University Of Michigan

The Board of Kegents, at their meeting in Juno last, in accordanco with the recommendation of the President and tho Faculty of the Department of' Literature, Science and the Arts, established the Chair of the Science and the Art of Teaching. They eleoted to tho nevv Professorship William H. Payue, M. A., for niany years Superintendent of Schools at Adrián, Mich. His eiuinent qualificatións for tho dutiea of suoh a chair are well known. It ia thought proper to announce by this circular the general purposes of the proposed course of instruction and the scope of the lectures to be given by Professor Payne during the coming year. The purposes are : 1. To fit University students for the higher positiona in the publio school service. It is a natural function of the University, aa the head of our systein of public instruotion, to supply the demand made upon it for furnishing the larger public schools with superintendenta, principáis, and asaistants in high schools. Year by year these important positions are falling more and inore into the hands of men who have received education in the University. Up to this time, the training given to our graduates has been almost purely literary ; it has lacked tho professional character that can alone give special fitness for the sucoessful management of schools and school systems. Now, however, it is proposed to offer students of this University who wish to become teachers araple facilities for professional study ; and this purpose is embodied ia the establishment of this new Chair. 2. To proinote tho study of educational science. The establishment of this Chair is a recognition of the truth that the art of education has its correlativo science ; and that the procesa of the school-room' can becorue rational only by developing and teaching the principies that underlie these processes. Systems of public instruction are everywhere on trial, and the final criteria by which they are to stand or fall must be found in a philosophical study of the educating art. 3. To teach the history of education, and of educational systoms and doctrines. The supreme right of the school is to grow; aaft ranch hurtful interference might be avoided by asoortaining the diroction of educational progress and the history of educational thought. 4. To secure to teaching the rights, prerogatives and advantages of a profession. 5. To give a more perfeot unity to our State educational system by bringing the secondiwy schools into closer relation with tho University. For the next year, two courses of lectures will be offored, as follows : I. Practical, embracing school supervisión, grtiding, courses of study, examinations, the art of instrueting and governing, school architecture, school hygiëne, school law, etc, etc. Two lectures oach week. II. Historical, Pbilosophioal and Critical, embraoing the history of education, the comparison and criticism of the systems in different eountries, the outlines of educational science, the science of teaching, a critical discussion of the ories and inethods. Two lectures each week. JAMES B, ANGELL, President. University of Michigan, August 1, 1879. Horsebuck and byciole riding are the faahionablo uiothoda of getting over the country. A perusal of the long artich in mi eastorn paper of the trip on horsebaok by a clergyman, from New ürlcans to New Jersey is intereating. A young man is now making the journey from New York to Chicago with a bycicle. ïhree byciclists from different sections are presently guests of Saratoga, to soon make their way to the metropolis. Secretary Schurz, in his Cincinnati speech Wednesday, made the remarkable statement that Hayes "does not believe in tho freedom of somo men to rob, by fraud, the honest votes of other citizeus of their lightful foroe." It can hardly be possiblo that Cari kept a straight face whilo making this statement. Hayes firmly bulieves in such freedom when the robbers take tho form of Returning Board scoundrels, and when the fraud is practioed not upon a voter here and there, but upon the majority of voters in a state. The full vote of Kentucky at tho recent eleetiou, with the exception of one small county (Perry), which in 1875 cast 496 Eepublican and 151 Democratie votos, was as follows : Blackburn, Democrat, 125,551; Evans, Eepublican, 81,098; Cook, Greenback, 18,923. Blackburn's majority over Evans ia 44,453. Perry will slightly reduce it, but it will exceed 44,000. Although less than twothirds of the full vote w brougnt out, tUo total exceeds that of any election ever held in the state except iu 187Ö.