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

San Francisco, mas been elcCtcu IlCSluCub Oh OdlA-
fornia University.
The regents Of Michigan University have recOm-
mended that the annual fees be increased, the ma
circulation and graduation fees remaining I'M
changed
The degree of Master in Pharmacy" is hereafter
to be given at Michigan University TO those Gradu-
ates of the first degree in the school of pharmacy
who show special ability i'll original research
OF all the New Engand colleges, Harvard has
hal the largest addition to her endowment fnAd
during the past year. She has received $4,000
Yale has had $3.50, 900, and Dartmouth @loo'O o.
The authorities Of Victoria University at Man
chester, England, have decided not to insist upon
classical knowledge except for the ordinary degrees
IN Arts, and have ma divers he" regulations 4oi
degrees in science and law.
Professor Monicr Wllliams's proposed Indian In
sttute at oxford is assuming tangible shape.
The university has undertaken to make annual
grant toward the expenses of its maintenance and a
site for building has been fixed upon.
West Virginia. which in 1865 had only 1865
school districts, 1873 school-houses, 3S7 teachers
and an attendance of 1875 pupils, has 3,529
districts 1857 schOol-houses. 1924 teachers and
an attendance of 142, $50 pupils In 90 only
twenty counties of the State had any free schools
At the recent meeting of the Ohio teachers one of
them said that the system in that State lacked an
Independent head; that the State School Commits
sioner should have greater scope of power and should
be assisted ny a board of twelve He declared also
that the State needed better facilities for the cduca-
ton Oh teachers
A new course of study has been adopted in the
public schools of Utica n. y, which reduces the
time required from sixteen years to twelve. The
primary grade to take two years instead of four;
the intermediate grade three years instead of four;
the reduction in the advanced school course from
four years to three and the last change IS the es-
tablislment of distinct courses IN the academy Tor
two three and four years respectively, with CORE
spending diplomas.
Dennison University at Granville, Ohio, has just
had its endowment fund increased by 100000. In
1873 the university passed law abOlislling the
Greek letter societies. under the impression that the
fraternities were immoral IN their influence The
enforcement of the law not only created bad feel
ing but was practically evaded; and 1t has now
been repealed.
The public school fund of Indiana last year
amounted to 50, O65 .2j4 10. and the average at
tendance upon the schools 321 go. The State
has ninety-two county school superintendent,
nearly all of whom met in convention at Indian
apolis last week. plan was submitted for uniting
the public school systems OF the State with the Uni
versity
The San Francisco Board of Education estimated
the expenses of the school department for the
coming year at $S21 600 The Board of Supervisors
reduced the estimate to $65O,O0O. The Board of
Education has protested that the school cannot be
properly conducted with this sum- and if the Mavor
and Supervisors refuse to increase IT somewhat a
mandamus is to be directed against them, forcing
them 10 show cause why the Appropriation has been
reduced.
The Board of Regents of Wisconsin State Unver-
sty have adopted resolution expressing the opinion
that positions at commencement should not be based
exclusively upon marks of scholarship and rank but
that other things should be taken into considera-
ton. The standard of graduation in the law de-
partments of the university have been increased ly
requiring the attendance of two years at the law
school or OF one year at the law school. aud two
years study in the Office of established at
torney.
The policy Of non-inflicton of corporal punish
ment in the public schools of Providence Il. L. has
been thoroughly successful. In one of the largest
schools with more than 500 pupils there have been
but two of such punishment in two years. In
of the best primary schools the rattan
seem Superintendent Leach reports that the teach
ers rely mainly on their personal influence and
moral power in rOusng and directing the ambition
and conscience Of their pupils. Corporal punish
ment is rapidly disappearing from the schools of
this country.
Latin and French to be dropped from the
of the Female High School at Louisville, Ky
and drawing and bookkeeping substituted A nor
NAL department for the training of graduates as
teachers is to be added. In the Male High School
French and Greek have been dropped and only so
much Latin will be taught as can be managed by the
principal. In the place of the branches given up "A
salaries of fourth grade teachers in the colOrcd
schools have been raised from P31 to $50 a month.
In May last the Eice-Chanccllor forwarded to the
Duke OF DeVOnShlge the Chancellor of the UnlVeT-
sity of Cambridge, the whole of the memorials pre-
scented in connection with the higher education of
women, and the claims their behalf for presenta-
ton to degrees, with the view of obtaining his IN
terpTetaion of the statutes with regard to the mat
ter. The Chancellor has minated his opinion after
conference with Lord Cairns, that while it is not
ultra wires to publish in class lists the names OF
female students as having passed certain eXamn-
atoms the statutes do not authorize the comforting
OF degrees upon them.
Primary education which has lately been made
gratuitousin France, is the eve of being made
secular and compulsory Elementary education is
to comprise moral and civil instruction as well as
the ordinary subjects At the request of parents
the ministers ofrelgon and their deputies approved
by the Departmental Council, or the teachers if
they consent, may give religious instruction in the
schools out OF school hours. Certificates of primary
studies to be awarded after public cXamnat ions
open to children eleven years Old and upwards the
gamers of which will be released from the obliga-
ton OF further attendance.
Large numbers of young men and women are be-
coming teachers in England, and great reduction
in saaresis said to be imminent The action of
the London School Board, which has greatly in
fuenced less important bodies of the kind all over
the kiSgdom, has given the certfcated teacher a
standing which he never enjoyed before and dur
ing the last four years the profession has been
steadily progressing in respectability and emolu-
ment. Many young persons who, generation ago.
would have had little inclination to embark i'll the
career OF teacher without university degree to
help him to the best posts in an arduous occupation
have of late been crOwding into the various train
ing colleges, and the result is the prospect OF a
serious relapse III prosperity.
The Rutland (Vt.l Herald and Globe saws very
wisely in regard to the pay of teachers: "Ihe low
wages that admit of no savings If the teacher has
family, is the blight upon profession that contains