New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-16
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There erS $50 Chinese chl'io" ~
CISCO public schools.
The Wisconsin State University VIII s'"''"''
class Of seventy this year .
prose.sor John lie Conte has resigned his POSITION
,s rr,sidcnt of the University. OF Caihorha' NV
will remain professor oil pny Si'''
full quota of children enrolled IN inc AouiS,',''
.Iboo,s would exceed 125 900 but 1t Is thongh 'na'
there Is scarcely half that number In Attendance
IN, FJ,,jro free Press says that there will be many
changes made in the different departments OF Cor
nell University on President Whites RETURN anu
many features introduced
San Francisco has now about half-a-dozen kinder
parten schools several Of them being Tree scio''S
supported by voluntary contributions All VI 'n'''
schools doing valuable Work
The Summer lecture courses Of Union Coliege-to
which citizens are inyited-haye been opened WIN
discourscs hy Prof ssor W. a. Potter III W. L.
Griiiis and Professor Henry CopPce'
wellesley College has a microsoopical society COM
prsing about forty of the young ladies. This soci-
ETY. has been in existence for three years and mas
accomplished some admirable work.
The PENNSYLVANIA legislature has passed bill
prohibiting discrimination on account OF color III
.be pnblic schools of the state, and iSto he heartily
congratulated upon its iudicious acton
Mr. w. w. Corcoran of Washington was elected
presdent Of the organization for the better endow-
ment of Washington and Lee University at the re-
cent meeting OF tllat body IN Philadelphia
A department for teaching the cutting, fitting and
sowing of woncns garments is about To be added to
The Girls Normal School in Philadelphia. when
will they teach tailoring in the Boys Normal SCHOOL
The Southern States are now providing through
taxation over million dollars annually for the snl'-
mort Of negro schools The position and influence OF
Northern teachers in the South are Improving every
year.
Superintendent Marble, of Worcester. Mass has
recommended 10 the School Board the provision al
each school building Of apparatus for testing The
vision of the uumls-an excellent idea, and one 10
he considered IN other cities.
The University Of Pennsylvania is still deeply III
debt and has The FhiiddchhiG Telegraph says, bnt
scant prospect Of being freed from its debt That
journal complains that while outside institutions
like Washington and Lee University receive liberal
assistance from citizens OF IhlIddClpHla lI'i wv"
University gets nothing
Amcmorial which has received the signatures OF
many of the chief educational authorities III Ing
land is about 10 be presented to tho Government.
IL urges the more systematic teaching OF science IN
elementary schools and complains that at present
the elementary stages of teaching nave To DO TOO
little with things and too much with words.
The Manual Training School in s.. Loui, has Just
closed its first year with class of ftyeght pupils
They have shown great interest i'll their work all
being ambitions to excel and get forward IN the
manual rooms The director has, therefore made It
one of the conditions al promotion IN the manual
tepqrtment that The punis should do nara ana sue
ccssful work i'll the literary departments
The seminary for the inetruction of girls which
mfr Moody established at Northicld not long ago,
has been very successful II has 105 pupils. ID of
ibc number being Indian girls who intend to he
come teachers of their own race. There are 100
applications on file from young women who wish to
attend the school, and the accominodatl@nS ana thc
endowment fund need 10 ie increased. Inc cost Iol
board and tuition is only TIVO year
Professor ThoroM ROGERS. the English scholar,
saws that he has long believed and still believes,
that sound Latin and Greek scholarship is the only
basis Of higher education that mathematics hy IL
self may leave the student Ounce that there Is no
educational value whatever in all the physical
sciences taken together if only taken and that the
SCHOOLS of modern history law and theology are
shams intended to satisfy craving Tor uh"eserNeu
distinction.
In one e7opdissc7nsut Of Paris kitchen anl re-
fcctory has been attached TO the municipal school,
thus providing dIning-r0Om and wholesome
warm dinner cor the pupils at nominal cost. Plates
of boiled beef OF soup and of vegetables are sold AT
cents each This example, /, is reported is 10 he
followed in each GlTOHdisscHcHt-aud II ought 10 nr
followed in other cities and countries. \ single
.iuner like this /, infinitely more wholesome than
the sinff which children often allowed TO take
10 school for their luncheon.
The Woman's University in ST. Petersburg, which
provides a series Of courses for higher training N the
Mathematical physic and historical sciences has,
although only two years old attained remarkable
success. Ii has SO students, and would have many
more were il not for the obstructive regulations
which ar4 intended 10 check the further develop
mrnt of the institution. The necessary funds are
collected from private not state s"rrreS-ir"in
siudentss fees S25 year or by voluntary sqhscnp-
lions. similar courses have been provided Tor
women at Moscow and at hleit.
Girton and NEWMAN, tho young womcn's col
Ieges at Cambridge, England are full ofpupls' and
The authorities have more applications for admis-
sion than they can accept. The students go III
carriages 10 the University lectures. There is not
the slightest opposition to the colleges among the
professors and students of the tnIyersity-wlch -
q fact to he reelected upon by those connected with
the comparatively youthful American universities
which become ~ alarmed and initiated over every
suggestion of admitting women to their privileges;
The majority of the ladlcs who have been educated
az the Cambridge colleges have become successful
teachers.
At the recent meeting of the Cincinnati Pedagogi-
cal Association one Of the members declared that
nothing needed so much an entire revolution as the
grammar course i'm the district schools. Another
member said that her experience with beginners
showed that tSc interest III reading more in
tense than in any other study. She allows her
pupils to bring nursery rhymes juvenile papers, etc.
to class, and has found that these impart great
facility ia reading the textbook lessons
Imcmorzed and lose their freshness. A third MEM
her said that with beginners especially those from
illiterate ami,ies, she would not attempt To teach
any reading until the habit of speaking uently and
naturally established. She thought one year.
and in many cases two, not too long 10 tram the
child III speaking.