Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-05
EDUCATIONAL T

The Connecticut hcuse has passed a res.
olution appropriRting g., 600 for the Storrs
agricultural school.
The New York legislature has passed a
bill retiring school teachers on half
pay upon reaching the nge Of severity
years,
A CO ! has been issued for a state con.
y%ention OF colorei people to be held in
Cincinnati in June, to give expression to
the sentiment Of the race on the school
question.
Prof. Cohn of Breslau believe, that
states lend to shortsighteduess, and would
substitute zen and ink, or an artificial
white slate with black pencil, manufac.
tured in Pilsen Black and white Is
proved by experiment to STAND out l,ost
clearly to the eye. The Zurich school
board forbids states. They are noisy, and
invite dirty habits in erasure
The prosl ects for this summers session
Of the Concord School of Philosophy are
said to be brighter than ever before, and q
number of distinguished lecturers have al.
ready been secured. Frank Sanborn,
whom Governor Butler lately d~esignatedto
take charge of the Tewksbury slmshouse,
will give three lectures on THE History of
Philosophy in America and Julian Haw-
thorne one on ~ he Novel,"
Martha Clay Thomas, Of Baltimore, has
Just taken her degree Of doctor Of philoso.
ply, summa cum laude, ct the University
of Zurich, This means proficiency in
Greek, Provincial, Gothic, old, middleand
new high German, Saxon, Latin, modern
French aud English, The examination in
all def ailments were conducted 10 a for.
| 49, A.z MI. Ill.,. ---l..Y-
of Cornell, after wards studied for a year
at John Hopkins university, and has
just completed a courte ct the University
of Leipsic.
1t Is we'll known that for three or four
years there has been growing dissatisfac-
tion at Cornell University. 1t Ia o great
institution, though comparatively new.
Its pr p rty Is valued at 81, 900, 900, and
its income amounts to 800, 900. But
there has been o marked falling off in the
number of students, and the quality has
lowered. Professors are not of the came
high class as formerly. The institution
has lost in character, standing and inhu.
ence. And there i, grumbling at the uni.
yersity, with no end of complaining and
fault. finding elsewhere.
At o meeting of the Alumni association
held here the other night. Lir. John d.
Warner, who has made q thorough inves.
tigation of the situation, told how the case
stands. The University lost a good deal
by President White spending two or three
years abroad ss minister to Germany, and
it loses q great deal more by his frittering
other matters in which be ceaselessly dab.
tles. He spreads himself over such q
large surface that Cornell gets too thin q
silica of him to do spy good.
A young m who graduated at the
Paterson high school last summer Joined
the training school for teachers, and, &C.
cordipg to custom, was last week assigned
q place as q substitute for q regular teacher
who was i'll. immediately on her appear.
snce at the desk large numbers of the
pupils rushed out of school. The others
became 80 boisterous and manageable
that she was forced to dismiss the school.
Angry parents waited upon the superin.
tendent and insisted on Diminishing her
He agreed, but by some misunderstanding
she appeared at the school sgain, when
pupils and parerts were on the verge of q
mob, the disturbance being quieted only
she will make a good teacher or O poor one
is not yet known, as she had no chance to
try. Owing to her ancestors oversight In
coming originally from Africa, her ekin
WAS disco!ored. Otherwise, for all that
appears, she was q we'll behaved and zap.
able girl.
Industrial education is the subject of
numberless addresses and pamphlets at this
time. Within five year,, or since the cen.
tennial exhibition, technical education has
received agrest impetus in this country.
Beside the trade sch ,ols of the Massaohu.
setts institute of technology, an at Wor.
c%ester, there are several in the west, one
in connection with Washington university
at st. Louis, one at Purdue university in
Indiana. Prof. Woodward, of Washing.
ton university says that their school,
has a capacity of 240 itudents, for o three
years cour.e, in classes of leo, so and 60
respectively. "Our building" he says,
''cost about 500, coo, tools and furniture
SIG, 600, and lot S14, 400, making the cost
of the plant about 500, 400. We yet out to
have the best of everything. plenty of
room AID light, GOOD teachers ana all nee.
essary appiisnces." They have to pay o
good m.chinist and an expert blacksmith
to get men of the requisite skill and ability
to teach. In the first year one division
Of the class has carpentry from 8 to II a..
M, one from IL to /, and one from l to 3;
each division when not at shop work has
grammar, drawing. arithmetic and phys.
icsl geography. In thesecond year o sim.
liar study is made of blacksmithing for
shop work, and of drawing, algebra, En-.
glish history and physics. Perhaps under
physics ia included the laws Of forces, as
usually taught under the name of me.
chanic.. II it ia not, it ought to be.