Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-11-20

Allowing forty pupils TO each teacher, the
| number required TO teach the youths between
SIX and sixteen years Of age ls estimated at
10000. IL Is estimated that the public school
teachers In Massachusetts, teach on ON 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
up the work would be s6,666.
Inc report presents q summary Of the sta.
| tlstcs OF l,O30 schools for secondary instruc.
ton, commonly denominated academies
semnaries, Institutes, etc, including college
| preparatory schools. The number of instruct
ors IN these schools was 5,74S number OF stu
| dents, l3l057; total number of volumes in
library, 559,1SS.
The number OF institutions for the superior
| instruction of women reporting in 1878, not
| including the hvescolleges for women i'm the
| state OF New York, was 205, with 2,120 in.
structors and 24,6l3 students 107 Of the num-
| Der are designed as colleges; 1921 OF the stu
| dents were In the preparatory departments,
| 1887 were reported TO be in regular or ad-
vanced courses of study, and 1025 in special
| ana postgraduate courses. The number Of
volumes reported in the libraries was 213,675.
| The number of schools Of science Qncluding
| special scientific departments of universities5
| embraced in the Commissioners tables is 6S,
| reporting $50 professors and instructors g. 500
courses, % in st-graduate courses, ,426 in
| preparatory courses; $4,000 volumes in libra
| ries, about II, 900 volumes having been added
| to them during the year.
The number of schools Of theology in the
country In 1873 was 110, having573 professors
and 1888 students; volumes in libraries, 500,
4S4 Increase in libraries during the year, 30, ,303
volumes. The aggregate corporate prom
erty OF the schools, as far as reported, was
SSih16S, ,49S; endowments, s5,455,O97. OF the
ITO theological schools and theological de-
partments OF colleges In the United States, 20
are Presbyterian, Is Roman Catholic, 16 Bap.
tist, Is Lutheran and Reformed, 10 Protestant
Episcopal 10 Methodist, 8 Congregational, 9
unseetarian, and each Unitarian, Moravian,
New Jerusalem and Union Evangelical
In advocating drawing in the public
schools the Commissioner says:
whoever succeeds in having all the pub
ltc-school 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-
plished by the establishment of a 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 all literature is
open to him who has learned to read so is all
art to him who has learned to draw, whose
eye has been trained to see and his fingers
made facile to execute. We have begun at
the wrong end. We asked for art galleries
when we needed drawing. schools; but the
evil is not irremediable Let drawing be
generally taught and our art galleries and
museums, poor as they are, will at once grow
more and more valuable, for they will then
begin to be of use.n
There are in the United States forty insti-
tutiOns for the instruction of deaf mutes. The
number of instructors employed i'm them is
2S9. The number of inmates under instruc-
ton in 1878 was 1854
The number Of asylums for the blind is 2S
having 5i5 teachers. The number of inmates
under instruction during the year was ,916
There are probably more than 400 nstitu-
tions for orphans and homeless youths in this
country, sheltering not less than 5000 poor
and unfortunate children. Information con.
cerning us Of these asylums Is given in the
report They were under the supervision
and care Of ,44 persons and contained over
22OOO inmates, most Of whom were probably
under instruction.
The number of institutions distinctivelv
known as Reform Schools which furnished
information to the bureau was 81 The num-
Der of commitments during tine year was g.
S5S. The number who received instruction in
reading in the year was 1,675; number taught
to write, l,9OS. Number of volumes reported
In the libraries of THESE schools was %, IA
The number of instructors in all classes of
educational institutions in 1870, according to
the census, was 22l ,042; number of pupils,
7,2O9,93S. According to the Commissioners
report there were in 1873, in all classes of in.
stitutions about which information was OBJ
tanned, 46,932 teachers and S, ,72394j pupils.