New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-06
DIR. HENRY BARN.lRDS LIFE YORK.
AN APPEAL TO AID HIM IN COMPLETING MS EScv>
cLoJEDA OF EDUCATION

EJfnaben p Peabody IN me Boston Herald
Should DR.. Henry Barnard's life and c0rre-
To S ssH he zee s 10
presidency Of Antioch College, IN ohio, should be gwen
owed TO Dr. Barnard counsel and sympathy from the DO
ginning and throughout his own career He even ex-
presses the wsh that he had, In every instance taken
his advice declaring that everything be regretted having
said would have been avoided had he done so. Besde
all the educational work DR. Barnard has done In the
last forty years Of which amazing account IL given Ia
the Connecticut School journal OF 1885, covering ninety
pages, he hns been publishing Tor the last tbrtsoYen
years his Encyclopaedia OF Education giving not bis own
psIaphrases Of tho ideas and sstems ~ an the gfeas
them In their words together with the biographies
OF al edn9tors ana minute deseIptions
their methods and WORKING He put II into the form of
teachers would snbscrbe 10 meet the expense OF Print
Ing It. In this expectation he has been disappointed for
he has captrap and the contents OF too solid
character 20 serve manual for merely empirical
teachers Therefore, be has gone on publishing volume
81 900 year. and finds himself within sight OF his goal
with no more resolrce Of means But he does not
know how ask the aid OF Others has he arthor
lied any 20 do And must not be understood
begging for him, though have ttken leave 10 tell my
orins themselves by enabling Dr. Barnard 10 complete
bis plan, he first contemplated t-that Il, 20 put
scattered all the land sets OF these forty Volumes
OF more than 500 octave pages each containing the
whole curriculum OF professional school OF education
1.-THE highest character Thirty thousand dollars put
into his hands at would enable him 20 do this; and
VIII not some one OF our imminent public beneiactors
advance Il 2 Dr. William T. Harris, Of -. Louis, has
mtcy SAID NO one tnlnE Womb so eHeftuauy unlkts-
sailed sound national education as 10 put LOCO copies
OF this encyclopedia Journal az ~ many different points
Of the United States" That would cost 100000 but
DIR. Barnard meant TO put 800 sets only ~ 80 many
points accessible To teachers. Aud, II man cannot
advance the 100000. 200 men, each advancing $50,
could do H. and should any subscriber prefer desig
nate particular school, college town state IL
brary, Dr. Barnard could send set, Ostpad, In tho
Of that subscriber 10 the place designated, whether
North South. East or West.
DR. Barnard inherited modest fortune OF teas than
fishing this Journal This cncyclopedc Journal win bs
rOmnlpfgd
umes IN the whole. But Il cannot be completed and d.
tTtbuted without the amount OF 200 subscriptions OF
$3.50. and what il any mans giving $50 IN c0mpar
with what DR.. Barnard has done gulitOusly ono
word more. PrOfessOrships Of education have, within
the past few years, been established az the Universities
81 Edinburgh, and Cambridge IN England marking the
advanced estimate 81 the profession OF education and 10
Is noteworthy that Barnards Journal " Education has
been recognized a thesaurus upon the subject, M
paraleled I'm human literature. This said, In 20
many wOnls lately In the inaugural address OF the Pro-
fcssOr OF Education Of Cambridge Eng and more copies
Of the whole set have been ordered from England since
this dictum than were ever called for In America.