PROCEEDINGS ОГ ТАВ TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNIVERSITY CONVOCATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, HELD JULY 6TH, 7TH AND 8TH, 1875. COUDERLEY LIBRARY ALBANY: WEED, PARSONS & COMPANY, PRINTERS. 1875. PERMANENT OFFICERS. (Ex-officio.) JOHN V. L. PRUYN, LL. D., Chancellor of the University-- SAMUEL B. WOOLWORTH, LL. D., Secretary. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. For the Year 1874-75. EDWARD NORTH, L. H. D., Chairman, Hamilton College, Clinton. CONTENTS. PAGE I. Sketch of the Origin, Objects and Plan of the University Convoca- tion. [Reprinted from former years]. II. Minutes of the Twelfth Anniversary, July 6th, 7th and 8th, 1875.. Pronunciation of Ancient Greek: Shall it be according to Accent, or according to Quantity? By Professor Jesse A. Spencer, S. T. D., of the College of the City of New York.. School Incentives. By Principal John E. Bradley, A. M., of the Albany Statement of the Plan proposed on the Part of the Government, and under the Direction of the National Bureau of Education, for pre- senting the History of American Colleges and Universities, at the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876. By Franklin B. The National Bureau of Education. By the Hon. John Eaton, United A method of Teaching Gesture. By Homer T. Sprague, A. M., Ph. D., Late Principal of the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn.. The Relation of Public High Schools to Colleges. By Principal Samuel Some Points of Scholastic Philosophy in Relation to Modern Science. By Professor Cornelius M. O'Leary, A. M., M. D., Ph. D., of Manhattan Professor Charles Brodhead Coventry, M. D. By Dr. M. M. Bagg, 177 Principal James Dunbar Houghton, A. M. By Principal Albert B. Ezra Cornell, Founder of Cornell University. By Vice-President Professor John Stanton Gould. By William C. Russel, A. M., Vice- President of Cornell University.. Annals of Public Education in the State of New York. By Daniel J. Pratt, A. M., Ph. D., Assistant Secretary of the Regents of The Founding of the University of the State of New York, Under the Legislative Acts of 1784 and 1787. Industrial Drawing in Public Schools. By Mrs. Mary D. Hicks, of the OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. I. SKETCH OF ITS ORIGIN, OBJECTS AND PLAN. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of former years, by direction of the Convocation.] At a meeting of the Regents of the University, held on the 9th day of January, 1863, the reports of colleges and academies, and their mutual relations, being under consideration, the following resolution was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That it is expedient to hold annually, under the direction of this Board, a meeting of officers of colleges and academies, and that a committee be appointed to draft a programme of business for the proposed meeting, to fix the time and place, and to make such other arrangements as they may deem necessary. The committee of arrangements on the part of the Regents were Chancellor Pruyn, Governor Seymour, Mr. Benedict, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Clinton, Mr. Perkins and Secretary Woolworth. The meeting was held according to appointment, on the 4th and 5th days of August, 1863. Chancellor Pruyn briefly stated the objects entertained by the Regents, which were mainly "to consider the mutual relations of colleges and academies, and to promote, as largely as possible, the cause of liberal education in our State. While it is a part of the duty of the Regents of the University to visit the fourteen literary colleges and more than two hundred academies subject to their supervision, it is obvious that this cannot be done as frequently as desirable, and that some such method as is now proposed, whereby teachers may compare views with each other, and with the Regents, and discuss methods of instruction and general modes of procedure, is alike practicable and necessary. * "A law enacted more than three-fourths of a century ago was cited, by which the University was organized and clothed with powers *Now twenty-three (1875). |