New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

school offices, aud men VINO are uoI VaAp"S VIZ N
prosossor Sanborn, of Dartmouth. is IN failing
health and has been granted vacation untiI GULL
menceInent.
The Yale College funds now amount to u 'S3o''oo
of which the Academicai Department. ""'
$S50.435 90.
California has Just apportioned among the couh'
tics tine largest amount which tho State has ever
devoted in single year to the pupHo eon'o'''
Altogether it is 81 ,5Oo,3Oo oo'
The LonnsyilIe School Beard has resclnded the
rple seuding pupils for punishment 70 principals
IIereafter every teacher Is at liberty 10 lhIiic'
punishment when he or she sees ht'
The University of Virginia has raised all ou'
&c 600 of the sum necessary to secure INC McCoi'
mick telescope and the observatory ohereu oy M
Vanderbilt To meet the conditions OF the giil 'his
So 900 must he raised by April l.
The st. Louis School Board has passed d reso'ut'on
declaring the marriage of lady teacher equiV"ieu'
IA resignation The average number of pupils, pe
ionSiny tn the St. Louis schools is 50, 0s3 anu 'no
average number III daily attendance Is of'o00
The Harvard spring examinations Tor presume"
will begin March 81 aud end April 4. They arc III
tended wisely to test the fashion IN "n'cn Tue
students have Kept no with the work OF the term
and the MARKS Will not atccI the SoaA '""'A ~
much below 90 per celt.
Tho Delaware Assembly has agreed upon bill
Delaware Association for the Education OF ColOreu
People to the different schools of the State. EHcn
comfy is TO get 1900. For fourteen years the COL
ored noople of Delaware hare been working haru %
get education with no help from the STATE lh h
were Door and ignorant anu without lnhae"cc' p".
i'm spits of obstacles almost nSufnOuh'aoe; tncS
hoyn entireIv by their own eXertIonS. established
and maintained system of schools tnat WOu'u u9
credit to people having much lhore mc""s """
ability.
II il claimed that the Cincinnati schools have
greatly deteriorated in the past few years. Oh the
S7,Gls children in the city. 1880 do not afteho
any school. The Cincinnati Commercial says that
iudcinc from the fact that the other dav, in room
full of pupIs in High School, amongall those VINO
had come up through the district and intermediate
schools there was not one who knew what th9
Golden Rule was, the moral instruction prescrtTneu
by the Cmcnnatl school PRINCIPALS =; S u, nrhc
Rev. Z. W. Wendte recently complained IN p'pm i
lecture that the Office of school trustee Is le prey
of ward politicians aud tile cehtfc oi coil"PV anu
demoralizing Influences
DIR. Currie. agent of the Peabody Fund, says that
the lack of good teachers is one of the strongest
difficulties to be encountered in the South. lie is
onoted bv The GdlceStOn NeWs as saying that to
obtain competent teachers for the colorCd schools
has been a serious obstacle. but of late we IN
Virginia have advanced beyond you of the further
South in this regard. When certificate Is issued
TO a teacher, under our system, he or she is Douhu
inso faCto by tine receipt of TO teach IN any SchOol
to which an assignment Is made ana nocauS 80 d
teacher is placed in charge of cOored chlidfen tnat
fact of itself docs not operate TO socially OStracHc
the teacher. 1t is only where thew, themselves go
further and put themselves upon degree OF Soclai
equality with the c0lnred people that tue Dan Oh
Dstracsm IS imposed
1t is pity that the newspapers of progressive
American city like San Francisco shonll be forced
10 point ont that members of the Board OF Ednca-
tion should he chosen without the slightest refer
cuce to politics. Reasonable men should not nc"d
to have this dinned into their cara Tie throa'c'e
saws tia" hitherto the position OF school director
has been eagerly sought b. men who desired the
rositioa simply az q stcpplg-st0ne to some lncrd-
i've Office, The appointment ana advancement Oh
teachers have been regarded as patronage to lie dl
yidel prO rata among the directors. No rcgard AT
ali is now paid 20 the ability or qualifications of tie
applicant for position as teacher lne question is
not is the applicant qnaiilled' Dut mas nc VI sue IN
tucntial r,endS who can promote inc pollcdi au-
yancement Of the director who tavOrs MN or her'
The Massachusetts Legislature is now considering
a hill lepalizing tho action of school committees III
engaging teachers for longer period than single
wear. Many strong arguments are maHc I'D ltH
favor not tic least strong being the assurance that
The prosrect of permanent employment would tend
TO bring into the teachers profession BRAINS that
now are often put INTO less precarIous WORK. inc
Boston Post thinks it will DO found that where
scbool committees have elected an incompetent or
mnworthy teacher 1t has usually been in conse-
ouence of careessnoSs or undue baSte. Ihls Dlli
will tend 10 make mauy commuters more cautious;
Consciously acting for longer pariod, they VIII
feel a ycigiter responsibility. In many connuhl-
ties too it will have the effect to induce greater
prudence and caro- in selecting the DcsC men ior
member of the school committee.
The Michigan Legislature has just passed school
law creating for Detroit new Board of Education
of twelve members TO be elected from the city al
large thew are all to he chosen at the spring elcc-
tion this year and after the election the twelve arc
TO draw lots for long and short term six OF those
elected this year will two years aud SIX VIII
serve four years every second year thereafter six
mcmbcIs will De elected to serve four years. thew go
into Office Juy l. and the present school board is
legislated out CT office that date. Tie TefOa Post
ou6 T,fbYue saws that under this bill the school
hoard cauuot be controlled by small constituencies.
Little and irresponsible cliqnes in rotten borough
wards cannot pack the Board ct E.aucation WIN
members who represent nothing but the corruption
which selects them, aud who have neither the
mental endOwments To comprehend the educational
necessities of the city sufficient interest III u 70
seek 10 better quaiIly themselves Ior us reSpon9'o
ItIrs"
Canon BrercOn has been ceverlY presenting the
reasons why Cambridge and Oxford should lead in
female education. He believes that as the partici-
patton of women in general as well as III higher
stndies must b. great factor IN the future of edu-
cation. the university as a chef Dhcrltor and
tIansmttcr of learning from generation to genera
ton, has no right 10 dissociate tselI rom any great
movement connected with the advancement Of
learning. The Canon claims that ii female educa-
ton is centred i'll the universities a stimulus will be
given TO the best rel gious influences both in study
and in life. His CONCLUDING reason why the uni
vorsity should be centre for womaRs education 10
this: Because any mischlevous consequences that
might be feared. whether to the university or to the
siud, nts hy the admission of women can be guarded
against by suitable regulations and still more by re-
spnpsibe authorities whereas the diversion OF the
Interests aud influences that gathering round the