New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-13
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NOTES ON EDUCATION.
The average daily attendance in the public
rhools of New Orleans is 1911, inc whoio
number of pupils registered oelhg l''''o'
There il a school population Of 7iI,3sl in
siissouri and school funds TO the amount OF
k54967i So have just been distributed.
In the public schools of Burlington, VT. moral
raining has been made prominent. Character has
,een made 10 hold higher place than mere scholar
,hip-althongh in this Improvement scholarship has
,ot suffered.
The Philadelphia schools are at last. after many
years of uncertain rule, TO have Superin'enoeh'
;he School Board having Just passed resolution
providing for the appointment OF such al oihcei
with assistants.
teacher can hardly show worse stupioi.y
than iu imposing upon naughty pupil an eAu"
lesson as a punishment. The learning OF lesson
mght properly to be full of interest and enjoy
ment. aud anything tending to make IL "edi'neS'
is mistake.
The Baltimore school authorities are considering
the aneston of aDolishng the Peabody prizes ana
medals in the public schools. 1t is an established
fact that in the struggle to win these prizes pupils
have to work too hard and IN many cases at 'he cost
OF serious injury TO- the health
The opening of University College. London, to
women has created the need for place of residence
something like Cirton and Newnham Halls at Cam
bridge. To meet this want house is to he taken
near the college by number OF ladies' ana ReItie-
men interested in the higher education Oh women.
FF Gum, of the senior class of Williams COL
lege has declined the honOrs OF the valedlctoran
on the ground that he has always considered the
system of marking used in the college as unfair ana
operating 10 the detrment of some of the students
Mr. Gum holds a letter average standing than mas
been reached ut Williams IN many yeais'
At the meeting last week of the Massachusetts
classical and high school teachers, one speaker
described the fashion in which a " town university
was managed in DanveYs Mass. Those who have
finished the course at the high school and desire 10
continue their studies Join hands with those VINO
are willing. for a small sum and to MAINTAIN ihelr
own cuturc to give instruction IN advanced COURSES
For the most part the classes are c0pOSeu VI pr
sons of mature age. RectationS are usually nei9
but once week in the evening and at the mouse Oh
the instructor. The terms are IRON nitceh TO trtH
weeks in length, and the fees are merely noihlnal
and sued to the state of the pupil.
1t was suggested at a recent teachers meeting IN
Boston that practical knowledge OF practical things
n light he gained in school by means OF an uncere
monious talk between pupils and ieacher-the
teachers tall, to lie the minimum and the pupils the
maximum. Let child" said the teacher who
suggested this practice snake some observations
on what he has seen in the last few days and then
indu the Others 10 talk on the same SUBJECT
After few days let each write out what ne mas
heard and thus impress the matter Oh the mlndS OF
the pupils. In continuation, let the teacnef can
attention to certain natural phenomena. such rs
the stars, the common minerals, domestic animals,
MOSES and the different varieties OF wood"
That parents are beginning to find out the evils OF
the castiron system of the graded schools is the
opinion of The Courier of Buffalo "1hey see," il
SAYS the health of their children jeoparded IN ex-
ertons to achieve results which, so far as the true
objects of education concerned, mean nothing.
BY and by they will perceive that live and untram-
melted and women are what is needed IN our
school. rooms rather than iroD-bOund machinery
of which both teacher and pupil are the slaves
And il will be admitted. too in time that no COM
mon council vet elected, OF likely to be- has either
the brains or the special knowledge required TO lit
our schools out of the rut IN whlch-as the oppo-
nents OF reform wont TO boast-they almost run
themselves"
DR.. Samuel Sexton has prepared for the " bureau
of Education" paper in which he states some sur
prising facts concerning the prevalence OF deafness
among school children. He points out the injustice
and encouragement that necessarily follow this
trouble when is too often the case, nett her pupil
nor teacher realizes that it is not duness nor obst
Macy but defective hearing, that gives the child the
sppearapce of want of understanding. Among
the various causes affecting the pupils hearing DR..
Sexton mentions with some particularly the state
OF the teeth, careful examination having proved 10
him that this is a constant source of auTal diff
culties The doctors statements III themselves
present strong argument in favor OF the regular
clans.
The development of biological teaching at the
University of Cambridge has been rapid and sue
cessful One branch of it. that OF animal morphol-
ogy has been created there by Mr.. F. NJ. Bafour and
it has grown to its present Importance through his
ability teacher and his scientific reputation III
has been urgently represented TO the council that
the welfare of biological studies at Cambrldge de
mands that Mr. Balfour's department should be
placed on recognized and less precarlous footing,
and in this view the council concur. They accord
ingly recommend that there shall be established in
the university ProfessOrShip of Animal Morphol-
ogy at a stipend of $500 year, to terminate with
the tenure of Office of the first professor elected nm
less the university decide that the professorsllp
shall be continued; the professor to be chosen by
the of the members of the Senate on the cleo
toral roll 1t is to he the principal duty OF the pro
fessor teach and illustrate the principles OF the
structure and DEVELOPMENT of animals. to apply
himself TO the advancement of the knowledge OF
these subjects, and TO promote their study III the
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