New-York tribune., 1881-03-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

- NOI CO O1N III ~
The :nb,ect Of the Senior prize essay at Brown
University is 1.-THE Character OF craSnus'
VERY ,aree percentage of the children In NIL
~orkea 10 not attend school, and the Superinten'
dent calls for authority to compel them.
Itu reported that all of the many ladies' VINO
Uere candidates for the Office of School Director ~
the Iowa elections last week were oeieateo
The largest class ever graduated by the University
of California numbered fty-four and ineindea 1h es"'
lades. The first lady was grauuateo III 81
Ain, h.. hsen ;n,roduccd in the Massachusetts
feo.lature rccoustructng the Board of Trustees OF
The Agricultural College at Apherst aud provlding
that the alumni shall have share IN the govern
ment.
Tho school fund of Indiana amounts 10
S0O65,254 73. Professor James H. Smart. VINO
has lust retired from the post OF State Superhten
dent-which he has held for six years-Ieports Una.
teen years immense advances.
The Louisiana schools are now receiving interest
npon the school fund TO the amount OF $3O3ZO ano
are soon to have an apportionment OF @oo' 'oo
Schools are increasing in number and ehciency n'a
q stronger sentiment in favor OF pubhc educa'on %
evident throughout the State'
srner;ntendent Sewer. of Boston. says that the
practice of reading trashy sensational novels 10
much more grave and rapidly spreading evil than 10
generally supposed. The pupils OF the pubhc
schools draw from the Public Library a literature
that wastes their time ana lDJures tuoit non.. r
tone. 1t is proposed that the trustees o. .te ~ iI
shall take some action toward remedylng tue eVii'
Alarpe meeting of citizens has lately been held in
Detroit to take measures for securing non partisan
school board composed of honest and intelligent per-
sons. A committee OF twenty-six-half Democrats
md half Republicaus-was appointed, with lnstruc-
t;ons IN select a good ticket The committee IN
cludes many we'll known men. ana an are VI ;ta
character and standing Inc people OF 9.nel o oiSva
Cincinnati for instance-mlght well take leSson
from Detroit
The recent vote at Cambridge University upon
the further extension of its advantages to women
brought into the Senate large number OF perSo's
whom no whip, however pressing could Drlhe 10
Cambridge on any ordinary occasion. The houses
of Parliament the bar and the schools were well rep
resented there men were of literature and men OF
Science, loungers from the London clubs ana men OF
business from Yorkshire. This remarkable Congre
CATION The AthenGum thinks, is surely PROOF tuaC
the educational movement which began WIN ecs Nv
admission of girls to the local examinationS III Aoo'
is no transient agitation.
The new statutes of Cambridge provide that in all
but very few cases. clergy and aty are at astto be
placed on an equal footing in regard to the tenure OF
emoluments The rule of celibacy has disappeared
The prize tenure of a fellowship in nearly all the
colleges of the university is six years with olVi-
dend of ST. 25O. A Fellow who holds his fellowship
after the expiration Of the prize tenure, whctner IN
yirture of q second election or as the occupant OF
some qualifying office, becomes In general entited
after term of yearsn some cases twenty 10 otne.s
twenty-ive), to retain his fellowship ior Iue or "
receive pension instead OF IT,
In Philadelphia a lady principal in ono OF the
grammar schools is undergoing examination upon
The charge of having vifed the religious faith OF
rome of her pupils. And in the same CITY
pne of the male teachers in the High
School IS publicly accused by clergyman
Of insidiousy sowing the seeds of infdelity In the
schools. Tile Boston advertiser says with reason
that it ought to be well understood by teachers that
there is wide undsputed ground upon which they
NAV safely base their instructions to the Young
upon morals, and even upon religion, without treau
ing at all upon ground where controversy .I mus.
surely arise. Our public schools are not designed
for the giving of instruction upon mooted theolog-
cal points, nor for attacks upon views which
teacher may deem erroneous
1t has been formally determined that the Western
Reserve College shall be removed to Cleveland, the
trustees having accepted Mr. Amasa stones offer OF
$500, 900 and the subscription list by the citizens
of Cleveland of $11 400 beautiful plot OF forty
acres on Eucld-avc. has selected the site Of
the University The Case School of Applied Science
which has an endowment of 81 $50 900. is to be q
part of the institutions and this with Mr. Stones
$500 900 and the Western Reserve College cndow-
ment fund of 5000 000 will give the new University
an aggregate of So, ,OOO, 900. The college and the
Case School, though really united. will be practi-
cally 1ucted as two schools each having its own
trustees and rules: both. however, Will be under
the control of a Board OF Regents. They will use
the same library. apparatus and lecture halls
The Buffalo Courier considers Superintendent Gill
mours Normal School bill mischievous one 1T
is not just" it says. Ito strip the boards OF all real
power aud to make these teachers dependent on the
goodwill of the superutendent. For 1t comes to
Just that. If tho local boards can have nothing to
say as to courses of study or teachers, what are
for hat linda hut tn
the will of a superintendent IL the teachers de-
pend on this officer exclusively for their appoint
ments and for continuance in their places they
must shape their course to please this man aud
avoid the displeasure Of that man they must be
which an educated person can be put, this is the
most odious, Tho sentiment of the State is enl-
phatically against Mr.. Gilmours tlil, and 1t would
be wise III him to press IL. The people are
jealous-and rightly so-of any attempt to put a
power Of autocratic rule into the hands of anybody