New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-06
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

There are 2ol,7l1 children in the London n0ara
Schools.
sna,n. with school population of 2'6O6'2o mas
cs,l17 elementary schools instruc'ins i'1'0''''
pupils.
Professor J. w. Wheeler, of Bowdcin. has been
.,octo1 IN the chair of Greek at the University oil
Virginia.
Tho Gift of $4,000 made to Hamilton College
fast week is to be devoted TO the erection OF So'en
.ifc Hall.
virainia has expended on her public SCHOOLS o"i
M, the mast year 81. lOO.23S 90. She has o3oZ Oh
these schools.
The nubl;c schools Of Wilmington, Del contain
,hopt < 600 pupils. and only about fifteen are
graduated yearly from the High School
The salaries of the New Orleans teachers for NO,
vember and December of 1879 and November anu
December of 1881 have not yet peen paul.
The Hon. w. C. De Paw, of Ncw-Aipany Inu
PROPOSES to give a million dollars to Asoury oni-
yeraty on condition that the citizens Oh "ioen
castle will furnish 100 acres Oh ianu "H'i0'" W
erect new buildings.
The Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland
will il is thought soon receive annual income OF
ST. 600 A full corps of instructors have been en-
ga0ed and the erection of the new buildings VIII
probably be begun next summer
The ROYAL School OF Art-Needlework at South
Kensiprton which was established partly LOT the
purpose of restoring ornamental neediework 10 'no
high place il once held among decorative arts, Is
,lo-orobiv successful Three work-roOmS ana q
deslgning-room arc filed with students, WHO III"
constant and regular employ ment there'
The radical changes proposed for the Cleveland
,chools will not be made. Those which have oeen
determined upon simply the conversion oi tHe
Normal School with two teachers INTO tralnIHs
school with one; and the turning of drawing Int1
an optional study in the Hlgh Scnool' O4''A wa
not be abolished as was anticipated
The curious fashion in which the money matters
of nublic schools are managed is illustrated III
Newark. N. j. The wages Of the janitors nave
lately been doubled while the teachers salaries nave
twice been reduced. A lady principal, VINO WORKS
ms hard a. any man could III her posltl9' REEVES
800 a year; the man IN her place WouIu so' 1104A
81. 200 to'Sl 500.
The twentieth convocation of the University OF
the State of New-Yorb Will be held at Albany next
Tuesday Among the papers to be read is one by
professor Gilmore. of Rochester University, on
"Teacbjng English Literature IN Academies y; and
one by Professor st. John, OF the Albany NoiIHs
School on the practical teaching OF scienco Win
simple and inexpensive apparatus
The number of Californians at Harvard is SAID TO
have steadily increased during the last ten years
A special examiner was sent out TO san Francisco
this summer and seven candidates for admission
presented themselves with thirteen candidates tor
pprei'minerv examination The thirteen candidates
who passed the preliminary examination IasI 9eai
will be examined tor admission tlhs week.
There are now in Massachusetts, nine associations
of loca! school committees who meet respectively
twice a year and discuss various educatlonai mat
ters LAYING out courses Of study for the ADJOINING
towns and adopting improved methods. Ihese ais
EMISSIONS have been of immense benefit TO the SCHOOLS
and TO the committees themselves, and deserve 10
be organized in other States In each one OF these
committee associations was the abolition of the dis
trict system favored, and some of them advocate
the formation of the small towns into groups to be
under superintendents to oversee the schools when
each single town of the group is too small to main
tain a superintendent of its own. This plan was
before the Legislature of 1881 and had but little
support in quantity though it was good III quality
Judging by the signs of the times the change Is
likely to occur at no distant day 1t is an inter
estng fact that the number of towns with supeIlh-
fendents of schools has increased largely WITHIN q
few years Two voluntary districts OF thc Klhd
proposed have existed for several yeaIs-N altnuin
and WatertOwn aud Canton ana Milton.
The public schools in the small districts of Texas
ore ineffective institutions, providing only about
two months instruction during the year. 1t Is
stated that there has been in the legislation of the
last few years systematic effort to avoid the PLAIN
requirement of the constitution that the Legsla-
ture shall provide for the support of an efficient sys
tenn of public free schools. Under clause author
ling municipal taxes for the support Of :" public
institution Of learning" IN any city or town, Sc
mes of enactments have essentially altered the con-
templated general system of free schools. In the
cities. where wealth IS concentrated, the State dis
tributes s aid in equal proportions with the dstr-
button in the rural districts. The cities have by
the laws indicated been encouraged to add to this
fund by local taxation, and the trustees OF the Pea
body fund have further encouraged TINS innovation
upon the principle of general taxation for unver-
sal free education by liberal allowances 10 the cities
that adopt the idea of local aid and independent
school districts The indication Is now that all tne
cities and large towns WILL under this system, soon
have Independent school districts and efficient pub
lie schools.
Changes providing for the more thorough training
of teachers, for the abolition of the examining
system and for the greater adaptation of studies TO
the after calllngs of the pupils are 10 be introduced
in the public schools OF Ontario. The Normal and
Model School terms are to be heightened and the
course of instruction improved. In the lower
schools trustees will have the option of Introducing
elementary science ana in the rural schools the ele-
mentary principles of agriculture. The High School
course will also be made more flexible, and the in
termediate examination is 10 become mere test of
promotion from the lower to the upper school. The
intermediate examinations will be but step in the
teachers examinations, and not as hitherto, an
equivalent. The obligatory subjects in the inter
mediate will be confined to the essential sub
jects in secondary education. The option will be
gwen to every pupil to select his subjects III the
upper school Music and drawing, and such sub
jects as are suitable for girls will also be
taught in the High Schools Latin Will no longer
be ono of the compulsory subjects. The change of
principle in the distribution of the Government
eraut will avoid examining and also prevent undue
influence being exercised, lnaSmuch as the basis
OF distribution will recognize minimum for all the
schools due regard being had TO the amount paid
for teachers salaries One of the beneficial effects
OF the proposed change III the mode of distributing
the Government grant will be to do away with the
present system of examining picked candidates for
The intermediate to the injury OF the other scholars