New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-31
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

parishes and to create popular sentiment IN favor
of education. 1t will arrange lectures on the SUI
ject and make appeals to the Legislature n
Teachers Association is, moreover being organ|ou,
and an Exposition" of school systems ana naVe.'"
will further fulfil the purposes oil the au'hoi''0'
Prof HINTS edition of Caedmon has been IeceiV-
ing favorable criticism at the hands OF froi' Maion
The NOW Women's College which it is proposed 10
establish at Baltimore is to be strictly Methodist
institution.
School Superintendent Rowland, of Chicago. de-
clared that too much home study Is required espc-
cially of the younger pupils. To assign TASKS lie
saws for the second third grade pupils 10 per-
MEX themselves over at home seems to border very
close upon the absurd, if not the inhuman, as re-
CARDS both pupil and parent Perhaps when our
schools shall be provided with libraries suited to
the wants of the pupils, the home reading may De-
come a safeguard and delight.
The cost of the Chicago schools during the past
wear has been 81 80 upon the school census $lo oz
upon number enrolled. $50 81 upon average daily
membership and sol IL upon average daily attend
ance
A bill providing for uniformity of textbooks IN
tbe Iowa schools has been introduced In the LeeiS
lature of that State.
Pa,atinate College. located at Myerstown, fennr
which n wear ago was about closing l's uooIs ioi
want of patronage, and would have peen cioso" i'u
Dr William NJ Rely not consented TO assume con-
49,, ON his own financial responsibility. now has
ohout eighty students. 1t is the property OIL the
lebanon Chassis of the Reformed Church.
Trinity College at Hartford is said to be in excel
LIT condition and TO have unusually favorable
prospects -,
Superintendent Anderson, of Milwaukee, mas
made. at the request of the School Board formal
report on the subject of home study After que
examination and consideration, he recommends the
abolition of such study He holds that the prac-
tce often operates the positive injury oil the pu
nil. both mentally and physically. The evidence
nosred nv teachers ard principals is conclusive
upon this point. The practice is unnecessary al
lowing however some exceptions for the sake OF
discjplining negligence dleness, maklng-up OF
older or backward pupils whose physical growth
has outstripped natural mental development ana
who ill consort with younger pupils with whom
they are cassed. That it is unnecessary is demon
straed by the fact that in two or three schOos the
assignment of home lessons, except to the higheSt
classes is not practised; and it is conclusive to say
that these schools well-known to hold SUI
peror character equal TO any graded schools IN the
city or in the State.
A lady has lately, for the first time, been ap-
ortod 40 one of the lecturers to the Oxford AssO-
citation for the Education of Women. Her name is
Mrs Marshall and her subject Is Political Economy
nnder the subtitle of Labor, the Economic Con-
ditons of its Wel-being"
President William F. Warren, of Boston Univer-
sitv presents in his tenth annual report some inter
esting statistics on the university education OF wo-
men, which were lately made public by NJ Ira
senster Rector of the University OF Lege In NJ
Trasensters review of the continental nations only
Germany, Austria and Spain are represented as sta
tionary or retrograding. In Portugal, on the con-
n hoop mi SSlO
of the University of COmbre to prepare plan OF
university reform which shall include conditions
for the admission of women. Even in Russia there
is something of progress In all the other coun-
fries of occidental Europe women are admitted to
the university instruction and examinations" In
Italy women are IN attendance at Turin. Pavia,
Padua Bologna, and Rome In the Swiss UNIVERSE
ties ftv-two were in attendance at Geneva, thirty
six at Berne and twenty at Zurich. In Paris the
Faculty of Sciences and Letters has already promo
fed one hundred and thirteen to degrees and special
dinlomas: the Faculty of Medicine has conferred
TWENTY-FIVE diplomas andhas at present fifty other
Etudantes under instruction. The zeal OF the Repub-
lie in establishing new secondary schools for girls
will in a short time greatly increase the number
prepared for university studies. In the University
of Copenhagen six women were admitted last year.
At Upsala one was promoted to the degree OF DOC
tor of Philosophy the first in the history of that
of twenty years sustained the discussion of her
thesis excited great admiration. The session was
closed with an allocutiOn by the rector who set
forth the high importance of the occasion Tor the
civilization of Sweden and for the future of woman
in that country" IL Holland the status OF the uni
versities was as follows Amsterdam, men $780,
women IS; Groningen, men 347, women IL ; Ley
den men, 49, women 4 Utrecht, men 400, wo-
men T. The University of Leyden admitted women
e., tlof trcf fpa In
stiles the number Of young women attending upon
the instruction is rapidly increasing. The Uniyer-
stv of Client admitted both last year for the
first time The Universities at Brussels and Llege
have been open to women but year or two longer
and at the latter of these the attendance of young
women the current year is three times as great
lacking one as last year. NJ. Trasenster closes his
sketch of the progress made with what he naturally
calls an important result" He says: Il have
submitted to the authorities of the universities
:pen TO young women the following question :;
what are the results of the admission of women
mon the studies the discipline, and upon the con-
dnct of the other studentsf' There has been
complete unanimity in the verdict that their admis-
sion has occasoned inconvenience whatever,
and several have declared that it has had tavora-
BILE influence thus confirming the facts observed in
England and America"
The faculty of Boston University is now cOnsid-
<ring plan of candidacy and OF promotion by
which the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology may,
as President Warren says, " be eGectuay redeemed
from the dishonored and cheapened condition to
which its reckless beStowment by American col
leges cdusd honoris has reduced it," There are now
lOl students in the University, So of whom are wo
There arc sixty-nne more students at Cornell
University now than were in attendance in Janu-
ary. 1888. The number of students who registered