New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-14
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Indiana Legislature has failed to pass the
proposed Compulsory Education bill
The Boston School Committee has finally decided
not 10 make the proposed reduction in tho salaries
Of school teachers.
Professor J. H. Hewitt graduate OF fale, ana
fcy three wears acting president of Onvet Coneso'
has been elected Professor Of Greek AT Dartmou1n'
A new building for the Indian girls is soon to be
erected NJ Hampton, Va There are sixteen new
Indan students In the Government school there
three of them being Apaches.
The average cost of teaching per pupil IN inc
philadelphia schools Is 80 40. Based on annuai e1
uenditure the average cost Is $l2 go The echooi
Board is shortly TO consider an @ a. t
rules providing that no pupil shai DC e~oio"'O AO"
the schools by reason OF coior'
The total amount received for the Connecncut
achools from all sources during the past year was
n ls1 $50 Q3-an increase OF nearly $S3oVo over
The wear before. The attendance was ll9,6e4@os
nercentage upon the school population OF e4.SI
The male teachers received an average nohIhiy
salary of $50 40, the female teachers $50 AZ
su,eriutendent seaver, of Boston. has approved
in the heartiest fashion, in his recent report tne
BOARD Of Supervisors whose help be finds OF value
On the question of supplementary reading ne sug
cests that provision be made to have all tne pupils
of a teacher reading the snme BOOK at the SAME
time the library thus helping the schoos 10 an CA
The Boston Society of Natural History will open
.sea-side laboratory at Annisquam, Mass, June TO-
the session to end September TO- There will be no
stated course of instruction and no lectures, the
nurpose being 10 afford opportunities for the study
and ohservation of the development, anatomy ana
habits of common types OF marine aninalS orc
suitable direction and sdvce bos s;nniuS in the
desired who have already maoe oesini~e -
study of natural history.
Abont two wears ago the British Government re-
solved to require the selected Candidates ior 'no
Indian civil service to reside at OXFORD OF lam
h,;aro dur,no the interval between their examine
t;on and their final departure for India. OXFORD at
once proyided teachers in Indian law ana IN INC
princpal Indian languages, and many canoidaaJScs
IT;,srs;fv 10 now considering the question OF so
mndifying it's requirements that these compare
lively transient students may take uegree
II ia estimated that the increase in the school pop
nlation of Texas annually 10 TO 10 per cent one
fourth of the general revenue has been
AGAINST one-sixth last year for the puphc lrro
scbools lint the rate of taxation has been reduced
I'D the general revenue will probably be smaller
The aggregate school fund from all sources in 1881
was only 1921. OPP 1t is feared that the schools
are 10 suffer from lack of money but IN splte Vi
This the legislature not only made no enOrt 10 I'M
nroye matters, but arranged for additional apprO-
r;ations ont Of the school fund for other purposes
than the maintenance OF the schools
Professor Shipman, of Tufts College. says that no
otber part Of the studies preparatory to entering COL
lego is so irregular that of English Professor u
Atkinson. in charge of the study Of English ana us
tory Mt the Institute Of Technology says that many
colleges are doing injury TO the work Oh inpartg
true knowledge of English by limiting their EFFORTS
in this direction 10 mere selections IRON Jew an-
fbors read in perfunctory manner. lie strOhgy
protests against allowing the study OF Oreek 10 re-
fard that of English language ana ll'eratute anu
urges that its study should ~ sue ~ ~ FnSsb md
modern languages. English, he claims Is dcsthcd
10 be the basis of linguistic studies for TINS nauoh III
the near future.
1t is both pleasant and novel to read the com
ments mon the recent action of Cambridge admit
ting women TO fuller privileges 1t has already
had a remarkable effect in Iberalizing opinion In
,be mast ten wears there has been marvellous adj
vance in the popular ideas concerning womans edu-
cation. Those who have long supported her claims
70 intellectual growth may well be permitted niue
sarcasm over the blind prejudices OF the past we
doubt saws Mr. George william Curtis, in the Iast
EASY Chair" if mothers will love Their cmldieh
less because of this opening OF the university gaS
and we do not fear that even IN TINS spring the
Young mans fancy will refuse TO turn to thoughIs %
love because Cunlgunda may DC nloIe ueNV'cu W
Newton than to Worth or more ObsefVahJ OF star
in Lyra than of the solitaire III her own ears
Mr.. Thurber, of the Girls High School in Boston,
read before the recent meeting Of the Massachusetts
classical and high school teachers paper on the adj
mission TO college on the recommendation Oh the
teacher lie considered this the best method. lie
touched on the evils which react on the school as
well as the college in the admission OF pupils I'M
PROPERLY prepared and said that the best favor the
colleges could confer the schools would be to send
them back Then, he claimed the influence OF the
school and the authority of the teacher would DE rem
forced The trepidation and the examining incident
to an examination were evils TO be avoided: Inc
teacher had the best possible opportunities 81 eSi
Nth their otfanments: and the consciousness on
the part of the pupil that his conduct and pro
ciency as tested by his career i'll the school and moi
bv brief examination, should govern his prospects,
would have good effect.