New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-10
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The University Of Michigan mas az piesenS !" ~
hal attendance 1.517 students-'nus iar i's 'ais'S'
uumber.
Nor. than az per cent of the classes in the College
40 ;heral Arts OF Boston University last year were
young womon'
tits reported that onefourth of the public schools
,f New. Hampshire have An average attendance u
fewer than seven pupils.
Tb. siberian University at Tomsk is to be finished
,pdopened TO students next Summer. Inc museum
and library are already being organized In neghbor
ing buildings.
The University of Georgia has now IT'S students
large increase since II when it had but 30. Inc
institution is thoroughly we'll equipped and IS III
prosperous condition..
The Sheffield Scientific School has nearly 200 stu
ds,ts and ia in an excellent condition. Its Their
mometric bureau intends hereafter to verify ther-
mometers for all who may wish such WORK uohc'
The compulsory education bill. which the Indiana
Legislature is now discussing names as the required
branches in the public schools photography readinP
vritjnr geography, arithmetic, algebra, Uhited
States history and grammar
President Chadbourne of Williams College IN IBIS
recent address before the Boston Alumni sara 'ha'
more attention should bo paid In the college course
10 the business affairs of life-more OF practicanty
should be interviewer III the instruction auo ZIG "a
the college,
The plan of supplementing tho ordinary work of
the schools by supplying extra reading matter. and
by directing the reading of pupils. and aiding them
in selecting good books, is said TO be working at
Worcester, Mass, as well as In other places WIFI
excellent results.
Bills providing for the unfcation OF the township
system under one management, and Tor county
Superintendent to be of the three members OF a
Comfy Board of Examiners. and TO be appointed py
nty RnQr
the Ohio Legislature.
virginia has 4, S54 public schools, of which 200
are graded. In these schools 22O,736 pupils are
instructed by 1878 teachers. The total expendI-
lures for 1880 were S946 l09-the support from
The State being 1867, 100 There 1,256 col
Ored schools in which u.s. 600 pupils are taught by
7s5 colOred teachers.
Britain may rule the waves but she is lamentabiy
behind the United States. Germany. France and
Holland in secondary education. There are endowed
GRAMMAR schools in many towns and sometimes a
Corporation establishes High SchOol-but there is
no systematic scheme whatever Tor the secondary
education of the middle class.
Glrton, the Womans College at Cambridge, Eng
land is more used by the clergy for the education OF
their daughters than by any other class. Conserva
tive as they are. the English clergy believe In CIV
ing girl as much education as she has brains to
take; and they do not seem to limit her nentai ca
pacity to any small measure Of individual or popular
opinion.
The Missouri Legislature is considering the ques-
ton of giving to the public schools Onthrd Of the
sum raised by taxation for revenue purposes
Hitherto only one-fourth has been given to the
schools. While the entire taxable property OF the
State including railroads. is given by the Auditor as
1865 g. 0OO.ue expresses the opinion mat the pro
perry really subject to taxation Is worth $l,OOU,-
100000 on a reasonable valuation.
During the eight years in which the st. Peters
burg School of Medicine has been open to women,
700 students matricuated. The course Of study oc-
copies five years. so that only the first three classes
have had graduates. These number III. During
1879 % per cent abandoned their studies, this
largo percentage being due to the fact that the ma
lority of the students while studying have 10 earn
their living Ivy literary work, teaching. etc.
lu Wisconsin. as in every other State too many
pupils are assigned to single teacher. Supern-
tendent Shaw of Madison says that in some parts OF
the State rs to 100 pupils-and oven more-may be
found in charge of one teacher. Even In Madison
one teacher has over seventy pupils and three others
over sixty. Naturally no man or woman Can do
Justice to such number of restless young spirits
There Will be Seml-mtary system OF obedience
and mechanical recitation but how much keen and
Intelligent comprehension OF the branches taught'
1t is complained in Buffalo that the public schools
are entirely under political control and it is re-
lated that one city Superintendent was so besleged
by influential politicians for their friends that he had
persons Oh the city psy-rolls 1t ought to be unne
,essary to point out to practical Americans the
monstrOus stupidity, the dangerous folly OF giving
over their schools to be the playthings Oh selfish
POLITICAL traders but the records OF many city
,how that if the people the evil they care little
about it.
The movement for making at least an alternative
vet of acquisitions for admission TO the principal COL
legos of the country has been prospecting, and nearly
all the ten New England colleges concerned have
either already modified their entrance requistious
or will do SO in time for tie circulars OF the present
year. Boston University has determined to adopt
as an alternative set for the coming year those
requsitiOns agreed upon by the conferences OF eX-
aininers in Greek. Latin and mathematics. Last
year. for tho first tine, the whole Work o1 tue thlrd
term of the senior year at this University made
elective.
The Case School of Applied Sciences, at Ceve-
| nd will be oyened to the public on April 6 for
special or preparatory term OF twelve weeks. The
regular course will begin in September. The trus-
tees intend to experiment upon The best method of
conducting the school before committing themselves
20 any particular one. Thevpropo during the first
years of the school TO give special prominence to
those branches of science Immediately connected
with development of the natural Resources OF the
country. The fee for the preliminary course VIII be
500; for the full course it Is thought $1OO VIII be
asked. French and German. astronomy, drawing
and mathematics will DC taught during the spring
term.
Among the practical ideas of Mr.. c. +, Adams jr.,
10; one is more acute than that which connects the
university and the common schools. The bane of
the common school system. he declares, Is the trad-
ton that the chief useful purpose of the masters
desk in a common school was to afford a poor sub
sistence to those of their graduates who strug
Cling forward to future eminence at the bar or in
the ministry. lit singles out" adds Mr.. Adams,
"teachng in it as an unworthy thing-as mere
Calling which can lay no claim to being an honora-
bile profession m n less m elevating science. Any
,nrentice hand is equal TO il. And holding this ira
dition in regard TO elementary teaching the univer-
hn,r tai Lodi IN drnv the line between the