New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-12
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

uichiean's last superintendent Of funds fof we
srinnary schools amounts to $oSS2SA A. "ni'n
4ives u O6 to each child.
Berea College, KY, an institution for inc ouu0
ton Of whites and blacks. has lately eec9 10 @
contributors In ak States an endowmen'oA %o''O
Professor Joseph Milikin has retired from MS posi-
a professor of English literature ana moaeIn ir
~usres in Ohio State University; III health Is sne
o eiSss Oh OILS ''-S''
TIA complained in Milwaukee that there is too
v,vcb whipping in the public schools. There were
1ftv cases within three weeks. There Is something
wrong In o system that permits this sort VI so'0'
ment.
tn. Iouisville School Board is considering the e1.
pediency of recompensing by more sssoio "n
office n longer term and gradual tncrease ., , SAL
sry teachers of proved experience success an" 'o"e
service.
R.,oium promises to become the great industrial
teacher of Europe Many foreigners are now attend
ing her schools She has 90 tscmniea school
All receiving funds annually from the state'
The Committee on Rules of the Philadelphia Schooi
poard has recommended for adoption an amendment
nrovidiue that no child shall be denied admls@on
into any public school of the district by reason on
color The Board has not yet taken action uPon ''o
report.
The work of the college at Dartmouth moves on
regularly in spite of the quarrel between president
and faculty-a quarrel which is greatly 70 % re.
GREETED. Dartmouth is not only one OF the t oides.
but one of the most noble and useful of our higher
institutions.
The Northwestern provinces of India have made
sstonishinq progress in free education There Is
hardly a village without its Government schooi
wherein are taught reading, writing. arithmetic the
geography and history Of India, and in the higher
by local committees made up of Europeans ana ma
tive gentlemen.
II has been decided by the Indianapolis School
Board to employ the principals of the larger schools
"a critic teachers and local superlntendents
of the schools under the direction OF the general SUI
perintendent. This action was determined upon IN
consequence of the increase of the schools having
ontprown the method of supervision heretofore pur
sued The result of this experiment Will DE watcneu
with some curiosity it seems at hrst CONSIDERATION
o somewhat questionable pohcy'
There is O movement in London for petitionins
the Senate of the University OF London TO Abolish
the custom of setting definite books for their pass
examinations, and begging that easy passages may
be Set which the candidates has not seen, and for
which he NAV be allowed the use of dictionary.
This change is advocated the ground that the
present plan encourages examining and bad style
Of book making: Ii a youth u Is urged, cannot
franslate with the help of dictionary, an easy pas
sage Of Latin or French prose or verse he docs not
know the Language he processes to know, and de-
serves to be plucked
There was not little good sense in the address
made by Professor G. S. Hall, Of Harvard at meet
ing of the teachers in New-Bedford last week. The
development OF the intellectual element In American
children, he said, ought TO be repressed tendency
to precocity is the bane of American childhood lie
added that that which will be learned naturally at
two and half ought not to be taught at two. We
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child and give attention 10 moral and phyScal
training. Most of our kindergarten schools are
working exactly in the rever TrOte ,S6o nas
persons who bear the characteristic ute OF cduca
tonalists" and whose hobby is the intellectual drill
ing of children in platoons.
At the recent meeting of the Association Of City
Superintendents of Indiana there was a general
agreement upon the desirsbility of semannual pro-
motions in all large schools The meetings also
agreed that final examinations alone should
never form the basis of promotions that all prcvi
GUS examinations and the teachers opinion of
pupils ability and energy should be considered in
promoting pupils slightly below tho required aver
age that full monthly examinations in all studies
were not desirable that daily records OF pupils
recitation were not desirable but rather injurious
and that the grade of promotion should be hxed
after the examination, not before. During discus
sion of the periodical increase OF the salaries OF clty
teachers il was shown that the annual increase is
$500.
President Buckham of the University of Vermont
asks: "Why should a student OF medicine alone
among students skip over the bachelors degree and
the masters degree aud jump at once into doctor
ate The profession of medicine has suffered and is
suffering from ignoring the necessary gradatons of
learning This condition of things may have been
pardonabe during the pioneer stage OF society but
ii is time that we were learning the ways of civil
ration. The next generation will not give its con-
fdence 80 literally US the last has done to half
trained men. a movement is taking place all
through the callingS and industries which will bring
the ll-tra ned men 10 the font. This movement
has already reached the medical profession and IS
making itself felt in the medic al schools Three i'm
portant changes are very generally advocated, are
already adopted in few schools, and must before
long make their way into all these are, continuous
residence throughout the academic year; graded
instruction from year to YEAR and the requirement.
of q certain amount of literary and scientific train
ing in order TO InatriculatloD.'
The authorities of the Indianapolis Public Lii
brary are doing wise thing in inquring in to the ex
pedieDcy Of preparing special catalogue of novels
and Juvenile books for children under sixteen years
of age. 1t is proposed that other books of This
sort outside the catalogue shall be issued to such
children. This is a course which may be judciously
recommended to the managements of other pnblic
libraries The average Juvenile" 1t must be con-
coded is apt to be a mass of niaudln twaddle, NOR
bid, unhealthy, and entirely unfit to give proper
views of ife In this connection it ought to be said
that children read altogether too many Juveniles"
They are simply devoured by the fifties and hun
drcds until the habit of rapid minimizing ana lndis
crimnate reading is so fixed that ii can never he
broken up Fathers and mothers arc sometimes
heard to say that In their day authors and publishers
took no Pains to provide such stFacnve matter ior
they had a few thoroughly wholesome books, and