New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

One year has been added TO the Worcester High
Gchoo, course the reason for this action heing the
Increased requirements for admission TO coiIeee'
TIE Trustees of the Louisiana state University
are discussing the question of admitting young
women TO that Institution. The press OF the state
is strongly in favor of the nnovatloh
school of gardening and practical Horticulture Is
20 be opened at the Crystal Palace near London iof
the benefit of students Of landscape gardening and
gentlemen likely to be the owners, the conserVatOrs
or managers of great estates.
Professor W. r. Harris, lately superintendent OF
the ST. Louis schools, is mentioned as the probable
Chancellor of the Texas State University. An en-
dowment fund of 800 is now in the State
Treasury and this will BE- increased, ~ i tnous 10
81 .OOO, 600 Professor Harriss salary VIII "
$1,000.
The new Manual Training School in 81 LOUIS
nro,oses to be very successful II has servlc'aoe
hr;Id;,, an income of 81 600 guaranteed for five
wears and SO 900 was raised by the purchase OF
neccssarv appliances The school now has about 80
nnniIs-inany of them belonging to prominent -.
Louis families. tuition Zee vi 9%4O Is eh'heeu loi
the course.
The compulsory school law in Connecticut works
we'll The school population of the state last year
was 14O23J; all with the exception of 1890 at
tended school. Hartford and Nes-lIaven have eii-
ciept truant officers who manage their work adnl-
raLlv The Connecticut schools cost last year
81 4ips.3 ~; the funds furnished amounted 10
81 4Sl $50 %. The average salary oi maze leaVA
ers was $50 -; of female teachers, 80 a.
The GLASGOW Herald saws that perhaps the lonest-
est and best advice the male friends of the culture
of w,man can give is that each woman should Work
rs well as she NAV To diiiuse knowledge among her
sisters of all classes and set before herself IN the
first instance not the perlo honorS ot PLATFORM or
professorial chair of polilcS or law, Dut the a'P
sitiou of that solid and eniightning Nsioin VIM,
- CpSlupratuin
woman in a civilized state
The system of school management in Philadelphia
il peculiarly complicated. The BOard OF Education
uses advisory powers in the management OF Inc
schools and supervises expenses; but each oil the
tbirty-two districts of the city has local committee
elected each gear and exercising direct c9ntto DE-
Each of these committees is wholly lhdepehGeh OF
the others The only general test ~ theSe con.
systems is the examnation which the gla0u"'e'
pass through for the h Oh school.
The decision of the new Victoria University AT
Manchester, England, to grant degrees in certain
cases without requiring any acquaintance Win
Latin or Greek has naturally aroused much Discus
sion and disgust in conservative Great Britain. Gu
riously enough the poSSes>ors of academica houorS
were in favor of the change, while those who might
have been expected to entertain disregard TOT
ancient educational superStitons were the yer! MN
who wished to retain them. The degree 10 I've gwen
will not be Bachelor of Arts, but BdcheIor Oh
Science.
A half-time system for little children which has
much 10 recommend it has been pracised successfully
during the past six months in the schools OF GaitC
nda The little creatures spend only an hour ana "a
half in the morning and the same time in the after
noon in actual school work under the regular teach
ers The rest of the time they are left 10 " moni-
tori whose business it j. TO keep them amused. and
also under proper disc"ne. For entire success this
system demands clever monitor, who can sing, tel,
stories. give kindergarten instruction and in every
possible way train III" chldrcns powers Of Ohscrya
ton Swinging and cas,hencs are part of the
anusements. The whole of the pupils assemble to-
gcthcr for opening exercises and rocal. In other
schools. after which onc-half of those in the first
and second books. numbering here over lo0 are
handed over 20 the monitor To remain with him tlll
the time for the forenoon recess, the other 100
pupils being left meantime at regular work under
the ordinary teachers. After recess the relays are
chang d. those who were formerly at play going 20
work Till noon and vice versa The same programme
is carried ont during the afternoon, each pupil be-
ing thus kept at work for three hours and allowed
t. "play" for the other thr'e. The little ones W no
formerly detestcd school now like II very much.
their health is endangered and their progress III
study is a. rapid under the old system.