New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-16
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

This is the ace of the practical and the old ideas OF
ucaton will doubtless be modified by the new spirit
No one regrets this but it s to be feared that tne Gu
thusastic friends of practical educanon are sono
times more jealous than wise few OF them seem 70
imagine that when Latin and Greek banished from
schools and colleges the millennium will come. This
a far from being the case. On the contrary, tpe
asics were banished from schools and colleges the
cause of education would suffer great loss inen
again. other advocates of industrial education appear
70 think that the whole system OF educauoh shu 10
changed in order TO mako room Tor purely necnan,o
arts This il riding a hobby to death Wnat IS KNOWN
as industrial education is certainly very au
its Importance is recognized oy the pest
But IL ia not all important. liberal culture asiue
from manual skill still of the necessary elements
of true education and good end can be served oy
Ignoring the fact
In 1870 women were first admitted to the univers-
ties of Sweden In Russia women may now pursue
their studies in all the great universities Last year
for the first time women entered the university "
Brussels. About score of women now in attend
snce at the University OF Geneva and the NUMBER Oh
women ia much larger at the University OF Zurich
among them being several American girls Inc way Is
now open in Italy for women TO pursue co,egiate
course; and in fact many are avaiing themselves u
the privilege There probably more women pursn-
Ing collegiate course in France than IN any other
country in Europe and the number Will soon DC ucn
increased through the operation OF the law LILLE
intermediate schools for girls. All these 'acts
20 TO show what q radical change has come over
Europe in regard to the education OF women curing
the past few years.
Nearly 5000 600 900 has been spent on public edu-
cation in England from 1889 to 1884
Its pleasant to see that the sanitary condition Of
schoolrooms Is frequently matter OF discussion
now And it is to be hoped that the discussion Will re-
suit in some practical reforms.
1t is unfortunate that when education for working
men is discussed unwise people always begin to
t,t,f;n ~ "A
they were the enemies of workingmen. This is sheer
nonsense Workingmen themselves appreciate the
higher institutions of learning, and often pinch them
solves to send their children to them And some OF the
greatest scholars of the age obtained their education
this way There is room enough in modern lie tor all
grades of education, liberal mechanical and artstc'
> without elevating one by depressing another
One of the causes OF illiteracy in the South Is the
physical difficulty of establishing and maintaining
schools in sparsey settled country
"Tbe Evangelist appears to think that the educa-
ton of young colored for the ministry is altogether
too impractical :" Is there any need' it asks " that
man who perhaps not 50 very long ago was field
hand on Southern plantation should spend years "a
studying Latin and Greek What possible use could
he make of such learning If he had it Such know lede
might only make hun cSnseed and pomp%0a.s Wnas
clear understanding OF the great doctrines and duties
Of religion Then, with the Gospel in his head and in
his heart he will be able to do much better work IN
reaching and saving the poor and ignorant people OF
his race"
Dr. Osler, of the University of Pennsylvania, has
Just delivered course OF lectures before the Royal
College of Physicians, OF London Concerning the
lectures " The London Medical Press says: " The
expectations aroused respecting the lectures announced
to be delivered before the Royal College of Physicians
of London By Dr. Osler of PHILADELPHIA have not been
disappointed and the literature of Medicine has In
them received addition which cannot be valued too
highly Throughout the series of lectures. indeed,
there to be found abundance of evidence both OF the
careful manner in which their author has prepared
their substance and of the opportunities for further
adding to the improvements in our knowledge that
have resulted from his researches"
Some time ago, according to the English papers,
Professor Vrchow brought together the results OF an
inquiry into the relative proportions of the blond
haired dark haired and mixed types among the school
children of the German Empire, Belgium Austria and |
Switzerland The inquiry embraced nearly eleven |
million children in its scope. 1t found that more |
than fifty per of the school children OF Central
Europe belong to the mixed type. The distribution OF
the purely blond type which contributes something
over 25 per cent and is associated with unmixed |
Teutonic blood, is rather curious. IL Is highest In
Hanover where it forms 43 per cent OF the popula-
ton but 1t is very nearly high in the extreme east
Prussian and Pomeraian districts where history anu
tradition locate prcponderating Slavic element and
points TO the completeness of the gradual Industrial
conquest of those regions by the Ieutonic race
The Hartford Posts annual volume, containing
biographical sketches OF Connecticut officials at the
National and State capitals has just been issued for
1885, The letter press is supplemented with seventy
or more portraits. Some other States have SIMILAR
pubcat but few of them handsome and
complete as this