New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-04-30
NOTES ON EDUCATION.

"Colege athletics" says New-Haven correspond
mt ot The Philadelphia TImes," cost more than Is
generally supposed. Harvard and Yale nave inc
heaviest boating expenses, Columbia coming next Inc
nan.r shells IN which these colleges row their races
cost from s4O0 TO 5000 Trainers and coachers must
be hired and eating tables provided at which tne oe
Of the crews may be closely watched The crews eau
at training tables from Easter up to the race IN Jun"
at cost of about 500 per man. After they nave Dee
coached and trained for three months they are SEM
New-London Conn, where the races are roweu On inc
Tbomos Here thsv are kept at the respective boat
bouses under the strctest training They are coacheo
daily from the steam launchesi which accompany
them Yale owns steam launch and the cost Is re-
dueed TO s12 daily for coal and service. Inc other
colleges hire launches and the expense Is lncreaseu'
All the crews uniformed at cost oil $40 10 @-o o
man. Yale presents its with white Hammer sul's'
beside the regular uniform. at an expense OF @@oo.
Haryards expense in this ile Is even larger Inc
total cost of the New London tor Harvard Yale
or Columbia is about $1,000 The Harvard freshmen
last wear paid So 500 for the luxury OF defeat by tie
Columbia freshmen A class regatta at Harvard or
Yale costs about $3.50 for each crew. not considering
the purchase of a she'll Glass shells cost $500, oars
s75 Zach class uses two shells in Its course. Barge
for practice and rough rowing cost 5000 Almost all
paper shells used in college races are made at Troy
N Y Baseball costs less than rowing and can depehu
somewhat o gate receipts. Williams ana AhheIsU
will nav 81 200 each for their respective teams this
year; Harvard, Yale and Princeton from Sl'ooo 10
81 800 Yale employs Jones, formerly OF the Athiets
TO coach its nine Princeton and Brown also nave pro-
fess;opal coaches VINO receive about 5000 each. In
track athletics the principal cost is for trainers ana
grounds All the colleges which compete in the inter-
collegiate games at Mott Haven employ professional
athletes as trainers paying them from 5000 to $4Oo
for the season. In the larger colleges athletic grounds
are provided by gifts of the alumni as IN the case OIL
Holmes field at Harvard, and Yae's new park, whlch'
with its track and grand stand cost about $'o'ooo'
Professor Edgar S. Shumway is to conduct the sum-
nor school of Latin and Greek at Chautauqua this
season. Writing to DR.. John II. Vincent, he says :
al hope you will give us at Chautauqua Jealous
students who will concentrate their work on LAIN auu
Greek and especially two classes: Teachers OF Latn
and Greek and those who are absolutely beginners
clear-headed student who doesn't know woru oi
Latin can by devotng six weeks to it, five hours per
aav (Beoinners and Cnsar or one hundred and fifty
hours In six weeks-quito much time as the average
school gives in one year-make decided progress u Is
thought that teachers of Latin and Greek VIII ma Of
value not only the method, but also the inspiration
which individually does arise when teachers gather IL
is perhaps hardly necessary to add that the use OF
Latin not only calculating text but also IN discuss
ing synax deri, aons synonymes history, geography
archaeology, Is
Latin Worthy of the attention of teachers is the TACT
that our cooquial work is not the mere parrot-hke
repetition of phrases OF the text"
Thirty years ago measures were taken to make
elementary education general in Russia, but htue
progress was made until few years ago Now, now
ever unless war other cause should prevent,
education in Russia will soon become general
There is fruitless discussion now going on designed
70 prove that young spend more money In college
than they hid in former years And one clever gentle
man takes the ground that richly endowed college Is
ant to be more expensive than an unendowed college;
for which reason advocates the establishment oil
uLendowed colleges Nevertheless the fact remains that
n young man with little no means can>Ootan
collegiate education at comparatively small expense
in any of the colleges which supposed to be most
exclusive and most expensive In fact, such young
men are encouraged in every way; and If they haVehe
right stuff in them, they will lose neither caste nor
respect by reason of their poverty.
There are in the Danish army SO per cent OF soldiers
who can neither read write; next follows Sweden
with 1. 90 per cent, Germany with 2S7 switzerland
with 4. co. the Netherlands with 1882. France with
IA 90 Belginrn az. Austria with $500 Italy
4774 and Hungary with 80 so, while Russia In 1878
headed the list with TO- per cent