New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The recent attempt TO pass bill in the Now TOTE
,.a,.,aturs which would have leeislated out OF
ofiea ,.rtAiu trustees OF Union College supposed
to ina favorable to President Potter has aroused
nroh ;nt.rest throughout the State. 1t appears 10
y. ,bs general opinion that the opposition 10 tho
,,re.,dent 4, unwse. Judge Landon. one OF tho
tru.tees IN recent interview bears steong 'essi-
monv 10 the success OF Dr. Potteis management
@No doubt he has the faults OF his quaies' as .ney
saw in France. No doubt he has mace HlstaAes
I'll H., ,,ue, In csusure IN some things. do not
know how we could have gone on Without hih' anu
I sumetimes thought we never could Win hlm' ou'
I am not gong to 90 over the old ground. SONIC
people are iLade unhappy by too long memories l
have been for and against him. 1t depends goou
deal upon which side Of hun you lock. This Is
what want to say: lie has wonderful capacity
TO grow under fire. lie every way BROADER
nohler and boster than he was before this war
opened upon tim. 1t has opened MS eyes 10 n's
own faults aud mistakes, and instead Oh sum,ns
Bitter aud malignant, as small men wouiu no h nd
becoms unite gentlei in disposition, more chartpc
towatd the faults of Others. and carelui stuueuo
of the high art OF selfamendment IL Is n'Ss sa
TO take him for the same man ne was nNo yeaiS
Younger He is growing rapidly I'D riynt uuec.Ioho,
and hence his Increased strength IN the BOard Oh
Trustees All that union College wants Is 10 10 ieS
alone She has frieuds that are able aud Wiling 10
put the needed financial prop beneath heI, anu are
only held aloof because of this long STORM. lucy
wreck"
The Louisville Commercial calls attention to the
fact that in Kentucky there thousands OF chill
dren who are never sent to school, Ana u properly
argues that this matter shoald be temeded Deioro
any new facilities of education are offered 10 those
who now attend school. "These neglected chill
dren, il saws, "will grow ~ to be men anu women
to whom spelling book will be as uninteligbie an
Phenlcan herogfyphics; they VIII become tne
Ill aud shn a
hordes of other children Of darkened ntellects;
the men among them will be voters who VIII be as
CLAW in the hands Of political dtmagogues; they
ri,I imnsde the enforcement of all laws by their
ignorance of law AID they Will hinder all improve
Inent of the State by their persistence III ther mar
row views The mere increase OF the scn"oi tunu
will not bring these children into the schools III
the state we're to build costly scbool-honses IN
avery district and provide trstclass teachers Tree
of cbarse the children of the lliteIate element
would still remain uneducated ii theH pareo's
were left to their own chotce
The american He5re,o states that plans have been
perfected for supplying the Hebrews OF the United
States with what has long been felt asa waut by
them-a higher school for the young of both sexes,
carried on under Jewish auspices. The Institution,
10 be called Tuuro College. Will be located at New
port, r. L. in beautiful and heathful situation
and with the best social surroundings. Many OF
the leading Jewish clergymen have promised their
active cooperation ia furthering the interests of the
school and its success Is hardly prOblematcal Inc
complaint has been that jewish ehlldren sent 10
Christian colleges or convent schools gro" up
neither Jews nor Christians, and the object OF Inc
proposed school is to furnish an education in which
culture aud Jew sh sentiment viii he combined, as
has been done successfully in many nOteu instances
III Europe.
In his recent address before the Yale Alumni AS
sociation President Gilman. Of Johns Hopkins Col
lego maintained that mathematics Latiu and
Greek ought to be studied in schools or certainly
not beyond the freshman year in college. In this
country" he said, every student should thoroughly
understand three NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FRENCH anu
English"
correspondent of The Philadelphia Press has been
visiting the training school for Indians at Carlisle
and expresses high opinion of its excellence.
asked particularly" he says. as to the difference.
if any, between the intelligence and tractablty of
the boys and girls, and the lnvariabe answer given
by the teachers was that they had found nonc-the
girls were neither quicker than the boys, nor the
boys superior to the girls. And did the boys object
to being placed on social equality with tho girls
As rule, 10 occasionally boy manifested feel
lpg Of superiority, but the constant inoocttnaton
that the Indians must treat their women as white
women are treated so stTODg AMI fervid as to
leave no room for any other idea to flourish. Phys
icaly the girls are shorter broader and higher on
the shoulders lowing to their heavier laDOrs) ami
with comparatively larger hands than the boys.
they soon lose, after their arrival here, their
snamei aced, subdned ana utterly plebe'an gait,
which distinguishes them from the men IN their
camps. The young men are as rule, stoop-
shouldered and straight as an Indian means any
thing but straight"