New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

. The special teacher of music in the schools or
Stockton, Cal, is TO be dispensed with hereafter
Smith College, at Northampton, has jast received
gift of $4,000 for the establishment of an AIT
gallery.
Johns Hopkins University had during its last
session 17G eDrollcd students the larger number of
whom-forty-studi chemistry. Twenty-Five
students took biology
The salaries of the teachers in the school, OF Wor
cester, Mass. have all been increased: the school
board OF that enlightened town has discovered in
advance of other boards that these are times of
prosperity.
The successful Cambridge systcm Of instruction
by correspondence has just been affiliated to Ncwn-
ham College for Women. These classes for CORE
spondenoe have been in existence for years and
in that time the total humber Of entries has been
1,773.
The pcnsWa extra written work is the chief
punishment inflicted pupils in the French
schools. Whipping is employed only in the country
schools. The peRsam varies. generally consisting
in copying French or Latin verses or conjugating
verb.
The Cleveland and Wooster Medical Colleges
have been consolidated under the name OF the
Medical Department of Western Reserve Uni
Nersiy The new medical department will open in
September with nearly 500 students The united
institutions have an alumni OF over 1000
The proposition to establish normal schools in
Texas for the benefit of the teachers Of that state
meets with no favor there The teachers held a
convention recently in which they went 5 far as to
protest against the action of the State Board of
Education IN importing teachers from the North
10 teach them how TO teach
The IroridcHcc Press, in mentioning the new sys-
tenn of self-govcrnment which is working so well
among the Amherst students, says: "Whcn this
principle Is universally recognized ia American col
leges we have no doubt that troublesome cases of
discipline Will become very rare and that the stan
dard OF scholarship Will he improved
The MARYLAND tcacInrs co,nuIoiD +l,ot thor In
ries carried down to low-watcr mark during
hard times and have been allowed TO remain there
though prosperity has been restored. Tho only
thing which the State has done for them recently
was to make a bylaw by which the practice of
dropping teachers without warning has been abOl
ished The teacher is now sure of thirty days
notice.
1T stated at the meeting Of the Virginia
teachers the other day that d" the great need of
Southern women is few well endowed 'institu-
tons of highest rank equipped with all material for
setting girls Intellectually by the side of men,"
Coeducation in the South has not been made posi-,
Die Few schools provide such instruction as Will
bring glrlS up TO the entrance examinations of
potent nstil utOns.
In consequence Of the increasingly numerous cases
of myOpia developed in French schools through bad
arrangement of seats and distribution of light the
Minister OF Public Instruction has nominated COM
mission named De rHygicno de Ia Vuc dams les
Ecolcs, whose object viii he to study the influence
Of the material conditions of school arrangement on
the progress of myopa, and to discover The means
o1 COuntcrdctng The evil
The secretary of the Philadelphia Board Of Edu-
cation says that in strictly colored school the
same requirements exactcd that are called for in
the other schools cOlorcd teachers are not asked to
know much white ones, colored pupils have
Easier examinations and the discipline is not so e-
netting as in white schools. President Steel the
head OF tire Board, SAYS that in his own Ward there
are about twelve cOOrcd pupils III the schools with
white children, and no one thinks about heir color.
Al Lasel Seminary for Girls at Auburndale,
Mass, an excellent system Of scl-govcrmuent is
practised. Any student who at the end of one
term is regarded worthy of such trnst is enrolled
on the list of sef-covcrncd," and thcnceforward
hoes as she pleases long she continues show
herself entitled to unlimited confidence. This is
the highest honor the school has to beStOW-a
recognition of real trustw0rthinoSs of charac 1t
stated that this system has proved to be
There has been small revolution accomplished
by the San Francisco School Board. All the
special teachers of French German, music. draw
ing and bookkeeping, seventeen in number, have
been discharged saving of $50. 100 thus being
Effected The Board appears to DC trying to reduce
expenses without touching the salaries of the
primary and grammar teachers. The CaU wants to
have the of the high school altered 1t com
plains that a eroa many studies arc taken up and
pursued only II short time, leaving the pupils with
}nly superficial knowledge of each and no
Mr. ID. o. Mills's gift of $40 600 to endov chair
'f Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in the Unvcr-
hty of California is approved by Tie PhiladeIpiia
Ledger, on the ground that Mr.. Mills has done a
better thing hy strengthening an existing college
than if he had given much larger sum toward
founding new institution to perpetuate his
Oame." The Ledger holds that seventy-fve thou
sand dollars for chair for the investigation of the
many still unrevcaled scientific facts directly hear
ing on human NE, are worth more to humanity
than seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
new monumental pile OF buildings to house a
poVeIty-stTlchen academic administration.
At the recent meeting of the Education Society in
England discussion scicncc-teaching in inter-
mediate schools ended in these conclusions: that
natural knowledge should be taught not from
books but from things Themselves; that tho lessons
should not consist of information comm tilted to
memory but of knowledge acquired by the child's
own observation and experience; that by such
object-lessons he should be led to observe the
natural facts processes around him and to cxct
Else his powers of comparison well as of pcrccp-
ton. and thus arrive ut such congratulations rs are
within his capacity that after the first more gen
eral knowledge of the common things around him
the child should be led along the broad lines of
interest TO some more special departments of science
Chemnitz, the third largest town in Saxony, has
many public technical schools They are either
State institutions belong to some public BODY
and are under the oversight of the Home Minister
The expenses chiefly borns by the State the
fees of the pupils being only sufficient to pay tenth
of the expenses. Poor students who are worthy of
assistance usually obtain remission of the fees
and even help from the State. \ peculiarly useful
system is pursued with the teachcrs-every wear n
number of them are furnished " it'll money fer the