New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-30
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

has inst been elected Chancellor oil western 0n''i
sity.
The agent of the Peabody Fund has agreed I" give
every wear So 200 toward the maintenance u
Normal College for both sexes in Georgia on con,
dition that the Legislature will appropriate
similar sum-
Tic teachers Of Germany at the reccslt mcet'nga NJ
Carlsruhe declared among other things 'ra' Tue
training of the moral. religious and national rgei-
ings of youth must be regarded as INC lhosV pi'Hu
nent task of the schoolnastcr
Professor Walter Q. Scott, Of Easton. PENN has
been elected President of Ohio State University he
IA graduate of Lafavottc College. Al the same
time Professor w. Y. Lozenby, OF cornell Was
elected Professor of horticulture an" l'o'a'N'
The University of Georgia has 1879 ma'rc"la'eS
Only thirty students pay tuition at present ana the
BOARD of Visitors in their annual report recommend
that all charges should be abolished and tuition oe
male free 10 all the young men IN the stare Mlsn. .
colleQiat educ alton The income OF the university
amounts to about $4,000. 1t is IN excelieht COLI
dition.
A college founded in London for the purpose of
giving special professional training to women IN
tendro 70 no ooyerpcsses or teachers in higher class
schools has been doing good work for the last 'ree
wars II sent twenty-four students to the hist
Teachers Examination he III i'll Cambridge ,lSi !e,l
seventeen OF whom passed successfully oo'" III '.0
theory aud practice OF educatlon'
The Milwaukee School Board has passed resolu-
tiOns prOyllInG tn2t corporal puiiiohhiNh' VI 49,
description shall be resortcd to in the schools only
in extreme cases; ordering that the principal shall
kecn n record of all cases of such puni lment aud
the apparent results thereof upon the training Oh anc
child; and providing also against cruel OF go
sive punishment and for tli' rclhoNal " usHS'"A "
the teachers who may lnnct H.
It's proposel TO establish in Boston vacation
scboy,s for the benefit Of those children who cant
20 into the country and who have no nome COM
forts or pleasures TO keep them OF the streets lhc
idea of the founders is make the schools pleasant
places where the children will be amused ana KEEP,
from harm, being Taught meanwhlle some uSriuI
xh;ngs NOT taught in the public schools. IL IS IN
excellent plan. and one TO be thoughtfnliy Wa'encu
and encouraged.
Cornell University is to have q new department.
one of History Political and Social Science AM" cn-
eral jurisprudence. The department. 1t Is stated
will be opened with full Undergraduate course III
which. Willie literary and scientific studies are
ru,sued for general discipline and culture, lead
ing feature will he instruction and training IN mod
ern history political economy, social science ana
kindred subjects, with especial reference ~ u,o
needs OF Young men intending hereafter TO take mp
the study of the law, or Ia entcrJ0orhaiSu OF P"A'
ical life.
The Hawaiian Kingdom is making marvellous
progress in education. About 200 children NJ
tend school, 500 of this number being natives.
The free elementary schools are taught by natives
I'm the Hawaiian language, instruction being gwen
in reading, writing. geography and mental ahu
written arithmetic. There are fourteen select
schools with an enrolment Of 1900 pupils VINO
are instructed by foreign teachers of experience and
ranacitv The English language Is used. and tuition
Zoo If * IL charged Then there are several private
schools aud others subsidized 10y the CoNcrl hcn''
There is seminary ana c9lirsf pio>IT:", arrsr
ten of which il j. very proud. Teachers salaries III
the Ha waiian schools range from $500 10 S-'VoV
year.
The Boston Tr0relier in mentioning the now system
of college government at Amherst gays that Its sc-
cess has a striking commentary in the recent
troubles at Dartmouth. That institution has
been managed on the principles of monastery Its
rresident took the laws many Of which had grown
obsolete under more enlightened management lhto
his own hands and insisted upon their execution to
the letter The students naturally revoited against
such treatment. The associates OF the president
who had grown up under the influence OF modern
ideas in education. protested against ms course
The result was natural and was fOrcSccn ny many.
Oppresson or restriction W Ill sooner or aier ciid III
revolt Tic college has been injured, Trends nave
hean alienated aud the growth Of the institution
seriously checked simply because one man sought
to vet himself against the current III when the best
educational opinions of The time are tending.
The Spectator says that one great fault-perhaps
the greatest fault-of the present system NJ Oxiord
ia that the examiners instead OF being selected ny
mature scholars familiar with the subjects i'll which
very harhazard process of personal favor and col
legiae interest. Nothing is more important than to
place the examining system in the hands Of those
who ar, deeply vrrsed in the subject and out Of the
hands of those ,lashing young men who have only
inst come into notice and distinction. II there is
one thing more than another in which training,
habit, experience and certain loathng OF superb
cia.y tell wholly the right SIDE 1t is in relation
TO the art Of examination. The statute lately
(fIpNr nISE
fault by transferring the appointment OF EXAMINERS
from the Vice-ChanceilOr and Pr0ctors TO me
Boards Of Faculties. But jeolons COLLEGE OPINION n
was resolved 10 petition the Queen mtCouncll
against the statute.
Miss Agnes Eliot is youug English lady who has
inst secured the prize given by tho Cambridge Syn
dictate to the best senior girl student in England.
Dir Arthur Hobouse in distributing the prizes in the
school wherein Miss Eliot is studying. said that he
rejoced that women forcing their way into
the learned professions One profession at least. the
medical, seemed to him 10 very much want the as"
distance of women. and in other professions they
might DO useful. After referring to the rela-
tiye.positions which men and women occupied in
France. or Belgium, and which to certain extent
existed in England, Sir Arthur said that womcn
were undoubtedly behind at the present
time The cornplacent theory of man was that the
female mind was inferior, but that was not the
ouinion of those best acquainted with the subject
The reason he believed why women We're oehih h
men was that had educated one class and not the
other and we should never make our due nations,
progress until we 81 trained the women OF England
that they might be fitted to walk hand IN hand
with those men who, according to natural gifts and
dispositions, were their equals.
Amherst reports officially that her new system OF
college government which has been on trial during
the past year has been q success 1t is system OF
sclf-govcruincnt by the students Pains and penal