New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


III. P;ttsburo DispatcA says that moro than 10 per
..rt ~ the publIc school children OF that city are
hear-sighted.
The freshman class of Harvard University
%his YEAR is the largest in the history of the insttu
tion, being upward OF ZSo'
President Parker, of Racine College. Wisconsin,
Ia to be replaced in few days by tne Kew a.
Zabriskie Gray, who was recently elected te inc
presidency by the Board OF Trustees.
At meeting of the Board of Education OF os'
Paul. Mimi, recently, o resolution was adopoeu
introducing temperance textbooks in some OF 'he
public schools of that city.
letter recently appeared in The Troy Times argu-
ing for the abolition Of recesses aud the consequent
shortening Of the SCHOOL hours Inc wtiSt sry
that nearly all the damage done TO schooi piopei"
Is traceable TO the recess
Vassar College is said to be IN very nourisnins
state this year. Over 90 new students nave "a
ready been received. These together Win INC oiu
studeuts returning swell the total nunoer III a."
tendance to a figure not reached III any previous
year since 1877 Additions are YET assommoda0
flons of the College may be severely .aAe" "'
the close of the academic year.
The seventh session of Johns Hopkins University
was opened with seventy new students fresiueh'
Gilman ia his opening remarks referring 10 TUG
great prosperity of the institution, said mat thtre
are now lS6 students in the University. ana thaV
of the 449 who have been graduated from IL, Ilu
are Instructors and professors in other colleges ana
universities DIR. William b. Carpenter Tue emu
nent psychologist OF England was 'io''"' GNU
spoke to the students.
The remissness of the London schools in teaching
history is very severely mented ON by the men,
bers of the Council on Education. One OF them
saws: "The fact that few children leave school
with ANY knowledge of the history of their own
country has been Justly regarded as reproacn TO
elementary education. Teachers arc too often
content with letting the children write out some
bald narrative. Alfred and William hulus
occupy % very dispropOrtionate space. Inc sIory
of the former sovereign especially is as much over
done as his cakes the question of how past events
have produced present. conditions seems rarely "
enter the head of teacher or scholar
The old question of getting school books at cost
is coming up again in various parts of tho country.
The iobberv involved in the frequent changes of
t.xt-books OF sohous is acknowledged by all far
minded people; but it is not so easy to discover
wav 10 sion it, The San Francisco Bulletin Is II
favor OF putting the publication and sale oil all
school books in the hands of the state "hch
would allow publishers in general to get up edI-
lions of their own, but uniform as 10 SIZE anu W pc
q The State" il says, might have depository VI
text books in every county. When these DOORS
are furnished at cost say for lO per cent aDoVe
cost there will be no more school-book wars anu
will be fewer reports of scandslous proceedings III
the main and matter-of-tact business Of supplying
textbooks as a part of the machinery Oh Puohc
education"
IN. Baltimore american doesn't like politics TO De
Intruded into the public schools, which IL says mas
bsen done in Baltimore. 1.-THE appointment OF
teachers to the public schools is part Oh tne
.patronage' of the members Of the City Council
Each member of the Council names Sfhis school
commissioner and etiquette requires the other
MANNERS to vote for him. This makes the school
commission a matter of patronage and OF IN
fiuence.' that are employed for political and not
for purely educational purposes. Even the colored
schools are patronage, and though the co!9reu
pupils and their parents desire teachers VI enons
own race and though competent c0lored teachers
have passed the examinations yet influence gives
the colcred schools to white teachers; ana any
interference with the patronage OF appointing
white teachers is resented as an INVASION OF Tue
Derduistes of the Council and the scn00l cohtn,s
sion" This is a serious indictment OF tue pubic
schools of Baltimore and calls for SPECIFY ahs"oi
The list recently published of candidates
who obtained honors at the last examination CT
the University of London, makes it possible to
estimate the progress made by women since the
means of higher education in the arts and sciences
IA well as languages were thrown open TO thsm
From this list it appears that no woman took
honors in anatomy, materia medica, chemistry OF
physiology. Two women took honors in the Eng
Gsh language In Latin one woman's name heads
the second class and two Others are in the third:
In French and German the women more than hold
their own. being fist III the hrst diN:slo' anu
five others appearing III the third class. woman
also heads the list In German; and women took
honOrs in inorganic chemistry experimental physics
and botany. The general conclusion suggested by
the list is that IN science, female Students can
hardly be said to be prominently successful; while
i'm modern languages other than English they nave
secured far more than the average proportion Oh
hon0rS due 10 their numbers.