New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-01-22
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

IT, nov, bp;dinp s are needed for the accommodation
&c ,he scientific and industrial departments OF the
State University OF Nebraska
saxs a writer in The LoDdon Academy y:
"Tbe very favorable reception which the
movement for the foundation of teaching
university in London has met with warrants
the belief that il is destined TO supply real need ana
at the same time calls upon all those VINO nave
genuine interest the project to discuss ana cricSe
II from every side The comments OF the duiy press
have been friendly, but not peculiarly suggestive Ine
general public less inclined OF late years 10 loon WIN
conpete srspcion on every educational enterprise mds
boen fairly sympathetic, but somewhat p'nzeu' nc
,dea of second university ia London mas apPe1ieu W
4; somewhat supc, uos and although several German
municipalities provide two universities Ior P9pua
Tess than that of the metropolis IL Is hot an Wa me
IN find favor with the economic blloh' we 'ahn,S
helm feeling that the promoters OF the scheiue No".
have done we'll first to have brought strongly nome TO
the nnblic the fact that London does not possess any
n,varsitv at all The nearest approaches to such an
institution are University and King 'oiiegeS ost h
with the medical schools. 10 term tne e"oS "iiion
omnes at Burlington House university PertcIsoi
of language TO which charter or act oi fafanoh'
can give real sanction.
The recular annual meeting of the Department OF
Superintendence OF the National Educational Assoca-
ton Will be held at the Tulane University Buildings.
New-Orleans FEBRUARY "a 20 and 20, 1850
cordal invitation is extended by the Association 10
teachers school officers and other friends CT education
10 be present at the session
Tn describing tbe Boston Latin School ii fifty
wears ago. an old scholar says " Its curriculum was
severe and perhaps it was unjusihabe, considering
the ages of the pupils We Lad the fables oil fhaeurus'
Cornelius Nepos, Vri Romae, Sallust, CICERO oVi1'
Virgil, the Greek Reader and Homer, and the Greek
Testament The original lessons Ill all THESE text
hacks we're severe but the reviews were more So lie
majority of the graduates OF the Latih school, SechE
collegiate course, was apportloned between
or Dartmouth. Charley Ne. one OF my classmates.
was sent TO Dartmouth, and he thus described to Inc
his examination Why, Frank, he SAID, II was noun
mo 70 what we had to 90 through in the old Latin
School Harvard was very PARTICULAR anu 80 Was a.
Yale and in a measure, Amherst. But the records OF
all these colleges show tnat inc Sr"uc u 'hO Lain
School stood the highest
nTho new Pratt gymnasium al Amherst College
saws The Springfield Republican, is one OF the
largest and equipped buildings OF the sort III the
country The notcn that physical training belongs IN
the curriculum of a college which aims to develop the
whole man. is still somewhat of n novelty i'll America
Among the first to realize the folly of sending weak
bodied and bran-crammed young men into the world
or on the other side, the absurdty OF allowing the
students to exercise Unfortunately IN the Old
fashioned gvmnasiums, DR.. Edward Hitchcock. OF
Amherst College. To his experience among conege
hovs the students at Amherst are primarily indebted
for the careful supervision of their physical develop
ment For the fine ling they are largely indebted
to c. NJ Pratt, of brooklyn \. Ia graduate III
Frederick Billings, of Woodstock. VI. and W. w;
Scarborough Cincinnati bore much OF the expense OF
furnishing the building and the college treasury ui Th
nm the Balance required for the equipment me
gymnasium has cost about $1,000 OF which $1,000 %
was paid the contractor S2'ooo the arcm'ect' anu
httIe over $4,000 for the equipment including
plumbing. heating apr liance, gymnaStie apparatus
and grading. E. L. Roberts, OF New-l crk: wh0 drew
the pIans for the Standard Oil Companys Sl'oooooo
building now going up on Broadway, in that city was
the architect of the gymnasium; John bcston. IT,
who is building the agricultural college enaPe was INC
contractor: the heating and plumbing appliances were
furnished by the George IA; Raymond Company: OF
Sonlh Norwalk Conn. and the gvInnastic apparatus
was MANNED largely by DR.. Hitchcock and DR.. Dudley
A. Sergeant of the Harvard College gymnasium ana
was furnished mostly by the Gymnasium supply 0om-
pany, of Boston"
Professor Leigh Hunt who has just been elected to
the presidency of the Iowa State Agricultural College
l. well known as the originator of The banking system
for schools which has attracted the attention OF Eng
i;sh EDUCATORS He an enthusiastic advocate OF III
,s,rial education and is described man OF great
executive alb lily. and vide scholarship.