New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-02-02
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

late EDWIN ID. Morgan II P-'"'00"'
Miss Julyan, Miss Busstall and Miss Lister nave
Just taken mathematical honors at the University "a
Cambridge.
Arthur s Fiske of New-Havcn. has won the saw
vcr prizc nj Amherst for the best examination al
anatomy, physiology and hygiene.
Edinburgh University has 1927 students inc
School of Medicine taking the larger proporuon-
I63e The University has 81 students uhuer siA-
teen years of age.
Ex-president Chadboume. of Williams Cohege'
has accented the presidency OF the Amherst hsii-
cultural College He will find an excellent held iot
executive cleverness, for this coileec mas hoV ""
proven successful experiment.
great institution with many branches has SINCE
1873 developed at Naples from struggling kinder
rarten In this institution girl entering at three
wears of age can be trained and instructed until she
is capable of earning her livelihood
II must not be inferred, The augusta Georgia.
Chronicle declares. that the gross prevalence Oh IL
teracy in the South entirely due to the presence
of the negroes. The poor whites receive oHt i''ie
more education i'll some places than the oIackS'
The proposed system of mechanical instruction at
irard College is to be put into effect at once Al
experiment of this sort was made several years ago
but was soon abandoned. the only remaining uacc
of IL being a shoe shop where most of the repairing
required in the college has been done
The Woman's University at ST. Petersburg has
physical laboratory with $50 students, chelllca
laboratory with 60 students, and physioiogicn
laboratory with 100 students speeiai lnatn-
ematIcal faculty was lately opened ne auN an
taues offered equal those of the male university
The Isaac Rich bequest, amounting to over
50 600 600 places Boston University beyond the
probability of financial trouble. In commemora-
tion of Mr.. Richs generosity, the University has
established in the academic department siXty,1our
free scholarships, which will be divided equally De-
Al x"n "
A long stem IN the higher education of women has
lust been taken by the University of London. A
meeting of the Convocation has adopted motion
that female graduates be admitted to Convocation,
Having already taken power to grant degrees TO
women and having put those powers in execution
ii has now taken the logical and natural step OF az
uniting those women who obtain the degrees 10 all
the rights and privileges that are enjoyed by men
who have taken tho same degrees, including that Of
being acting members Of the governing oodE. mar
ward and Yale are invited TO consider tins TACT.
Abill has been introduced in the Iowa Legislature
TO create State Board of Examiners, and to encour
age training in the science and art of teaching. 1t
proyides that one of the Board shall be a woman
Two classes of certificates to be issued to cand-
dates. Those passing examination III oFthogTaphy'
reading, writing arithmetic geography Engllsh
grammar history of the United States, algebra,
botany. natural philosophy, drawing, civil govern
ment constitution and school laws of Iowa, and
didacics are to receive State certificate which
authorizes the teacher TO teach for five years II the
public schools of the State. Another Will he gwen
Ia candidates passing examination in the studies re
0uircd TO enttle them to the State certificate ana
ia ADDITION thereto passing eXamlnatlOl III
geometry, tTgonometry, chemistry zoology geol-
opv astronomy, political economy, rhetoric, Eng
fish literature. general history and such other
studies as The Board of Examiners may require.
Superintendent Stone Of Springfield, Mass after
repeating and approving divers structures on the
public schools, offers some practical suggestions
He thinks that in arithmetic the results do not
equal the time and labor expended, and recon-
mends also that the text he pruned to the Minimum
and that the explanation of few leading prn-
ciples he emphasized, and that practice work be
greatly extended. He recommends also that oral
instruction should I've given in the early stages OF
geography the textbook to be used as reading
and reference book. He suggests that there should
be less technical grammar taught and brings forward
the virtues of practice IN expression ana 81 tlc vs.
of GOOD literature. 81 Not many years ago., lie adGS,
"a nerson was called heretical who venturcd to
question the pTopriety or necessity OF paISlng ana
grammatical analysis; now he person who recon-
mends much of such work below the hlgh scho0l, or
the last years of the grammar school, Is peHIhu inc
times"
President Eliot at the recent Harvard Alumni
dinner in Chicago told story which was greatly to
the glory of his University. 1.-TWO years and half
ago. he said. d" there appeared in Cambridge, just
before the examination for admission, a young man
of rough exterior who came from a small village IN
New-York where his father earned a scanty living
as stone-mason. He came to see me before the eX-
animation and stated. among other things that he
never had any teacher in Greek, Latin or German
that he had begun to learn these three languages
only sixteen months before that ont OF these slx-
teen monthe he had worked ten at his trade as a
stone-rnaSon and that his entire quick capital was
SO Tony establishment he passed an excellent
examination, succeeding In every subject except
Greek composition, which he had never tried TO
learn He was taken care Of at Cambridge as many
another has been. and in his first year won a
scholarship. When ] asked that young man how
he learned anything about remote Harvard
and on what grounds he selected IL as his college
among the 400 colleges of the country, lie gave El&
tLis interesting answer: got by accident an old
dictionary of American biography and read II
through and il seemed 10 that most famous
Americans had been educated az Harvard PrcS-
dent Eliot added that the University wanted young
men who had something in them. As remarkably
discerning father said to the Dean tie other day
about his SON. who i'll technical phrase was not full
filling the purposes of his residence at college,
don't believe in spending $1,000 On - boy, 10
keep young man four years at Harvard costs
the college the parents or friends, even win
strict economy, nearly 80 900 or abcut 5000 year;
and we want to see i'll candidates for admission the
character and ability which promise TO reward
such an investment of money, time and labor"