New-York tribune., 1885-02-12

that women should not be dcbarred from obtaining
the best teaching that could be had ieeoe aua u
united opposition suggested certain provsos nmI.a
tions restrictions which the party OF progress acceped
cheerily. and with their tongue III one may say sol ~
their cheek. 1t easy TO miscacnae nG e
survives this new shock it will have gwen ano'her
proof of its extraordinary and invincibie vitality.
The school book war is raging in Ohio and California
The 6erc.ness with which it is waged shows plainly
that there are big profits for one in the. pubcar
ton OF school books.
Lawessness is apparently the increase in Harvard
University "The Boston Herald says: " II might
be we'll if the faculty. instead of turning Its attention
to the brutal demoralizing and dangerous sport OF
football, should turn its paternal slipper to the
ebastisent Mt of several of the undergraduates For
several nights past an occasional cannon cracker or
mine has been exploded the college yard doing little
damage except causing momentary suspension IN the
closing studies of the examinations. Not content with
this ha mless amusement, however, the guilty ones
have followed closely the tactics of their TRENDS
the dypamteurs large cannon cracker was recently
tied up to the knob of students door and exploded
with great force and deafeuing noise charrng tne
door and scattering the burning waddiDg around the
entry The noise called out the inmates OF the entry
and the burning material was qaickly extingulshed
But the dynamiteurs were not discouraged iester-
day. as a student putting some coal upon HIS nfe,
he very much stai tied to hear an explosion ana 10
find the burning coal. scattered about his ROOM An
examination as to the of this sudden activity on
less person had scattered guupowder In ths coal DIN
and that this powder when thrown into the hre with
the COAL had produced the explosion"
A correspondent of I" The Chicago Inter-Ocean
gives the following interesting sketch of discipline in
colored school in Charest IN, s. g. When strike
this bell" said Superintendent Doty, of the Morris
Street Coored School, " the recees Is over and
every OF 400 boys and girls is in duty bound
to become motto Mess preserving whatever attitude he
may happen to be in at the time of the bcllstroke
You may be Interested to watch the effect" So saying
he struck button. The loud sharp note of an alarm
bell responded to the pressure, and stepped quickly
the window The assortment OF groesque POSITIONS
to be witnessed below beggars description. Here q
boy had a ball raised in pidar. while over yonder
stood another lad with hands extended ready TO eaten
the ball. In place some youngsters were playing
at leap-irog There a couple of lads were locked IN
seeming grip. having been caught by the signal
in the act of wrestling In place an automatic
game of tag was illustrated In another girl had her
arms extended in the process of rope-skpping.
" Pompeii without the debris" remarked This Is
coarse only feature of the discipline which we try
to preserve, planned Mr.. DOty. "Once rang this
preliminary signal and then walked lcisurey from
window to window to see how it bad been obeyed
From the last window | discovered a lad literally
standing his head with his feet resting against the
fence where he had been for two or three minutes.
rang the second bell in haste and from that day pro-
hibited the fine art of posing the head. But that
incident illustrates the prompt and ironcad adherence
to the very letter of the law which is cultivated here