New-York tribune., 1882-09-28
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Rrown University has a freshman class OF aoo"'
20 members
The number of children studying German III tne
gt Iouis public schools is increasing
All bazing has been stopped this term ut tnioh
Cnliene The attendance is as large as usual
There are now in South Carolina 3,ooI Tree
schools nstructing 6l, $50 white and 72,ll' col
ored children
There is a movement in Cleveland for tho estab-
Nshlnent of an institution TO be called the N"es'-
ern Reserve School OF Design Tor Women
The large college in Persia which was completed
last wear With Government aid has begun Its WORK
ana is now nstructng Persian youths oi tne
classes. The professors are graduates Oh E"i'p''
universities.
There are about 1000 students in the specia al
classes of the evening schools OF Paris; aho 'neio
arc an equal number in the commercial classes no
cooking classes i'll the school oI uohos''o o'o"0"'
for girls consist Vf only % pupHs'
Johns Uopkms University has opened with
larger attendance than usual The library has re-
ceivod many additons' and It is expected that tne
now laboratory building will be .eady Tor occuPa-
tion at the beginning of the second half
Tho countrv schools of Maine are not rs a rule,
omen more than three four months IN the year
Some of the districts are deficient in pupils In one
county there arc districts where the average
+.ordance at school was only five scholars.
wears ago the average attendance was %; now u
is but 10.
The Attendance of colored childrenln the puolo
schools of Columbus Ohio. has been largely III
creased this term-a fact which rs sara 10 oo uuo
TO the abolition of separate schools III 'haI CITY ~
elsewhere there is demand for more practcai
and less crowded and artificial system. u" he
,nbcD saws Tic ono State Journal IS rapiuly
reaching the conclusion that the common scnool
shoud be SC conducted as to teach such elementary
studies as absolutely necessary TO everybouy ~ IL
the practical every day affairs Ot ire anu 10 teacn
them so theron ghly aud we'll that tbcy VIII con
stItute the basis for any EDUCATION that may pe
needed or acquired III alter me-
Few teachers, says Secretary Dickinson, OF the
Massachusetts Board of Education. "realze the
marvellous capacity OF the child to create eXaNeu
objects lie may be taught to hate deformity and
to love all beautiful objects. until he shall turn
from all that is denoralizing and if the mind mar
bors only pure thoughts the life will be sweet and
true Some imaginations are more vivid than
others and gross cXageerailon shonlu hol De
cultivated, but the ideal element is 0iten ID IachliIs
altogether. The picture which a chlld draws upoh
his slate will indicate the play oil ms lmaglha'I ION
and will suggest the culture most needed iilS
taste for the beautiful should he cultivated: Gu9 he
should bc taught dscTeety, TO use iiguratlve Ian
cuage."
Mr.. Colt-Wilams. an English inspector OF
schools, in report to the Council OF Education
saws: "When one thinks of children OF tender
wears coming in all weathers one OF Two miles auo
half TO school 10 be there by o'clock in the
morning; schoo,till II; play and dinner; school
again till OF 4 80 p. IN; and then the walk home
in winter often in the dark, home lessons to pre-
pare for next morning and this for five days In the
week for more than nine months III the yeal-can
moro he addedi And yet this is the daily routine
nj schools i'm NV district though we have no singing
by note very little poetry, aud no science. lime
will show whether SOundneSs IN elementary SUBJECTS
ali OF We
He too has heard, as other Inspectors have. more
than once of children passing sleepless nights and
tbese nertioent onestiuns: " Can such OverwOTk of
youpg brains be a good thing And is not the
Droper DEVELOPMENT of thcws and sineNs muscles
and lung power of greater importance than an
h-less numbering of the gems of Shakespeare and
Milton ~ These are questions which may be
asked here as properly as III England.