New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-20
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

eonscr;t has been placed among the optional
.,nd,.s Of the senior year OF Williams College.
rn,v one .tudent has thus far signifed desire to
take it.
Tho appropriations for public-school purposes IN
Jon;siana have bean entirely exhausted. and as q
result. every public school in the State has been
closed. The probabilities are that they will remain
closed until next April.
St Louis is not the only city which is favorabiy
d,sposed toward the kindergarten system. Toronto
in Canada has for some time been employing KIN
dergarten methods in il public schoolsand me Glooe
of that city states that the ultimate SUCCESS VI 'n
experiment 10 certain.
1he Boston Herald gives currency to some serious
charges against the puohc schools OF Lowell, Mass
1t states that many pupils are graduated with only
n smattering of knowledge which Is entirely use
less IN practical life General nefiiciency ana 700
much red tape the part of the schoo coui1 r
are named as the OF this state OF aiiars ne
great value of practical education that wiz pIoTo
to be useful in actual life is being more cleary
recognized every year.
The ostgraduate department of Yale College
will take mp this year novel course OF stuuy'
namely that Of railroads and their growth shipping
and international trade, stocks. and the eneet OF
specu alton on the money market. This is IN Inc
with the newer and better conceptions of education
which arc now beg ming to gain currency. Ihere
is no dor bt that complete and practical knowledge
of railroads would bs of pract cal valne to many Oh
the Young men who graduated from Coileso.
And there Is Just as little doubt that many VINO low
master Rants Critgue Of kea ams Of IL While
college should provide liberal educatloh ior tn9so
wi desire it, 1t should also provide practcai eau
cation for all who need IL.
Professor Charles Kendall Adams of the Uni
versity of Michigan. has declined the chanceilorsblp
of the University of Nebraska. offered HIM short
time ago.
A high official of the Roman Catholic Church IN
Galveston Tex, has neutrality-suspicious. destined for
Roman Catholic communion IN that city to attend
the public schools.
The Worcester Academy of Worcester, Mass. Is
to celebrate It's semi centennial this year. during
the last vacation the buildings and working ap-
paratus have been much improved and 1t holds its
place among the most important educational lnstl-
tuti0ns Of Massachusetts
Bishop Coke has written an interesting letter 10
1he Churchman of this city about the English pubho
schools in which he intimates that the pupils are
not taught an accurate and correct pronunciation
of words ain the House of LoIds," he says " one
listeps to VEGA buary that is often shocking to
disciple of Johnson and Walker, to say nothing OF
Iindley Murray 'Amcricansms' abound. Great
Nemesis! Dickens and others OF bis class have
scented and caught such vermin OF the backwoods
rs are never heard in America beyond their native
taurts and have carried them to England to make
finn Lo they have increased and multiplied; anu
have heard in London and among its best. Ameri-
canisms unquest:onably SUCH which never greeted
mine ears on this side of the Atlantic. And as to
the orthoepy take an example,: have heard
Remember not Lord offences, in the chapel at
lambeth, and the alter OF one of the cathedrals
sour aims and o-blatioRs' will not say " no was
officiating Even the classical errors denounced by
the Bishop OF Lincoln English pronunciation are
very common. | have heard one OF greatest OF
the English bishops say iinO-thcacs for Timotheus!
More slips of the tongue-QuIe true! But no such
allowance IL made if an American gentleman or
officiating priest happens to stumble into the
same"
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette in an able article
advocating industrial education, shows that by
strange perversion of reasoning the working people
themselves would probably be among It's strongest
opponents. 1t is a principle OF modern trades
unions and labor associations to restrict the number
of apprentices in the several trades And therefore
they would oppose anything which would Tend to
make manual dexterity common TO all. This Is
doubtle so, and IT to show that trades
unionism, with all ITS pretensions. is far from
solving the labor problem IL Is at best only organ
lied selhshness. and something far different is
needed to adyance the cause of labor.