New-York tribune., 1885-02-05
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NOTES ON EDUCAI1ON.
Expres;dent r. b. HAYES delivered an interesting
.ddress ON education the other day, before the
Farmers Institute of Sandusky County, OHIO. we
sbould le arm he said the living languages-Germah
and French and above ALL we should study lar more
than " do in our schools the literature and language
that VIC call English. Many and many boy goes
through colleges that talk gby about ancient
heroes and the poets of Greece and Rome and yet
knows very little about the great poets and historians
of America And this is only leading up in the line OF
reform What after all Is the object oi education
Plainly this To fit the young for the duties ot NE,
the Young of both sexes Now what are the duties OF
life What is the first duty of life Evidently ana
plainly be selfsupporting, to be able TO MAKE an
honest living. How much our schools dong ior
that How much good are they doing happened
this week to be at a New,iork college IN when IN
about six months good trade is taught to boy,
and In the period between twelve and eighteen the
essential parts of several trades may bs taught 10 p
and by devotng only one or two hours gay 9urnaS
the six days of the week to the business NOW heed
not 90 into detail of the system in particular Trades
used 10 be learned in way which was prohapie rnther W
TO the master than the apprentice as was d W
me there where they were teaching moulding. ohdeT
the old rules of the apprenticeship system 0oy useu
to be kept shovellng sand about seven years IN
the trade All there is in shpvelling SAND is 70 pe IN
tustrous and boy learn II in fifteen minutes ana
in SIX months all the art and history OF moulding RN0W
go step further than some friends OF industplai
education 1t is not merely to make them selfsuppor
ing. am confident from my knowledge OF men, tnat
there is no better way TO give man mastery OF ms
intellectual faculties and TO discipline Ills mhd ihah ny
having him learn trade"
Archdeacon Farrar Is very severe in his condemna-
tion of over-pressre Ia modern schools He speaks OF
A. as the ,uggcrnaut car Of Cram, before which the
English Nation is throwing its children by thousands
to have all their qualities crushed out before c PSSa
rhetorical hammer, but he hits the nail on inc heau
The cooperative store started in 1881 by number
of professors and students of Harvard University has
not been a financial success and the Board OF
Directors will soon close II.
Sir William Muir, the new principal of Edinburgh
University is the of long line OF famous
men, Sir Alexander Grant, his immediate predecessor
once said that there had been four great names in the
list of principals Archbishop Leighton, William
Carstairs Robertson and Sir David Brewster: Arch
bishop Leighton the Fenelon of Scotland, was
principal during the Protectorate of Cromwell William
Carstairs is described by Macaulay rs Presbyterian
Minister of Scotland who i'll craft and courage had no
superior among the politicians of his age" IL was
S while SyoSSt oS9 his histories Of Charles and Of
America Sir David Brewster was seyentyseven years
of age when he accepted the office; but he did not
allow his years to impair his energy or usefulness and
worked harder and 10 more purpose than many
younger man.
Commodore Luce, U. S. N, who has been designated
president the War College to be opened on Coasters
Harbor Island, Newport r. l., has entered upon
the duties of his Office. There will be two courses IN
the college that OF the science and art OF war; ana tha
of law and history.
superintendent Mcallister Of the Philadelphia public
,choos has been elected trustee of the University of
Pennsylvania.
It's likely tha, school of technology will be estab
lshed in the University of the South, at Sewanee,
Tenn
The library building of Yale College will soon be
enlarged and improved.
Practical anatomy is taught in some of the public
schools of New Haven Conn., by the dissection of dead
cats and rabbits.
Saws The Philadelphia Ledger: " 4 compulsory
law ordering the pictures of drukards stonachs into
the school books and the study of inhammatons and
eongestions into chidrens class exercises should no
be hastily rushed through the Legislature a easy
relegation OF the subject OF alcoholism to the tender
yoang generation. If grown men, who know by every
days observation and the popular information con
cernng alcoholism that is freely distributed in the
public prints. do not lind themselves strong enough TO
regulate the subject of liquor traffic what is to be
gained By outing such Tepnsv&e & testimony % s before ,
bbe dread of the sea for all of Defoe's eoquence of
privaton he rather incine TO set up on desert island
Of his until the eject passes off Nor Is there any
special beauty TO the juvenile eye in diagram OF the
pale pink stomach of health over and above the deep
red and vid spots of the diseased organ on chart"
"The New-Haven Palladium " gives the following
account of recent reading test in that city: "Ihe
story recently given test to grades VII and VII
and the high school was German legend containing
about 500 words. When the scholars had read the
story they to rewrite it from memory. Seven
minutes allowed for reading and three-quarers of
an hour for writing. The papers were marked with
reference to fulness of statement language capitals
punctuation. spelling and pcnmanshp. Many errors
were found in the of capitals Many sentences
begun whout'capial letters and the personal prUnOun
l frequently spelled with a small letter. In
punctuation, periods, commas and interrogation points
were used in improper places and laughsbly inter-
changed with each other Some of the errors in spell
ing are amusing. Angrily was spelled angerly,
sngurly, sngrally, angrily; any was sIelled ami
crooked was spelled orOoket crucket, crucked and
crooked did not was represented by didnet cried
was spelled cryd education spelled egergation
wrong expressed by rong and guide by glide and
guild just spelled with aud sed represented ono
schoars idea of the word said yOurn often expressed
the posscssiye Of Of the personal prenouns
Sleeps frequent way in which the plural number
Of sheep was expressed"