New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-20
IN THE INTEREST OF CHILDREN

The trustees Of the Catholic Summer School have
decided to conduct each department by Itself here
after instead OF renting out the privileges The
outlook for the session Is regarded as favorable In
addition TO the lecture courses given last year,
number OF new subjects in University Extension
work will be taught. Golf links ana DOWNING a''ey
are also to be provided.
The lates. addendum to Indanapolls's curfew law
Is that parents whose children are found on the
streets after O'Clock p. are 10 be asked II they
are able to control their children. II they say they
are the officers are instructed TO warn them that
II tho children are found out again without good
excuse they are TO be complained against IT, on
the contrary, the parents declare their children
beyond their control, then the little ones VIII De
taken to the police station ana PaCTu III gt hem
The authorities declare that this law VIII be en-,
find that they are sadly mistaken.
There are thirty-seven women now enToheo AT
Yale University Since the graduate department
was opened 10 them. five years ago, 10 women stu
dents have matriculated The work accomplished
in this time by the fair is said to bear CRED
uabIe comparlson with that Of the men. The best
work has been done In the department Of English,
which il under Professor \. ;. Cook. an instructor
who gives much attention to the students Miss
Laura Johnson Wylie who is now the mead o, inc
English de,artmont OF Vassar. was the one OF Pro-
lessor Cooks pupils who won the horror or having
ber hook Studies I'm the Evolution OF EngHsh lit
icism" taken as a textbook In the course on "lho
Theories Of Poetry.
Tho number OF students graduated from the Nor
nal School Of Philadelphia since Its opening III 1898
,s o, zach having received a certificate OF qualih-
cation TO teach In the schools OF that city By juno
the number will have Increased TO LOO There are
obout nine hundred names the substitute teach
ers' list of the Board of Education ana less man
two hundred now appointments are MADE each
v"ar IN IN vacancies caused through removals
deaths or designations Tic number of persons thus
unprovided for and who have been prepared 10 oe-
come teachers Is alarminsy Ials''
N,s lone T Hanna was the first woman TO serve
on school board In Colorado. she ala her WORK
&, surh thorough harmony with the men on the
poord that they came to have a great regard Tor
ber iuarn,ent and tact. There are now two women
r,ro are members 81 the Board. Dr. Mary Barker
Rates ard Mrs. Carrie O. kistler Mrs; a ). feavcy
y ne OK oflcio She has conducted the eiu
caionaI affairs OF the State for three years aided
only by women.
When Mary Lyon established the rule that the
students at Mount Hoyoke should perform the
housovork II was not so much with the object Of
raining them in domestic science as because In
,hoso davs servants were difficult. II not impossl
HE 70 get The rules made sixty years ago 90 not
obtain now in the same degree The drudgery'
which at first all done by the girls Is o, now
meals the washing OF dishes the dusting anu care
~, rooms Is SUI expected OF the Scn0liIs
Each pupil works thirty minutes DAY ana me
,rl1ng duties are accomplished by the aid OF sys-
.a,notic ARRANGEMENTS with no Consciousness or
ANYTHING unpleasant about them
Tho assembly room OF the new Central High
scboo, in Philadelphia. approaching compile
,,o, ri be the largest IN the city. II Is expected
thai all large educational meetings will be held
there
A new method OF teaching children to read which
ria philadelphia
School has been pronounced an excellent WORK.
are Taught the phonograms sounds o, the differ
on, letters and combinations OF letters. The teacher
stonds before the class holding pack of large
carde which bear yowels, consonants and termlna-
tions printed them In large letters. As soon
as these turned up, their corresponding sounds
are given bv the children In rotation. II the
m wer does not come AT once from the child whose
turn II is the class Immediately gives II In concert
children who have only been In school eight months
have by this method reading vocabulary OF
many hundred words
now in the New England Conservatory at Boston
is the originator OF the kindergarten method In
music teaching. which is rapidly being adopted by
musical educators throughout the country The
development OF her method was the outgrowth OF
a strong desire 10 simplify the principles Of music
class OF little beginners. BY means OF gifts
the children are taught. not by theory, but BIZ
seeing and handling. BY this application OF kinder
garten methods the notes In music become actual
objects. The scales are learned In a series Of
games, the whole method being ingenious and ad-
Tnrable. The system has already been adopted In
the Nsw-England Conservatory.