New-York tribune., 1881-08-11
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Boston University has just received gift OF
$40 600 for her scholarship fund.
An endeavor TO abolish the German language III
louisville high schools has just failed
AT Greenocl. Scotland. the School Board has Just
provided series OF eight swimming lessons lol tue
school chidren-tor girls as wei as Ooy''
Professor w II. Martin, of Davidson College
North Carolina. has accepted the professorship of
Natural History in the University of North Caro-
lima.
In the urinary schools of Lancaster, Penn, writ
ing has been introduced in the first and SECOND
divisions, geography is used as reading DOOR, ana
oral instruction rs gwen
There were originally sixty-one lady candidates
for the recent Oxford local examinations. Thirty
nine passed and five withdrew, the remaining seven
teen having failed 20 satisfy the examiners.
The study of American classics, or model selec-
tions from favorite American authors both in prose
and poetry was introduced as n half-timc study
during the last term in the Milwaukee High School,
and was pursued with enthusiasm and success.
The Prussian universities conferred last year 56G
doctors degrees, twenty-ninc of these being hon
orary. There were - 30 students in the eleven
Prussau universities last year. Philosophy claimed
the largest number The total number of teachers
was 94S.
In the Syrian Protestant College at Beirut, in
structon is gwen in French. Latin, Arabic, mathe
matcs the sciences, etc. The LANGUAGE of the in
sttution is English. The preparatory department.
the college aud medical school are provided with
spacious buildings. There are 121 students in the
institution.
Southern parents it is complained, teaching
their to be masters of almost everything except
mechanics Young men in the South scarty
Gvelhoods in over crowded professions while North
and Europeans step in to conduct with great
profit to themselves the mills, fOUndrcs and man
ufact0ries Of the South. The NeiC orleans Pjc0yNae
appeals Southern men to send their to schools
which furnish industrial instruction.
1t is officially stated that the preparatory schools
in this country teach chemistry and physics to the
same extent as the colleges, and in essentially the
same way. There is accordingly duplication of
studies which simply wastes time. A discussion as
to the feasibility of teaching such branches III pri
mary schools has called out from NewNOrk teacher
relation of instance of hoys of nine years who
at the end of a fortnight were making their own
hydrogen and oxygen and performing simple expert
ments
There are Ill 3S7 ilhterato persons in Maryland.
OF this number 90172 are colored. The State has
1920 elementary schools and 800 schools for col
ored children these schools are conducted by . 600
white teachers aud $50 colOred ones. The average
salary paid is $31 80, and the average number of
months during which the teachers are employed Is
IL. In the past year l22GO2 white pupils and
26533 colored ones in attendance. The total
receipts from all sources were 81 379,59O 7G, and
the expenditures were 81, ,2S4 ,416 80.
President J. H. Seclye says in The ConGregaiOnaliSt
in regard to the new system of self-govemment at
Amherst that it is the unanimous conviction of the
Faculty that they have never known year where
so much honest work has been done in the college,
and with such healthy results, as in the year now
closed The attendance upon college exercises has
surprised them all. The requirements of the COLLEGE
are not in the least abated. Exact rules are still
applied; but when these broken, the Oiiende"
instead of being sent away, has simply taken hln-
self away. He was only received upon his agree
ment to maintain certain course, and failing in
this he has separated himself from the college and
may pursue his own way. The college follows him
M say Sucha rs IL cl GO
may impose, and he may go to any other college
which may choose TO receive him. without hindrance
from Amherst
The annual report just issued. of the Society for
the Encouragement of Studies at Home shows that
960 students instructed during the past eight
months. Hereafter, the report says beginners vii
not be allowed to take two more courses at once
though after some experience of the methods any
student may, if her correspondent approves, ado
another to her first study OF the 426 students pre-
viousy recorded, 205 took their second years work
1O9 their third; ~ a fourth % fifth 16 a sixth
and "a seventh Now and then an enthusiastic
pupil writes that she hopes to study with the society
all her life. Thirty-siX of the former pupils
among the instructors. This year 134 professional
teachers enrolled students III the society
There were 9,349 letters written to students anC
S,453 letters received from them. The lending
library III Boston has increased to l,00J volumes
No student has thus far failed to return a book
later, unless she purchased it from the 40
ciety. The work done in science is interesting ant
progressive. The teaching grows more and NOR
specialized and objective; there Is a constant in
crease i'll the number of those who desire TO follOl
special lines of study, and are willing to do rea
work. In the third section the unexpected result
reached that the study of mathematics, originall
be separately attractive. One hundred and thirty
three students entered the science department, an
So persev vercd.