Science have determined to begin
almost Immediately and in the modest form
of preparatory school, the work of the
institution. The surplus income will be
saved and invested from year to year until,
with real demand for an advanced scien-
tiic school, there will be funds to estab-
lish it.
Harvard has now 1854 students s
more than last year. There are l5S in
structors in all departments The most
noticeable gain is in the scientific depart,
ment. Last year it had only l6 students,
this year it has 81. The graduate
department is in highly fourishing con.
dition. The number now studying for the
higher degrees is SO. The evening read
ings from the ancient and modern classics
are open not only to the members of the
University, but also to the public.
The School Superintendent of Columbus,
Ohio, does well in urging that less money
be spent in brick and mortar and in the
business departments of public education.
and more upon the department of instruc.
ton. He holds, and wisely, that the
number of teachers in all the cities and
large towns should be increased one-third
When the people, he adds, are willing tt
bear the expense OF employing the best
teachers, the number of whose pupils shall
be limited to twenty or at least thirty
| there will be an Unreasonable gain in de
velopment, learning and efficiency ovel
what is now obtained in the present
crowded condition of the schools.