New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-01-27
EDUCATIONAL NOTES
BRIEF ITEMS OF PROGRESS IN VARIOUS
QUARTERS

The recent appointment of Samuel T. Dutton.
superintendent of Schools in Brookline Mass.
professor of school administration and superin-
tendent of the Teachers College schools, will
strengthen the college faculty to no small degree
through his intimate acquaintance with the prob
lens Of school administration and his experience
with secondary schools Professor Dutton will give
a course school administration to graduate STU
dents, In which the construction and maintenance
of school buildings and the proper conduct Of the
school will be discussed, and will also conduct
seminar IN which advanced research and investiga-
ton various pedagogical fields will be carried on
In his supervision of the Teachers College schools
Professor Dutton will bear the same relation to
them the superintendent of schools In city
bears to the public school system and his appoint
on or 9S H. Ges of the
department of history. delivered address on
college Yesterday afternoon, rs afternoon a
be held and an address viii be made by james B.
Reynolds, of the University Settlement, A lecture
81: by ne Royal INSPECTOR Of schools for the
ely OF GndGn M M Marvin on hi Fc9
tional Progress In England
The date Of the Rutgers-N ew-York University
debate has been nxed for April 49, NewYork Uni
versty takes the negative side of the question, Re
solved That the Government should subsidiZe the
merchant marine" The team that has been
Wallin ali of the class of 'O1. w b. Raymond,
SareS bv 5e on new @ which forbds any student
with any academic degree to compete This rule
has been adopted in nearly all of the college de
bates.
Ohio has become proverbial as the home of de-
nomina tional colleges A project is now on to
establish Mennonite college at West Liberty Col
lege, Logan County The buildings and grounds of
the Glover Collegiate Institute at that place were
recently bought at Sheriffs sale by party of men
representing the Mennonite Church. If the college
is opened by them it will be the only one in the
to the latest statistics there are 5794s Mennontes
Poughl1epsie, n. Y. Jan. 26.-Although the pro-
censorship of art at Vassar College is stll vacant
an elective the history OF art has been
arranged for the second semester, and will be given
by Professor Louis F. Pitcher of the University Of
Pennsylvania.
The trustees OF Dickinson College Carlisle Penn
have voted to put up a new dormitory building
The plan is to erect brick, stone and iron str,ct
ure two three stories high, having steam heat
ing ventilation electric wiring and bells speak
pointments.
Hanover N H. Jan. PA course of lectures on
Universities in Other Lands" Is proving very pop
uar with the students of Dartmouth College The
English University and The University of Paris
fessor w. A. Adams will speak of the German uni
Fayerweather Hail, will be completed this spring
the contract for 1t having already been let.
Bryn Mawr, Penn, Jan. 26.-The statistics of the
Bryn Mawr College gymnasium for 1Sss-'99 now
made up show a gratifying increase In strength
among the students generally. In these DAYS of
agitation Of the question of the health Of college
women Bryn Mawr continues her requirement OF
regular exercise. making It necessary for the A. b.
degree. In pleasant weather a great part OF the
work is done out Of doors and this no statistics
can be kept but it all counts toward the results
shown by the figures given. The class of 'o2
In its Elk months Of gymnasium and outdoor work
IloIedseu m average chest Imitation (the numbers
showing difference in centimeters between chest
normal and chest infated) from 44S to 6.S9 In av-
erage lung capacity (cubic centmeters) from lG7 SO
TO 1870 81 and In average total strength (kograms)
from ZO2 to 249S9 The general health of the
class and of the college and is excellent
iheTe IL practically no sickness and during the
fourteen academic years Of the college no resident
student has qied. Feeling the need for out-of-
door sports during cold weather the college Is maxi
ing new athletic field, where there will loo a
hoehey ground as we'll as provision for tennis and