Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-14
Wednesday Morning, Sep. IA, 1881.
THE SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTRY.

THE SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTRY.
 The report of the National Bureau of Edu I cation, just issued, is an interesting and in I structive document. Init the school popu1a. l ton of the States in 1879 is set down at 14, l 782, 765. This does not include the terri ! tories, but includes all persons of the legal school age, which ranges all the way between four and twenty-one, or from seventeen years down to six years out of each persons age. The number of children enrolled in the public schools is 9, ,OO3 in attendance, 5,223, 100, or pretty fair average, as the latter number applies to thirty-two States only. Thirty-four States report 104, SAP male and Al, 161 female teachers. The public school income of all the States was $82, 767, 815, and thirty States report a permanent school fund of $110, 264, ,434 The principal
 expenditure, of course, is for teachers. The
 average paid to women in New Hampshire Is
 $22 83 month; in Nevada it is $S3. The
 male teachers receive from an average of
 $25.5 in South Carolina to $84.46 in Neva-
 da and $S9.47 in the District of Columbia.
 In Maryland the two sexes have the same
 average pay,!$43. 49 month, while Massa-
 chusetts pays monthly average of $67.44 to
 the men, and but $33. 50 to women.
 There are in the country 2O7 normal
 schools, with 1, ,422 instructors and 6,O29
 pupils, but only so of these schools are State
 institutions. The commissioner reports IA
 business colleges, with 535 teachers and
 22,O21 pupils. Secondary schools are re-
 ported at 1,236, with 5,961 teachers and
 108, ,734 pupils, 123 being schools which
 fit youth for admission to college. These
 fitting schools have SIS teachers and 13,561
 pupils who pay $422, 929 for tuition. Su-
 perior instruction for young women is given
 in 227 schools, 153 of which confer degrees
 They have 2, orr teachers, 24, ,6O5 pupils, and property valued at $9, ,212, 800. Tuition reached $7O6, ,439 in 1878, and in 1879 there
 were conferred in these schools 727 degrees.
 The number of colleges and universities is 364, with 4,241 teachers and GO, OH stu dents, 27, 467 of the latter in preparatory de- partments. The colleges report $37, ,209, ,354 in fixed property and $4O,25s, ,937 in pro- ductive funds, yielding an income for 1879 of $2, ,6S4, orr. There are S1 scientific schools, 133 theological schools, 49 law schools and 114 medical schools Finally, there are 3, ,s42 public libraries, with 12,569,45O vol umes. m
 The colored school population of the South is ], 1,66S, ,41O, of whom 685,942 are enrolled. There are forty-two normal schools or nor nal departments for the colored people, with 1s1 teachers and CHI pupils. They have also forty-two secondary schools, with 12o teachers and 5,297 pupils sixteen colleges or universities, with 137 teachers and 1888 pupils, together with three law schools, four medical schools and twenty two theological seminaries. It appears, then, that of the colored school population in the South 5s per cent. are not properly cared for, while 42 per cent. are provided with public, pri- vate and special schools.
 In addition to the above the report con- tains much information concerning speciaEl schools, including those for ths deaf, the dumb, the blind and the feeble minded. It gives very clear and comprehensive idea of the great educational work done in this coun- I