New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-26
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There are moro hours spent in studying h's'oiS
tlan any other branch at Harvard
Dprinc the past two years five ladies have oeeh
elected to the Office of county superintendent III
Nebraska. 80
More than COO pupils have just successfully
passed the examinations of the Boston E'o"'ns
High School.
There is a uovemcnt in the Wisconsin .I,o
for the extension of system Vi "is"'
country districts
7, ia estimated that there are in Philadelphia be-
-, o. 900 and 2S. 900 children who are not at
tending any school.
Smith COLLEGE is endeavo1ing TO found a fund of
$4,000 for the assistance of poor students IL mas
begun the work with a scholarship Oh Fo'VV"
The Cambridge Museum of Comparative Zoology
now has the right to send every year one student
10 Wcodss Hole to enjoy the fac itlcs for Stny at
the station established there by the jnted states
Glsb,tCmmiSSoner
To teach the Spanish language in the American
high schools is plan proposed 10y ne ae"PhS
Arpecl which argues that at no distant day Mexico
will become part of the United states, and that
that way fortune lies icr young men WHO ca" '"iN
Spanish.
The managers OF the Milwaukee Library have
arranged scheme for getting improving literature
into the hands of the school childien. series OF
biographies TO he used as supplementary reading
matter have been prepared Tor tAe p"P!S III '"0
seventh and eighth grades.
The Illinois Supreme Court has decided that the
Quincy Board of Education had no authority to en-
force the rulc recurring the coloTCd children OF the
CITY 70 attend one particular school set apart Tor
their use Thus vaui>hcs from Illinois the separate
school for cOloTed children
The directors of Girard College intend, 1t IS re-
ported to organize a school of mechanical handi-
work like that which is now i'll successful operation
at Spring GARDEN Institute in Pmlad' lphla. Tins
scbnol has from 90 10 100 pupils in its workroOms;
and II has drawing classes with 800 pupils.
If il argued in Virginia that instead of establish
inc normal schools to supply sorely needed teachers.
il would be wiser to utilize existing institutions
and to add two three normal proiesSorshlps TO
the University recurring also each academic pro
fessor TO give normal instruction III the teaching OF
his own branch OF knowledge
Two ladies' have been nominated for school drec-
tors IN one of the Philadelphia wards This IS not
the first time this has happened in that city. Not
long ago two ladies were elected in another ward
and did such intelligent and honest work that, as
The Press sarcastCallv says, Ihey were haIdN
even mentioned for renJmlnatoE
President Porter believes that the true and radi-
cal remedy for evils of manners and morals in
college is first of ali holding the student to his duties
rs such with no mask or disguise, and next the IN
PRODUCTION of as great variety INTO the students
life as is notwithstanding reasonable provision
for attractive amusements and athletic ACTIVITIES
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society
for the Promotion of the University Education Of
Women was held in Boston last Saturday. The
formal report declares that the success OF the
societvs work is gratifying state Universities and
many professional schools and colleges offer openly
their advantages to women, and the more conserve
tive institutions beginning to realize that me
world does not stand stlu. The Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology last SIMMER gave TO two
Young women the degree OF Bacheior"i SclenGe ana
it's known that similar institutions are Willing TO
receive women.
The Ohio state School Commissioner in his last
report urges that the county school system be 50
organized as 10 make the teachers term of service
longer He declares that at present teaching is so
precarous an employment that only inexperienced
young men will take it up. He advises that the
public schools should give knowledge of the ele-
ments of the system of the government of townships
cities States and the Nation together with the
outlines of United States history and of individual
and social economy. Commissioner De Wolfe sug-
rests to remedy the rush of farmers sons into cities
the establishment OF good schO0S 3I agriculture:
lie states that there Is a remarkable increase OF
uear-sightedness III pupils.
The City of Rochester is suffering from the mix
ture of politics with school administration. me
Democrat and Chronicle complains that young polii-
clans who know nothing of school matters, and
who are in some instances lamentably deficient IN
education, are elected school commssioncrs-oftcn
by means of pledges to the workers of their wards
as to the appointments OF teachers and janitors
This often implies the appointment or retention OF
incompetent teachers. and is in every way bad tor
the schools. The CaprlceS and rcvengeS of politics
have been brought into the school department and
have worked evil many directions. The com
,lant could be made in cities other than Rochester
for il is one of crying wrongs of the time In our
country that politics and schools cannot always he
disSocated There is nothing more fatal TO the
efficiency of a school department than the preVa-
lence of sordid and selfish influences.
The school superintendent of Eastern Penn'yl-
yania lately held a meeting at which they made
these among other recommendations: Let the
superntendent of public intTuctiOn, with the advice
and consent OF some other State authority appoint
Fix educational commissioners who shall hold their
Office for three years two ones beng appointed
every year. Let these commissioners, together
with the principal of each normal school, constitute
board for the examination of candidates for grad
nation from that school, and have power to grant
full diplomas. They could also examine at the
same time or at separate meeting. ali candidates
for permanent certificates who recommended
hy country superintendentS These commissioners
should have salary of about $1,000 each per veal
and under the direction OF the superintendent OF
public instruction should also be required 10 give
instruction in the annual county teachers lnstl-
tues without charge to the county, except for eX-
peDses. Six commissioners IN eleven weeks would
supply weeks instruction to every county III the
State and something like uniform system OF pro
commonwealth. The cost TO the state of all his
institute aud examination labor would ne about
$4,000.