Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-29
SCHOOL STATISTICS.

The report of the United States COM
missioners Of education, which has Just
been printed, is full of interesting Stats
ties. Some Of the figures have already
been given, but they are of sufficient
importance to bear repetition. The
school population of the country is esti-
mated at about 10, 250, 600. Asregards the
per capita cost of educating these Massa-
ehusetts leads, it costing there SCI "A
year for each pupil, while in North
Carolina the per capita educational out
lay is only fifty.five cents. Few of the
southern States rise above 81. In Con-
neetieut the rate is Sll so. Allowing
forty pupils to q teacher, the country
needs 260, 900 instructors for its children
Of between six and sixteen years of age.
In Massachusetts the teachers average
term ofservice is three years, and taking
this as general average, it appears that
81, 600 new teachers have to be had
yearly. The normal schools Of the
country prepare about 500 teachers an
nually, and where the $1,000 or more
come from is an interesting problem on
the unfsvOrable side of the case. Last
year there were IS, S75 persons preparing
for college, of whom 1865 were in the
public high schools, 10, Jas in academies,
and %, l65 in the preparatory depart
ments of the colleges themselves.
Nearly $500 more were fitting for scien-
tific schools. Besides female colleges
in New York, there were, in 1873, POS
instructions for the education of women
in the United States. OF these 1O7 were
called colleges, and these had 24,61S
students, Including 1925 in post graduate
and special courses; while 81 co-educa-
tional institutions report 1857 female
students, Of whom $40 were in prepRra-
tory and 1917 in regular courses. There
were 1913 colleges or universities altogeth-
er in the country, and these reported
310S professors and other instructors,
25,165 preparatory students, and 2501O
in regular classes. Scientific schools,
IS, have $50 instructors, 1896
regular students, 533 special, SO post
granted 266 degrees in 1873. There are
So colleges of agriculture and mechanical
arts. The three professions, Gas measur-
ed by the number of their graduates
in 1873, stand in order. Medicine, law,
theology. OF the first there were 1912, !
Of the second, 706, and of the third, $50. /
In medicine the Irregular triumphs !
over the homeopathic OF the former !
there are so colleges to Of the others,
80 instructors to 1876, and 649l students I
to 1879. In 81 law schools there are 15S /
and 2174 students. And in I
10 theological schools the 575 ms /
tTuetors have 1888 students. Twenty of [
these institutions are Presbyterian, Is 4
Roman Catholic, 10 Baptist, Is Lutheran 7
and reformed, 10 Protestant Episcopal, I
10 Methodist, s Congregational, 2 4
Christian, United Brethren, , Uni /
unseet&rian, and l each [
Unitarian, Morsvian, New Jerusalem, I
md Union Evangelical. The total
number Of degrees conferred during the
TeSr by all Institutions was about 5000,
here being 1868 in course and $50 (
honorary. There are 40 institutions for
he deaf and dumb, with 2S9 instructors
md 1884 pupils; % for the blind, with
As teachers and 1916 pupils. More than
90 orphan asylums contain st least $4,000
inmates, and "a reform schools received
SIS commitments during the year.
'hiTty-five cities report 3l9, $40 pupils in
Elementary drawing, branch which
las but just begun to receive attention,
nd the development Of which the report
trenuously urges.