The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-11
The Progress OrEduCNtIon in the Unlted
States.


The Progress OF E1IuCatIOn In the United
states.
Tho senior Senator from West Virginia
was one Of those who lust year recommend.
cd the devotion Of the entire proceeds Of
tho public lands Of the United States to the
cause Of education throughout the country.
The lYTELI.lGENCRR expressed its regret
TINT the educational bill did not pass the
Senate inthRt shape, ConCuned with the
Senator fully in the view that he took re-
garding the pressing necessity for education
ut this present time rs compared with
future time, The bill rs II passed the Sen.
ate only devoted the interest of the money
received from the sale Of public lands and
from patents to the assistance Of education
iu the various States in proportion to the
number OF fllitcrate in each State but In
this shape II seemed to DO too dilatory in
its benefits to be OF much service to this
geneNlion-the generation Of all others
that needs assistance, on account OF the i'm
mense number OF illierate blacks thrown
on our hands by emancipation during
the war
The report Of the Commissioner Of Edu.
cation for 1870 has recently been published.
Owing to the slowness Of the officials,
especially in tho Southern States, and the
difficulty experienced in getting full and
Uniform returns from all parts Of the
Union, these reports arc very much dc.
laycd. The comparisons in the present in.
stance are made between the sChool-years
lS77-'7S and 1880. Tho statistics lose
much of their value by the delay. The
system under which they are collected nd.
mits Of Improvement,
The total school population in the Suites
exclusive Of the Territories, in 1870, was
ll,7S2,7 G5; the number enrolled in public
schools, 0,32S, 003; average attendance, six
Suites not reporting, 5,223, 100. The school
population of the Territories was 1852,
Wyoming not reporting; the number en-.
rolled, including Wyoming, 0DOS3; the
average daily attendance, 50,237.
The value Of the comparisons is again
diminished by the fact that the provisions
Of the State laws concerning school ages
are various There are sixteen school ages
in the States and Territories ranging from
, ! to q years. In nine States the school
Hge is to q years, Nnd in nine other
States It is to 81 years. The longest
school year is ITO days, and 1t prevails in
the States Of Connecticut, Maryland, Mus.
snclusetts, New Jersey, New York and
Rhode Island.
There were 270, 1903 teachers employed in
the States. The average salaries for men
ranged from $25 81 in South Carolina to
SS4 40 in Nevada, and for women from
$50 SO in New Hampshire to $S3 In Ne
vada, In Maryland the average WIS tho
same for both sexes, while the difference
eNs greatest in Massachusetts, where men
receive m average Of SG7 A n month and
women an average Of Sl3 80. Thirty.four
States rcppt1O4,Si2 male and al ,lOl fe.
mnle teachers.
NE public school income of all the
States is SS2,767sl5; expenditure, S77170,.
3l4. Thirty States have n total permanent
sctool fund Of $l1O,2O4434. The exbendi.
turc per capita Of the school population
varied from % cents in Georgia to $500
In Massachusetts, and per capita of enroll.
ment in public schools from Sl.4l in North
Carolina to silly in California.
The number OF normal schools REPORTED
Is 207. They had 400 instructors and
10000 students There were IA busincSs
colleges with 535 instructors and 22,Oyl
dents, Of whom 5.2l0 were in evening
schools. The number Of kindcrgurlchS
was 1906, with 452 teachers and 1854
pupils. There were 1880 academies or in.
stitutions for secondary instruction, having
bDOl instructors and 10S,73l pupils. There
were also 81 400 persons pursiing similar
courses of study In the preparatory depart
lnents Of universities and colleges, city
high schools, normal schools, etc. The
number 81 preparatory schools specially de-
ySteatn fitting persons for admission to
Callege was l23, having SlS teachers and
1901 nuplH, an increase OF nine schools
and l,023 pupils MS compared with the pre-
viotis year.
Two hundred and twCnty.sevcn institu.
lions give higher instruction to women.
They have g,077 instructors, about one
fourth Of whom are men, and 24,GOi stu.
dents. Their grounds buildings and air
paratus nre valued at $D,2l2,5OO. Their
tuition fees In the year previous to the re-
mort amounted to $T0B,43O.
The ''nhiyersities and colleges" In 1878
numbered 3O4, with 4,24i instructors and
GO,Oli students Tile students and instruC.
. tors were divided in collegiate and prepat. |
alory departments, as follows
.t' Students Tcachcn |
Collegiate ~ Sg6
Preparatory ""...,.,..'.".,"".",.Eia 7a |
The volumes In the college libraries
amount to 2,30i ,9gl, and increase Of Co..
0G9 during tleyear, The value OF grounds,
buildings and Apparatuses was $37, 201, 1854,
amount Of productive funds, $40, 26S,997i
increase from same, S2,0s4,077, receipts
from tuition fees, Si,p20,0OO from State ap.
,itnnrinliohs, $lS2, AS; aggregate amount Of
schalarsbip funds, S2,0l20i2,
Tho report by States shows deIlonble
want Of progress In the South. "The in.
n.'a,,coo tshIph onefato exclusively aNainGl