New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-07-24
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

.0,oo, noru,atou OF San Francisco bas become 10
rc. m there are not buildings enough Tor inc reoep
tion and instruction OF the cmiureh' .,.
Al Cambridge University the Previous hAa"ia""o "
O.. n. h.d I'm the future three tunes year-in juno
O..her and December Students will thus be enapeo 10
- ,,a,r little GO as soon they commence resdence
and can then begin at the special study whch mas
drawn them to the University. The boon whch Is mus
conferred on men who wish TO commence suoec' whVh
a, ,v ~ them IL very considerable. They can read Tor
,ss Go before comss to Cambridge, aud nsyng
pas ed a. begin work for their Irpos lnsteas "
10 spend their nIst term Owe ,hny little or no
TASTE The medical students for e1anee VIII loIin -
I H.f class to who" the alteration will DC =" "1'
Vermont now has 2,290 school districts ana -'-oo
schools decrease OF three schools since 1888 Inv
average number of days on which instructor WAS ENo"
during the year was only 1877. The numocr of pups eli"
rolled shows small but constant dlmlnutea uo" you
10 wear In 1879 was 767s2; 746t6 IN 1851 -
600 in 1882: and - 2s3 in 1884, This shows oe'Ie"o
of 400 pnrs IN the five years ls79lsSl-a d'nu''oh
which can hardly b. terned encouraging i"''o - "
large decrease In the number Of male teacuo''
were 67s In 1881 653 1852 500 In 1883 anu o4o ~
1854 The number of female teachers remains aoou'
~ t.chers who have attended Vermont Normal scuoo
the number grows smaller cvfrg ye .m. 70 show thatn
this respect at least the Norma schools are n1Iey S
eompshsg ssc pSaric. have been increased In
1851 male teachers received an average weeKy s'au
a.
moe saws The Burlington Free Press tnAn 10 palu lH
this civ 10 the lowest class Of unsklled lSOor' lhr
female teachers 1881 paid the prLcey saarv OF
81 81 per week considerably less taxing Ooau lntS
accounU than female doHe'cS receive IN nS Siy 'H
wear the, get So OF per week" The eniy respect IN
which superintendent DARTS figures show handsome N
crease ia In the cost of the schools IN ls19 the ehue
cost q, the schools $40 929 this year IL - SOU
$50 and this with fewer teachers fewer Pupils ahu
fewer scsoos than five years ago Inc asgIcE"'o Va Va"
increase IN the teachers wages Is Only a tlhe'
tn, faculty of Berlin University instituted an
Academic Union for Christian archaeology, for the pur-
nose Of encouraging the study OF the early ChstSs era
and IFS monumental theology win reference 10 the sP
picaon OF this science 10 The practical cieric&l Gaming
of the students.
The fear that the feminine mind VIII not be aOe 10 ell
lure the strain university course seems 10 DC asS-
mated nv the experience of Mrs Bryant This lady re-
Gently took at the University of London the degree o.
Doctor of Science stated that her work Tor the
degree has been carried on simultaneously Tor i've years
with teaching of ugh order attended vita conslueipe
hematical mi stress AZ wcll-KnoWh NcHoo
Tor prls In the sp-cia branch selected by MIS- bryant
aent. and moral science, wlich include the phNsolosf
of the nervous system and political economy only oHc
man ha. hitberlO been passed by the examiners