New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-27
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

lady has been elected school trustee in Suffolk
| County.
The capital of the Connecticut School Fund now
amounts tn 81, 021 ,3463l.
Dowdon has now 233 students, of whom 1O3 are
| in the medical department. The college received
altogether last year Gifts Of $l2O370.
There is rumor that Colonel Roberts, of Titus
vllc Penn, con.empstes the immediate erection OF
n free college of mechanical sCaence Ill that cry.
Miss Leonora Taylor sChief Justice ofthe Supreme
Court of the University of Michigan the higncst
office in the moot courts of the law school OF that
| institution.
The Chandler Scientific School at Dartmouth has
had thus far 279 alumni There were only four
members in the first class and they received their
| degree IN 1901.
| The first kindergarten started in Cincinnati
wear ago has proved to be thoroughly successful.
| About SIXTY children admitted, all that couia
! be accommodated in the available rOoms
| Gifts of books are called for by the managers OF
the Harvard Collegiate Instruct n for Women.
| They have opened rcading-roon, III winch u IS
proposed to collect volumes Tor working library.
The collections of poll tax in louisiana have been
much larger this year than in former years. and 1t
IL expected hat the educational system OF he State
| will shortly lie placed upon moro satisfactory
| basis.
The administration and service OF the library now
cost Harvard about 500, 600 year, this sum being
taken directly from the college tuition fees. Prcsi-
dent Eliot suggests the necessity OF al endowment
| to release this $4,000.
| The Ma ,sachusetts Institute of Technology has ut
present 335 students. 1t has ten regular courses OF
instruction. each taking four years and obtaning
the degree of Bachelor of Science. Special labora-
| tories are provided Tor the instruction oil Women
There are s.1lO white schools IN Missouri and Ao2
| IL, I,,r,,
the past wear was 900 Of coOred pupils 22 800.
The total g penditnics amounted to S3l5l ,l7e ~.
| The State has more than 100 colleges ana acaue-
mics.
| Wisconsin has a school population of 4S3, l0a, and
he'd an average attendance in her schools last year
Of 2a0.25s. The school expenditures were
81. aGs ~. Tho four normal schools ,,, cost
| S7IOi5 81 The State University had 436 students
! aud expended $4,000 o..
The average salary paid to male teachers il the
rural districts Of the Province Of Oataro is only
S,Is3 and the female teachers get only SID. S1la-
ries in cities aud towns are not much higher. There
has BEEN "a large increase lately IL tue number Of
| pupils attending the High Schools many teschcfs
preparing themselves for their work therein. EX-
priruIcs for school purposes III the Province have
increased from Si,113.leS IN 1877 10 ~ o33'ooj "
| 1870.
| The school population Of California is 303,Gl3.
and last wear the public schools had average at
tendance of 1O0,0j6. Private schoolG were attended
| by Ii 1913. Tie nuGbcr of census children" who
did not attend any school was OIL 10 The average
| monthly salary paid to male teachers was $50 20;
| to female tcaclera SGl 10. Tho ,.al ,pts for
sch,o purposes were 1878 los 81 AID tin oxpendi
tut,s 81 SO: 57l ~. The total cost per ,apita OF
| average number attending was S2l 50. 10 COLL
| pulsory education law Is n dead letter
Tho Harvard faculty last year thoroughly revised
all the regulations The principal improve nents
| nharn nm.
merated offences and specific prohibitions; the
striking out OF all regulations which suggested that
a certain number Of failures, defaults or transgres
| siops would bring neither rcprOof nor loss the
modification Of the penalty called dropping; the
adoption Of the theory of creditng the student with
| the work winch he has done toward wihning the
degree rat her than charging him with his deicen-
ries and the settlement upon IA basis uniform for
the whole college of the longdebated questions con-
| corning compulsory or voluntary attendance.
| The Pennsylvania schools have been making good
progress during the past year. The graded schools
| now number Y037 and the average attendance was
| COZ .G27-77 per cent OF the number enrolled. The
| school expenditures amounted to S7.462,o77 10.
| lbc Normal Schools were attended by 10, stu
| dents aud PFC were graduated. Superintendent
Wiekersham makes the following suggestions III re-
gard to these schools In view Of the deep interest
the state has in the Normal Schools as institutions
for the training of teachers for the public schools,
and IN view of tho large amount OF money already
| invested in Them | recommend that an apDropria-
ton large enough to elect the object be made at
once and used Ia pay of all the debts of the Normal
Schools and to complete their bnildinGs and equip
mrnts the money 20 BE- distributed By commission,
| AND with conditions somewhat rs follows: " !.
| lIat mortgage b, executed against the propnrfy
Of each school Tor tine amount assigned 1T. 4 thaL
no turheT direct appropriations be asked or the Leg
islature the schools agreeing to make Their 1ituio
| ircome equal their expenditures. >. That az GER
| titiGatcs OF stock IN the Normal Schools ''' SUR
rendered and cancelled and certificate OF c$nribu-
ton lac Issued in their stead. 4. That the stare be
| allowed Il larger representation III the boards OF
trustees. and moro voice in the election OF principal
| aud iacdlty. D. That tho students be mOro closely
| limited to such ~ intend to make teaching Il pro-
| fesslOn"
| For the purpose of testing tho daily weekly
progress Of the student ut Harvard and his faithful
ness in keeping up with the work OF each OF his
courses, various processes are used in addition to
the olal questioning which makes part of the Teei-
| lar exercises In the languages there are several
tests Of easy application from which there is no e.
cape such translation at sight, writing tho for
eign language az dictatiOn, and rendering dictated
| English INTO the foreign language; in the mathe-
MATES problems connected with tho subject in band
may always be given to any or all students In bis
| tory. philosophy ana political economy all essay may
| be periodically demanded upon some special point
or limited topic. within tho students capacity. aud
not beyond the range of hla reading IL clinical
| medicine an actual case can always be given to a
student to study aud report upon; in all the scen-
tifc courses, and in some others, each student can
be required to give before the class, from time to
time short lecture upon suitable subject previ-
ously assigned TO him; and in the laboratory
courses ike those OF chemistry, miuera)Ry. bot
any biology. histology, physiooey and zoology, &c