donations. MISSOURI.-Washington University has been greatly strengthened by late A new building for the scientific school, with laboratories unsurpassed in the Union, will be ready for the next college year. NEW HAMPSHIRE. It is rumored that EDWIN F. ROBINSON, of Mansfield, has devised his entire property, $60,000, to furnish a Bible to every pupil in the public schools of the country...... A young lady, running as a Republican candidate for school officer at Nashua, was defeated by her father, who was on the Democratic ticket...... Ground is about to be broken for a new building for Phillips Academy, to cost $40,500. NEW JERSEY has 258,227 children between 5 and 18-161,683 in public, 32,337 in private schools, and 55,000 altogether out of school. NEW YORK. The endowment of $400,000 for the proposed Syracuse University has been subscribed, and the city adds $100,000 more...... The alumni of Union College have subscribed over $100,000 for it, and will raise $300,000, if necessary......New York city has 271 public schools, with a total enrollment of nearly 240,000; average attendance, 102,608; teachers, 2,683. OHIO still refuses to establish the County Superintendency. RRODE ISLAND is deliberating over the founding of a State Normal School. TENNESSEE.Fisk University, of Nashville, (of which Prof. A. K. SPENCE, late of Michigan University, is President,) has 350 colored pupils of both sexes. A freshman class will be ready for college next fall. TEXAS.-Miss MARY G. ROWE, of Berrien county, Mich., is teaching a freedman's school with much acceptance in Corpus Christi. FOREIGN. GERMANY.-The erection of magnificent new buildings for the University of Berlin is contemplated. They will be the largest of the kind in the world.— In ten years, it is believed that eight to ten thousand students will matriculate annually at this University. GREAT BRITAIN.-The new educational system of Scotland takes as its basis the existing rate-supported schools, remodels them as to their management and maintenance, and provides for their multiplication in country districts. The sectarian schools will be detached from the denominations, and merged in the new system. The rate-payers elect school boards, which locate new schools as demanded. They are also empowered to erect infant schools, and industrial and free schools, in certain cases. A strict conscience clause is prescribed for all public schools. The inspection is confined to secular subjects. A committee in London supervises the whole.-Christian Union. ITALY. A movement is on foot for the establishment of a "Maternal Government School," which shall prepare young girls for the duties of maternity by giving them a thorough physiological and scientific education. Its promoters hold that weakness and imbecility must be destroyed by elevating and perfecting the mothers, so that they shall bear none but noble children. "THE SCHOOL FESTIVAL" is a beautiful original quarterly Magazine, devoted to new and sparkling Dialogues, Recitations, Concert, Motion, and other Exercises for Sunday-school and Dayschool Exhibitions, Concerts, Festivals, "Public Fridays," ete. Conducted by ALFRED L. SEWELL, of Chicago, (for nearly six years editor of The Little Corporal,) and M. B. C. SLADE, of Fall River, Mass. Price. FIFTY CENTS year; Six copies, one year, $2.50; Single number 15 cents. (Back numbers from Jannary, 1870, can al ways be sent at the same rate.) Issued by ***We shall be pleased to have the following new books extensively examined by teachers with a view to introduction, and copies for this purpose will be sent by mail free of postage, on receipt of HALF the appended price. NOW READY: A SHORTER COURSE IN ENGLISH GRAMMAR. NE BY SIMON KERL, A. M.. 66 Author of "First Lessons in English Grammar," Common School Gram- OLUME, 240 PAGES, PRICE, SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. This book is the result of much study, experience and reflection; and no pains have been spared set it beyond all just grounds of critical censure. The condition and wants of schools in this country and Europe have been carefully considered as well as the advanced state of philological science, and the work ha been modified accordingly, so as to place it in the front rank of new and improved productions. The follow ing are some of the points to which special attention is invited: 1st. The book is small, yet it is sufficienly comprehensive in outline, and not deficient in necessary detail. 2d. It consists of an oral course followed by a course of Text, in accordance with that method of teaching into which the best schools have gradually fallen by experience. 3d. 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The obj ive plan hasbeen followed as far as it is applicable to the subject, and the arrangement, throughout the wor has beenapated to the topical method of recitation. An Astronomical Index has been appended, which wil be foundery usef ul and convenient in affording a brief summary of definitions for final review. Problem of the Globes have been inserted in connection with those parts of the book to which they refer, so as to in press more clearly upon the pupil's mind the principles involved in their operation. RECENTLY ISSUED: " ROBINSON'S FIRST LESSONS in Mental and Written FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC. A course of instruction i LITERATURE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, com-1 prising Representative Selections from the Best Au-CALISTHENIC SONGS. A new and attractive Co thors. By E. Hunt, A. M., Principal of the Girl's High and Normal School, Boston. 1 volume, large 12mo. 648 pages. $2,50. GREEK PRAXIS; OR, GREEK FOR BEGINNERS. By J. lection of Calisthenic Songs, beautifully illustrated By FLORA T. PARSONS. One handsome oblong vo ume. Price 40 cents. READING AND ELOCUTION; THEORETICAL AND PRAC TICAL. BY ANNA S. RANDALL. This is a very com plete and thorough work, and can be used indeper dently or in connection with any series of Reader One vol. 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1,40, The Illustrated Catalogue, descriptive of the American Educational Series of School an College Text-Books, and THE EDUCATIONAL REPORTER, a handsome publication full of useful informa tion, mailed free to any Teacher or School Officer. 1-9 IVISON, BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO., 138 & 140 Grand Street, NEW YORK. THE MICHIGAN TEACHER. VOL. VI.-NILES, JUNE, 1871.-NO. 6. NE of the most eminent college presidents in the West, who was a classmate of President ANGELL- now of the University of Vermont, but soon to take his place at the head of our own University - writes to us in terms expressing unqualified commendation of his distinguished confrere. He says: "In my old friend and classmate, Dr. ANGELL, you will have a vast accession to the educational forces of the State."From many other quarters we hear good words of the incoming President, which virtually congratulate Michigan, and the sons and daughters of other States at our great school of learning, upon their good fortune. We are happy to add that Dr. A. has consented to deliver his inaugural address during the approaching Commencement week.Some foretaste of his quality may be obtained by reading his judicious and temperate essay on the Co-Education of the Sexes, published as our leading article this month. It is gratifying to record the consummation of another arrangement which brightens our educational future. The call of Superintendent JOSEPH S. ESTABROOK, of East Saginaw, to the head of the Normal School, and of Prof. DANIEL PUTNAM, now in charge of the public schools at Ypsilanti, to the Principalship of the Training Dapartment in the same institution, has resulted in securing the services of both, against superior offers (in a financial point of view) for their retention in their present places. These gentlemen have been long and prominently identified with the common school interests of the State, and their prospective transference to the Normal School is peculiarly fortunate. A PHENOMENON to which the attention of the educator, psychologist, or ethical philosopher may be profitably directed, is presented by the murderer RULOFF, now (May 15th) in jail at Binghampton, New York, awaiting the execution of the death-penalty upon him. A scholar of exquisite tastes, and a philologist of no mean abilities, he has, nevertheless, lived a life deep-dyed in crime for at least twenty-five years. He gives, perhaps, the most remarkable demonstration on record of the truth that high mental culture does not, of itself, prevent a man from becoming a thorough-paced villain. Prof. MATHER, of Amherst College, sends an interesting account of a recent interview with RULOFF to the Springfield Republican, closing as follows: "He is certainly an enigma, and offers in himself a powerful argument against the theory that education is alone sufficient to lead to true manhood. Those who would throw out moral and Biblical teaching from our system of culture have a difficult task to harmonize their theory with such a character as this. Here is a profound and appreciative student of all that is beautiful and glorious in classical learning, working for years as a philologist, and with a zeal rarely equalled, and yet all the time living a life of crime as dark and terrible as any criminal in our land. He shows that true culture and true manhood can only be a development of the moral sense, and that we must educate the heart as fast as we educate the head, or our knowledge may only increase our sin." "The WE REGRET that the interesting paper of Dr. WAYLAND on Compulsory Use of the Bible in Schools," did not arrive in time for commencement this month, and that the second article of Dr. MORRIS' series on "Oriental Education" has been crowded out. able contributions also stand over to the July number. illustration to Dr. M.'s sketches is being engraved. Several valu A handsome In this issue, we think timely suggestions will be found in Prof. ADAMS' notes on History and in "A Word to Teachers." Some interesting facts, that may be brought to bear in geographical teaching, are contained in the concluding part of Prof. GOODISON's translation. A THIRD and very worthy County Superintendent of the four years' service turns out to have been re-elected-the Rev. J. S. GOODMAN, of Saginaw county. We extend congratulations to himself and county. LOCAL Superintendents and Principals will oblige by sending us the date of their closing exercises this summer, with lists of graduates. |