New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-21
NOTES ON EDUCATION

NOIES YIN EDCOA
The authorities of France have taken up u. A.
NJ the health of school children oon'"'e.'''
subject was appointed some time ago. anu - 49,.
~ before the Minister of Education In II 'here hro
- ..,norts abont cleanliness that were TO be ex-
,o,oa no n matter of course, and some CONCLUSIONS
-, costume that are rather surprising III seems
.ha, French children generally, and especially the
.b;dren of the very poor, are dressed much 700
warmlv In the schoolrooms they wear nearly all the
cnter garments and wraps which they wear 3ut oi
Soors The report recommends the abOltlon nv law OF
tbs senseless custom and the substitution OF nght
beaddress for girls instead of the heavy and cnmOr0s
bonnet which they now %,a me Of aIl"wipe
children Ia run about bare legged and ottentlmes pare
headed II will shock many people to hear that IN
matters of dress the French not the teachers OIL the
world
The PENNSYLVANIA Military Academy. located at
Chester continues TO maintain its high reputation for
The thorougbncss of its training aud discipline IN
speaknp of Il Colonel Theodore Hyatt It's pres'dcht
said a few dsvs ago: The Academy has loo students
generally on duty II takes only boardcrs ana - VI
paniyed similarly 90 the West Point Military Acsd'nyn
Sta military department Our graduates arc spec'"'iy
instructed In civil engineering. We have now one
hundred cadets In that department They nave al inc
training for the army, aud may JON nc my Vn
eeiyinn an appointment Our system oi mHtiuoupn ~
similar 20 that Of wcst Point, oil classes being di'ld,d
dtlied every day IN each branch of study lao is pun
suing. That Ia the Wost Point method
"The Pail Mall Gazette thinks that II Is an acton
,hn, thing that no real school Of history ancient ns
well as modorn-should ~ get exist al Oxford
Dr. Isaac NJ Wise. president Of the Hebrew Union
College has Just made his annual report 10 the Board
of Governors of the college. The institution II III IA
fourishing condition. Among the suggestions IN the
report was one having reference 10 the Moses Monte
I..lf If4f he
chair shall be that of Sacred Literature. The char is
10 he filed NV one of the most scholarly rabb IN this
country The hall in the college building 10 be SET
anart for this purpose shall he dedicated the centen
NAL birthday of the great phlanthropsi who mas en-
lowed the pTOessOrshp. The proposition VIII CONT
ND Tor final execution the next meeting OF the Board
At recent meeting of the International Conference
on Education in London Earl Fortescue read an inter
esing paper on the necessity of teaching agriculture
very large part of England, he said, was still I'M
guestionably occupied by renting farmers tthe ques-
ton, therefore, of agricultural teaching was OF con-
siderable importance The education of young farmers
need not begin before the age of eleven or twelve
They would of course, 60 to elementary schools II
was when the lad got older and more advanced that
some difference in the system of his teaching was de-
.irable Then il was that the higher mathematics and
literature taught to the upper casses might advan
tageously he replaced by more useful subjects After
quitting their intermediate schools at about sixteen
the Young farmers should be taken home by their
fathers 10 assist their farms, and begin 70 learn
farming in earnest. The difficulties OF establishing
regular training school for young farmers were very
great The chief difficulty was the expense necessi-
lated by the uuproductyeness of the farm. ITS re
sources beng devoted rather to teaching the pupils than
raising the crops.
A wealthy gentleman of New Orleans" says The
Worcester Gazette" has lately left municcnt git
10 thepublic of a million dollars for educational pur
poses on terms which have been accepted and mutual
and amicable arrangements have been made between
the State and the Louisiana University to put the fund
90 an immediate and practical use. This university
which has an endowment of perhaps 900 or more
n law school a medical school and library, with
considerable attendance of students in proportion TO its
limited means TO receive the benefit of this fund and
10 he called in the name Of the donor, the Tulane Uni
Versitv The president l. William Johnston Professor
John NJ Ordway of the School Of Technology in Bos-
ton in this State has been offered and has accepted
the chair of industrial chemistry a position normally
The same ~ that which he has so long and capahly
filed IN the Massachusetts institution II - part oi
the plan however, to deyelopa technical department
IN the university and TO this work Professor Ordway
will give his experience and his administrative ability.
Technical schools rapidly mlupl ing now and
Increasing their scope that informed the stock
Of trained teachers is insufficient for the demand This
Louisiana experiment, which can hardly be caI.d
dOui tiul, Is an ILLUSTRATION IN new quarter " th'
country II will Ice regarded with interest ana hp-
provh at the North"
The School Savings Banks Of France have been won
derfhly successful In 1879, five years after their
foundation there were 1870 schools provided with
such buks and 2242OO dcpustois The numbers
have now risen 70 ~, l5I schools, and 412O2l de
positors.
In 1881 the average income Of male teachers in Yer
mont was 81 - a week IT has risen - - %.
The female teachers in 1881 were paid 50 y week.
which sum he increased 10 - Ol in 1881 il IL
also stated that the number of schools and teachers has
very considerably decreased within the pcrod