New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-17
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

1be tot, amouut expended for pu6l,c scneoIs IN
Connecticut during the past yesr was @i'4'o''"3'
ya,a hsyan to confer degrees in 1902 and since
that TINA mas riyon them to 11,03S ndlVioua's-
exclusive OF 923 honorary degrees
The average cost pcr capita in the Boston gram
mar schools last year was SOS 20; i'll tho primary
hooIs @1s 49, But while the cost OF instruction
~ tbsse schools hes been reduced that IN the nign
scboos has increased.
Az Brown University the late Professor Dimans
work with the Seniors will be carried through tue
wear by Professor Williams. Professor on Mooe[ ns
Languages. He will give them the suos'hnoo VI
Professor Diman's notes.
The Texas Legislature is discussing the question:
f raising school funds and has before it resolution
,,,oro.,ns the law of an ad valorem tax of 12i2
Cents on SlOO aud poll tax OF 81 on all the maio
Inhabitants Of the State between the ages Oh twenty
md sixty years.
Delaware has only 512 public schools The IN
crease in attendance during the past two years Is
2s95. The average number of pupils enrolled IN
each school is 40 Male teachers rcceiSe an re
salary Of $50 10-female teachers, VA ~. Inc
small salaries said to be DRIVING the teacpoio az g.
of the State The school buildings are Tar from III
Tor the purpose and the school laws neeo re'i'ion
Tho new institution at Cleveland is to take tue
name of the college which is to be removed tnence'
and will be known as western Reserve Univers-
ity.n The new college which is to be founded by
Mr.. Amasa Stone as an important part OF the UNI
versty ia to be called Adelbert College in memory
of the son of the founder, who died IN the promise o
brilliant youth 1t is proposed to use tue RIesene
buildings of the Western Reserve College at hudson
as n preparatory school for the University.
The law passed in 1870 by the New-Jersey Legis-
latnre provdipg for the establishment of industrial
.cbools IN dead letter. 1t could not be otherwise
since the annual appropriation provided for-$0oOO-
vas reduced to 81, 900. MIR. S. c. Brown, In an IN
teresting address before the Newark Board OF lraue
ntoes the pressing necessity for such modification
of the law as it now STANDS, tt AZ s's e va ~ SIo
fered stimulate local enterprise 10 secure
trade schools of such character as can AZ an carry
jay be utilized TO subserve established Industries.
The Young women who are studying at Cambridge
and who are unable to the reference books in the
Harvard Library, feel the need of small reference
library of their own. and ask the help OF those inter
rested in womeHs education. They particularly
want standard works. English foreign, in history,
literature aud mental philosophy. Colonel HGgln-
son and other Cambridge gentlemen have already
helped to start this Harvard ADnex Library:
marked Harvard A mex Library" corner of Ap-
pia,,. way and Garden-st., Cambridge, Mass may De
Snnt either by mail or express.
The Baltimore public schools have hitherto been
governed by ward politicians and the city council
IS now considering an ordinance which wili IN
measure do away with this system The Baltimore
of intelligence and moral dignity on the board they
are sure to beoutvoted whenever patronage is in
VOWED and ward interests are to be provided for.
1t is not too much to say that the present
School Board is conducted upon ideas that would oe
ridiculOus If they were not so shameful. The city
can mo- longer afford to carry this load of ignorance,
Incompetence and trIckery on Its educational
system"
The number of pupils studying German IN the
Milwaukee public schools has become SO large that
4, fha Of nrO-
yidng further instruction. Over 5000 pupils are
Engaged in the study. and they have only sixteen
,pecial teachers-an absurdly small number. In
,one of the schools the regular class teachers have
been Obliged to assist in the German work. Two
plans have been proposed i'll the board. The hrst
provides for the employment as German assistants
for the regular class teachers these teachers to be
required to pass examination i'll the elements OF the
German language and tC receive 900 year In addl-
ton to their regular salary class teachers. Ibis
plan also provides for the same arrangement IN the
primary schools. An average OF forty minutes IL 10
he devoted to each class IN all the schools. me
second plan provides for the employment OF the
regular class teachers in German instruction put
adds nothing to their salaries. 1t provides Tor the
primary schools by the employment Of a regular
teacher as primary teacher Ot German WIFI al ca
ira compensation on plOo year.
Massachusetts has maintained during the past
gear $3.50 public schools Including 21o high
schools) and S595 teachers. The number OF pupils
is reported SOO,III the average dtteHuuuSo" wan
233127 There are also reported 1O,39S pupils as
studying in 70 academies, and there we're 800
private and parochial schools in operation instruct
ing 1891 pupils. The evening schools numbered
11O with an attendance of 1868 pupils. Ninety
Der cent Of the number enrolled In the public
schools were in daily attendance during the year.
The Secretary of tue State Board of Education re-
ports that what the Massachusetts schools need Is
some wise man 10 take hold of the unsystematized
elementary work and organize IT with reference to
the relations different topics of elementary knowl-
edge hold to another and to the relations they
all hold to the sciences. He thinks. also, that II is
necessary to have the methods of teaching CONFORM
more tulyto the laws of mental activity and mental
growth. The secretary adds that the old school
district system should tie at once and forever a10l-
ished. Massachusetts has established within the
past few years nine nOurishing associations OF
school committees which meet for conference.
These associations with scarcely dissenting voice.
have passed resolutions favOring the division OF
that portion of the State not now supplied win
superintendens into districts for the employment
aud support of such school officers. 1t Is rec0nl-
inended that these associations be formed IN every
county, aud hold meetings twice i'll each year.