New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-08
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

r,..ou Jrniversity and there are others "no no
rrrsninp a post graduate course. corfe'p'"%o ,
~ The philadelphia Press has been visiting the onI
ve,sitv. and says in regard to this matter n"
talked with professors and nOn-proleS'o'' ~,
,oan and women students and with such as arc no"
.aorts and the general verdict is that there Is ho
o.,,,,r hotever "a to the success OF co-educaVioh
=. .,otas as naturally healthfully ana as ihuCh
- a. osit;ya heneft of both sexes, az can the DesI
- 80, eIrvating social relations. The men anu
xyomsn behave better and are more seii-tespec'inS
than when educated in one-seX schoos. ha'"'i
mora than half the women live III sage Iolese anu
the other half are lodged i'll various prlVaIe MUSES.
Tbsv are entirely untrammelled,as are the men, Nv
inc how and where they please. and, oil
out the supervision oil matron as III ,,I,,e
school, Ii was believed thar the yUuuS 49,"
who would cone to this University Tor an euuc.ion
would know how to conduct thehlselNos: ~
1vo,uanly way and experience has proven tiis w &c
" go ifbo co,,duct of the women IL thoroughly al
unable Sometimes acquantahcesniP 10 ~ ,ob
between pupils which results ll lniISse' ,i'
rr,ocas OK have been the outcome of social in'er-
orrsa h.re nave been, from what can leaIn, Vi
particularly happy character. huulooI VI ,,,o
women have married professors ana are no" p,i',
suinp postgraduate courses. lie VINO ouuN 800
nnop edncates a generations. Quite number oil
The male students take their meals I'D SAGE C"eso,
aud the students of both sexes SIT at 'he sh.i'o
,ahias In many instances the men and womch az
brothers and sisters, consns or old. az
ances and the protecting influence oil these f
viii add that none OF the Cornell women HaNo
been or are what is popularity denOminaVou S'i'"e
minded"
WRITER in The Rome Sentinel makes the suggest
ion that arithmetic might be made much easier ioi
scholars if they were at the outset made 10 earh
the multiplication table AS far as tweHy c,iivS
twenty lie also advocates the system OF ld0'''"@
numbers as IA great saving OF time ana laoor'
The Augasta Ca Chronicle says that the plan OF
Cban,eor Nell for the establishment Of Schooi Oh
Technology IN the University of Georgia has at
traced great deal of attention throughout 'Ao
State His idea TO iii up work aud machine snolS
under the supervision OF master mechanic lof INC
thorough and practical training OF young men !"
all the uses and appliances OF the mechanic aIls;
The school will be provided with tie oeSV tuu's a
The most skllfnl superntendeuts, so thot when
graduate has gone through his apprenticeship anu
taken the auxiliary course Oh study re may "o 80
to take place at the bench or IoIee anu the
wav into a permanent and paying position III tue
best shops or the country
The recent loss Ct life in school IN TINS cry
through a paIic caused bV fire, has broucht up 'ne
sulect of fre-drill many of the public Schools
throue shout the country. The great difficulty Is
that such drills apt to become ineffective OF Iol
gotten ia the presence of ire. nc eiIo'Ioii"'
5t~re Of children is apt to assert Itself IN danger
despite all rules
For some tine past efforts have been made TO IN
crease tie efficiency of the public schools oil UNA
delphia These efforts. The Philadelphia Leagr saws
have not vet burne much fruit. hut they appear 10
he ON the point of Tewardng with some hopes %
success the faithful, pubIc-splrited men ana women
who have interested themselves IN the work INC
e,r,d,po of the nav of teachers so "a TO make 1t
possible to secure for the primary schoOiS 'eScp"s
abilirv and experience of the highest order was one
long stem III advance. Another was taken whtn tho
BOARD OF Education was authorized 10 appolne d
Snnerintepdent of the Pnbnc Schools, a duty Whlch
TO. aln
Board after long and careful consideration having
unanimously agreed to RECOMMEND ior 'h"' o"'00
Mr. James MacAEsier, OF Milwaukee
The Rev. A. D. Mayo has been delivering Il series
of notab, lectures at the Peabody Institute Balt-
more. on The New Education in the South" In
the last of these he said that Nashville lenn'
leads all the cities in education south or the ONO
md that MARYLAND leads all the States. During the
last wear the Southern States have spent htteen
millions of dollars for all kinds OF schools, more
than twelve millions OF which was LOT puoic
.ehools. THIS year they will spend more than ever
According 10 their means the south IS not iar DC
hind the most favored regions OF the North 10
bring the South education on par with tha' OF the
North would require the annual expenditure Oh
thirty of dollars In al the shaT
euually In Delaware there Is an lnsuncielll pr
vision for the cOiOred children. Inc colOIeu pcOpie
through the South are served eacn wear Dettei anu
hettsT it the story of the struggles of the young
Whit peope IN the academies OF the SOnth was tod
the heart of the nation would be moved, anu many
would contribute to their advancement.
In the State Of Iowa there G03,56S children of
school age. of whom sos, 9s9 are boys and 294,579
are girls 1t is said that the school census is not as
accurately taken AS 1t ought 70 he, and there are
probably more than 1000 children vi school age
in the State not enumerated.
The Harvard Annex" is now in its fourth year
of successful existence. Last week Mrs. Louis
Agassiz in the course of interesting report.
stated that owing 10 its limitations the Annex Ii
yely expensive. The charge per year for full col
Iere course is 5000. $50 more than is paid by Har-
ward stu Tents IL therefore costs those who enter
for the whole four years $780, besides the expense
of living IN Cambridge. The single courses are -
n rear Thus lar the students have beer either
vounp women Citing as teachers or older women
who are already teachers, but who allow them
selves out of their small earnings the luxury "
little change from teaching to learning, that tdey
may 20 back to their work refreshed anc better
prepared. To these are to be added not few
women of scholarly tastes with means TO crafty
them, who come to study under higher auspices
simply because tleY enjoy it. we have bad as
vet" che says in conclusion, no nlghty students,
brought by the novelty Of the thing, and very little
fragmentary, half-digested work Certain anx-
ietes respecting the presence OF young women as
oversight of their daily lives have vanished on
nearer approach. Our students are scattered ny
twos and h-ees in Cambridge families, their l0ig-
ings being chosen fer them by their friends, or by
the ladies OF our executive committee. Ihey
ouietly pursue their occupation unnOtlced as the
daughters of any Cambridge residents, nor mas any
objection or obstacle arisen Oh that score"
In a recent lecture before the stu dents of Johns
Hopkins University. Professor Stanley Hall said
that the fundamental dea of modern education
must be that the peculiar traits of each individual
must be sought out and his natural spheres Of
thought that is, the class of Ideas on which 1T IS
easiest for him 10 think. developed by the teacher
who is not the master but rather the minister 10
the one Taught The special plea OF tue lecture was
of a Innre cOnslstent and sYstematIc