The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-27
EDUCATIONAL.
The st. Louis public school library

The st. Louis public school library
now consists of about so, 900 volumes.
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY is to admit
ladies rs students, except as regards the
classes of medicine.
The teaching of morals and manners is
included i'll the course of the San Fran
cisco grammar schools.
ARKANSAS is to have normal school
ut Pine Bluff for training colored teach
ers. The school is to be branch of the
Arkansas state university.
THE Chinese students of the state are
studying their mother tongue ut Hart
ford, Conn.,, working nine and one-half
hours day, undays excepted.
Mr.. HENRY LESLIE notes that the
enormous sum of $500, 900 is paid annu-
ally by the British governmentfor music
and denominational schools, and yet the
singing is by ear and very much out of
tune.
THE John Hopkins university has de-
cided to abolish the class system and
confer degrees when they are earned.
This is an important move, and among
leading institutions radical departure
from the old methods.
EXTRAS which cost 80 much ut Ameri-
can schools are ridiculously cheap at
German schools. Music, drawing, and
lessons i'll the languages can be had from
the best masters for from 40 to 20 cents
lesson. And the instructions ut that
price il thorough andimparted by an adj
mirable system.
AT the recent meeting OF the California
teachers, Professor Morris, of the West
chester Normal school, said that he
found that one of the abuses in examina-
tons in the normal schools was that the
best students were broken down by be-
ing compelled to prepare to be examined
on all of the twenty-five studies ut one
time.
In the last examination for London
university ladies take five out of thefour-
teen places, all OF these attaining the
number of marks qualifying for prizes,
and sixteen names ont of eighty-five in
honors are those of ladies. Twenty-four
in the first class are also ladies'; and only
one lady is in the second class.
DIR. FRASER, the wise and eloquent
Bishop of Manchester, recently made
some well-deserved criticisms on the
great fault of the American school sys-
tenn. He declared that his experience
in this country had convinced him of the
prejudicial effects resulting from the in
PRODUCTION Of multifariOus subjects; how
children quilted school with IN almost
useless smattering Of many subjects, but
with a complete and accurate knowledge
OF none.
PRoF. w. q. ScOTr, whose removal as
q member of the faculty Of Wooster, o.,
university has been agreed to, has writ
ten letter to the trustees defending his
orthodoxy. He says: Unconscious
myself of any heresy and entirely igno-
rant OF any skeptical results of my teach
ing, had spent several thousand dollars
of my own during the past year for APP
paratus III my college work, and thereby
incurred heavy debt, never once
dreaming Of the removal, which struck
me like n thunderbolt."
The new girls school building which
Mr.. Moody and his friends have put up
at Mortified, Mass, is built of brick,
three stories high, and with ground
plan 100x40 feet. The roof is surmount-
ed by three towers; the central one ris-
ing seventy-five feet from the ground.
The first floor will contain kitchen,
dining-room, parlor, two reception
rooms, study-room and two school
rooms. On the second and third floors
are thirty.seven dormitolies. The in
terror is furnished throughout in brown
ash, the windows being provided with
inside blinds.
THE womaL's medical college of Penn.
sylvania. at Philadelphia, has now been
in existence 80 years. In that time it has
graduated some 800 students. 1t was
one of the first medical schools of the
country to adopt progressive course of
instruction, with college preceptorship
and division of final examinations. The
faculty have adopted regular system of
winter quizzes, to fix more important
points in the minds of students. Rigid
thoroughness seems to be insisted on,
and the students are admitted to clinics
at most of the Philadelphia hospitals.
Altogether, this woman's college appears
to be quite equal to most OF the male
medical schools of the country. Rachel
L. Bodley, A. NJ, NJ. D., of Cincinnati,
is dean of the college.