New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-25
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Omaha spends about 100000 q year in instruct
ang her 5000 school children.
Louisiana has school population of 29O,O36.
VI this number l39,657 are colCred.
The Nebraska State Normal Sc hOol is prosperous
institution which had at last accounts 2|o pupiiS'
The English Educational Department is officially
examining industrial schools on the Continent, ana
will pr pare an elaborate report on the supjeee'
The Elmra Board of Education is considering
proposition 10 establish school savings banks III
connection with each of the district schools OF the
city.
The Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge
fs offering .pecial technical instruction to young
men preparing for the life of planter or plantation
mechanic
+. f. venable. Professor of Chemistry in the
University OF North Carolina, has just taken the
degree Of Phi. ID. at Gottngen and has been elected
Fellow of the British Chemical Society
Several young women were candidates for the
diploma of Bacheliere Sciences at the recent ex-
aminations at the Sorbonne: of them passed.
In the faculty OF letters two girls examined
and both passed
The South Carolina State Normal Institute has
been holding successful session with over go
members attending. similar Institute has Just
closed ITS session in Tennessee and Alabama ex-
poets to have one next year.
Major Spcer, of the Soldiers Orphans Institute of
Philadelphia. wishes TO try the experiment of mill
tary dill the pupils of the public schools. He
hopes to introduce it in the grammar schools of
North Philadelphia next winter.
The introduction of the new branch-mechanical
engiueering-at Michigan University has made
necessary Encouragement of the engineering de-
partment. The increase in the teaching force and
facilities fer instruction will enable the university
to oter several new courses of instruction.
The experiment in teaching industrial and deco
rative art the Philadelphia public schools is re-
ported to be a thoroughly successful Metal
work. painting, wocd-carving hammered brass
decorations. needlework etc, have been taught IN
connection with the regular work OF the schools,
and the pupils have shown interest, perseverance
and aptitude.
Mr. Matthew Arnold says that in the matter of
middle class education ireland and England are
about on par. and that the middle class in Eng-
land and Ireland is the worst schooled middle class
in Western Europe. The secondary schools of Ire
land are grimy and disgusting" badly managed
and nsuicienty provided. Nor is there any general
organization of existing educational scat
tered over the country is the case in Scotland.
Everywhere; Mr.. Arnold says, the boys are added
and answer by accident"
During the next term in the Cincinnati public
schools technical grammar will be abolished from
all the grades to the Fourth Reader and element
AIRY lessons in English for and school use will
be substituted. Superintendent Peaslee says that
he believes the time which has been devoted to
grammar IN the first five years of school has been
practically wasted One hour week is to be
given 10 ulcIaJuTe Ill IHe Schools ana n system OF
letter-writng will he introduced in the two higher
grades OF the intermediate department..
The increase of students at the Prussian univer-
sites during the past year has been larger in the
theological faculty than in any other. While the
philosophical and iuristic faculties have only in
creased the number of their students per cent and
the medical faculty Is per cant, the evangelical
theological faculty has increased during the same
interval no less than 81 per cent. For several
Years the universities in Prussia havo round 1t inn
possible to meet the demand for parochlal clergy
account of the unwillinguess of the ocadeInicai
youth To study theology. IL is evident that there
has been very noticeable reaction in this respect.
The Bishop of Exeter England, in a recent
address, said that when he was boy lie was struck
with the fact that he found it far easier to read
mathematics In French than in English, although
but poor French scholar. When he read a mathc-
NAUTICAL book in French he ended with clearer
neater and more precise knowledge of the subject
he had been studying than If he had teen working
at the same thing IN English. = | remember" CON
tinued the Bishop, " how when | came to read
French rather moro widely | struck again and
again with observing how that curious felicity
which is Que of the characteristics of Latin was
reproduced i'll the French language, how the lam
guage seemed at all times to lend itself TO precision
accuracy and lucio'lty of thought. impossible was
IL Tor any man who thought of this feel that
even II 1T is granted that Latin is superior to the
French for the purpose yet French would carry
man u long way: and if you are not thinking
merely OF tho acquisition of a language ioI use
Tor the actual purposes of life afterward but of
the effect OF the study upon the mind OF its effect
IN training the intellect TO precision of expression
1T Is impossible not to feel that such "A Language as
this must DO very much the same SORT of work that
Latin had done properly cultivated. under the old
style OF education"
The new course of architecture in the Columbia
College School of Mines will be opened to students
on October 3, the examinations to be held Septen,-
Der 30. The courses for the third and fourth wears
have not yet been definitely arranged. The School
OF Mines from and after the beginning of $50 will
examine candidates the following additional
requirements |. The general principles of En- lish
Grammar and on the elements OF Compostion and
Rhetoric, equivalent to the amount contained in
Quackenooss Treatise. 2. History, equivalent TO
treeman's History of England and Patterns
History of the United States 8. Physical Geog-
raphv, equivalent to Guyots Treatise. A. Free
Hand Drawing equivalent to amount now required
in the first year. .. An increase in the amount of
Algebra, SO as to include ten chapters of Pceks
Manual instead of five. 6. An increase in the
amount of Geometry, to include six books of
Leeendre instead of five. From and after the be-
ginning oil the year 1858 candidates for admission
TO the first class will, III addition to the re0tIre-
ments above speciiied, be examined on A: T. PHYSICS
equivalent to GanOtS smaller Treatise. 4 On the
general prlncipies OF French Grammar. including an
abIiity to read MCntmahou's Cours d Historic
Nhtureile or ITS equivalent. 8. On The general
principles of the German Grammar includinp an
equivalent.