New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-15
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

rherc ore $4,000 public school teachers III i'''-
- ,r,o instruct about 100000 pupils
,o,,os have heen chosen as members OF the
- 90 rluc,to, of Baraboo CITY, Wisconsin.
Tho English National Union for Improving me
,.,ao,;on Of women has established twenty-lour
b,Sb schools for girls in and about London
Tho Nissssippi Agricultural and Mechanism Coi'
,o 10 i,.tifvinr the National and state ana III mas
received II is giving a thoroughly practical cou-
cation TO Sol stuueh's'
Salaries have been slightly raised in the -. LOUIS
schools. The superintendent now receives To'oo
year Salaries have also been raised IN the SCHOOLS
of Troy
The average attendance at tho new fuoi'c IN
dnstrial Art School, in Philadelphia, has been shy
bows and girls all Of them pupils IN INC pune smc.
schools. The experiment mas oeeh u00'"
cess.
The normal school for colored persons III H, L..
now has 24O students and eighteen teachers Many
of the students occupy their three h'on'n' Ill
cation IN teaching The country schools are wi IN
attended colorcd parents often NOT WoiH'"s ~
order to send their children 10 so"oo
The Bryn Mawr College fer women wia ono - 600
he established by means oil a oeques. u So =,
fror, Tho late Dr. j. w. Taylor, will be openeu "
stndon,s ohont 1854 The college building, wmeh
~ ~ he known as Taylor Hall" Is nearly COLL
pleted.
The Yale Courant reports that it has been found
nv actual count that of the students asSigheu -
four divisions according to scholarship 20 per oen'
of the highest grade use tobacco. AZ per cent OF m
second, 20 per cent OF the thlfd ana % Pei ~
tho fourth The majority of the Students AT CorI9li
have il is said resolved 10 give mp Smokilg w ~
ground of ITS bad effect upon health ana caP"c"S
Tor study.
Iowa. ii is stated, has so many colleges-ahloS'
tbjrty-that they have all been Kept more OF leS'
weak. not one of them advancing to the rank ol
thorough university. This ridiculous muiViplio"-
1on of colleges is crying evil III other StateS as
well as in iowa. If ree-quarters OF all the coIeEes
in America were utterly abolished and their EaIuao
and endOwments devoted 10 the enlargement Vi w
remaining colleges and the improvement Oh ene Puhu,
lie schools II would ne OF lhcdicuidpl0 p0HO' " Wv
people.
last wear for the first time in twenty-five years,
II is reported Dartmouth's expenses were covered
nv its income. The college curriculum mas lateiy
been revised. The Of study TO be pursued ny
candidates for the degree of bachelor OF arts Is
made up of prescribed and elective studles Ill au-
dition TO which certain optional studies are pro-
vided for in senior year. Latin-scientihc stuuens
or candidates for the degree of bachelor OF letters
pursue the same studies, except III the preScrloeu
courses in Greek. in place of which they pursue
certain courses specified IN the accompanying
schemes In freshmen sophomore, and junior years.
attendance is required at fifteen exercises week
in freshmen and sophomore years, all these exercises
consist of prescribed studles; In junior year certain
of them are elective In senior year, eleven eIeI-
cises week are required, in part prescribed anu IA
mart elective; opportunity Is afforded 10 pursue
also. number OF optional studies
President steel. of the Philadelphia Board of Ed
rcation. made the other day a vigorous speech on
the evils of the system of teaching IN the pubic
schools under his charge. He declared that the
memory had become almost exclusively the oOJec-
five point and the measure of its power ana accu-
mutation Is virtually the standard of scholarship
that routine and 4" the letter" have slowly obscured
The end to be attained and OF the means TO that
end and that too the most aboriOus, has been sub
stituted III its place; and that intellectual develop
ment moral discipline, the formation of characters
ore left 10 the chance outcome OF memorlzed
branches of study which is too often mere MEN,
ory of words instruction" he added, which is
merely a task Of the memory, must be fatlgmng
drudgery to the pupil lifeess and narrowing to the
teacher. 1t leaves the scholar in the end with the
most limited benefit from his severe tasks, and in
stead of implanting love of knowledge. creates
reuugnance for and disgust with books of an I'M
proying character Indeed the individuals time is
sadly wasted and the purpose for which the schools
are maintained in great measure defeated. The
principal of the normal school, i'll his accompanying
TeDcrt calls 9ten ton to the report OF the teacher
of that school whose duty 1t is TO receive the sub
iects of the lower school, in which she says: ne
majority Of the pupils show lamentable ignorance
of the elementary branches If tins is the condition
of children who have been promoted 10 the normal
school. what has the vast number learned, VINO
leave school at the end of the primary course MI
Steel finished by an appeal Tor the appointment Oh
competent superintendent.