New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-11-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

a.Uons Breitmau's Ballads says TIE Pht0det-
,hia ENQUIRER. have achieved meTIted popularity
and have thereby proved themselves good WORK.
Bnt his Industrial Art School II carried out ano
made success, promises to be better work s'ili'
What Mr. Leland claims is not TO teach his )uNenue
pupils trade but to prepare them by gehelal arI
training for the foundry the carpenter Shop Oh e
designers room. His school, lac says, rs the connect
ing link between the kindergarten and the huuS-
trial training school, and that ii aecompnShes us
objects is proved by the various tradcsmcn to whom
the pupils have gone, who have gwen repeatedly as
snrances that they have found them more than nan
,eadv Ia bepin their work, and that the training
given by Mr. Leland was exactly what had long
been wanted. Carl Werner, an eminent aulhollE
ON education and government inspector OF schooiSS
i'm Austria published recently III vienna journal
two articles on industrial education, IN when, a1te
reviewing al the systems IRON those u CcLSd I
gives the preference TO that Of Leland deciaIhg
emphaticay that it places America, as gfoS tnIS
reform, far i'll advance OF all Europe
The st. Louis Republican does not think much OF
the common cry against higher education. Ii -
one thing il says, d" to advocate the improvement
and enlargement of educational methods; 1t Is an
other and very different thing TO disparage the
whole system of scholar making by illogical de-
ductions from the fact that men are known to sue
ceed who never went to college Curiously enough
rs rule the critics who indulge in such deductions
are themselves of the educated class, ana oiten VI
those in said class who have attained pronoLtto d
their chosen pursuits. IL Is dhcult 10 ui i H.
why sucb men decry the college ana eNdlu .iio
puncbeon-foor and hickOry-hre theory, tAccPt ~ W.
assume that thew feel il TO be depreciation Oh n
natural ability to admit that educatlOh nag uono
''',th ~, Gov Them and wish the world TO belcNe
ny liz. 9s well as the sef-made men, have sue
ceeded i'm spite of adverse and sinister influences
The PHILADELPHIA Times takes hopeful view OF the
mast and the future of education IN the South Inc
South" it SAYS, has really done remarkable WORK
in inaulnIrating systems of public schools, work
which probably surpasses III magnitude any SihillaI
progress ever made in the same time in any section
in tbe same length of time 1t has instituted
schools for both white and black adapted to the
necessities of the SITUATION Since the bllghting
presence of the caTpet-bagger was removed eNttil
step has been an advance and II hds peen lnuo VIZ
tenn cannot be naturazod in the south nor can one
he produced by hot bed methods. The best way 70
disne the ltcracy of the South IS to let II aioe III
The path il is now travelling and not overcome It's
efforts with useless Federal money
The PrOridcace Press makes a strong plea III favor
of compulsory education and truancy laws men
effect " il says " has been uniformly sanitary VI
course IT is not claimed that they have entirely done
away with immortality and crime, nor that thoy are
likely TO do so. But it is claimed, and abundant
facts support the assertion. that the operation Oh
these laws has directly resulted in large and graft
fying increase in school attendance, ana cOnse-
onent decrease in illteIacy immortality ana crime
And IL is true beyond question tIat hIoUe islulI
,reseut alarming proportion of llltcracy directly
due TO her neglect until now, TO enforce legislation
of this kind
correspondent of The Germantown Telegraph
gives in letter pleasant pictures of Wellesley
and Smith Colleges. from which the following eX-
tract Is taken: James r. OsgOod 81 Co. publish for
their special holiday book this year an eNqniStey
illustrated edition of TennySOns Princess and
some of the illustrations strongly suggest Wellesley
have often wondered if the artist had that lovely
.pot i'm his mind when he drew his picture OF the |
school where there We're:
~Pudes for ProctOrs. dowaccrs for Deans
And sweet girl graduates with golUeh bui,
and wonder much if these colleges oil smith ana
Wellesley and Vassar will end day, as did the |
college of the Princess with the entrance OF two
daring voung men The girls are breaking down /
the barriers of the mems colleges here, they have |
found their way into many and even have intrusive |
fingers between liaryards doors, which cant quite |
shut while the Annex stands holding them Jnst |
omen: why in time shant the men, II they like IN |
sist on a course in these other colleges Ny Wold |
for IT, they'll all wear caps and gowns togclHcf one
day everywhere Just as they do now III London |
University. and goodness knows how many senior |
wranglers' at Oxford and Cambridge, VIII put on
tbe can atop of fluffy brown hair and wear the gown
over another of Tustlng SILK, instead Oh having nc
honors always appropriated by the shortcut nan |
and brOadcloth."
The Rev Dr..Hamlin. president of Middlebury
College. Vermont has introduced novel idea into
the college set of weighing scales has been
placed in the college boarding hail. and the student
boarders are to be weighed monthly. record of
their weight each month will be kept, in order 10
determine what effect the college diet has upon
them II this monthly weighing could be made to
take the place of examinations the students would
probably be entirely happy.
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