New-York tribune., 1884-10-02
NOTES ON EDUCATION

Tho Nebraska State University has now 40
studcuts This wear 10 conditions have been allowed
ON the studies required for admission 30 the first wear
Of the Latin school and many applicants were there
fore rejected The university Is very prosperous
The whole number of freshmen admitted 10 the walls
Of Harvard this autumn Is 2s3.
Tho Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology has this
autumn the largest freshman class in its history. 1t
will number nearly three hnndrcd sStJ-thiee be-
long to the Lowell School of DcTgn.
There i. said 70 he . growing scu'im,u nj in Virginia
in favor of higher education The colleges of the state
are well oaninpcd. and rapidly Increasing the
number of their studcnts.
1.-THE school Board chldrcn in London do not rapid
Is absorb wisdom the reason may he in the facts dc
tailed by Dr Crichtnn Browne. IN official report
which was suppressed 10y the Education Department.
In one school vistrd,' hc says the head mistress
assured me that to her certain knowledge - many
~ peg Of the girls 10 school without break
fast in the depth Of winter; IN nroilcr school con
vcIscd with boys standard Of GG. with fourteen
b0ys in standard Of 80. and with ~ standard Of
6G who had had no breakfast that morning. aud there
"a dreadful monotony Ia the way IN which. IN reply
10 my qucric, the of their abstinence. the
changes were rung Oh these answers: Father ont OF
work Father in the hospital ,; NO bread in the
house; Mother lays abcd. The last of these answers
! came to understand was often childish euphenl-
ism for drunkenness for the morning stupor that
follows a nights debaucl In still another school in
which starvation abounded | learned that it was
uncommon thing for poyerty-strickcn mother per-
haps charwoman or fower-scller who
had had to send her child to school without food.
because there was neither food, money.
eys worth in the house. to arrive at the schoohouse
in the forenoon after she had and had earned
nd ak IN hp ALL IN han n a
of bread her starving child Many childrenin Lon
don who are never actually without food still par
tally starved fo- what they get to eat innuirous,
or insufficient in amount. The loaf is sometimes the
utmost that the family resources can compass, ana
where there are number of mouths there is but snail
bit for each Bread and weak tea form the sole sus-
tenance of many children for prolonged periods
Other children left wholly unprovided by their
parents and have to forage hest they for them
selves. / found lad immersed III geography who
had had breakfast and whose dinner had consisted
of two rotten oranges thrown away from hncksters
stall. In all this there is an aggrayation OF the
suffering and risks They are listess and drowsy, as
all teachers know and their drowsiness is protective
measure t.ken by the conservative instinct Their
blood is impoverished, and has enough 10 do to keep
essential vital processes going; it can spare moth
ing fcT reconstruction and the less wear and tear
and tissue waste there are the better. The best thing
they can do s TO sleep remain torpid for in such
states all the functions proceed slowly and less
wasefully and the thing they do is TO work.
TO them of their conservative drowslness.
and insist on their using their brains is to enhance
their wretchedness. by tearing away Natures anaes-
fhetc and to place them in fresh peril by stimulating
organ that can only perform its highest functions
safely when it is well nourished And to do this is
really to n1ict PAIN and risks to little o: no pur
pose; for the starved brain is incapable OF dong
truly fruitful work. To educate II half-sarved chlld
at all is to it, and the facts that there are
number of half starved children in London schools,
and that they are not merely being educated but
prepared for eXamination-the same exaninato
which has to be passed by their plump wellied COM
panons-s to substanatc the statement that educa-
tiOna OytrpressuIe exists"
vassar College has graduated 500 students in the
regular Since the year 1867 twentyseeen OF
these have died. and 1sS married. The college has
given the second degree in TO twentyone of its
students the completion Of post graduate courses.
One rccsycd the second degree from Cornell the
degree of liz B from Michigan University enc has
held a Fellowship at Johns Hopkins Fifteen OF the
alumnae are practising physicians; three have filed
s,rships at Wellesley Pennsylvania aud Buchie
colleges The list Of occupations further includes two
organists three bookkccprrs, two instructors III cnt IN
heal lahoratores thirteen principals Of schools one
clerk in the Census Bureau at Washington. two farm
,rs one insurance agent, two hundred and iOpr teach
,,e three artists one clerk IN = law Office four libra
risns one copyIs ten music teachers two assistants in
ohscr, atores two journalists, three teachers ol gym
na.c. one missionary. two chemists two public read
efs tircs authors aud Assistant state Superin-
i,ud,uf ol Public Insuiclinu