New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-22
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
co,hv University has 1872 students.

Colby University has 1872 students
The pbilodelobia night schools have oeeh c'o'oD'
a, t'o for their support having been eA-
hausted.
p,o.idort Darling of Hamilton College IL oi-
aoa,or;po IN raise an endowment OF han hiion -
dollars among the Presbytcrlahs'
Tho Washington school trustees have, by VoVe
.s1qto3 decided against the admission OF cGl 4
children 20 the schools attended ny ""''0
The school population of Ohio is est'n'a'eu AZ
1OfG225. The increase is about 3Ooo every year
The avc;age daily attendance III tae Schoo'' - o'
46 per cent.
rbo Ros.o, school Committee has made an order
,,royid,uc that the course Of study in the high
scbools shall be three years with an advanced course
of one year. ontional 10 those who have completed
the three years course.
Pjttsburg has increased the salaries OF those
teachers receiving under $50 month 10 per cent
Those who have been receiving 500 ana over aie ~
have an increase of 10 per cent PittSDnrg Is 10 W
congratulated upon It's sense oi JuStice'
The San Francisco School Board has retrenche"
Its expenses by Diminishing the special teachers III
bookkeeping and drawing. II was pIopoSeu 10 uiS-
miss ot the same time the special teacher IN music,
but after an animated discussion lhe 'lo'ioh was
lost.
A Girl has lust been rejected at a school eXamna-
,io, in an English town on the curious ground that
she was the daughter OF publican and therefore
Ineligible to enter The Government examination.
This is assurcdiy "a strange phase OF temperance
reform.
The total value of school property in West Nlr-
pn,a is S1,743.929. The school population Is
213441 the attendance 81, 20S. There are 4,327
nublic school teachers in the State, III OF whom
are cOlored The average salary given TO teachers
is $40 81.
II is proposed in Switzerland to pass a Federal
School Law for the government OF the schools
which are at present under the control OF the sepa
rate Cantons One section of tins law provides that
every youth after leaving the primary school shall
spend at least two hours every week III h'shV
school
The Dartmouth juniors lately asked the authori-
t;as In begin the new course O. electives now IN
s+ood of next wear as was intended Their request
hos leon granted in so far as that next term they
will he allowed to choose between Latln ana
French for the second morning reciiauoli ana
chemistry, mineraOgy and mathematics lor lle
afternoon.
While IT comedies that a mschievouS boy can ex-
osperate teacher beyond endurance The Rochester
Herald persists in opposing corporal punishment.
every person" it Justly says, upon adopting
nrofesson assumes all of the anpoyances and hard
shins belonging 10 its highest and WlseNt Practice
Therefore teacher must he prepared 10 accept lhc
trouble of governing properly without the Wmp
STRUGGLING University of Vermont is $2S5,OO0 and
its yearly income is S2l 600 During the past year
a. has received gifts amounting 10 100000. 1t
now has seyentv-four students in the academic de-
partmcnt eight Of whom are ladies. An additi0nai
course has lately been arrangeG-one reSSehbl,nig
the regular academic course in oil except the onls
sion of Greek and the substitution OF scientific
studies
NJ. Chalamet, the French Under-Secretary for Edu-
cation and Worship, i'll a recent address commented
on the opposition of the Clerica TO the Girls Sec
ondary Education Law. Woman, he said, gained
preponderant influence in the family and in modern
society and she was in many cases governed by the
Clerical spirit. To eXtrcate her from this her edu-
cation must bc altered Girls must be well taught,
so that their ideas and those OF their husbands might
not conflict
A half day in each term has been set apart by the
authorities of the Davenport, Iowa, schools for the
visits of parents and guardians. They are to be par
ticularly welcomed, and are expected to note the
conduct of the ordinary class exercises, which are
20 he on such occasions entirely devoid of any APP
proach to examinations OF reviews On such Occa-
sons the pupils to pursue their ordinary studies
and work the object being to enable patrons of the
schools to observe the usual methods of instruction
and discipline. 1t is added that the pupils are TO
be asked TO bring to their respective rooms any artl-
cles which they may themselves nave made OF manu-
featured so that an idea may be gained OF the eX-
tent to which they perfecting themselves IN the
common arts and handicrafts of the day.
Aside from the 500, 900 income from the Porter
fund. the academcal department of Yale received
last year Sl51,572 45. It's expenses were $14G,-
1872 80. The theological department, with an IN
come Of $27G59 SO. expended $26,967 IL. The
Sheffield Scientific School is fourshing that til"
salaries of It's professors which for several years
have been materially curaed, are TO be restored.
President Porters report shows that all the depart
Inents are prosperous, but that the academical de-
partment nevertheless needs new doImi0ries, in
creased endowments for professOrships, and an in
crease in scholarship funds. OF more than twenty
professorships of the academical department not
one is fully endowed, and the total of the partial
eIdowments will not provide for the salaries of four
professors" Dr. Porter objects to the experiments
now being made in other colleges in relieving
students from the of cOnstraint and accOunta
bility. He says that the temporary or permanent
ecepticisms of instructors not meddled with and
that they are not asked to formally express Te-
ligOus faith; but no influences or instructions IN
any uncbTistian direction are allowed.