New-York tribune., 1885-01-29
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

r7 ninth renort of the Wisconsin Industrial Schooi
,, Girls at Milwaukee, elbows that the institution Is
do;,r n GOOD reformatogy work. The object OF the
.boo Is stated to be the prevention OF juvenile crime'
nv educaton and restraint. The class OF young WHO
NAV be cent there girls under sixteen anu ooys
under ten years of age who IN danger oil 1anS INTO
habits of vice. wanderers, truahis, OeIsas' ;,rnd
stubborn and unruly those who have peen
for Offences under the above ages also ciiuroH WHo
arc supported by fund contributed by Niizens VI I'm
waukce The school was organized under the aet VI
Ia75 aud has received from the Legislature IN doao
1850 1881 and 1889. sums amounting 70 Sou:uoo
for buildings improvements. stock ana unsnss. .s.
The City of Milwaukee has also gwen i4r us use t
to all this property
1t is suggestive fact that the departments ol co"es0
news in many papers frequently have no references
10 educational matters much space gwen 10 t
ball. football, rollerskatng ana other anuSo
everything else is crowded out.
Springfield Mass, is to have an industrial scnooi d,
last II will begin in small way, but IL Is nopeu
that il will soon grow to greater dinehsiohs'
The University of Vermont is in hourishlng conoi
+on IFS new Billings Library is handsome
structure capable of holding 100000 volumes. ~ is
the gift of Mr. Frederick Billings, OF WoodS'och' w.
"Tbe 81. Louis Globe Democrat has this to say
about the proposition to have Federal Minister OF
Education: "A superintendent whose heid snail oe
the Republic will find that field already pre-empted'
and will be fortunate if he succeed in even so much as
gaining an advisory power in a single state. Such
jealousy has been manifested by the states OF every
section of Federal interference in their local aas'
that the effort to give Federal superintendent oi u
ucatlon any real authority in regulating the ot"ee
shoots would be met by unanimous now oi nuISuu !i
ton from every school district in the land Even the
bills for National aid to education the most
of which provide for the distribution to the qnaed
officer of each State Of its proportion OF the appropriated
fund have not escaped bitter adverse cri'icls' anu
the tendency toward Capitalization has been brought
forward a most effective weapon 10 prevent "o''on
being taken on any such DILL
"The Baltimore Sun asserts that the United States
is far behind France aud England in the opportunities
Il affords for an art education "That education" 1t
saws in its widest sense should deal with all the
faculties of body and mind, and should embrace
manual training has been gradually recognized by all
Nations by France among the first, by the united
States among the latest The spoiiatlon OF france
after the Franco Prussian War would have destroyed
many nation but she had monopoly in the markets
of the world for many kinds of commodities when
depend upon design and finish, and in which she had
scarcely competitor. Her skilled labor brought in its
account against the world, and every civilized nation
contributed TO her prosperity. The foundations OF her
success laid when art schools were hrSt eStao-
lished for the instruction of her children: ibese
schools have been multiplied until they exist IN all he
cities and manufacturing communities Ill France anu
the French workman has become the most 3ccom-
pshed artisan that the world has ever seen AneIlcs
alone imports from three to four hundred millions
worth of the productions OF French industrial art The
French Government and the French people are pfou9
of this eminence and recognize its importance ana
treat it in a thorough and careful manner Govern
ment aid to art education is never contested in france
The question regarded as one OF puGhc iheIesl anu
the current administration might "a well abdlcate It's
power ignore its responsibility for the support OF art
Schools and every Minister OF Public obstruction, from
NJ Consin TO NJ Ferry has used his influence in their
behalf They are placed under his authority me IN
struction free to ALL the is equal to ALL and there
is an opportunity for every boy in France however
pDor his circumstances. to obtain art education
which shall cost him nothing
The gift of the late Ezra Abbots library OF 4'ooo
volumes to the Harvard Divinity School has placed the
school in an embarrassing position While the giit
most welcome there is absolutely no room for H. ana
the authorities of the ool out with an appeal ior
funds to erect a freproof library building.