The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-12-14

colored races In the public schools Of the
recent slave states are the following ng'
ures; School population, white, S,6oS,eoti
colored, 1878, $780, enrolment, white, =.
.0S4, 9t6; colored. gu, $50; total expenditure
for both races, Sll, 100 25l:
There are reported 81 Normal Schools
for the instruction OF the colored race, With
1859 instructors and $3.50 students; rs
institutions for secondary instruction. with
III instructors and $3.50 students; 10 uni.
yersities and colleges, with l20 instructors
and 1870 students; 10 theological schools,
with 40 instructors and 62e studentsi :
schools Of law, with eight instructors and
A students; 4 schools OF medicine,
with II instructors and o. stu.
dents: 9 schools for the deaf and
dumb and the blind, with 20 teachers and
l2l pupils; and l4,247 public schools.
with 875, 100 scholars. There are also 4OS
schools for colored pupils, having an en-
rollment Of 20, 675, in reporting free States,
making the total number Of colored public
scholars IA $50, and total enrolment in
the same 695, S25. The Commissioner OBJ
serves that the difficulties encountered In
the progress OF educating the colored race
which originated from race prejudice are
gradually disappearing; the whites are be.
ginning to see that idleness, vice and
crime are the inevitable results among the
colored people OF neglect, and that these
evils decrease when the proper kind OF
training is afforded. q,
Tie total number Of universities and
colleges reported ia 1858, with S,SS5 instruc-
tors and 1887 pupils. In the preparato-
ry departments OF these institutions were
$50 instructors and 26,266 Students in the
collegiate departments, 3,203 instructors
and 30,S6S students; unclassited, 1858.
They had 2,1S7, 932 volumes in their libra
ries, and the value OF their buildings,
grounds and apparatus was $685. 7l, 2l6;
their productive funds, SS7,07l,9 5S; in
come from these funds, s2,54S,324; receipts
from tuition, sl,555, 2S4; receipts from
State appropriations, s622,577; aggregate
amount Of scholarship funds, Sl,7l9,426.
OF the students in the preparatory de-
parlments, 1S,4Sl are males and 6,71S fe.
males; $3.50 are preparing for a classical
course and 1921 for a scientific course. In
the collegiate departments l5,S0S (l4,l62
males aud 1861 females) are in the scien'
tifc course. :,
A summary Of statistics o public schools
in 2lS cities presents the following totals;
Estimated present population, l0,224,270i
school population, 1,523,237; number oil
school buildings, SOIL; number Of sittings
for study, S55,47S; number OF teachers
%, 042; number OF pupils enrolled, 1856
Oh; average daily attendance, l.056,974j
in private schools, 800, 567; total school
receipts, S26, 462, 635; total expenditure
S25, 65S, 24l. The average expenses pei
capita OF daily average attendance Tor in
struction and supervision vary from
S25 6S in San Francisco, CAL, to SS.7oin
Naichez, Miss, and incidental expenses
vary from % cents In Natchez, Miss, Il
1910 in Boston and Newton, Mass.
In closing his report, the Commissioner
reneys the Recommendation made lasI
year: First, an increase OF the permanent,
force OF the Office; Second, the enactment
Of a law requiring that all facts in regard
TO National aid to education and all facts
in regard to education in the Territories
and the District OF Columbia necessary tol
the information OF Congress be presented
through the Bureau OF Education; also,
that the office OF Superintendent O.
Public Instruction for each Terri
tory be created, to be filled by
appointment by the President; Third
that the whole or a portion Of the net pro
ceeds arising from the sale OF public lands
be set aside as a special fund for educa'
tional purposes; fourth, that provision be
made for the publication OF $4,000 copies
OF the commissioners report for distribu'
ton BY the bureau; fifth, that provisions
be made for the organization OF an educa'
tional museum in connection with the
Office, and for the exchange Of educational
appliances with other countries.