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...Metropolitan Museum has called to the post of manager of its art schools J. W. Stinson, a graduate of Yale and of the Paris School of Fine Arts, who has been occupied at Princeton College as practical instructor and illustrator...
During the present month the annual commencement of the Woman's Normal School at Tokio, Japan, takes place. There will be about forty graduates. This school was established for the purpose of furnishing trained teachers for the academies and high schools throughout the empire...
...scheme to add a school of mines to the departments at Cornell is under consideration...
Next to these establishments come the Idadiyes or advanced preparatory schools, where the instruction is gratuitous and where the students remain from three to five years. In the Idadiyes the scholars are instructed in studies adapted to the careers they are destined to follow in the medical, military, marine and artillery schools to which they gain admittance on leaving the Idadiyes. Besides these schools the capital contains others of equal importance. There is a school forming professors for the Rushdiyes, a school where foreign languages are taught to some of the employees of the Porte, a forest school...
There is a strange custom in the boys' schools of mixing up the large boys of the first class with the little ones in order to break in the small boys to the school routine. In 1868 the Lyceum was established at Constantinople. This university is free to all Ottoman subjects. Foreign subjects are admitted on the payment of fees. languages, literature, history, geography, elementary mathematics, and physical science are taught. After much opposition and a precarious life, the Lyceum has at last gained a strong foundation and is accomplishing very laudable results...