New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-13
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

II is proposed to establish business schoo' ." W.
nection with the University OF Denver
During the past year the University O. for"oners.
had 26s students. 1913 of whom we're ioreehei'
OF. L.. o,oood Ito autumn session with
natter attendance than at any time since tho wal
Harvard Library has received since 1871 eiiVS
o,n,;no 20 Sl34435 80. The total increase III
library funds in that time has been @io''i0i or
Com. of the Colorado public schools are much
oy.rcrowded. the teacher having an average, a'
tendance of over sixty pupils TO manage uhauou
The trustees of the Peabody Education fund
have during the past year applied most OF .he i'e
come to normal instruction Texas has received the
largest amouut-$lOS0O.
There are not enough trained kindergarten
teachers ia the country to supply the demand INC
first summer session Of the American kndergaI'en
Normal School, which has just closed, is s"u W
have been success.
The Russian Government intends to send three
persons abroad for period of two or three years
in order 70 study special branches of Agriculture
and cognate matters. Ihey are 10 ue suo'0d
employed as teachers OF rural ecohoiny'
Tho New.York State Board of Health has just
;ssped IN teachers a judicous circular asking ior
do,oilad information in regard to the sanitary az
ranoements of the school houses and the eiects Oh
study and school discipline and management oh 'ho
pupils.
The teaching of drawing has been a failure IN Tue
Philadelphia schools, and this is in part attriouteu
IN the fact that the burden OF instruction tails upon
the teachers who are already overworked ana WHO
in order to teach drawing must lnsI learn W VIA"
themselves.
The University of Vienna has 3'4o7 students
exclusive of 504 unattached studt is. lhe law
department has the largest numbe -l,1S0-whio
there are 800 in the faculty of Pm pny suo
and letters). There are thrty-nve erioan ''u
dents in the university
oor1h oe
linton providing that in case OF the marriage u
female teachers It shall be left to the local commit
Zoo ybetber or not to request the resignation OF the
Teacher and il refused the committee may dsA 'iio
hoard TO give the usual hrty days nolice'
The proposed revision of the Education Code IN
England provides that when the average Attendance
in o school exceeds 800, the minimum stan Oh IN
trnction shall consist of four adult teachers ana
Fires pnplI teachers English history must 9e tHe
snhieet of one of the three sets of reading DOORS III
use III all standards above the secohu.
It is reported that the Presbyterian Orphanage IN
West Philadelphia is about to adopt the Ehsnsh
plan of village homes" tor poor children ohuer
this system boys and girls are taught not only IN
telectual branches but the practical duties OF the
,vnrtshon garden and household the care they
receive being that of home rather than OF great
institution.
The Harvard Faculty disagree with the Corpora
ton in its opinion that the percentage OF coliese
students who are either unable to continue thehr
stndes with their classes or fail finally TO De reco
mended for degree. is gradually increasing. Inc
Faculty believes upon examination the anLu a r,
centage of loss to be remarkably uniform during
the last decade.
Tn 1890 there were in Great Britain only nine art
schools with 500 Students now there are l'4oo
schools with nearly 5000 students, and nearly
81 600 students have received the Dement'S OF the
classes. Last year there were 10000 examples Oh
,Ha ra1i in nTn-
students work examined, all being ohereu IN c1n
netition for the Government prizes during the
wear $4,000 was paid to art schools ana classes
and s37 $50 pupils received instruction III eieiheu
tary drawing
The present Education Minister in Italy is medi-
Eating the total abolition of art academies IN that
conntrv The buildings Are to be turned into gal
leries and museums, and their educational iunc-
lions to be left to private institutions independent
of the State The young artists of Rome lately
presented memorial to the Minister, asseIIlHs
that academic instruction Is lncompetent 70 u th
artists and that the suihs ePcu' uPoA ~ ~
state wasted.
NJ. Jules Ferry has directed the projects through
ont France to press for the creation OF girls schools
in parishes, which, to save expense have mtherto
arranged for the free admission of girls OF the lower
classes into nuns private schools. lie represents
these girls as receiving under the present rule an
almost mechanical teaching, III order 10 snow ine
having scholars that they receive the extra Nalue
Of their money. The clerical organs warmly resent
this reflection on the nuns
Il ia complained in Philadelphia that the pubic
schools are unduly crowded some teachers havlngas
many as sixty-sx pupils, and Others numbers vary
ing between forty-ive and sixtyslx. That the work
ACCOMPLISHED under these circumstances should be
thorough even with the most brilliant OF teachers
is preposteIous expectation and the righteousness
that permits such folly is inexcusable; IL goes goes
without saying, considering tins cToWdihg' that
tie Philadelphia teachers are llly-pald
Virginia has now 1854 public schools, and has
gained $4,000 in attendance since last year. She
has a school population of 3l4,S27 white, and
24O9SO colored and the value OF her school pro-
perty is Sl177,544 Sc. Her receipts from school
taxes this year were $596,515 90. The North
Carolina schools cost 1852, $50 90 last year, and in
structed 13G,4S1 white pupils and o9,l2 colored
ones Georgia. with a school population OF 433,144,
exnended S47I O29 as Alabama spent S376,092 80
and instructed ,4S3 white and 7Z,OO1 colored
children Mississippi paid $576,563 81, for the in
struction of her 1929! white and l2371O colored
pupils Louisiana spent S225,O0O upon her
373.3i5 pupils and Texas $7l7727 upon her
school population-one third colored.of ZO6,fO9
West Virginia has school revenue OF 500, l2G 40
and a school attendance of II, $50 out OF school
population OF 2l3,44l.
Those who think that the chief aim of public
instruction should be industrial training, should
reflect little on these words, uttered the other day
by Mr. GOschen. member Of Parliament: Take
two young men Of nineteen. Surprising one to have
acquired that practical knowledge which is sad to
be SO useful, but without stimulus having been
applied to his mind. it is possible that he will have
a nabby mind, untutored by difficulties, unaccus-
toned to exertion. relying on memory, unframed to
reason or reflect to assnilate the knowledge which
he gains Add then suppose another young man,
who has exercised his mind on studies, who
has had to exercise his mental powers on difficult
problems and has been taught to think, to meth
oaize what he learns to digest what he reads. but
who while he has been engaged on exercises of the
mind has acquired less useful knowledge will
hack two to one, the whose mind has been
thoroughly exercised, against the one who has ac
quired some useful knowledge l say that he will