After much of the copy of Number One was in type, a conference was held with the Rev. Absalom Peters, D. D., who contemplated the publication of a periodical under the title of the American College Review, and Educational Magazine or Journal. This conference led to the combination of the two periodicals, and a joint editorship of the American Journal of Education and College Review. The first number was published in type, style and matter as prepared by the undersigned, with the adoption of the Prospectus already prepared by Dr. Peters for his magazine, modified, so as to merge the prominent feature of the College Review in the more comprehensive title of the American Journal of Education. In the preparation of the second number, it became evident that two could not walk, or work together, unless they be agreed, and by mutual arrangement, and for mutual convenience, it was determined after the issue of that number, to discontinue the joint publication, leaving each party" the privilege of publishing an Educational Magazine, for which he was entitled to use the first and second number of the American Journal of Education and College Review, as number one and two of his work.” In the spirit and letter of this arrangement, as understood by him, the undersigned resumed the title and plan of his own Journal, and has completed the first volume by the publication of a number for March and for May, with this variation only, that he has given his subscribers more than he originally promised, and in the further prosecution of his work, shall include in the Journal much that he intended for chapters in some of the treatises which were to compose the Library of Education. Should the Journal be sustained by a liberal subscription list, and should the health of the present editor admit of the requisite labor, it will be continued for a period of five years, or until the issue of ten volumes, conducted substantially on the plan of Volume I. The editor will studiously avoid the insertion of all topics, or papers foreign to the great subject to which it is devoted, or of a single line or word calculated to injure intentionally the feelings of any faithful laborer in any allotment of the great field of American Education. HENRY BARNARD. HARTFORD, CONN., } MAY 1, 1856. CONTENTS. NO. 1, FOR AUGUST, 1855. THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION. Original call for National Convention in 1849.. Journal of Proceedings of Fourth Annual Meeting, held in Washington, on the 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th of December, 1854. By R. L. Cooke, Secretary... Remarks on the same, by Bishop Potter, Prof. Bache. Dr. Proudfit, and others..... II. THE ANGLO-SAXON ELEMENT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By John S. Hart, LL. D.. Remarks on the same, by Bishop Potter, Prof. Dimitry, Dr. Proudfit, Rev. 8. Hamill, Prof. Bache, Dr. Stanton, Prof. Henry, and others....... Remarks on the same by A. Greenleaf, Bishop Potter, Z. Richards, Dr. Proudfit.. IV. DESCRIPTION OF PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL HOUSE IN PHILADELPHIA. By John S. Hart, LL. D......... Remarks on the same by Prof. Bache, Dr. Proudfit, Mr. Barnard, and others.. 100 Plans. Fig. 1, Perspective. Fig. 2. Basement. Fig. 3, First Floor. V. PRACTICAL SCIENCE. An Account of a Visit to the Office of the Coast Survey.. ← VI. DISCIPLINE, MORAL AND MENTAL. By Z. Richards, Washington. VII. EDUCATION AMONG THE CHEROKEE INDIANS. By William P. Ross.. .. .. .. Plan of Publication. 1 Journal. 2 Library... II. UNCONSCIOUS TUITION. By Prof. F. D. Huntington, D. D., of Harvard College... III. THE DEMOCRATIC TENDENCIES OF SCIENCE. By Prof. D. Olmsted, of Yale College........... 164* IV. IMPROVEMENTS PRACTICABLE IN AMERICAN COLLEGES. By Prof. F. A. P. Barnard.... V. POPULAR EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. By George Hodgins, of Toronto.. TABLE. Amount of Lands appropriated by Congress to Educational purposes. Plans. Fig. 1, Perspective. Fig. 2, Basement Story. Fig. 3, First Floor. Fig. 4, NO. 3, FOR MARCH, 1856. Portrait of George Peabody, Founder of Peabody Institute, Danvers, Mass. PAGE. II. EDUCATION AMONG THE HEBREWS. By Rev. Morris Raphall, Ph. D., New York.... III. PROGRESS OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE. By Henry P. Tappan, D. D. 247 IV. IMPROVEMENTS PRACTICABLE IN AMERICAN COLLEGES. By F. A. P. Barnard, LL. D. 269 V. METHOD OF TEACHING LATIN AND GREEK. By Tayler Lewis, LL. D.. VII. BIOGRAPHY OF EZEKIEL CHEEVER, the Patriarch of New England School Masters- IX. PLAN OF AN AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. By John A. Porter, M. D., Prof. of Agricul- XII. SYSTEM OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN ST. Louis, Missouri; with Plans and Description of the Public High School. Fig. 1, Perspective. Fig. 2, First Floor. Fig. 3, Sec- XIII. LETTERs to a Young TEACHER. By Gideon F. Thayer, Boston.... XIV. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS IN YALE COLLEGE.. XV. MAGNITUDE OF THE EDUCATIONAL INTEREST OF THE UNITED STATES; as shown by Sta- tistical Tables and Summaries of the Population, Educational Funds, &c...... TABLE 1. Population and Area of the American States. XVI. EDUCATIONAL MOVEMENTS AND STATISTICS... RUSSIA. 1. Universities. 2. Schools for Scientific Education. 3. Military Schools. GREAT BRITAIN. 1. Appropriations by Parliament for Education, Science and Art .385 AMERICAN STATES. 1. Colleges in New England in 1855-6. 2. Notices of deferred .415 II. TESTIMONIAL AND MONUMENT TO THOMAS HOPKing GallauDET. AMERICAN ASYLUM FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB. Plan of the Building. Fig. 1, Perspective. Fig. 2, First Floor. Fig. 3, Second Floor..442 III. MAGNITUDE OF THE EDUCATIONAL INTEREST IN UNITED STATES.. TABLE 6. School Funds and Statistics of Public Schools, Normal Schools, Reform Schools, Institutions for Deaf Mutes, Blind, and Idiots, &c. Continued from No.3. 447 TABLE 7. Statistics and extracts from Official Reports of the Public Schools of the Cities of Boston, Philadelphia and Providence.. TABLE 8. Population of the principal Cities and Towns.. TABLE 9. No. of Deaf Mutes, Blind, Idiotic and Insane.. TABLE 10. Newspapers and other Periodicals in 1850.. IV. CONSOLIDATION ANDd other MODIFICATIONS Of American Colleges.. ..471 An Address at the Opening of Jefferson and Marshall Colleges, by Rt. Rev. A. Potter. V. National UNIVERSITY. Remarks before American Association, by A. D. Bache, LL. D.449 VI. METHOD OF TEACHING LATIN, AND GREEK. By Tayler Lewis, LL. D., Union College...480 VII. DEBATING-a Means of EDUCATIONAL DISCIPLINE. By J. N. McElligott, LL. D., N. Y..495 VIII. PHYSICAL SCIENCE. By H. J. Anderson, LL. D., New York.. ..515 IX. SUBJECTS AND METHODS OF ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN MATHEMATICS. Translated X. BENEFACTORS OF EDUCATION, Literature and SCIENCE. Thomas Handasyd Perkins.. .551 XI. LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER. Number 2. By Gideon F. Thayer... XII. MENTAL EDUCATION OF WOMAN. By Catharine McKeen, Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary.567 XIII. PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE FOR GIRLS, IN BROOKLYN, N. Y. .. Plan of the Buildings. Fig. 1, Front View. Fig. 2, Garden View. Fig. 3, Sec- .587 Labors of Rev. Charles Brooks. Plymouth County Association in 1839-Remarks XV. IDIOTS AND INSTITUTIONS FOR THEIR TRAINING. By L. P. Brockett, M. D., Hartford, Ct.591 XVI. FAMILY TRAINING AND FIELD LABOR IN REFORMATORY EDUCATION................ .589 .609 School-houses converted into Monuments of distinguished men... 5. AMERICAN STATES. Prof. Dana's Introductory Lecture.. Dedication of Winthrop School-house, in Boston-Remarks by R. C. Winthrop..645 cr Eaton School-house, in New Haven-Remarks by President Woolsey.646 Gradation of Schools; or the Organization, Administration, and Instruction of Public ....768 |