Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21
NOTES ON EpUCATIoy.

Brown University has freshman class
of about ninety members.
The number of children studying Ger.
man in the ST. Louis public schools is in.
creasing.
All hazing has been stopped this term at
Union College. The attendance is az large
as usual.
There are now in South Carolina 3,O57
free schools. instructing 81, 339 white and
y, ll9 colored children.
There is q movement in Cleveland for
the establishment Of an institution to be
called the Western Reserve School of
Design for Women"
The large college in Persia which was
completed last year with Government aid
has begun its work, and is now instructing
Persian youths of the higher classes. The
professors are graduates of European uni.
versities.
There are about 1000 students in the
special art classes of the evening schools of
Paris, and there are an equal number in
the commercial classes. The cooking
classes in the school of domestic economy
for girls consist of only So pupils
Johns Hopkins University hiss cpensd
with larger attendance than usual. The
library has received many additions, aud it
is expected that the new laboratory BALD
ing will be ready for occupation at the be.
ginning Of the second half.
The country schools of Maine are not, as
a rule, open more than three or four months
in the year. Some of the districts are de-
ficient in pupils. In one county there are
districts where the average attendance at
school was only five scholars. There is a
district near Augusta where forty years
ago the average attendance was SO now it
is but 10.
The attendance OF coloTed children in
the public schools of Columbus, Ohio has
been largely increased this term-a fact
which is said to be due to the abolition of
separate schools. In that city as elsewhere
there is demand for more practical and
less crowded and artificial system. "The
public" gays the Ohio State Journal, sis
rapidly reaching the conclusion that the
common school should be SO conducted as
to teach such elementary studies as are
absolutely necessary to everybody in the
practical everyday affairs of life, and to
teach them so thoroughly and well tina.
they will constitute the basis for any edu-
cation that may be needed or acquired in
after life"
Few teachers" says Secretary Dickin-
son, of the Massachusetts, Board of Educa-
ton, "realizs the marvellous capacity OF
the child to create exalted objects. He
may be taught to hate defornlity and to
love beautiful objects, until he shall turn
from all that is demoralizing and il the
mind harbors only pure thoughts, the life
will be sweet and true. Some imaginations
are more vivid than others, and gross ex.
aggeraticn should not be cultivated, but
the ideal element is often lacking alto.
gether. The picture which child draws
upon his slate will indicate the play of his
imagination, and will suggest the culture
most needed His taste for the beautiful
should be cultivated, and he should be
Taught. discreetly, to use fgurative Ian.
gusge."
Colt Williams. an English inspector of
schools, in report TO the Council of Flu.
cation, says: "When one thinks Of child
rem of tender years coming in all weathers
one OF two miles and bali to school, to
be there by O'Clock in tbs morning