New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-02-07
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

The Cleveland school authorities are considering
tbe ouestion of abolishing semi-annual examina-
tions.
Sir John Lubbock publicly declared the other day
that the neglect of science and of modern IAN
cnaces in the English schools was o national mis-
fortune. In despite of the Code, however some
school boards do teach science In one pan
birmingham the science lesson was gwen Oh ""9".
ing dav and the science lesson was SO popu", '"'''
,be ,notbers could not keep their girls ~ hoino'
and they were obliged to change the Washing oS9'
m. new Manual Training School for boys IN Chi-
,.,, his inst been opened. Sixty-hve pupils were
in their places The study of Latin Is optional
Int il has been chosen by thirty-one OF the pupils
The value of school property in the south Is
about $4,000. 600 against S1oS,oOo'ooo IN 'he
North. The Rev. DR.. Gray, oil Little hock' Sd! >
that one city In the North circulated more DOCKS III
i. single wear than eleven Southern States
The following question is to be the subject OF an
essay for which prize of $40 has been offered 10
tbe teachers of Gloucester County, n. J.' Nhat
notifications of our common school system are
necessary TO elevate teaching to the dignity oil a
profession and toinduce teachers to make IL lie
worki
The annual catalogue OF Princeton JUST PuO
Iished. shows that the faculty now numbers thirty
and lecturers The John C. Green schooi Oh SCI
snce established in 1873, and now ninety VI
Vanized and equipped with library laDora'o a.,
and museum. has eghty-six students Inc
DEPARTMENT of Philosophy, founded py q sii'
of S15OOOO from Mrs. Robert L. STUART
of New-York, is more recent, ana mas IoV
compIeted its organization chair OF Ethlcs VII
he added next autumn and graduate courses VIII
he established in most branches OF TINS department.
Tho School of Art endowed by the trustees OF the
late Frederick Marquand, of New-York, has course
NJ lectures ON art, by Professors Marquand and W.
G. Prime. LII. d. The college has now six fellow
ships and a number of medals and prizes. lhere
are 500 students in all OF the departments.
Mr.. sintha, a Hindu gentleman, has carried OH
from all his fellow-students of the Inns OF Court
in London the prize offered by the Council OF Legdi
Edncation for such extensive and various subjects
as Romanl law Jurisprudence constitutional law ana
legal history.
There is an extraordinary over-production OF
,chool-books in Germany. There are 16o school,
hooks on religion, Of which exactly half the num-
her have been introduced into one single educa-
tional establishment, while only sixteen are used
In more than ten schools, and only one IN more IMAM
100. OF the 1914 schoolbooks used In German
high schools, $50 is the highest number used at
all, and only twenty-five have been introduced
into more than 100 schools OF all these books the
most popular is "Pl0tz's School Grammar" which
holds its place in 366 schools Another, the Ger
man Reader Hopf and Paulsick, is also greatly
appreciated; but with these exceptions, few can
he said to have reached any widespread popularity
This state of things may partly be due to the great
defect often noticed and complained OF by German
sehoolmasters. that German authors cannot adapt
their style to the requirements of the young.