The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-01-20

OIL WOtA. he COHiuOu SCHOOLS nave Deen
literally sustained, the instruction has
generally been of higher order than
heretofore, and wider range of studies
has been pursued. There is constant
Improvement in this direction each year,
and Lam glad to note that there is q
gradual advance in the wages paid to
teachers isf ~
Number of school districts in the
State sea gt4 NRI' 7os
| Number ofchildren over four and
| under twenty years of age 39S TAI
Number that attended public
| school during the past year 1854. O3S
Number OF public school houses 4,742
Value of school houses and sites So, 1872. 1875 II
The total amount expended for public
educational purposes during 1869 does
not exceed eight dollars for each pupil
registered 9a1a sa a1
lcommendto your especial consideration
the following statement of the Super
intendent :CE6 Cd
After making liberal allowance for the
number who have previously attended school,
and for those who were so situated that they
could not attend, there will still remain mora
than $4,000 youth WHO are growing up in ig-
norance. This is more than one-eighth of the
whole school population, and about one-sixth
| OF the number that could reasonably be
expected to attend school. v
q And / ask you whether the state, as an
iorganized community, is discharging it's
duty in thus allowing so large a portion
OF its children to grow up in ignorance,
| to be the future inmates of our jails and
prisons, to scatter the seeds of vice far
and wide, to become curse to themselves,
and the most dangerous and troublesome
| element in society Is 1t not our duty
to compel the parents Of these children to
| give them the advantages of some school
system, whereby they may be rendered
fit to assume the duties Of citizenship?
Has nctethe state the right to protect
itself against evils which threaten it's
safety, its peace, and even its existence?
answer these questions for
myself by most emphatically recommend
ing the enactment of such a law as will
compel each child in the state, of proper
age under ordinary circumstances, to
attend school given number of months
| In each year for reasonable number of
years.
You cannot but be aware of the fact
that there is an element in this country
winch is seeking to overthrow our COM
mon school system. Each year it is
becoming holder and its hostility more
pronounced. Those who are engaged in
this devlish assault upon the bulwarks of
the republic are not true friends of our
free Institutions, and should be promptly
rebuked by all good citizens
Total productive school fund Sc. 237. 414 az
Receipts OF the school fund in
come last fiscal year It's. 500 rs
Apportioned by Superintendent
OF Public Instruction I77,11S 40
Number OF ceres of school land
held by the state for sale H4 429,S47
The prosperity of the State University
during the past year has more than met
the expectations of its most sanguine
friends. A large increase of students
shows that its able faculty, its growing
usefulness and influence are widely and
Justly appreciated. Whole number of
students in attendance during the year,
495. AT the last fall term $40 students
attended, crowding the institution to its
utmost capacity, while many, for want of
proper accommodations, were compelled
to turn reluctantly away and seek other
schools. The President of the Board of
Regents in the annual report says:
3" While the Regents have observed
this growth and prosperity with feelings
of the utmost pride and pleasure and
have labored with singular uuaimity to
his end, they,yet feel that it is almost
entirely due to the energy and wisdom
OF President Chadbourne, and the jealous
cooperation of the college faculty.
But beg your attention to
this fact, to witt that with the present
building and accommodations, the Uni
versity has reached the limit of it's use.
fulness"
The University should be enabled to
accommodate all the students who desire
to enter its classes. Thus aided, it will
become in a very few years the peer in
every respect, as it is now in most, of any
college IN the country / call your spe-
cial attention to the Regents report, not
doubling that perusrl of it will convince
you that GO right in recommending an
of $4,000 for the erection
of female college building-the money
to be expended in 1871 Let us lose none
OF the ground gained by the faithful
labors of the Regents, faculty and students.
The future Of the institution will contin-
ue to be-onWarda and upward if we do
not now unwisely check it's progress We
cannot afford to withhold from it the
little that is needed to place its future
success beyond a doubt gme5
loCal productive University fund SOP. 598 IA
Total productive Agricultural
College fund 1926 40
Receipts ofthe University fund in
come so,Ol3 03
Disbursements University fund in
come 28,os6 SO
Disbursements Experimental Farm
fund 7053 r.
remaining unsoid : ''I9''' 49, 11,733
Numocr OF acres of Agricultural
College land remaining unsold !5@,3o1
The State Normal schools at Wh1teWa-
er and PIatteyilIe continue in successful