New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-03-23
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

swarthmore College will be entirely completed at
the opening Of the September term.
In Milwaukee se9s pupils in the public schools
.tndv German The average daily attendance S
;s s,iso S
Tho salaries of tho teachers in the Syracuse pupno
schools have been restored to the amounts s'''A
before reduction five years ago.
Tho MARYLAND farmers have so little faith IN their
Agricultural College that they are calling upon INC
Legislature to refuse an appropriation to the lnSu
tuition.
An anportionment of the State school fund to the
amonnt of Sis .946 has just been made in Iowa.
In California the amount lately apportioned was
S1,4S2.SS3 "a.
Durine Professor Goodwins absence in Greece
next year as director of the American schooi Vi
Classical Studies his work at Harvard Will be done
by Professor " hlte.
The manual training school Of Washington Unit
versty st. Louis, continues its successful career
maintaining an attendance of about 100 boys IL
ia now proposed to enlarge the school and estapii
free scholarships.
OF the eighteen freshmen admitted to Yale WILL
out conditions at the last examination thru came
from the Hopkins Grammar School of New-fiaven'
though the school supplied only tehth Vi VIC
whole number applying.
start for the Grand Manan shortly after commence
mcnt. 1t will take astronomical observations, ex-
anime geological remains and collect specimens OF
various sorts for the university museum
4 foreign physician after examining several thou
Sand school-children has reported defective hearing
10 be very common among Them most of the sui
ferers not even suspecting their condition. num-
Der of scholars. he discovered, were Thought 10 ce
inattentive only on account OF tier hapih'y 10
hear all that was said by the masters. DouptleSsy
it often happens that children are puhih,neu ~.
heedlessness etc, when they are not IN the least
uuiltv The physician in question recommends the
appointment of aurists in all large towns 10 alehu
to the hearing of the school-chldren.
The War Department has restored the Citadel at
Charleston to the Citadel Academy authorities and
this military school, which existed from lS43 to
1865, when the Confederates evacuated Charleston
will now be reopened. Ii the period mentioned
about 800 South Carolnians were educated IN
whole or in part within the walls of the academy.
The course of study as nearly as practicaole
the same as at West Point. The reorg1Ilzat0h OF
the academy provides that there shall he Two oene
ficiarv cadets from each county III the STATE, anu
that all cadets who will pay for tuition may Do It.
ceived.
The extraordinary ignorance with which pretend
ants TO the position of public school teacher NAV De
gifted is illustrated by the discoveries of the Schoo
Superintendent of Knox County. Illinois. one APP
phcant for teachers certificate stated that
balboa crossed the Isthmus of Suez and discovered
fbe Pacific Ocean; lie named 1t the South Sea be-
eanse il was free from storms. He was Spanish
senthusasm looking for the tabled fountain of i'm
mortal youth" Among living American authors
another candidate mentioned Shakespeare, Chaucer
and Spenser Ohe 9ueS,GI Lincoln dsde Apr 10 lie
was berried at Spring field III over the Same roote
in whicl he went to Washington; The cares were
Draped in black the prlnclph buildings ever person
wore badge OF mourning"
Tho recognition of the doctrine that education
should consist in the development Of the faculties
rather than the mere acquisition of knowledge is
,rore and more insisted upon by practical thinkers
The London Lancet saws that II may appear a para
dox. but il is a simple and plain statement Of fact
that a man NAV be well educated and yet know lit
tie or nothing. The best intellectual organism is
moi that which has been most heavily charged with
Information but that which possesses in the highest
decree The faculty or power Of finding facts at
pleasure and using them logically and with prompt
ability. ready Wit, In the true sense OF the teri'
is incomparaby better than n loaded brain. Mlser-
able cases of mental collapse are constantly falling
under notice in which the process of examining has
produced bhghtng elect on the Drains oil on 3n nc
Toung Their physical health has been sacrificed III
The attempt to make them prodlges OF learning
The charge of the Boston primary schools has by
direction of the School COMMITTEE reverted TO the
principals of the grammar districts. The commit
tee however provides, by additional regulations,
that all the safeguards for the well-beng of these
schools which have been created by the present
system of management shall be carefully preserved
by such regulations of the School Committee as
shall control promotions to the grammar schools
and secure excellence of ms ruclon IN all primary
ciasses throughout the city, The efficiency OF the
work of supervision is to be increased by empha-
sizing the authority of the Board of superyisQrs as
body distinct il power from the individual ou-
pervisors and by imposing upon the SuDerIn-
PENDENT who is ex-oflicio chairman and member of
the Board of Supervisors, the duty of seeing that
the legislation of the School Committee concerning
SUPERVISION and all votes of the Board Of super
yisors are carried out