New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-12-08
NOTES ON ED UCATlON.

The Toledo Board of Education has aooii'n0u '"'
forenoon recess in the public SCHOOLS
English analysis has been dropped from 'no Is
cho, ooprse in St Louis. and physiology, ahaVoinS
and hvgiene recommended as substitutes
rhose who have sent to this department inquiries
q, reoard TO the new Italian journal 1or grs' can
Obtain the same by addressing the "Cordeila %
Via San Gallo Florence"
u.rc,ond has 1919 public schools attended by
,11sOl pupils There are 2.5Oi teachers: ana the
total expenditures for the schools during the past
wear were S922,659-an increase over the previous
wear OF Sl2,ZSl.
Amherst has now 341 students. the freshman
class numbering ninety-six members. Sanskrit is
offered as q senior elective for the second and
third terms of the year. The instructor Is Mr.
Elwell formerly pupil OF professor W. ~
Whitney.
The free evening drawing school in Worcester.
Mass has inst entered upon its twelfth year. The
instruction is designed for those persons VINO are
bevond school age and who want the rudiments OF
drawing as aids to mechanical work; Inc scnooi'
which is very successful, has los pupils
A class of girls about ten years of age in boston
school have been required to make and write out
COMPARISONS between the writings OF Longiehow
and Whittier The Buffalo Express says that THIS
cannot be laughed at in its city because IL mas
known n primary class in German set to write
history of Aryan civilization from its dawn on the
stenpes of Asia in nobody knows how remote an
antiquity, to the permanent se'temehGE Oh 'no i'o
tonic tribes on the shores OF the North sea-
The report that the senior class at Amherst had
comnlained of overwork, and had requested
change in the curriculum. is contradcted by one OF
the fecpltv who saws that it is well known among
graduates that the senior year is the easiest OF INC
four and is so arranged as regards the required
stndiss thar the students in that year may nave
more time for special work ana genera cui.ui orc
Nearly all the studies OF luhiodI anu vide range in
his selection, and enabling MN 10 consuiV oo'n H''
taste and his capacity for work.
In both France and England the study of Greek
and Latin inscriptions has been taken up as part
of classical education. The French are IN advance
for they are taking measures for working into the
regular school course visits of inspection TO the IN
scrptions preserved in the museums OF Paris ana
other cities. A distinguished scholar NJ; Egge di
has proposed that the examples OF graLnmaticia,
rules in elementary Greek and Latln DOORS snpulI
be taken to some extent from inscriptions, when
furnish abundant models OF tie language Vi tho
best periods in simple and ldlonatlc lor.ns
Sir Theodore Martin, in his speech of installation
no Lord Rector of st. Andrews. made plea IN
behalf of classical training on the ground that the
tone of thought in TIE best Greek and Roman
writers Is essentially noble and manly framed
mon such standards" lie said, "the mind Is less
likely 10 be attracted by what is false or feeble
unwholesome sickly or sentimental, OF when tneIe
is enough and TO spare IN modern nIeraS1Ie Ju5'
mems of the best art, ancient or modern we lnsen
sibly imbbe such knowledge OF pure form, OF
elevated expression of what is essentially true 10
notnre that the eve turns aside with indifference
from bad drawing, yapd sentiment or mereIricious
color"
Some of the most eminent of the academical
teachers of medicine in Russia have given delID-
crate preference in choosing assistants to certain
ladies who have given proof of genuine Seientihc
attainments both in practice and literature. Dur
ing the last few years the numbers of female isu-
dents of the medical faculty have risen to 400 The
reactionary party believes, feigns to believe that
the education of a woman a physician is almost
one and the same thing as converting her into a
Nihilist, and il is now pressing tor OoVerhmeht
interference with the admission OF women to me
medical course The new War Minister has ad-
yised (which possibly means communicating
professors to dismiss all their female assistants ahd
to employ men; and in the military hospitals
orders are given to exclude women students.
Tn regard to the education of girls in the South
The atlanta Consultation complains that the methods
now in use are the same that were in fashion fifty
wears ago. and that were invented in behalf OF
young ladies with completeness. The system Is
incomplete and far from practical, providing some
ACCOMPLISHMENTS but training for the business OF
life The Constitution says iva fail to perceive
wherein the education and training of our boys are
one whit important tndn lne JIdluiuB anu
education of our girls and yet the State has made
distinction that is almost brutal in its suggestions
For wears and years university for the higher
education of young has been endowed ana
carefully nursed by the Legislature, but not the
slightest effort has been made 10 proVloe LOT tne
higher education of young women, ana III is 10 DE
presumed that any suggestion in that direction
gould attract the scOrn of our statesmen and law
makers In the face of the fact that our orators
our poets and editors claim that appreciation OF
women attains its highest development IN the EN-
pire State of the sweet sunny Southland. THIS con
ditiOn of things is a little curious"
sonth Carolina now has 3,O57 schools with 3,2 Is
teachers and 133,45S pupils. OF these pupils
72,1l9 are colored; of the teachers 1,223 are col
ored. As compared with the previous year
1s79?SO there an increase of eighty-four IN the
schools and of seventy-eight il the number OF
teachers. The average length of the last session
was three and twothirds months and the schoo
expenditure was $685. $40. The school fund
amounts to $4,000. The net proceeds of the.pol
tax. which is used exclusively for educational pur
poses. was last year $114.G07 against $S46O2 IL
1876 The average monthly wages paid to male
teachers are 500 45 ; to female teachers $2l As
The consolidated report of the male and female col
leCes of the State shows an attendance OF ISL,
students Clahn University for cOlored students
hos had the largest number-390. The Higl
Schools and academies report an attendance, o.
S3S pupils The State superintendent says Una
the prejudice against free public SCHOOLS Is ulmns
ing, that educational questions are now acuEe1SS
discnssed in the South Carolina newspapers ant
thar two institutes-One for white and one Tor col
ored teachers-were successfully held in the pas
wear The Normal department of Clatin University
has contributed some excellent coiored teachers u