New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The cost per CAPITA of instruction in the Cinoih-
matt public schools is $50 20 q year.
Persistent efforts are being inade to procure inc
establishment Of the proposed Texas University a'
Austin
Colby University has begun a new Term WV ~
freshman class of twenty eight members ihciuu'"s
four young women.
Ralt;more has 36 1897 pupils in her public scn"o's
and 500 teachers only thlrtv-el1ht Oh "ho"i WIZ
educated at colleges or universities
.r,. o.a,,;,., If the public schools in Cleveland
,os heeo nostponed in consequence OF the extreme
heat.
The incoming class at Brown University will be
.ho,t tbe usual size Sixtv-fve applications for
admission have already appeared "u" n'oio "''
expected
scheme If instruction nv correspondence has
been organized in Ou]h, India, for the benefit OF
e,incatel Euroreans who wish to pursue studies III
which they require AID
Marquette College at Milwaukee has been COM
p,eted and formally dedicated. and was opened TO
ctu.,ents on Ssptember =. 1t will furnish classical
and commercial courses.
The Rochester School BOARD has passed a rcsolu-
ton providing that graduates of the Free Academy
be granite teachers certificates without further OK.
animation. An aIncndTent fcrfids the holder OF
such certificate to teach III the free Acnulhy Vi W
act as principal of public schoOi Ill the city
IN the course of much sound advice to teachers,
The Philadelphia Ledger adiures Thorn to regard the
children not az many small machines to be run 80
,,aov hours a dav, finishing of so many yards OF
recitatous week but little audience t" he IN
tuenced q little society to be trained to debate ana
Think 1t must be remembered that the teacher
who car thus regard the children is one wh" mas
special adaptation to the work and srccia lirg,or
H. Their too many teache IN me pnnuc
schools who glad to use the mechanical meino,s
now in force as refnXe for tGelr own i i,cn,
pacity When he same drill is use for ifty cninren
of widely differing natures, tastes ana ann res
dull and unnsng teacher finds no mo- disu 10y i'm m
the wo k. To the " born teacher une 'a'N u -"
structiOn is DELIGHTFUL, but rarely easy
Archbishop IIess. of milwaukee,. has issued an Of
der to the Catholic clergymen of the city to the erect
that all Catholic children whose parents desire them
to receive their first communion and continuation
must first attend the parochial schools of their re-
spectye churches for at least year before they
will he received into the church This order is is-
sued in obedience to one sent from Rome several
wears ago. The church in Milwau iee mas new Ia
ciiities for instructng all the Catholic children
that city and will enforce the rule IL Is thOugnt
that the will be prolonged gradually uhIl sne
ful snrit of the instructions from Rone-to educate
all Catholic children Ill the Cathonc sen ols-ca oe
carried ont.
A Free Education League has been formed in
Great Britain to procure the abolition of all fees In
connection with National education. The League
cites the example of the United States in free edu
cation and notes that France profting by the ex-
perience of other nations has this year estabished
free education in all her primary schools. NO =
withstanding these instructive examples" the sec
retary's circular SAYS the tendency of the Educa-
tion Department of Her Majestys Privy Council has
been to raise the scale of school fees. and thereby u
nnmise the benefits of the Education Act. It's FUR
Their ed that the conviction Is rapdygrowlng hat
unless Great Britain is to fall behind other nations
in education. a resolute movement should at once he
made in the direction of aholishng the charges Tor
admission to public elementary schools; and that
with thus view the Free Education League has been
fbrrnedv