New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-09
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

IT.. Freshman Class a. Amherst 10 c&pec'e" I"
number about seventy nemoc's'
c,o.o Certificates hav, just been given to twenty
snnlicants who successfully passed the July eA'"
nations. -
r,o r,o,ch Minister of Public Instruction has
concentrated hundred thousand francs 10 ,ne
"S,t,blisnmcnt of Normal School for young "oni''
C,,c;,pati now has seven colorcd schools giving
az, son,e coursc of instruction as the whlte ones.
TIirty teachers are employed in them an u WYNN
are cOlOred except one.
Tho Albany Law School has this term students
from Germany. Brazil, and the Choctaw Na'io"
Tho Biaz liam has been sent to the o nleu Id" adnca
IN, Prov ncc OF Ccara, 10 study Alnei'0'" '
ton.
There IS said TO be q marked teudencyn 'he New
I've, teachers to govern their pupils by the mid
os, means This is q tendency percep'lhie thiouan
ont fEo country the day OF knocks, ana ihuihPS
and rods Is over
Mr. Moody wishes o educate Chinese as wen ~
indian girls ut his Northield Seminary Inc an-
tu,nn term Is about to begin with nearly 100 pnp''S
Hoa,1 and fuiti N will be furnished at the cost OF
800 10 each lunil. The homework Is TO DE oonS
Sv The rpls Themselves and good health is INSISTED
upon. Nr. Moody says mat no one sm,'L,I "'o"'
who is rot haugly and thirsty for KNOWLEDGE
Tbata Great difficulty in our system of schooling
h,t caueatiou is not made sufficiently enjoyable
is the complaints of Ihe PiS6ug Gazette One of the
rat a. iscts OF oingt school, held 10 he the mann
fcnaucc of an nnn"yei poSipon aS II the c"l'HirIi
were waXwor&s or grNrn I'M $ Oioer W. i,' :"
l. good IN us waV and has m intimate le'a lon 10
the requirement Of Knowledge II is gohcIaN
fnehtfuilr ovogdpnc. aud tine poor cnltGtc" W I
ars tOWel ano rcetf-lacu mo liElu AO'4ii"''' ''
gIIeytusly from 1t.
Am.ioriiy Of She teachers as Pcrt Huron. Men,
oct salaries of 50 cents a day. TIE Commercial or
that city says hat they spend years preparing
Themselves for teachers aud get barely enough 10
hoard themselves AMI il adds rot unreasonanly
l. the necessities oi Tbs CIV lcaiN "cuI1 p" SE."
1isrraccful salaries. we advise the Schnol D.Fu +"
INN thc Higl school into an establishment Tor 'he
teochlps OF vo.uc lod e the drcsSua KING business
as thor = not q lrr maker m Mlchs3h Wu1 ",
Jerstards hor bu. ness but can make from - I"
81 so Dr. day and boa. tne whole year round
Tcxosh has apporlioncd $4,000 Tor the support
Of tie schools during the curIcn. year. Amour
Il ir.y cities and towns levy special school taxes,
vrli,h vill increase tie fund about 100000. MANY
Of tic counties have school urd~. AID some Of them
he suns avoi'alIc TIL, year for school purposes
viii b., about Il POO. 900, enough 70 afford an aver
ti0ninrnt iucmlas Ri 900 los he Normal Schools
o,c of which has n.upt Students ana the cth'l
fn,fv-six. The lvailahla fund for the annual sun
port az the scho Ism IcAas hdSlhctchS'd ohA "oOu'
10000 N ten wears
The result, IF the last oxford local examinations
show that out Of iha senior candidates who passed
217 were girls. Among the juniors l"7
sIrs passed.. Among the juniors the
percentage of girls who failed was
smaller than that OF the bows; with the seniors i
vas the reverse. Eve ladies' showed snthclen
merit to he excused from the trSi examination OF
women over eigh ean years of GGc. The candida eS
al tno recent Cambridge eXam'pa' ,3iS--ntil{ "i
of whom we're wOmen-numhcred SIl, ana OF lneSo
only 200 failed 10 Obtain a p $ ~ one or ol!rr
group: some passed in several groups The DIVINITY
prizr aaS awarded to a woman ard ano'her VIC
took the III Ie COR Italian passed ~ Greek, ana Win
distinction in Latin, German and French
The omission TO teqca in tie Public Schools the
principles of good CT! zegship Is the sntDect o.
an energetic complaint IN The Boston 1rGr-
,IIer. 'Wac doubts" saws this jmrnil
"tha; if the common schools of the country had
taught the principles Of good government. correct
theories of finance and true citizenship, as faith
fully during the PAST twenty years as they have
taurht the principles of grammar and geometry
much smaller number of their graduates would have
fallen INTO the GTecnback, State Rights, ana othef
eou.llv foolish heresies? In the course of study
now f,ll0wod in this city we find great deal ABOUT
compound curves. symmetry harinon,es ol voI" ot,
poetry, MYTHOLOGY, processes OF inechahIca repeUI
lion song, IN various KEYS. subilety OF curvature,
whatever that - all very important of course, but
not word about citizenship.
The director Of ore of the largest State lunatfc
asylums in Germany maintained at a recent meet
inc Of plysicans that much of tho notorious III
crease Of insanity in Germany is attributable to the
excessive amount Of work mp lscd upon the pnplls
~ the national schools. In order 10 acqult himself
I'm any way crcdI!ahly, punt of average aDlnW
must. it Is calculated, in addition TO attending
puncinally and W Tbiug diligently during school
hours. WORK AZ lomc AT least two hours daily when
~ the lower classes. three hours when III the md
die tour or vc hours wien III the upper classes
boy. therefore, 80, say, SIX cen years oI upward
has 10 WoIh III schooi tlriy-siX hours and at home
twenty-four hours week, or, with the exception OF
SUNDAYS, for ten hours every day 81 lie week
Several doctors III private practice, who took part IN
Tie discussion which followed the reading of the
paper also spoke Of the increasing frequency OF
inOihId riIIah.lIty m children. the result oil over
work. which. a.thoueh II might not always drive
pur..s INTO the lnmatic 0>y Hu, often laStnsly aud
pre|udiclally affected the'r constitutions.