New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-02
NOTES on EDUCAYlON

Children in the first standard of the English
board schools are allowed to pass with 40 per cent
of misspelngs in their writing
The corner. stone of the new building OF the Uni-
versty of New Mexico was laid at Santa tie Octoper
%. The institution, which now has eighty studeh's
over fifty of whom are in the academic depart
ment-was organized In May, 1881.
The attendance of white pupils in the public
schools of South Carolina has Increased from
46.444 in 1877 to $500 in 1SS2 IN the same
period the attendance OF cOOrcd pupils has IN
creased from 1852 to 5000. lhe numOer uI
teachers has increased from 2,G74 to 34l3, ana the
number of schools from 2,4S3 TO 3,lo3'
Women are now eligible to school Offices 10
Illinois. Iowa. Kansas, Virginia, Massachusetts
Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Vermont,
Wyoming and to any Office in Wisconsin except
State superintendent. Mississippi has state
Boaid of Education which includes the Governor
Lieutenant Governor ana eight other perschs' one
of whom is a woman.
A wise speaker at recent meeting of Ohio
teachers pointed out that mischief in school-boy
is not meanness but msdirected energy; and that
the teacher should be good tempered ana large
minded enough to direct it iudicOusIy STAN
dards differ" be added as to what constitutes the
best test for n good teacher Jhe only proper
estimate of value in the schoO-room is to develop
true men and women. Character is OF more lHpor-
lance than scholarship"
The women students of Bedford College had an
unprecedented success at the recent examinations
at the London University. All the thirteen stu
dents that went up for the intermediate exanina-
lions in arts and science passed in either the first
or second class; seven of these went up Tor honors
and all of them passed. two taking prizes In German
and French the only prizes awarded TO women ana
the only woman who took hOnOrs in inorganic
chemistry was a student of this college.
The Rev. A. D. Mayo reports that fast as edu
cation lays its hand uron the Southern children,
black OF white, they begin to draw near to each
other ana that there no doubt that at time not
very tar distant they will dwell together in unity.
The present attitude of the higher classes is favor
able TO this change Mr. Mayo said that although
many of the children to wdOm he spoke were de-
scendants Of the leaders in the Conlederacy, he
fOund the former free from the bias OF their fathers
The class OF vicious lazy boys is not so large rs
people have been led 10 believe. and generation OF
such education rs is now going on aWong tae
Southern girls will place tnem abreast OF their
Northern sisters.
At teachers meeting in Pennsylvania the other
day Superintendent Luckey of the Pittsburg public
schools opposed the of the spellingbook
When a word stood by itself it was dead, he said;
mhen put into q sentence it had life and spelling
book generally did more harm than good. He ridi-
culed the popular method of teaching eocution,
and declared that pupils could deliver the speeches
of Webster. Calhoun and Clay finely, but wnen
asked to read a newspaper could not do so intelli
gently. lie advocated the rea ding OF newspapers
in schools and stated that IN the Pltsburg public
schools the geography was only book o! reference
the daily papers being the means by which geOg-
and events readily and were not likely to forget
either.