Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-12-03
Educational activity in Oregon ha. been

vew greatly stimulated during this the first
year Of the service Of the State Superintend-
ent. The establishment Of graded school sys-
TENS in the towns has not advanced rs rapidly
- could be desired.
| California justifes the general sense Of her
| Importance by reporting school population
| Of l4l ,6l0 and school enrolment Of l07, SOB,
her school revenue reaching 1881 100, or
| about 1910 for each enrolled child. Clear
evidence of popular favor toward her public
schools comes In the fact that within eight
years 1894 children have been transferred
from private schools to them.
| For the first time reports, more or less COM
plete, have been received from all the Terri
| tories. The exhibition is encouraging, cvinc-
ing desire for educational advantages and
! efforts TO secure them even where present
I circumstances are unfavorable.
Excluding Alaska, the Territories give an
| aggregate of 69,63S children in the schools,
and kof tSSs s26 for the instruction Of them.
Tve District Of Columbia stands first among
theF Territories as respects the number en-,
rolled as scholars, 1870. Utah comes next,
reporting 1889; while in the amount raised
! for educational purposes Colorado heads che
| list, her school revenue, for school enroll
ment OF 1853, being $257,557, against $780,
| 514 in the District Of Columbia
The most striking progress is presented In
5,30l scholars In the schools.
Hopeful progress is manifest In the growth
| of special schools for the training of teachers
| for our public schools Statistics are given Of
| lib normal schools and normal departments,
having SIT instructors and 5000 students.
| Eleven of these were established or organized
| In 1878, the most notable being the Massa-
chusetts State Normal Art School,
The Commissioner estimates the population
between the ages of six and sixteen In the
thirty seven States and eleven Territories ut
ABOUT 1925, 600. Massachusetts, heads the
y liat wit al v,pr n Min If xO1 IA.
| Nevada, $l735; California, $l4Q2; Nebraska,
| $l192; Connecticut SLIGO; Rhode Island,
| SLIGO; Illinois, $l0,ls. North Carolina
shows the smallest expenditure, the amount
per capita Of school enumcratiens being fifty
five cents; Alabama, $1.el; Florida, $l.40;
South Carolina, $l8o Colorado heads the
| list of Territories with an expenditure Of
| $3.50 per capita Of enumeration, Montana
coming next with an expenditure per capita
| OF $9.43. In the District Of Columbia the cx-
pcnditure per capita was $9.42; In New Mex
leo, SLIT.
Allowing forty pupils to each teacher, the
number required to teach the youths between
| six and sixteen years of age Is estimated At
100000 1t is estimated that the public school
teachers in Massachusetts, teach on an average
three years. Perhaps this period Of service
would be high average for the whole coun-
try. Hence, confning the estimate to the
school population between six and sixteen
years Of age, the number of new teachers
which shJuld be prepared each year to take
up the work would be S6666.
The report presents summary OF the Sta
tistics OF 1,O59 schools for secondary instruc-
ton. commonly denominated academies,
seminaries, institutes, ETC.. including college
preparatory schools. The number OF instruct
ors In these schools was 5, 74S; number 0: stu
dents, 1871 057; total pumbcr Of volumes In
library, 559, 1873.
The number OF institutions for the superior
iput ,nf{ NJ Ina In
including the five colleges for women In the
State Of New York, was 2O5, with @l20 In
structors and M,6l3 students 107 Of the num-
Der are designed as colleges; 6,S2l Of the stu
dents were In the preparatory departments,
17,267 were reported to be In regular or ad-
vanced courses Of study, and 1,025 IN special
and postgraduate courses. The number OF
volumes reported In the libraries was 2l3875.
The number OF schools Of science Including
special scientific departments of universities)
embraced IN the Commissioners tables is 6S,
reporting $50 professors and instructors, q, 800
students In regular courses, 5S3 In special
courses, IS In post graduate courses, ,426 In
preparatory courses; $4,000 volumes In libra
ries, about $4,000 volumes having been added
to them during the year.
The number Of schools Of theology In the
country In 1873 was 40, having 573 professors
and 1855 students; volumes IN libraries, 562,
asa increase In libraries during the year, 30, 0S
volumes. The aggregate corporate prop
erty of the schools, az far rs reported, was
$7,76s, 49S; cndowments $5,455,0 OH. or the
ITO theological schools and theological de-
partments of colleges In the United States, 70
are Presbyterian, l6 Roman Catholic, l6 Bap-
tist Is Lutheran and Reformed, 10 Protestant
Episcopal, 10 Methodist, 8 Congregational,
unsectarian, and each Unitarian, Moravan,
New Jerusalem and Union Evangelical.
In advocating drawing the publicin
schools the Commissioner says
| Whnnvar Surpaa1s In hayiur all tho pylS-
lic-schoo children Of the country properly
trained In elementary drawing will have done
more to advance the manufactures OF the
country and more to make possible the art
culture OF the people than could be accom-.
plishcd by the establishment OF hundred
art museums without this training just as
libraries are worthless TO those who cannot
read so are art galleries TO those who cannot
comprehend them. Just as ali Literature -
open to him who has learned to read 40 Is eli
art to him who has learned to draw, whose
eye has been trained to see ana his fingers
made facle to execute. We have begun ut
the wrong end We asked for art galleries
when we needed drawing schools but the
evil Is not irremedable. Let drawing be
generally taught and our art galleries and
museums, poor as they are, will at once grow
more and more valuable, Tor they Will then
begin to be OF use"
There are in the United States forty insti-
tutiOns for the instruction Of deaf mutcs. The
number OF instructors employed In them Is
$3.50. The number Of inmates under instruc-
ton In 1873 was ,534.
The number OF asylums for the blind is 2S,
having 545 teachers, The number of inmates
under instruction during the year was 1916.
There are probably more than 400 instltu-
tions for orphans and homeless youths in this
country, shcltering not less than 45,WO poor
and unfortunate children. Information con-
cerning l7S of these asylums is given In the
They nuQpr the SUBDIVISION
and care of i 4S4 persons and contained over