New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-31
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

instruction in field and garden workis 10 po given
IN the rural schools OF hussia'
"A husiness course Is to be established in the
Detroit High School
Children in Austria will hereafter be obliged to
attend school for eight years.
7, 10 said TO be difficult to obtain teachers for
&he pennsylvania schools this year. The cause Is
conecturcd to be the smalness OF salary.
:, The school population of Oregon is 1921, ana
the annual distribution OF school funds amounting
to $45,65l 20 has just been made
MIR. L. f. Holden, it is reported. has giveu
S125,O0O for the establishment of proicsSorshlp
in the new Adelbert College at Cleveland
Women greatly prepcnderate in the last examlna-
ton lists OF the "Cambrdge University lilencr
Local Examination Lists" This is partly attribute
able to the fact that the scholarships aud prizes
oasred in connection with the examinations are
confined TO women The s'nuIchee ti, ~, =; g. LEI :
OF SO each TO the five women 90 , ~ vT
who are preparing for the piolesslon VI '"'''0'
The English Education Department has )ust
,uhshed circular in which 1t laws down the prih-
1,nIa IN instruction in English that as a general
rule but especially in the lower standards 'he
nxamjner should he careful rather to ask for tho
meaning of short sentences and phrases than 10
reuuIre e. anatious of single words by oenH tohs
or SYNONYMS The circular mentions houiilsoh
Crrsoe as one of the reading books LOT sch"ols
authorized by the department
The number of 'colored schools IN Delaware has
increased one third. and the enrolments arc one
Thousand greater than year ago. lhero are o'ooV
colored children in the State. and the ehiol'icH'
Of nupils is 312I. The legislative Appropriation
made this vear-thc first money over OestoWe9 ny
Delaware upon her colored sch0o.s-nts pi"o ''la
e., oorn nnn,l about - cents The cOlOred people
NJ Delaware have never asked FOR mixed scho,lsL-
only for some little lsSlstaIce In nalhtalnins ,uo
own Even this the Democrats have long hesitalcu
20 accord.
The white school population of the Southern
States and the District of Columbia is said to be
3.s999GI: the col0red school population is
1.sOa257. Tie enrolment in all these states IS
7s4. 700. In Delaware and Kentucky the school
fax collected from the colorcd people iSrthe only
onproDriation for the cOOred schools In MiIFIdhu
there is biennial appropriation ny me Leglsltuieii
In the District of Columbia one thlrd or the scloo
money is set aside for the colorod schools; ana II
Tho other Southern states the school moneys axe
divided IN proportion to population without re-
gard 10 color.
The East Indian Education Commission when IS
NOW sitting Mt Simla has heard some plain state
ments concerning The Puniab educational Depart
,nent DIR. Lietnor president of the Oriental College
AT Lahore declared that the department had neg
lected the INDIGENOUS Schools which If developed
vond have met all the requirements Of the people ;
that # had been aggressive 10 the matter OF
religions neutrality, so that schools III Wncn any
reliGiun was taught were placed under a dlsadVtn-
taco: ar that ii had diverted TO higher education
the funds voted tor primary education. Alter
twenty-siX wears Of the existence oil the uepatl7,
msnt he said. fewer persons knew how 10 READ ana
write than when IL was established.