National Republican., 1881-11-26
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Williams College now has 253 under
graduates, ss being freshmen.
OF Yale's 612 undergraduates in the
academic department only 1866 are Connecticut
men.
The Ohio State University is flourish
ing. The number OF applicants for admission this
year wns larger than in any previous year.
Rhode Island, small as she is, has very
large school income n proportion to her popula-
tion-lareer apparently than any other State ex-
ccpt Massachusetts.
Chicago, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and
Minneapolis are about to make inquiry as to the
effect OF the public school training the health
OF pupils. The question was reopened in Cleve-
land the other day by a member Of tho school
board, and special committee is now consider
ing II.
The South Carolina College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanics at Columbia has now, In Its
second year. only ifty-n students, thirty -one
Of whom arc students OF last year. Twenty did
not return after vacation President Miles atribut-
ing this partly to the poverty of the people.
Plans for the addition of normal de-
partment and model school to the Albany High
School are to be made Immediately. The school
board of that city has adopted the report provid-
the primary reading classes, and the memorlzing
of short quotations for all classes. 1t has also
tended the language lessons through the seventh
year.
A speaker at Pennsylvania institute
last week said that in Burlington VI, there Is no
home study; all the work is done in school under
careful system. lie had known an instance, he
added. where school board had positively for
hidden study at home-truly an unusual piece OF
-.
Gated the maintenance of the old fashioned Gus
tom of morning and afternoon recess. on the
ground that the children learned moro profanity
and bad manners during that time than in all the
rest OF the day
The sum allotted Tor the support of the
Philadelphia schools IN 1882 is 81 ,534 6S5l. This
IS $4,000 less than the estimate given " the comp
troller. An endcavor to reduce the amount ap-
propriated TO the salaries of the teachers met
by the statement that in the Philadelphia scbouls
faithful teachers employed for dozen years arc
paid less than $40 week. Beginners receive only
sc a week. Thoroughly good teaching is one of
the hardest, most exhaustiug tasks known to this
world. The Philadelphia teachers ought not TO be
blamed IL this miserable pittance does not inspire
them to their best.
The revenues of the San Francisco
school department are not quite equal to Its ex-
pendltures The Call suggests novel settlement
of the dilcuty-that all salaries be reduced TO the
level of those In the primary department. The
good work and the hard work of the department,
1t declares, is done In the primary grades. The
work of molding uniformed minds is the most i'm
portant that Is done in the department and really
requires the highest order Of teaching ability. 1t
is pleasant 10 sec how general Is becoming the
proclamation of this truth. Tho sooner 1t Is ac-
cepted everywhere the better for the coming genera
tions.
President Andrews, of Marietta, Ohio,
says that more than half the time of the schools
OF that State outside OF the cities and large towns
is given to arithmetic. "More time" says DR.. j.
i. Peasee. in " Education" els devoted to this
subject than to reading writing. spelling geo.
graphy, and grammar combined; none to literR-
ture and Composition. And what Is true of tho
schools Of Ohio in this respect is true OF those OF
most at least Of the other States. Let the teachers
of these schools cut down the time given to
this subject TO within the bounds of reason; In
troduce composition, letter writing, and business
forms: let them stop working puzzles In mathemat-
les, which are about profitable as the famous
fifteen puzzle and turn their attention to reading
TO improving themselves in literature. TO acquaint-
ing themselves with the lives and writings of great
authors, and let them take the results of that work
into their school-rooms, and they would revolu-
tionize the country schools Of the United States"
The department of arts in the Pennsyl-
vania University and the Towno Scientific School
opened this year with larger classes than ever be-
fore. The sophomores In the Scientific School are
In two diyisions--those who last year elected q
five years course, aud those who then elected q
four years course. The former next year viii DO
ub-junors and the latter juniors. Thencefor-
ward the school will each year have five
classes, two IN which the instruction Is
general and three In which 1t is chiefly
special. The largo fve-years Freshmen
class shows that the trustees acted wisely In
lengthcning tho course The work will now be
light enough for even student OF not robust
health to do safely The Sixth Course IN tho
Towne Scientific School, that OF Studies Prepara-
tory to Medicne," has attracted a number of spe
clal students In addition TO tho regulars" who
are candidates for degree. The Wharton School
OF Finance and Economy has n class Of eight
two regular students Of tho sub Junior year and
sixspecial students.