New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-11-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NOTES ON EDUCATION.
Williams College now has 253 Undergraduate
being freshmen ,;o
OF Yale's 612 undergraduates in tne A'"''
Denartment only 100 are Connecticut nen
The ob;o State University is fourishing' ino
hor os ornliaants for admission this year ""'
larger than in any previous ye"''
Rhode Island small as she Is mas very us
school income in proportion to her popuia ' NJ
larger apparently than any other State except Mas
sachusetts -,
Chicago. Milwaukee, Baltimore and Mnheapo,iS
are about 10 make inquiry as to Inc enect Vi u,o
nublie.schocl training the health of pupils mo
rnestion was reorened in Cleveland the other day
nv n member of the School Board, ana speclai
committee is new cOnsiueringH'
The South Carolina College Of Agriculture and
Mechanics at Columbia has now, in its second year.
only fiftynne students, thrty-oGe OF whom are stu
dents of last year Twenty did net return RIA after ndr t
cation, President Miles attubutlng TINS paIu9
TO the poverty OF the people.
Plans for the addition of normal department and
model school to the Albany High School are TO pe
made immediately The School Board OF that city
has adoptcd the report providing for the use OF q
iuyenie paper or magazine i'll the primary readlng
classes and the meru0rzing of short quotations lor
all classes IL has also extended the Language
lessons through the seventh year.
sneaker at a Pennsylvania institute last week
said that i'm Burlington, Vermont there is no home
study; all the work is done in school under care
ful system. He had known an instance, he addec,
where a School Board had positively torpidoen
study at homc-truly unusual piece OF wisdom
In such body. The same speaker deprecated the
maintenance of the old-fashloned custom OF morn
ing and afternoon recess. on the ground that the
children learned more profanity ana Dad MANNERS
during that time than in all the rest of the day.
The sum allotted for the support Of the Phila-
dephia schools in 1889 is 81, 5346S5 O4. his IS
10000 less than the estimate given to the Con-
toler An endeavor to reduce the amount aP
propriated to the salaries of the teachers was met
by the statement that in the Philadelphia schools
faithful teachers employcd for dozen years are
maid less than 81 10 a week. Beginners receive OnIy
S6 week Thoroughly good teaching IS one OF me
hardest, most eXhaustiug tasks known 10 tIIs
world: the Phiadr lphia teachers ought not to be
blamed if this miserable pttance does not INSPIRE
them TO their BEST
The revenues Of the San Francisco School Depart
ment are not quite equal to its expenditures Inc
CoH suggests a novel settlement of the difficulty
- that all salaries be reduced to the level of those
in the primary department. The good work and the
hard work of the Department it declares, is done in
the primary grades; the work OF moulding uniformed
minds is the most important that is done in the
Department and really requires the highest orCer OF
teaching ability. 1t is pleasant to see how genera
is becoming the proclamation OF tulS lTutIl' j ~
sooner it is accepted everywhere the better for the
coming generations
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 "Morc time" says DR.. j. b. Peaslee in
Education" sis devoted to this one subject than to
reading writing, spelling geography and grammar
combined; none to literature and composition
And what is true of the schools of Ohio in this re-
Df Of Mt a
the other States Let the teachers of
these schools cut down the time given to
this subject to within the bounds of reason;
introduce composition letter-wrltipg and business
FORMS lei them stop working puzzles In mathema-
tics which are about as profitable the famous iif
teen puzzle and turn their attention 10 readihg 10
improving themselves i'll literature. 10 acqnantlng
themselves with the lives and writings OF great au-
tbors: and let them take the results Of that work
into their school-roOns and they would revolution
izc the country schools OF the United States"
The Department of Arts in the Pennsylvania
University and the TOwne Scientific School opened
this year with larger classes than ever before. The
Sophomores in the Scientific School are in two d.
yisions-those who last year elected five years
course aud those who then elected four years
course. The former next year will be suo-Jumors,
and the latter Juniors. Thenceforward the school
will each year Lave five classes two in which the
instruction is general, and three In which
il is chiefly special The large five years Freshmen
class shows that tho trustees acted wisely Ia length
ering the course. The work will now be light
enough for even student Of not robust health to
do safely. The sixth Course in the Iowne SCI
Medicine" has attracted number OF special
students, in addition to the regulars who are
candidates for degree. The Wharton School OF
Finance and Economy has a class of eight-two
regular students of the sub-uniOr year and SIX
special students.