New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-03
NOTES ON EDUCATION.


The Editor of the Union College Catalogue asks
all alumiui to inform him of any public positions
held nv them. political judicial or military, and
also 10 inform him what literary degrees they are
entitled to.
The Hartford Conn., Free kindergarten has
been very successful during the past year.
There will be a summer school of languages TINS
summer at Amherst College, beginning on July and
lasting five weeks 1t will be under the direction
of Professor William l.. Montague. Among the IN
s.ructors will be Professors Montague and Bernard
in French, Italian and Spanish; Professors Heness
and Zuelhg in German and Professor r. . S nun,
way of Rutgers College, in Latin Presoeh' SGeeSo
and Professors CTowell aud Manner VIII oo"'oi
lectures before the STUDENTS
The State Superintendent of Education in PEN
eyiysnia complains of the teachers of tho puollc
schools that they faro perpetually chang'hg'
Year by year they como and go, and gam ohly
transient acquaintance they hurry by. :, =
They seem almost as pedagogic tramps, not teacn-
ers.D The low average salary given anis ~ nav ex
both male and female, in Pennsylvania Ilay 70
nlain their restessness. In one county the average
Tor female teachers is S15 ga month, ana III Vho
city of Philadelphia it is 500 40 month.
Two new buildings for the State University ..
Indiana arc about to be erected and will be finished
by the list of December next ,
The Memphis 5ppeal says that the crying need OF
Tennessee is education. There are not schools
enough" il saws. THE Misunderstanding the ot"'e
at large-are not accomplished enough; ana "neI0
schools are opened the terms are not long enough.
Those who have read the last educational report OF
the State. while rejoicing at what is done, cannot
~ ,norrn that much greater effort is not made.
If aver Tennessee is to stand before the world WIN
that its due it must educate IFS cru
yens What gives Ohio its singular prominence
amoup the States-its natural advantages ~
not as compared with Tennessee; but It's puoic
schools its population of men and women VINO r Cuu
a1 nd think NC want more euncdlIou IN
nessee-education for the laborer as wen as loi .o
merchant and the lawyer edpealon doT rno 6np
as we'll as for the white. II we are 10 rev our
State constitutions let one of the OBJECTS DC 10 50
mould il as TO make education as universal "' o"'
youthful population" .
President Bascom, of the State University OF WIS
consiu. which is situated in the city of Madison
saws that the students of the University are eX-
posed 10 many temptations in that city, and he calls
nnon the civic authorities to do something TO make
Madison more moral. Many yOung men, nc SAYS
have been ruined during their connection WIN INC
University He calls especially for tine enforcement
of the law regulating the sale OF lhtoAlcA'InE
liquors.
The Pedagogical Society Of St. Louis has adopted
strong resolutions in favor of compulsory euuca-
ton. from which the following extract is taken (;
Though the States have provided hDcrally loI 'he
maintenance of public schools that they might
avoid the evils incident to a population ignorant
and unframed in the requirements OF a successlui
c;ti7ensbin vet their full purpose is defeated by
the large number of children put to work too sooh
or. as street gamins, forming the germ OF hoodlum
pest The results from this condition are evident:
First-A distinct class kept in ignorance. second
Child labor usurpng the place of adult laoor,
Third-The lowering Of the physical ana moral
yigor of the community consequent on child laoor'
Fourth-A criminal class nurtured IN HSt!esS OPP
position to all demands of society," 1t is the inhc-
ton of the State to provide for the individual what
fyse lrr
common veal NAV be secured, ii the same cannon
be secured by his own eXertlons. Anu Oh thls
ground alone is taxation for pqbhc educalioh .ea
ble The publc schools have been formed by the
State for it's own protection and assistance ana II
NOT accepted voluntarily by individuals, III is inc
further right and duty oil the St4te 10 cVhPSi az
tendance Under proper limits of age and scholar
ship in some efficient school, puDllc' paTocnldi W
private. The active cooperation OF every one u
ierested in the suppression of hoodlumlsn, chlidr
labor and ignorance is required" Tue opuuohs vi
many eminent educators have also heen o1talned
Inv the society, all of whom express themselves III
fSvor of compulsory education in some form.
Superintendent Kerlin, of the Pennsylvania Train
inc school for Predetermined Children, has been
investigating the causes of feeble-mlndedress III
children. Five hundred cases were examined VI
these. fftv-fve children were of consunptive stocK'
six were the offspring of paralytcs, aud hitcen Oh
enileptics Ten of the children were oescehueu
from insane parents and seventeen ITO" "e'A-
minded parents. The parents Of thrty-Iour were
nervously disordered and thrtyeight, or less than
8 per cent incorporate. The parents OF seven OF
the children had married being too closely related
nv blood Turning from the cause TO the effect, the
snneTintendent states that twenty of the children
Iyare onbaslc that is had not the faculty of remen-
herring Fifteen were afflicted with hydTOcephalus,
big-headedness and twenty-fOur with mlcroccpha-
ins or small headednesS. Twenty-nine were victims
of ~ Nltus dance, fourteen with braln-leSlon, ana
fwentv-one with epilepsy. -Four of the children
were radically insane, and twenty-one belonged 10
Tho first grade of imbecility. here are now IN
Penpsylvania 5000 imhecile persons, OF whom
3 600 are under eighteen years OF age.
MIR. Sasaki Sato recently read papcron Student
Life in japan at q meeting OF the Johns Hopkins
Literary Society lie said that 10 be good japanese
student requires considerable work. " Although,
he said. ave study many languages, we do not
study what YOU call the classics so there is no need
at present in Japan for Mr.. Charles Francis Adams
lam afraid students in Japan overwork, but they
have all sorts of amusemenis fencing with swords
ofbamboo. spearing, wrestling, and they have IN
Produced baseball. When they grow tired they 70
10 story-telling public speaking and debating So
cietles Students have begun 10 take some part in
nolitical debates We have two part1eS-~the Con
seryatiye and RadIcal-and the students take sides
and room together according TO their political feel
inQs The feeling became 50 great that the Govern
meDt ruled that no students under the senior class
could take active part in politics. Student life from
II ..s.fa - vary nj