New-York tribune., 1885-02-12
NOTES ON EDUCATOR.

Some interesting educational topic is always dis
cussed at the meetings of the Boston Schoolmasters
Club "The new education was the question debated
at the last meeting The general conclusion seemed TO
be that it was we'll make haste slowly in educational
reforms Mr.. f. c. Carrigan of the State Board of
Education in the OF well-put remarks,
ferred 10 two bills now before the Massachusetts State
Legislature, relating to the tenure of Office OF
teachers and the other 10 the adjustment Of corporal
punishment in public schools lie believed most
heartily in the former but not in the latter The
teacher should have both tenure and the power
behind the throne. He did not believe in the in~
judcious of the rod. yet there were where
the rod alone the best For these cases the
teacher should be vested with the right of proper
rection The Legislature recently had done much for
education which was new but which should have been
long since Old
"The indianapolis Journal probably expresses the
convictions of most educators in Indiana when
"Two years ago the General Assembly of Indiana gave
to the State University what had had before
the fifty years of ts strue gle for existence the basis
Q permanent endowment Its friends then believed
hat 1t had begun era Of growth in which it might
keep pace with the growth of the State In the sum-
mer of 1858 it lost by fire its scientific building valued
at 100000 In this building were the library, valued
$50 600; the museu'a, valued at 27OO0, and the
laboratories of chemistry and physics, worth some
$4,000. Nothing was lett to the institution except
single building and its income amounting from all
sources to about $50 900 per year. sum barely
sufficient for its running expenses In this uncfure the
county OF Monroe gave TO the State for the erection OF
new buildings the sum of 900. With this sum,
and some $40, 900 Of insurance money, two carefully
planned fre-proof buildings have been erected for
chemistry and physics the other for natural history.
These have been finished at no cost TO the State but
there funds left available for their equipment.
The FIRST need in any college is the faculty and in the
matter of professors and their salaries the university
cannot retrench. backward step In this regard Is
fatal. bill is now before tho General Assembly ap
propriating $50 600 to meet the wants of the Uni-
yersty This is to be applied 10 the furnishing
and heating of the buildings and to the restora
tion of the libraries and laboratories This
sam will not replace all the losses, understand
some of them are irreparabe it will place the in
stuton once more in growing condition. The State
cannot afford to do less than this. Either the State
University should be properly supported or its doors
should be closed'
j. w. Mackail a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford,
writes to The Pail Mall Gazctte7' " Little by little
the higher education of has gained ground; bit
by bit they have got place in the life OF Oxford 1t
is almost the single direction in which the enthusiasm
Of reform has not been blunted by safety. Last year
they were admitted to university examinations. Now
they have been admitted to certain college lectures and
the principle of mixed classes has been conceded II Is
true that the leaders of the party OF reform
ful t, explain that they had nothing to say to the
principle OF mixed cassss; that all they desusd wss