New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Tweptv.nine students have dropped out OF 'he
present senior class at Brown University Inc CLASS
originally numbered seventy-lour
The Governor of Guanajuato, one OF the Mexican
States has presented to his Legislature pl,l pro-
yiding for compulsory education III Tree SCHOOLS
The Summer School of Science at Dartmouth Will
hec;n its season July IL. Chemistry, astronomy,
microscopy and physics will be studied, and par
ficuar attention will be gwen TO practicai "oiA'
Dartmouth entrance examinations Will De heid
this year at Chicago and other distant cities. Inc
trustees have lately received from the ore
class the beginning Of permanent loan iuhd lo'
needy students
The Concord School of Philosophy will hold
another session this wear under the direction OF inc
same officers Professor Harris Mr.. Alcott' MT,
Albec Dr. Bar,ol, Mrs. Howe, President Porter anu
others will lecture various PHILOSOPHERS s Of
jects. The term will occupy four Wees iA''N
five as last year, and VIII begin July L.
England has something still to ieafn' n'''
Helen Taylor at recent meeting Oh INC Io""o f
School Board contended that the existing system Vi
$500, Eos ,os n great hindrance to the progress
of elementary education. and that the instruction
~ tho children of the poor ought 10 be charge on
tho nublic purse. Strangely enough, Dr. Glau-
stone responded that to agree to MISS iaylor ma
non for making the elementary SCHOOLS ITO WouIu
be a step OF Tetrogression instead VI one VI pio-
gress."
Fx-Secretarv Fish declares himself opposed TO
coeducation from the very fact that young lnen
and Young women are III the same classes pu' ~
does not 20 on TO explain why it should be SO MUCH
more strange fearful and unnatural Tor young mon
and madens to sit quietly together III class roo'
listening 10 profound and brilliant professor, thiD
for them TO dance together through long eNellis'
or to ride together or walk together. At Cambudee
University an institution of responsibility which
!.
taken in carriages from Their halls OF resloehoS 70
The CLASSROOM While there they attend st1cii ~
their own business. and the young men arc th9I-
oughly respectful and quiet. lie lecture over tne
girls take to their carriages again. Anu INC 9hioS
90 not fall.
detailed inquiry as to the amount OF study OUT
of school and the health of the pupils has oech ue
by the principal of the Fitchburg ,Mass'l mgh
school II was discovered that the pupils use on an
average six aud quarter hours a day for mental
excrtion and are III reasonably good health 10
the seven per cent reported to be inquired 10y over
study an average of three and One-thlrd hours OF
home study is credited A recent inquiry in the
Cleveland high school shows that during specified
time twenty five per cent OF the girls ana elghte"l
per cent OF The boys were removed HoI SHiooi iot
in this matter of mental OVerwork no general law
can be enunciated; the prudent course Is 10 nave
each child directed by he physician the loss OF
diploma being more tOerable tDan the laliuIe vi
health.
At meeting of prominent citizens III Portland,
Maine whereat petition for a longer vacation In
the public schools was presented to the city
authorities many complaints were made concern
ing the existing school system. Most OF those pres
emf concurred in the statement that the pupils i'll
the primary and grammar schools are ovcrworkod.
One speaker a physician, said that he did not be-
lieve single doctor had put his name to that petition
for a longer vacation who has not como to the de-
cision that our school system is destroying the
health of many of our best youth Consumption is
taking of large portion of our young, and the
breathing of air over and over again in crowded
and ill-ventilated SCHOOL, room is great cause.
Nervous diseases are wonderfully on the increase.
Oyerstudv and mental work stand at the base OF
The trouble Our present school system oyerworks
the brightest iutelleCts among our boys ana girls
He added Ny daughter cane Uuc 81 cb Ia in the
primary school broke down, ana I've had 70 iake
HIM out and send him to private school. Pc
leye the primary schools are OUTRAGEOUS IN the
amount OF work they give the children to-day.
The Hon. J. IL. Drummond declared that two OF MS
daughters had come out Oh inc hISH sCAoo4 oAoA0H
down III health.
The bill which was introduced in the Legislature
last week. giving exclusive power the Normal
Schools to the Superintendent Of Public lnstruc-
ton is stoutly opposed by The Rochester democrat
and Chronicle, on the grounds that 1t practically
aboshes the local boards; that it increases the
already autocratc powers of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction and makes his will alone the
governing power of every Normal School in the
State; that it is insult to the Judicial branch OF
the government; and that it makes the Normal
Schools the football of political ring. The Roch-
ester editor adds: I'VE cannot understand how
apy respectable member of the Legislature could be
guilty. under the circumstances, of introducing this
bill There was plain issue made by the Superin-
tendent with the local board of the Cortland school
He claimed the night to the principal of that
school against the protest of the local board. He
usurped control, removed the principal and APP
pointed a new principal The board fought the
Question before the courts and the tribunal of last
resort airms that they right in their construc-
ton of the law and the Superintendent was wrong.
This decision is approved by intelligent friends OF
education throughout the state, and it was hoped
that the integrity of the schools had been definitely
established But no! The superintendent who has,
in times past found the Legislature somewhat plas-
tic to his wishes lnvOkes It's AID to nunfy the
iudicial determination and TO defy the popular Will
lie purposes to beat the highest court III the state
by means of a complacent Legislature. 1t
is prepOstcrOus and almost criminal to confer upon
him any greater powers than he now enjoys-espe-
ciaIly TO allow him to man the Normal Schools with
his fayorites-who must be his vassals under the
proposed law. 1t would utterly deprive them of
freedom of action. and the schools would simply be-
come the agencies for perpetuating his official tell
ure."