New-York tribune., 1885-03-12
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

NO LO O4N Iii ~
c,;u. tho respnation OF President Reid, OF 'ho
sn;vsrstv Of California, The San Francioso Dune''"
no. this To nav: "The University has had Iou.
49,. viz Durant. Gilman, Le Conte ana helu' ino
r.t Of these is dead The other three are sti
.noaged in the work Of education. lie Cohte "u.
Gilman have national regulations and 'he pi0soA'
incumbent is favorably known as an educator ~
beyond the limits OF this State Prcslden. nou =
the nrime of life and it is understood that ho nus
already made satisfactory educational arrangements
for the future. When he wac elec'ed " ''o -.
President of the University, he was .hea'"s ~
canned by a strong minority OF Regents "Ao of
concur in his election. He finally oecahio "1,,'
their continual nagging. and has at last fes'sno"
The corporation Of Yale College have eiec1eo 'iie
Rev. Dr. Lewis o. Barstow professor OF hoihiie''9 GU
pastoral theology in the theological school, anu 'no
Rev. John E. Russell professor OF eer will he the
The LYMAN Beecher lecturer for mex. ych ho will take
Rav jr William NJ TAYLOR, of this city, VINO WIN pc n
for his subject, The Scottis,n r"p' i'
nation until the Present Day.
"The Sacramento Record-Union tackles 'no o'
subect of light in school-rooms " WIN ai '"o ".
II saws made over the injury to cmidreus oSe'S
ro, tho reflections and ghts in schoolrooms'
s,,r;o,s that no effectual way of regulating the
,obt has be en- made possible 1t cannot be done WIN
- L.: .uo,anorsnt or opaoue shades. Lowered, these
dortan the room too much to give sometimes
desirable bobt from above they must be drawn 10 to
ton and the entire window exposed; 10 S;S sne oSv
accustomed TO the softened light OF the s, that
Jsrnng the glare IN a school-room Is palhiuI .ia.
the nn,ils while there. usually blink IKE owls ,nf
evidence that it is hurtful Inside shutters ase @ of
better than the common shades lor ' nuhiic School
reonlating light but who ever saw Puoi'o
bn1se furnished with these modern improvements
Tho Conell University Register for 1Ss4-5 gives the
,,,hor of undergraduates at that institution as oof
of rssident graduates including fellows, ~; tota
nea The number OF graduates since the University
onened in 1868 is 95S; the number having ,aAen
sssond degrees is 81 There associations OF alumni
of the university in this city, Syracuse, nunao i''
Chicago, Minneapolis, Boston and " "ashnis'oh'
Racine COLLEGE, realizing the necessity of a general
cu,ture bevond the ordinary curriculum OF any one
cour.e. has been following this winter plan Una.
cannot tail to be of profit to all concerned The pro-
fessors besides their regular classroom duty have
heen owing lectures on subjects OF present living
interest The Warden who has spent some time IN the
East. lectured on the Egyptian Question Dr. falk
who was a member of the earlier German farhalnen'
ON the German Empire; DIR. Elmendor1; on some o,
the characters of Shakespeare; Professor Bglow VINO
WAS associated with DR.. Gould IN South Amerea
lectures on that country and Dr. Gould gre, ASH no
nomical work While disPosIea lc;ontisc demands of
the age and especially Of the great west, 5acino
COLLEGE intends Loyalty to abide by and to Duia upon
hat
and truest education has hitherto ana everywhere
rested
An Industrial School for city waits is about 10 DC
established in Toronto Canada.
correspondent of The Cleveland Herald writing
from New Orleans, gives the following interesting
account of an important department OF education In 'e
Soutb namely that of the colored race: " Here, as m
most of the Southern cities, find that the brightest
nbases of development are to be wtoeSsed
in the wide-awake schools for the colored, people
planted by Northern philanthropy. There are 1our
colleges for the nc gro Straight University a. NJ
Al. Leland Baptist, NewOrleans (Methodistl' ana
lastly the Southern University which Is State instu
tion receiving an annual appropriation OF SIoooo AS
usual ALSO the A. NJ A. School is the largest ana os'
eounped. Straight University has local habitation
in three large buildings the main thoroushiare-
Canalst.-only one mile from the levee. The yearly
attendance ia from 500 to 600, large majority OF the
students being day pupils. There is legal depart
ment which is set-supporting. Some OF the leading
LAWYERS and ursts in The city constitute It's iuity'
and accept as compensation for their services the lees
that are paid in by students. Owing, inter TO Ihe
inexnensiveness Of this branch there are not Iew
,b;i vouno men of the city who avail themselves OF
n Instead of attending the more arstociauc tulane
University the leading white college OF @
This is curious co commentary npon 'ne y S -,
nerceptble change in pubic sentiment Inat mas mn
nlaee here snce the war; As another hiustiaton "
II of large number OF the colored people 10
learn, 1 want to cite the case ol a. S,;rbt Tniyer
CITY nv means OF her earnings with the washtnp lo TWO
or three years. but who owing to the ef'gehclc; o.
tho nresent hard times, has reluctantly had 10 VIII
draYR him this term. One feature which commahds
favorable mention is the singing OF the scEoiars'
YOU come down to 'New-Orleans drop into tne chuei
a. $40 o'clock some morning. and hear those dusKy
children sing have discovered nothing iihe IL III aug
of fhe other colored schools. suspect that more h
one nonchaant traveller who dropped lu'o 'ic GIat &
l.II;, ,ho iu EYnOgitlOn buiiUlnE
of the recent colOred opening. ana heaTu these
boys and girls singing La Marsellaise' Witn the
accompaniment OF the grand organ, found hlmseii
nahle for the time being the singers because oil
the moisture that accumulated IN MS eyes oIve me
ffty of these boys and girls and III drown the nso "
choir Of three hundred OF your Northerh chhur.n
al ;f the Quality of sound is not fully abreast of the
onantitv produced, then Ill cheeriuiy rsiun" your
money"
Mr. Burpon the Dean of Chichester. England Is out
with another philippe against the recent changes IN
Oxford University which, he says have resulted III de-
Christianizing it, Whereas" he says " the Colleges
of Oxford besides being ecclesiastical founaa1ons ana
essentially religious in their character endowed
expressly for the benefit of the poor Oxford has been
converted into university for the rich College en-
dowments are demonstrably eleemosynary in
their founders intenton but the recent legislation
has done its best to oberate this their characteristic
fea.nre Scholarships are the prizes for which the
sons of rich men, fresh from our public schools
compete. Unframed poverty. with equal or with
better abilities has not a chance of success in such a
race. But, waving this | at least insist that a
grievous wrong done to poverty by making education
IN anv singe college of Oxford practically Impossible
10 one who let natural endowments and aspirations
be what they may is absolutely without fortune The
late Dean Manse the close of the preface TO hie
Ra,nnton Lectures declares that he would be wanting
in his duty to the University we're he to hesitate to
declare his deeprooted and increasing conviction that
sound religious philosophy will flourish or fade within
her walls according she preserves negects to study
the works and cultivate the spirit Of her great son and
teacher Bishop Butler Mr.. Gladstone whose name
wilicommand more attention in certain quarters than
that of Dean Mansel coDsideredn 1893 that the lose
of four colleges would be less than that OF the