New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-26
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

w-Orleans has six successfui Klnoergar'ehs'
IT.. r1r,vsrs,tv of Wisconsin now has SCI stu
cents
sco.t,s "Marmion," which has been used as
A,thook In the public schools of Ontario, has been
bauished therefrom on the ground that 1t contains
matter offensive TO the Roman Cathonc pupils
Tn Rochester. n. Y. the Board of Education has
ordered the study of intellectual arithmetic TO
he dropped from the third grade of the schools and
kome textbook on language and composition TO DC
substituted.
In the course of a recent discussion in St Louis
ON school discipline one speaker deprecated the
usual death-like stiffness Of the scnGol-IOom
asserting that he had found the rooms having
busness-like buzz doing the best WORK.
Mr. w. T. Harris. in recent address in New
Haven declared thai In his experience Oh eAaili",
ing several hundred applicants for the postum y,
teocbers in the public schools he had awaVs Iounu
thnsa Who were proficient in the study OF grammar
the best teachers
In 1850 the population of Vermont was 3I4'ooo
md there were 99110 children III the puohc
schools. This year with a population OF 332'ooo
there are only "a 600 in the schools The constant
decrease in attendance has been accompanied pY
an increase in the expenditures. The State super
intendent declares that the work of the schools Is
not satisfactory and IT has been suggested Inat an
educational commission be formed Tor thOrough
investigation Of the matter. the result To be COM
,nunicated 10 the Legislature NJ Its next seSsloh'
4 Missouri teacher makes the study of geography
Interesting to his pupils by beginning at home TAX
ing first counties, locations and boundaries neA'
States upon the same plan; then the United ota'eS
until the whole subject rs mastered. His idea is TO
kindle an interest in his pupils by introducing any
method. new OF Old. that will develop full com
nreheusion of the subject He nstructs them IN
The drawing of maps OF the regions menilone,, anu
manages TO make them feel hearty pleasure III acII
curing knowledge concerning ne clues Il'cIS ""N
railroad routes successfully AIDED
The college for working women in London has
inst beqnn its ninth session. Besides the usual IN
siruc,ion lessons are given first aid to the IN
iur,d and sick nursing; and there are classes IN
main and elaborate cookery at small rates. Iherc
jsalso class for blind women i'll connection tn
the college Many pieasau, dramatic and musical
entertainments are provided by ladies and geLte-
men interested in its work and there is good
lending and reference library at hand. Inc COIiesS
has LARGE number OF pupls; ana on me 10. vi
lecturers and eX iminers axe several OF the names
best known IN literature, science ana an III lug
land.
The curious failure of the public schools 10 teach
tbe simpler branches thoroughly is illustrated by
teacher IN The Educational AdUGHce " How many
he SAYS, "hdve studied grammar until they can re-
cite glibly every rule in the book, and who cannot
write correctly neat and expressive letter IL
ought TO be reasonably expected that spellihR
school champion, who had learned by heart the
tnne-honoYed blue back would spell kind with
* If spelling it in letter TO his teacher let we
were the recipient oil letter utdlnlng tAIs ana
many other mistakes OF an equally IudiCIouS ""uio
from young man, too. whom we mad previously
failed to spell down with NeDsteTS sPeief ON TWO
different occasions at spelling matches
Colonel Parker, the pioneer of the new school of
simple and thorough teaching says that the worst
and the greatest criticism he has ever met with, ana
that TOO from very bgu quarters has been from
persons who have never taken The trouble 10 tx-
anime the work or discuss the principles involved
"Tbey say 1T Is all wrong with an all OF profound
wisdom that lmpre5scs itself upon the faithful to-
lower | know at least two lights IN the educa
tiona world who 10 my knowledge, nave never
taken the trouble to enter certain schools or eX-
anime results and principles III any way ana yet |
these wseacres give II as their decided opnOn that
the work done II these schools Is iaiufc Inc |
wulk may be IA failure but now 40 tleS AnoW; |
unless. perchance, they are gifted with second
SightP
All depa1tments of the University of PennSylva-
MIA except that OF the col sgIate course, are now
omen TO women. and this final concession viii prob
ably not long be delayed. The Philadelphia Lea0er
saws: Fortunately we hear no talk OF any hybrid
Annex. University experience OF some yeaI7
has pyoved that Philadelphia boys can be under the
same roof with gIl students can pass them on the
sta,Is and meet them hehalls aud conduct them
solves with the manner OF gentlemen; neither in
trudiug on their notice offering any Othe' 'han
courteous indifference to their presence. his is eS
tab .slIcu, and ought to be " DEFY k1oWn women
students the college building to-day are mere uh-
der The protection the trustees ana the faculty,
nOi uhrecOgulZcd ana diScilncd ana Tepudlalcd, -
the author, lies of corporate Harvard "sclaim al"
lot part or ii 10 in the so-callad harvard AuneA'
The results OF lhe experiment at the UNIVERSITY OF
Peunsy!v.i,la are commended to the consideration
OF the authorities of other colleges.
Princeton. more properly the College OF New
Ierse, has just issued neat catalogue IN Latlh OF
the officers trustees aud instructors who have
reigned and taught Their since the foundation OF
the institution TO these names are added lists OF
the graduates who have received her degrees and
of those sons of other institutions upon whom she
has bestowed honorary d grees. The honOrs OF
those who hay. attained TO llgh rank public life
are ter,ely Indicate and a compact index com
Mites the work A glance at the list shows many
names whose owners have testified by their moral
onalties and intellectual achievements to the ex-
ceilence of their training at the hands of their
Alma Mater. Since the days when Jonathan
Edwards held rIn and sanity sway over the col
lege MOI able procession OF theological graduates
have lief, her gates aud with them have come many
legsts and statesmen. James Madison's name
stands not far above that OF a man whose brilliant
talents have not swcetened his memOry-Aaron
Burr There are Governors many from LVerlnore
f.. Martin and Patterson and Henry Lee, and Ogden
and D,ckerson-the list of them is almost as long as
that Of congressman Senators and Judges, and
that is long indeed There are Blair and PendletOn
and B,ddle and Brewster and Dayton and fearce,
and Crawford, Is yard. Pennington, Dallas, Breck-
eur,dge Livingstone, Southland trelInehuysen.
Elsworh--the lust seems endless. l ne names Oh
Llisb and Alexander and Hodge ana McIiValne
recall a list TOO of many hOnOred name In the
oiOgy and med cine. The record OF the c0iiegels
nonle o1e; and not the least notable part OF II is
a..fn ffffqn