New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


,nent Two young men were gradua!eu' anu ~
dent Tenny was formally inauguia'cu'
The number of students at the Louisiana o'o'o
J-r;rors,tv has doubled during the past year anu
the institution shows improvement In many ways
swarthmore will graduate class Of twenty
.son,hors this summertime largest class this lns'i-
fntion has graduated since Its opening
The salaries of the public school teachers OF new
Haven have been regarded and IN many 49,
raised. The maximum salaries oil giah'oa' '"''''
have been fixed at 5000.
The alumni association of Jefferson Medical Col
Lace nropose to establish in honor of the late Dr
Cross n Professorship of Pathological Anatomy
which shall bear his name.
Tho separate school-taxes of the white ana COL
ored citizens of Kentucky have lately been mace
eoual and united in a common fund by act Oh inc
legislature The people will vote on tue ac' III
August.
The National kindergarten Convention Will oe
held in Detroit June 81, % and 70. Miss feaoouy'
Miss Blow j. w. Dickinson. secretary OF the NiasSa
cbnsetts Board of Education, and others VIII gNo
addresses
The two most interesting papers to BE read at the
anproaching educational meeting at Saratoga are
so far as now announced, those by General FRANCIS
A Walker on industrial education, and by head-
master Tetlow, of the Girls Latln SchooI III Dos'oH
on some aspects of the higher education OF "onien
There have been thrtytwo students on the roll OF
mathematics for the academic year JUST cioseu aV
Johns Hopkins University; twenty OF these iol-
lowed the advance courses, the Others taxing col
legiate courses. The marine laboratory OF the UNI
verslty which is now in operation az beauioT OH
n. c.. has been doing satisfactory WORK. anu WI"
remain open until September
Government State expenditures for education IN
this country are mentioned as amounting al iaS'
accounts to $Sl ,795, 800. With school popuia-
ton of 1892 S62 there is school attendance OF
o,729,1s9. Germany With her compulsory system .a,
has better record Ont of her school pop1 ao n0n
OF 100000 children 10 the huihoer Vi ''~0''00'
constantly attend school.
during the fifteen years in which classes have
been conducted by professors of Edinburgh Ohl-
versity under the auspices of the Edinburgh Asso-
citation for the University Education of Women,
nearly 1000 women have awaited themselves OF
them. In the past ten years about MY WOMEN
have obtained the ordinary university certificates
for women, and twelve have obtained AohoIs cer'i-
hcates
The MARYLAND Institute Schools of Art and
design. which last week graduated eight young
men. report the following details of their work Tor
the past year: In the day school attending, l9o;
In the night school, 337; total. 527-being an IN
crease over last year Of 70 the day and 50 IN the
night school In the night school an are youHS ed
cabnet-making MISUNDERSTANDING carpenter
work, stonecuttng, painting pattern making ana
engraving, etc.
The last anniversary report of the Society to In
courage Studies at Home which was gwen last
week showed that during the past year s. l1e letters
were sent to students and 1851 received from
them History was selected by 3Sl students, OF
whom 275 persevered. In English literature 367
began and 254 perseyered. Science was selected
by Ia and 81 kept mp the study. Out OF 1O7
students in art 7S persevered; 81 of the IS Ger
man students and % out of the 54 French students
were faithful to their intentions. There were 154
teachers among the students and deaf-mute per-
sons who worked under deaf-mute instructor; ana
among the students of the ninth term 43| haq
already studed with the society, for terms, Z
for z terms 10 for 6 terms and 209 have taken
their second years study. The relative rank is also
worth noting OF the number VINO perSevered, 49,
in all, 294 took first rank, which meant decided
success; $50 took second rank. which meant IN,
lusry and taiI progress; 90 only were in the third
rank.
A circular on near-sghtedness in schools issued
BY the Bureau of Education shows as the result OF
the examination of about $4,000 schoolch:ldren
that while this trouble of the eye is almost OF
wholly unknown among very young children, it
steadily increases through the older classes until III
the highest classes of the highest institutions it
affects as much as GO per cent of the pupils. The
writer of the pamphlet cites these two kinds of in
Iuences as the causes of injury to the eyes in the
schooroom: Under the first are classed all those
things which compel the eye to strain itself IN
order to see distinctly small letters or objects:
under the second, all those which cause n cODges-
ton or rush of blood TO the head and eyes To the
first belong bad ventilation and improper hight, TOO
small and imperfect type pale ink, many successive
hours at the kind of work. as IN reading, witt
ing sewing ETC., without change or rest OF the eye,
all sorts of toll causing the use OF the eye until late
at night and sometimes with very defective light.
To the second belong not only those Things just
enumerated, but also the construction and ar
rangement of school desks and benches, WHICH, IN
many schools, make 1t next TO Impossible Tor pupils
TO hold their bodies IN proper position for any
length OF time"
tThe Association of Collegiate Alumn9 have issued
O circular in which they say that the physical
status of American women of the educated class is
painfully low, and that they believe that the COL
leges ought to be among the first to take measures
against this dangerous deterioration of physique.
They call the attention of parents institutions and
students to these evils which help to make sickly
women l. Social dissipation and excitement which
Is neither amusement nor recreation Girls are too
often stimulated to shine socially and intellectually
at the same time A mother proves her daughters
perfect health by saying: She has been able TO go
20 parties or entertainments four or five evenings
week ali winter, and she stands at the head OF her
classm g Habltua loss of sufficient and healthy
sleep. In a New-York academy class of sixty
girls between the ages of twelve and eighteen,
CHANGED to be asked by recent visitor for the time
they retired the night before. The average was
found to be twenty minutes before midnight; but
no surprise was manifested by teachers nor regret
by pupils. 8. Irregularity and haste in taking
food, the use of confectionery in the evening, and
the omission of breakfast The principal OF large
girls school in Philadelphia lately said that so
many habitually came to school without having
taken sufficient breakfast, and taking little or no
lunch that be bad been compelled, IN order TO
obtain good mental work, TO have warm lunch
fur shed and to insist upon the scholars taking
in the middle of the morning. 1. Tight. heavy and
insufficient clothing. which fTightfully increases
the tendencies to cOnsumptive and spinal diseases.
A physician of wide experience confidently states