The Oskaloosa herald., 1893-10-26
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
Conducted BY o. C. Scott S,spt
CITY Schools.

Conducted By o. C. Scott Saspt.
city schools.
The editor of the Educational Depart
ment would be pleased to receive news
items of schools, condensed reports and
pointed and brief articles on edueationai
topics.
Colleges Compared.
The annual income of colleges and
universities in the first rank is COM
pared as follows:
Michigan University. y........,.S .S4O0,NOO
California University ....... 2t0,O0O
Cornell University ............ O00,0O0
Vale ITniversity 532 600
Wisconsin University ......... 2l0,OU0
Harvard University ' 9B7,0f0
Columbian College .... $4,000
Massachusetts, Institute Tech
nOlOgy .............. Sot,oOo
Iowa University y.........,..... lzo,UOu
Iowa stands at the foot of the list,
$4,000 less than the least of all others,
and 10000 less than the greatest.
Another comparison made of the per-
cent of tax which different States appro-
pirate for the support of their uniVer-
stiles:
Michigan, one sixth of mill.
Wisconsin, nine fortieths of mill.
Ohio, one-tWentieth of mill.
Nebraska, three -eighths of mill.
Minnesota, three-twentieths of mill.
California, one-tenth of mill.
Kansas, a fraction sufficient to net
$75, 900 per annum.
Iowa, nothing.
Iowa is again at the foot of the list.
And yet Iowa stands first among States
in many particulars. She is erich, "
"grest," and growing" 1t is so stated
in every speech on Iowa. She has ex.
pended on her Insane Asylum build
ings 100000, fifteen times as much
as upon her University. And yet Iowa
prides herself upon her educational
facilities. 1t were well to look all facts
clearly in the face and then determine
whether pride or humility should be
uppermost.
The next legislature should place the
State University on solid footing, where
the work it is doing and its value to
the State naturally place it. Why not
grant one-tenth of a mill tax to its sup
port?
WOrth Readings.
Mothers and kindergsrtners will find
the following among the Verybest books
on the subject of early education that
can be obtained:
Mrs. Malleson's Early Training of
Children. 1t covers the first years of
childhood. Price 60 cents.
Rosmini's Method in Education. 1t
covers the first five years of childhood.
Price $1.40.
Peabody's Home kindergarten and
Primary School Education. 1t covers
the first five years of Childhood. Price
$1O0.
Richter's LeVana. It covers the pc
riod of home training. Price $l.25.
Radestock's Importance of Habit in
Education. Aids in early formation of
good hab bits Price go cents.
Rousseau's Emile. Said by one to be
Natures first gospel on education" i"
Covers early as we'll as later training.
Price so cents.
Pestolozzi's Leonard and Gertrude.
DR.. Browning said of this: "a mother
who follows the principles inculcated
in this book can educate her children
as if she were the possessOr of all the
sciences. Price 80 cents.
These are given in response to several
inquiries for the names of good books
on early education. The publishers are
D. c. Heath s. Company, Chicago.
The kindergarten.
Mrs Hugg has again yielded to the
parents and opened her private kinder
gsrten wit "a large enrolment. She
was obliged to refuse admission to sew
eral little ones.
The right person, a young woman Of
good scholarship and winning manner,
can have a place with Mrs. Hugg to
learn the principles and methods ofthe
kindergarten.
The full and complete establishment
of the kindergarten as the first depart
ment in the public school system is an
inevitable result. In the east the cities
are generally establishing the kinder
garten. 1t is growing in popularity in
Oskaloosa and the day should not be
distant when a well-equipped kinder
garten is in every ward building.
n Fine Study.
Thirty-one of the teachers have join
ed with the city superintendent in the
organization of a club for the study of
the Science of the Mind-the manner
and causes of the minds development
and growth, with special reference to
the child's mind. The book chosen as
a guide in the study is DeGsrno's trans
lation of Lindner's Empirical Psychol-
ogy. The books have been ordered. The
points in favor of this work are:
1. 1t is founded on experience and
not on metaphysical theories.
2. 1t is the voice of great seer, not
a copyist.
3. 1t impels the learner to constant
introspection, being developed in the
Baconian method, and based on COM
mon experience.
4. Its explanations explain, for they
are vital, not formal and abstract.
5. 1t not only asserts, but shows the
organic connection of all mental pro-
cesses.
6. 1t reveals the intimate relation of
psychology to pedogy.
z. It has full, rich contents. Every
page is interesting and impressive.
8. 1t acquaints the learner with the
main results of modern mental philos-
ophy.
9. 1t fully illustrates all essential
statements.
10. 1t can in the end be better un-
derstood than works based on meta
physics or dealing mostly with abstrac-
tions.
IL. 1t is the best possible introduct-
ion to rational psychology.
Miss Bird Hale, one of the elected
substitute teachers, kindly and efficient.
ly served as supply teacher last Tues
day forenoon in Mrs. Ogborn's absence
and on Friday for Miss Mamie Reyn,
olds.
An OLD SwoRD.-Mrs. Spencer
who lives near 0sksloosa College, has
in her possession an old rusty cavalry
sword which she found on the battle
field near Sedalia. Mo-, twenty odd years
ago. The lady, then little girl, was
playing near her home and found thC
sword sticking in rotten stump. Il
is a great relic and doubtless has a
history.
MORE WoRK.-If working weather
should continue to favor us, there vii