New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-19
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


Syracuse University has 800 students: Inc COL
lege of fine arts has freshman class OF SIXTY
Prominent citizens Of Philadelphia have petlhoneo
the School Board TO assist in the organization VI
chronological school
DIR. Wickersham. lately Superintendent Of Pnbhc
Ins.ruction in PENNSYLVANIA Is about TO write tie
history of education IN That STATE
Two free kindergarten training schools have Just
been established in Chicago, which opens pleasant
prospect of instruction for the neglected niue ones
in that city.
Twenty years ago nearly $4,000 men IN the brlt-
sh army were returned who could neither write nor
read he number has now been reduced TO little
over 1000
OF the seventeen schools in the University Of Nir-
c,nia one is fully and three partially endowed The
yearly expenses Of student for the session OF nine
months are $173 80. This includes board
The action of the Pittsrurg Board of Education
increasing TIE teachers salaries has been recon
siderrd aud the present salaries have been aGRcifo
to- which is not altogether to the hoh"r Oh the
Board.
TIE paw Of the eighth grade male teachers IN
Washington has been increased to 81 COO for the
first year with an annual rise TO 81 800. Alrop"sl-
ton TO increase tie pay Of female teachers was lost
in the School Board
The reforms recently introduced in the French
schools and colleges provide that memory shall not
be cultivated 10 tie ncEIc't Oh OuH'I an"
that the intelligence shall be opcned in n way that
will make pupils think for Themselves
TIL. University of Pennsylvania promises to IS
1ablish fifty free scholarships for pupils of the Phil
adelphia public schools, at an annual value ct ut
least 81 800 in consideration # the city selling to
them small plot Of ground adjoining their hs'lIu-
ton.
II has BEEN proposed by the Albany Board Of
Pablic Instructions TO make n rule that m pupil
ia l. Jo,oi al oft
nails of the various grammar schools have held a
meeting nj which they declared such nm action
unwsc. They agreed that detention was a useful
punishment.
To avoid whatever i'll results the association Of
pupils al recess light have Tie school board OF Lin
roln. Neb. passed an order early this wear dis
pcnsinC with recessos altogether, and Shortening
each half dav session by the space of time usually
given for intermisson. The plan has worked we'll
Light exercises in gymnastics at TSgI,aT i'er'"S
prevent dizziness aud WEAKNESS In thc puIllS'
Cleveland is TO have a ADMINISTRATION in the form
of the lately Incorporated "WaGe Theological
SCHOOL, The necessary buildings are to be erected
near the Park presented to the city by Mr. J. II.
Wade. and il is supposed that Antioch College and
McadvIlle Theological School both Of which arc far
from prosperous will be removed to CIeve2nd ana
united with the new institution. me ItrV. II.
w Bellows has been invited 1t Is said, TO become
an instructor
A larger proportion Of the population 70 70 school
In Bnr,nah than in anv other part Of India. There
isa National system of monastic education IN which
are included 2,64j schools, with G5,32O pupils.
Nearly every BurIaan man CT boy comes under IN
etruction of some sort for part of his life at
kvounr Tor monastery and II Is partly by reason OF
the religious and secular teaching impaired AT the
kyourgs that these institutions have acqnTed ana
retain SO strong hold Oh the Venerauon OF ali
Burmans.
MARYLAND paid out for public school education last
year the sum Of II GO45sO -. The State has 2.039
schools. and an average attendance Of 1888.
There are in the State 1874 4eS persons who are nm
able to read or write. Tho amount expended on
colcred schools last year was S15 ,5f4 3d. The Sec
rotary Of the state Board Of Education asks II hep
c9n re obtained frcm Congress for the hltcratCs.
lie declares that the proportion OF lierateS IN the
several counties corresponds generally 10 the pro-
portion of colored population
The association organized i'll Philadelphia last
epring 10 promote the efficiency Of education in that
city lately held a meeting and listened 10 report
advocating the appointment Of a superintendent for
The public schools Philadelphia, with lO5,5il
pupils in the schools, is without any responsible
head The Board of Education hold the same rela-
ton to the public schools as board 81 directors
TO invite Colonel Parker the organizer of the
Quincy system, to visit Philadelphia and lecture on
his methods.
The Harvard overseers at their meeting last
week allowed the university 10 take q long stride
fund for tie medical education Of women in the
university asked the president and fellows whether
snch fund would be accepted and used de-
signed Majority and minority reports were sub
United by the committee in charge and after long
discussion ii was voted. eleven to six 10 adopt the
minority recommendation which j. 10 accept a
fund the income OF which shall ultimately be lStd
for the medical education Of women. ILus Qmeu%
Is begun change which will bring new life and
honor 10 the noble Ola university.
Tor nj NOD
that there is general tendency in this country 90
hurry through a students medical education.
Young men, he added, are impatient TO be at work,
and thew will flock to a school which will give
them degree after short period of study, and
elipht examination which they arc almost certain
they can pass successfully In this way great null
tudes of practitioners are sent forth not thoroughly
fitted for their work, and The community has to
suffer the consequences. Dr. Holmes appeals TO
man of wealth to CndOW Harvard medical de
partment that il can offer the highest and fullest
instruction without depending upon the students
fees.
The complaints of The Pi'tsjWg Gazette in regard
70 school directors might with justice be echoed
many other regions School directors It asserts,
"are notoriousiy negligent and inefficient and do
not make the hest of the powers with which
they are clothed Ii some law could be enacted
raising the standard of qualifications for directors
The effect upon the schools could not fail TO he bcne
fclal Among the great evils want of fidelity in
the discharge Of the duties OF the office Of director
1jorc 9ttct3r Is paid 10 the handling OF the money!
the letting Of contracts for buildings and supplies
end the finding of places for friends or fayoritcs
Than 70 the qualifications Of teachers the health and
comfort Of the pupils, AID tier advancement III
their studies
IN thus state the compulsory education law has
not been enforced except in isolated instances. II
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