New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-21
NOTEs ON EDUCATION.


;nrhos heen made obligatory in the third
,eer Of the regular High School course III bos'o"'
rbe Ohio State University opened last week WIN
n, attendance of more than three hundred STU
dents. -
Ionopagc lessons have been introduced in the st.
- nnhlc schools with tho intention to cultivate
In the pupils scientific precision OF statement
David F. LYON. the new Hollis Professor OF d.
xinity at Harvard is thirty-two years old and mas
been going through a systematic course OF s'uu'
abroad
The income of California University for tho cur
rent wear is estimated at $97,501. The estimaVou
expenses for the same period are mentioned rs
$95,1OO.
,tissaid that the managers of the public schools
in the District of Columbia have long been work
,c In the direction of the substitution OF teaching
for examining
Rochester University has freshman class OF
ffty-one members The sophomore class mas 'n'ee
additions and the junior three and me senior cdss
has acquired one more student One G G ,i hu
fext hooks is the substitution OF otto for taSquele'
The faculty of Trinity College. Hartford, has
made change in the matter of reduction oil stand
ing for absence and misconduct. by which stu
dents standing ia scholarship is severed from the
record OF his attendance and scholarship
Colby University has just opened her doors to
freshman class of thrty-eight members, including
two young women. Recitations have been In
creased from thirteen to fifteen hours week, anu
attendance at church has been made compulsory
The abolition of recess in the Albany public
schools and the change of school hours to sessions OF
from to half-past IL IN the morning ana from u
ouarer past 10 half-past 3 in the afternoon have
proved TO be so successful an experiment lnat .
board have made them permanent. Physical, moral
and social results have all been excellent
The Louisville School of Pharmacy is now open
TO women, It's first young lady student having re-
Gently entered with the intention OF taking i"il
course. practIsed chemist in Louisville declares
that after having employed both men and women
lie persuaded that the latter Will make the Det1er
GIug-clerks.
The school superintendent of Lackawanna
County PENN makes an admission which VIII
frghten all the ancient fossils of the country. Alter
commenting severely the lamentabie want OF
method III district school management which has
kent many school-houses in such i'll repair that for
weeks and months the children have suffered
from cold, snow, rain and smoking cmIoneys, he
declares that there will never be any marked change
in "this execrabe state of affairs until women
constitute a part of each board. " | submit" he
SAYS that every school board shoud have at least
one woman among its members" Mr.. Brooks men
tons one school III which for two months last
winter the stove smoked badly that the WIN
dows and door had TO be kept open until
IL o'clock every morning. inns the cinluIen WeIe
compelled 10 sit day after day with smartlng eyes
mhallng smoke and SCOT and sbiverng in the drafts
from door and windows. In another district ne WIS.,
lted school IN the sprlng When lie 1Olna tu.iV an
winter the CRATE i'll the stove had been broenl lights
out of the windows, and shutters OF. All day the
rain blew in through the windows, and made pools
OF water on the floor; and IL was not possible 10
prevent it. This is a sort of evil that practlcai
woman Is apt to remedy promptly and without
grOvelling to the idol of Clrcdnlocution.
The Hon. j. w. Dickinson, secretary of tho Mass
sachusetts State Board of Education, gave short
address at a teachers institute last week on the
methods OF assigning lessons and hearing recita-
tious lie mentioned two Ways One is to present
the actual object the other is to present written
description of it, Ii description is added it becomes
oral objective teaching. Observation is valuable
and the oral teacher brings before the pupil the OBJ
Jet TO be studied If taught from books only, the
pupil makes uncertain progress, and when away
from his books knows little of the object concerning
which he has been taught real naturalist has no
respect fer Knowledge gained otherwise than by
contact Instructors have been, and many stlIl are
too closely confined to books. which often used
too early and in many branches of study the prog
ress is more imaginary than real To illustrate
this assertion Mr. Dickinson told the story OF
little girl who, after having attended school for
some time WAS asked il she had seen the earth
She said " Yes, once, when went 10 "a picnic III
tie woodsr Another child who lived III Massa-
chusetts town the banks of the Connecticut
River being asked If she had seen that stream,
replied No y; but She afterward added: On,
yes /; | saw il once when went to Hartford" In
discussing grammar the instructor denounced con-
fning young pupils closely to the mere use OF
words. he proferrIng practical study OF subjects
which educate III the direction desired. All topics
should first be taught orally, and the textbooks
may come later, but no early lessons should be as
signed from books The dialogue form was COM
luended for school exercises. and 10 place pupils in
natural positions for addressing one another Is much
to be preferred 10 stiff class lines