Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
EDUCATIONAL,

There is talk of founding German uni
versity at Milwaukee, Wis, and of raising
81, 00O, 0OO for the project.
The Swedish government is considering
the question of abolishing Latin as COM
pulsory study in the gymnasium.
The new Hebrew Union college, the
only Hebrew institution for advanced
study in this country, has been opened in
Cincinnati.
The main building of the Jefferson
enlarged to give accommodation to 100
more students.
The two halls for female students at Ok
ford are both full and are increasing their
accommodation The best professors have
been secured as lecturers.
The Clatfin university for colored stu
dents at Orangeburg, s. c., has had, dur
ing the past year, 1888 pupils in its three
departments Tuition is free and the
courses are thorough.
Hugh $. Legare, of South Carolina, who
has been nominated as a cadet at West
Point by President Garfield, is the grand
son of President Tyler's attorney general,
who fought John Z. Calhoun fifty years
ago.
Tobacco is prohibited to the students of
Oberlin college, Girard college, and the
naval school at Annapolis. \ similar rule
has been recommended for West Point by
the board of visitors. At Cornell univer-
sity nearly all the students have volun.
tarily signed a pledge of abstinence.
1t is proposed at Oxford to appoint in
part at least, boards of examiners who do
not themselves belong to the body of resi-
dent teachers. The tendency of the present
state of things is to contine the eXamina-
tlons to one narrow groove, and to encour-
age students to count with certainty upon
being asked no questions the answers to
whlchthey have not been previously taught
or, If such questions are set, to ignore them
as abnormal and almost to recent them as
unfair.
| The American institute of Isturucton
will hold its tifty-second annual meeting at
| st. Albans, Vermont, on July 3, &, 7 and
8. Among the speakers exported are Judge
Tourgee, President Bucliham, and DR..
Durry, agent of the Peabody Fund. 1t is
thought that President Garfield will at
tend the meeting. The subjects to be dis.
cussed Include ''The Relations of Educa.
tion to Citizenship in n Republic,
Methods and Results" Education at
the South" etc.
The summer school of Biology of the
Peabody Academy of Science, at Salem,
will open July u, and will continue in
session for four weeks. This school is in
tended expressly for teachers of the public
and private schools, and the Chassis limited
to twenty-four courses in physiological
botany, analytical botany, anatomy and
physiology of vertebrates, embryology,
cmlenterates, entomology and invertebrate
animals will be piven.
The correspondent of The Boston Journ.
al, who has latelv been discussing Geru an
schools, declares that teachers teach more
in Germany than they do in America, and
that this is the reason that in the German
schools he was never in single instance
seen attention flag or interest lost. He
adds that in America books have become
the sources of instruction; books do all the
questioning, books do all the answering
boot prescribe the daily lesson, books MAJ
out the terms whole work, and books lay
down 1.-THE very list of review questions
with which any teacher, with superb
tiourlsh, if he happen to be blockhead
may wind up the course of study Th,
whole truth is that teachers are becominl
uachines; that they do not know theil
scholars; that books and supervisors anC
what have not actually estranged then
fro ~ the real position they ought to hold
and which in Germany they do hold.
While these statements may be somewha
exaggerated, there is, it must lie said,
good deal of truth in them.