New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-04
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

Professor Wait. OF Cornell University. has now IN
successlul operation II novel method oi instruction.
which he has invented and deveiope" hlh'seh'
About two years ago lie began giving ihstuc"on
hv lctter to a pcrsoual friend who was unable 70 .
enjoy tue advantages Of a univ ersity course. Inc
plan worked VOL. The textbook chosen was !
divided INTO number Of sections. On each oil /
these Professor Wait prepared an elaborate /
syllabus, culArglng the subject from every po.h'
OF view, aud furnishing list Of questions ne
pupil cook g.. .vl,ahus separately, maSleIo" ID
,oucb asD.. ri H. aud sent by mail TO tie Pro
lessor the p . yGIch had proved 700 dihcnb 10
he masJer- iroyis was made Tor thorough
examination at stated intervals, winch cou!a a!So
be conducted bv mail In this way the idea grew,
until Professor Wait has class Oh unity on G
pro 'essors in colleges IN the United Stat's ano
England ana complete courses Oh lhs'Iuc''op H"'0
been prepared. IN various stuGIeS'
Tho Mount Hermon schools which NED L. Moody
has recently opened start ont with every prospect
OF success More than 100000 has already been
expended for buildings and land and another stuc-
turo TO cost $50 600 will o. he added when there
will be eight altogether. They got their name
from the fact that Mr. Moody had serious CbJcc-
tons to naming them after any living man. ann
Mount HermOn was chosen as safely blOIic"i. as
to the kind OF boys taken, only those morally ceah'
with good minds are wanted. The schools are by
themselves in the midst of fields, because N.Y. hoo"y
believes that children should not see temptation
until their minds are matured. One OF the trustees
saws that every boy of the forty now on the grounoS
has an eyentml history. One was taken by a PM
antnropist tom Il New-Yovl elevator, not having
any homo in the great city; another was a cast
AWAY at sea without kindred three bright httle lads
were the sous of Liverpool lawyer, VINO Win
their mother died suddenly, leaving them pennlessi
and so on through the list, Back cl most OIL iue
boys some man stands as iIlent aI e"H I
grand plan is 20 give the boys good, pracucai
education, with sound physical training hhter ih9
influence OF o Christian home. IL was llyehutu
THAT the aoCs should work two houIG, study Two
hours aud play two hours daily. THIS is practically
carried out the boys getting Attic pucketmouey by
working overtime. The farm salargs one, and VITA
the addition to he made, viii 900 acres OF I"uu
beautifully Land out and slopng up from tne oinec
tcut he land being divided INTO three Elaeaus ana
the buildings set back about fifty rods from the
county road.
The Freshman Glass " Harvard this year num-
bers 50. and at Yale 40.
The old Teachers Institute Of Philadelphia has
been revived by Superintendent MchSter It's
object stimulate an interest am2ms the
teachers in the best methods OF al anrng 'heI pro-
fesSIOu.
Sioux Falls N Dakota has an excellent system OF
graded schools which will bear comparison with
many IN the East. The Collegiate Institute OF the
BAPTIST Church in Dakota mas been located IN Sioux
Falls,
Heretofore It las been the custom in Philadelphia
TO place the girls the third story OF the 'cnooi
buiIdipgs Many of the parents Obocting to this
IN tho score Of health, and II may he that some
change IN this matter VIII hc MADE
We have never been able TO UNDERSTAND says
gEs SIM Francisco AggOHGt why the children Oh
wealthy parents should DO educated at the expense
Of the community" To tins Tie Sacramento hecora.
Union answers that the public schools are for ALL
and that wealth is not yet CRIME. II Hose VINO 40
not nay much toward the support OF the hcu""S Ale
entitled TO thciI privileges, certainly also arc lhoSe
,,bo contribute largely to theiI support " What
the State should do" 1t saws IS TO encourage moie
tonrrsDe the higher courses: to make knowledge
GO nroaa nd free as is possible and TO cultivate by
all desirable means tue sDlrt OF inquiry AL" tEe
studious habit, ms cad Of trusting 70 the Yontu,
after dismissal from the granE'ar glde7 90 tuLsu
of his own voitIon those historical sclehIIG aUl
rncrIanical studies essential TO broad knowledge
Of the past the possibilities OF the present. ana Ill
intimate communion with nature
aft will not be long" says The Chicago ErsnipC
1o,,,nol IN speaking OF the new Manual Training
SeEaoI of thai CITY " before the kindergarten viii
he made a permanent part Of the public school
,,, in every considerable city, IS the first act IN
tc IA, educational drama OF the people. While NJ
the other end of the plan we shall see tie technical
institute and the manual training schoOi esaDiisheu
md doing their grand part, in which preliminary
destruction in all the trades VIII DO gwen thaI He
embraced by the phrase skilled 'abor' NAeh INA,
uusplcious day arrives the college bred uah VIII
not he the most helpless person in the community
os he now often is but will have some practical
knowledge of the ways and means by which hs can
.aro q loaf Of bread. Then the education Of The
hand will not be neglected while the head is beng
craumcd full of the dead languages ana the grad
,,tcs from al institutions of learning III he better
caujpred than most Of them now arc to begin lIit
fHTr themselves. II goes without saying that tLt
10 her, of tie Commercial Club have Lana tn,
Sorner-.tone of monument for themselves lar more
enduring than any one tha5 nlsht DC DuILt o
-'.,T,lr o. granite When AbJu Ben Adhcm awok'
frS'n fiat sweet dream Of peace and saw the ange
wTrtIur IN a boil: OF gold, he tred ID van 10 &c
h,sovyn name recorded III 1t. but was doEied, nhJi
8" hg,cI his clam upon the good lie hah d"re u
nthcrs-. And 10! Ben Athens name lod all TN
rest "