New-York tribune., 1880-10-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Bowdoin has lately received gifts amounting to
$4,000.
Phillips Exeter Academy has more students 'n'S
term than ever before-220 is the number
The Lawrence Scientific School has thlrty-rour
pupils this year-it had seventeen last year.
A new study has been added to the freshman
course at Brown University--a lecture on hSgcne
is given before II every week.
Harvard Divinity School has just received a be-
oucst of 600 FOR the education of needy students
intending to become clergymen
The first municipal COLLEGE for young girls III
France is shortly to be opened at Montpelier
Another is beng built at Castle SarraSln.
The new Southern University for colorcd persons
is 10 be opened in New Orleans within fortnight
DIR. A. Il. Courier las been appointed pre'uo"''
At Newnham College (tho women's collegel Gam
bridge. prominent feature of the frehch c""'S'
this term is 10 he riM roce translation INTO 'io"0"
from Lord IyttonS " CaXtons.
The professors at Cornell last spring mentioned IN
Their classes the case of Of the University stu
dents who had seriously impaired his health ov
smoking No rule was made. there was no eomnul-
sion vet the smoking students almost eaurcy gave
up the practice.
AT Harvard the old recitation system in mathe-
MATES has gwen place TO lectures. cXcepi In the
prescribed courscs in algebra, geometry and trigo-
n0metry, which form continuation oi the common
academlcal instructions. In analy ical geometry.
advanc d analyti,s. the calculus Of lrtnte~imal'
0u1te Mons and mechanics. teXt-bookS aiS use"
Only works OF reference or as texts ioF 'he !e'
lures.
Chnsmau Hall the college for colored youth
az Atlanta, has just been opened, ava Is
ALREADY nearly flied with pupils. It has a
pres lent and five teachers, who are paid bY
IA Freedman. A,d : ,ccty. aud The price OF tuition
(; C1rl-fuau lONs gave
$40 600 for fhr est b shncut of th' collc-c, anf
The rest Of the 1000 winch II cost came from lc
Fieedmaii's Aii society and irom bishop taVe"s
effort, TO get private sub,cr ptIo1S.
Tho Harvard Natural History Society ofi rs
prizes for essays on natural list ry subjects, t1e
contestants to b. thc girls a:0 boys VITO cnter' at
tend or graduate from public or private schools I'D
1850. Tie cs,a,s mus, be presented by November
Is. Mr.. Wm. ". D.yis Cambridge. Ma. VIII
send circular giving fun, Information, 10 any ap-
phcaut. The subject. are jhese: /, .sscmi 'atl.n
o. seed. 2 " ho a collection of plans OF one Jam
ily and Lae the pcculIaritlcs and station OF each
pant; 3. Characters If in5ec. ~u -'r! !e?s; !, iii.
fl CHI ami other movements of birds: .. anatomy ~
any common animal; "a microscopic" study oI u =
int .rcri .ulr spaces of our larger water plants:
any subject selected Dr. the eSslrist, ploYld'd il
meet tic approval of tAe committee. Tins II an
cXcrllcnt work on the part OF the society, and
Should be cnc'uragch
TIE Boston Public LiuraIy last winter furnished
to IN principal OF the Wen. school fifty copies each
OF Mrs. Wmmey'4 Leslie Goldthwaito' and Nh
Fowl, Pzarro" to be retained at tie school in
definitely The novel was first read succe~>ivcly by
three classes-abaut 100 gTls. The roo1 was read
at home aud a certain amount Of time was gwen at
the school 10 discussing 1t. Syie, plot and ch rae
ter were an aualyz a. and the girls thus gwen
2 asfauoard Of criticism which will always be "a help
t. them. The iIstor, followed the novel. and was
also thoroughly discussed. he experiment was 50
success, II thar an application has been made 20 the
Public l. .hmuan 10 provide more books upon th>
plan. he principal Of the >cnool says: nave
doubt Of H. success lu any school Where the pi1u
ctn De- fau.; tried. Tie children are taught {" read
books more carefully ana are Interested lH purer
CAS- OF literature than usually fall INFO their
hands Their gain in t.v Of langUagel lS also
marked. and must prove Oi heSilHa1ie value to
Them
The Parliamentary inquiry into the way in which
the Roman Catholic clergy IN Bsi2ium are ii ghtine
the free schools SHOWS some curious facts. The
Vicar Of Izci. to take one instance, has been " in
structing" the boys and girls i'll his confirmation
classes that it is religious duty to dIsobey theirpa
rents if their parents tell them TO 20 10 e Govern
ment school. The parish priest of CrOss-Fays in
Termed his congreg from the pupit that fathers
and mothers would do much better for their children
if they allowed them ~ run about the streets and
the fields ali day. than If they sent them 70 schools
which were not under the religious rule Of the
Church. IL wives cannot succeed in persiading
their husbands to remove their children from such
schools" sad he "it is the dury Of the wives to
separate fron such hu,binis.' In many places the
priests drecily inform their carer, from the pulpit
that every educator who derives his or her mission
from the state a reproba;e and a caStaway, liv-
ing under the curse of God and the children
taught that there is nothing wrong IN insulting
d;soleving or injurng those whose existence and
occupation offend the Almighty. 4 complaint has
been Oigcd against the pastor of Nevres that he
has organ Zed "a system OF persecution against the
school mistress OF the cOmmu le. She j. pious
Ca hOlC and insists upon gong regularly 10 the
Churcn; the clergyman encouraged her fellow
worshppeTs pdSh her out OF ncr seat the children
from DC rival Catholic school y were told by the
paster 10 draw her seat from under her just she
was going to sit down, and to follow her with
screams and wells when they met her out OF doors.
The priest OF Chny gives odd instructions to the
children o. his parish who attend the Communal
school. lie told them that the schOolmaster be-
lOngtd that ciaS, OF sinners who sold their souls
to tae devil for couple OF francs and he ordered
them, rs a religious duty, to stop their ears aud
make a nose while the teacher giving his les
sons III order tnat none of his dcvllish Coctrnc>
might enter IniO them and destroy their souls.