New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


There are $3.50 pupils in the st. Louis kinder
gartens.
Amherst has already enc hundred new studeh''
and expects more.
Young women study architectural ana roileae.
cal drauRhting at Swarthmore, the QuaAei O"e
Williams College has freshman class OF d n''.-
H., ,.rha,. ond o,so some accesslons to the upper
classes.
The late William wheewrght has left $l3S'ooo
to found in Newburyport, Mass y ,s sInoo' AVA -"
struction in practical business h"o"i'"s0
Since Washington and Lee University received IN
17o8 p,ft of $4,000 from Washington its en-
aou,ne,t fund has grown greatly. 1t has over
S431 800 the larger part of this sum coming from
Northern men,
The Art School of Smith College, at Northampton.
is this year to be associated with that at Yale the
teachers and professors of the latter school going
to Northampton every week to give instruction t
The new art building of Smith College Will not oe
completed till next summer.
The school authorities of Portland. Oregon, have
shown uncommon wisdom in demanding experienced
teachers for the lowest grade Of their primary de-
partments and in paying these teachers reasonable
salaries-the same amount gwen lot the Work Vi
the third grade, in the Grammar Schools.
The:department of mechanical engineering in the
Ohio State University is said to be particularly well
equipped and prosperous. Activity in railroad con-
struction and iron working is leading many youag
at this time TO enter upoh the studies pre-
paratory to taking a share Ill these Industries.
The question of admitting colered children to the
public schools of Columbus Ohio. has been vir-
tuay settled in the affirmative. Several of the col
ored pupils have decided to study German. few
white parents have taken their children out of
school because of the ADMISSION OF colored pupils
but general opinion condemns tins proceeding.
The President of Wooster University, Ohio, pro-
tests against the already announced consolidation
of the Cleveland Medical College and the medical
department of his University, which department Is
also situated in Cleveland. The union he says, was
announced without consultation with the trustees
Of the University, and of course, without thef con-
sent
The principal of the Male High School in Louis
vile has scnt sharp letter to the School Board
discussing the results of their abolition OF Greek
and French in the course of his school. He de-
cares that the standard of the school has been
lowered and not ore dollar has been saved, as the
increased number of students pursuing the com
pusory studies of Latin and German make II abso,
1utey necessary to employ the same number OF
teachers as before He thinks that ut least IL or ~
per cent of the pupils will not return to the school
If precluded from the study of Greek and French.
A writer in The Con9regationatSt says There are
certain rules of etiquette in good society," which no
gentleman would dare 20 violate. Why should
there not be such rules III college, which young men
should DO trained to observe, and which they should
be taught feel test of scholarly character, ~
well as of gentlemanly brcedingf 1t culture does
not mean good manners, if it does not teach regard
for the rights and feelings of Others if it does not
enforce self-control if 1T does not make gentlemen
then the less have of il tho better" There is not
little good sense in this; aud there are few col
1eges wherein more than one student VIII not ieeI
the application.
The faculty of the University of Pennsylvania
have been discussing the question of making the
institution available for tho education of young
women. Provost Pepper is reported to have stated
that coeducation cannot be considered as there is
no more class at the present or prospective
command of the University than is needed for the
accommo ation OF the male students 1t would he
interesting to know If the Provost would refuse an
addition of fifty or a hundred Young men to his
freshman class the ground that there not
room for them Philadcphi;nis prOverbally
generous; can they not add to the accommodations
of their University ana take from III the rcroach OF
old-fogyism I"
The London University Honors lists which have
lust been published show that tho young women
who were examined took remarkable place. The
class taking examination for Mathematical HOnOrs
had three members, one being a girl-and the girl
beat both her male competitors. The first in the
English Ilonors list for the preliminary i. A. exami-
nation was young woman. and in the German
Bonors list two of the first class, consisting of only
four also girls The first in the onors list for
Anatomy III the preliminary Bachelor of Medicine
examination was girl. Miss Prideaux, of the Lon
both her Guys Hospital rivals Another girl was
one of three students placed in the first class of the
Chemistry. This paragraph is commended to the
attention of divers American colleges.
Yale opens her autumn term to-day. II is Thought
that the freshman class will not be quite as large
as that admitted last year. About sixty candidates
were examined on Tuesday. The number of appli-
cants for admission to the Scientific School is eighty
five. Mr.. Henry w. Farnam is. to fill the chair of
Political Economy vacated by Professor Walker
professor Dwight thinks that the new class in the
ology will be larger than last years. The Lyman
Beecher lectures will be delivered this term by DR.
Robinson. President of Brown University Itsox-
pected that DIR. Christleib, of Germany will deliver
this course next year, although such engagement
with hin, has not positively been made. Dr. John
Hall, of New York. and DIR. Phillips Brooks of Bos.
ton, will each deliver lectures during the term
Yae's library has lately had q curious addition In
pallets, many of them old and rare, and nearly all
relating to points of law and politics.
That Massachusetts, much vaunted school system
Is still not quite perfect is sometimes conceded by
candid Bostouians. The Journal for example, asks
if the thorougbneSs of the system does not over
weight it and rob it of of it's most desirable
results. There is formidable list of subjects
taught and there is a tendency to lengthen it, Al
ready the grade of Instruction in high schools is
above that which colleges maintained Twenty-Five
years ago, and some forty towns are voluntarily
maintaining such schools. "Thero are no data
continues The Journal Showing what percentage of
pupils end their student life with the schools of the
grammar grade what is taught in these schools:
but that vast numbers enter upon active life with
but scant mental discipline is too well known Too
much time has been Spcut n variety Of studiao
1t seems absurd that it should stiff he neces-
sary to preach the doctrine that a few subjects
thoroughly understood arc of more advantage than
Is smattering of many.
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