New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-06
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

WINTER in The ASronoe says that education Is
making rapid progress in China In ms opihio" 'io
acouisition of a knowledge OF western scisnco ia
China IS no longer question OF fact OF ,u'o oo'"
tnowiedee is sought after all over inc nihphc'
MANY of tue more enterprising are using eNoiS
soo;l;,v AZ command to acquaint themselves with
ar rss,lts Of modern scientific research. They are
,eacbinq out after it in all directions. In many
.as.s they grasp tue result with q wonderful com
prshension. without understanding the process BY
which n is reached. In some cases, they are Gu
deavoung TO apply these results. with only an I'M
nerfect or a partial success, of course always
happens in such attempts where the principles are
not understood
The trustees of the Indiana University have ap-
nealed to the peope of the State for aid to replace
the buildings recently burned.
Prominent rish-American residents OF San Fran
cisco are making an effort to an interest III tue
Celtic tongue A class has been formed 10 engage
in the study of it.
Durng the mast summer the buildings of the
Johns Hopkins University have undergone many
needed repairs. President Gilman has been SPEND
ing the summer in Europe, visiting ana studying
places of learning in England and on the Continent
with his eve open for any IMPROVEMENT "uIcu
NAV be aAyantageousiy introduced IN the HOPKINS
foundation. The excellence of the WORK done
duriag The past year has been generally iecos"iho''
and the programme laid out for the coming seSSou
will be watched with interest, while the results WIN
be received with the consideration TO whch 'uey
are entitled. Mature. an English scientific weekly
journal with an extensive circulation anu Vi s,0"
;nauepce. in very favorable note consratulates
,h university ON the progress it has made and the
position it has attained. 1t holds up the Johus
Hopkins as model for the old universities oil Eng
land to stud in the pursuit of original research
The trustees of Dickinson College have decided 10
erect a new scientific building.
Much interest is felt in Scotland IN the Scottish
Education Bill now before the British Parliament
One of its most important provisions is compui-
sorry clause which will apply to all children be-
fweeu the ages of ten and fourteen years This
clause will take large number of children out OF
factories and workshops AS to the quality OF edu-
cation in Scotland now, The London Times states
that ii compares very fayorably with that OF edu-
cation in Engaad. For while IN England each
scholar ON an average made 2.4S tout of three
passes in 1882, III Scotland each childs average was
o67 Or to put this fact another way, while Ill
England 20 per cent passed in reading, IN Scotland
the percentage was 90. Again. with writing tue
English percentage was under 81, against over 81
IN scotland. and with arithmetic the percentages
fore. the children can but be compelled to attend
school in Scotland, 1t is certain that they will re-
celye there as satisfactory elementary education
Ms is TO be obtained anywhere in Great Britain.
1he Philadelphia Record utters strong plea in
favor of the study of science in the public schools
.Were science once properly taught in our Schools,
II saws. "a check could be given to some OF the
furces which seem 10 be disintegrating society
Wealth. with the power and position accompanying
it, ia now sought for so anxiousy that not only tie
rights of Others bat those of the individual sell are
ignored in the struggle to obtain 1T. Were men
taught from infancy the certainty that punishment
will in this life surely follow sin against nature,
and that an outraged society will in various ways
revenge an injury done 10 its nembers-were these
things taught with the same persIsteney with
which the doctrines of hell and the devil. and how
10 cheat the DEVIL are inculeated, the millennium
would soon commence"
Oberlin College has established a chair of Politl-
cal Economy and international Law, and has called
TO fill it NJ James Monroe formerly United States
Minister to Brazil.
An educational convention will be held at Louis
VILE KY, OH September 10. the object of which is
to consider the question of popular education in the
South, how best to promote its interests, and from
what source the needed funds may be derived with
which to advance its standard to the require
rrnts of the times 1t is said that the prevailing
sentiment of the convention will be in favor of
Federal aid to education.
The Chicago Herald declares that tho new CON-
puls,ry law OF Illinois is dead failure. first be-
cause there are school accommodations for the
children contemplated by the statue. and secondly
because by the terms of the law, no adequate
punishment is provided for those who break it.
The Iablic School, The Primary Teacher and The Ain
degarten Messenger of Boston and The Teachers Com
p0ni0R of this city. have been merged together.
The united publication will be called Tie american
Teacher, aud will be published in Boston, 1t bids
fair TO be excellent and useful PERIODICAL judging
from the first number.
Professor H. F. Taylor. until recently the principal
Of the Central High School of Cleveland. Ohio. has
been elected principal of the Free Academy OF
Rochester, n. Y.
Tie PrOrideRcc Journal hopes that the new :Iuancy
law OF Rhode Island ill be wisely and judioiousy
enforced Manufacturers" it says. las class.
are wiling enough to obey this OF any such law;
the parents are the that urge even through
falsehood the employment of children and little
more I1gorous punishment of those who actually do
wrong would repress some of the evils this law is
intended to aunihilate This truant law has been
enacted because of manufacturing towns and
foreign population. The enforcement of 1T is
promised 10 be a compromise. 1t goes too far upon
one theory of government, and does not go far
enough upon the other. But it may and rightly
enough be SAID, the circumstances are what they
are; evil Is admitted; 1t is better to pet than to
punish; educate the children and perhaps they will
work. Now it Is TO be hoped that the towns will
choose for truant officers sensible with them
Che manufacturers will gladly and tremendously
work; let the law have full and fair trial, and be
srdo nod hv tic nra ctical results ~