1877 | Education
Education
The Association for the Higher Education of Women in Glasgow is founded.
Education for Italian children from age 6 to 9 becomes mandatory under terms of a new law, but poor administration will make the measure ineffectual.
Tokyo University (the University of Tokyo) is founded in Japan. The imperial university will be the nation's most prestigious (only men will be admitted until 1949).
The first university press is founded at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University, where The American Journal of Mathematics begins publication. The new university is the first institution to subordinate student needs to research demands, inaugurating the "publish-or-perish" system that will lead to widespread publication of pedantic papers which often have little to do with real education.
The American Museum of Natural History opens its first building December 22 in ceremonies attended by President Hayes, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, and other notables (see 1869). President Grant took part in the ground-breaking ceremonies 3 years ago on what heretofore has been New York's Manhattan Square—a 10-acre, city-owned site across from Central Park at West 77th Street—where the museum will add more buildings in years to come. The 29-year-old Arsenal in Central Park has housed the museum's collection up to now and will become the headquarters of the city's parks department.