The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-13
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS.
The Annual Report of the Com
missioner of Education.
Increased Attendance in the Schools
Of the Country.

ton to the account of educational affairs
for the year, furnishes valuable figures for
comparison with the first year of the proceed
ing decade. The work of the office has in
creased considerably, as shown by the fact
that, while in 1871 there were but 2,00l edu-
cational institutions and systems In CORES
pondenoe with 1t, in 1880 there were s, 23l
such. From the statistics reported it APP
pears that IN 1871 twenty nine States re-
ported a school population of 96S2, $50, while
in 1880 the thirty eight States and eight Ter
ritories reported total of Is, $50, 2So. The
number enrolled In the public schools,
twenty-eight States only reporting for 1871,
was g. 3qS US, while for $50 il was O. ISL 81
Gil the States and Territories reporting this
Item Twenty-Five States reported the num-
Der in daily attendance in 1871 az 3, 661 ,139
while in 1880 thirty-four States and eight
Territories reported it as 5,S05, 342 In
twenty-six States the total number of teach
ers was given as $50, 635 in 1871, and in all the
States and Territories ~ 2S2 GA in 1890 di-
vided in the former case into &C, $40 men and
103, 743 women, and in the latter into 1l6, G12
men and l57, 657 women; only twenty
States reporting the teachers separately in
the first year, and thirty five States and
eight Territories in the latter
The total public school income reported in
1871 by thirty States was s64, 593, 49, while
In lSS0-au the States ard Territories report
ing-it was SS3, 940, 239, with an expenditure
in 1871 by twenty-four States of SCI rs, 30
and In 1880 by all the States and Territories
of $50, Or, $50, Or an expenditure for each
child of school age varying from 6 cents in
Alabama TO Sl4W In Massachusetts,, and for
each one in average attendance from 81 "a
In North Carolina to So. 35 in California. The
permanent school fund reported in 1871 by
nineteen States was SAL ,466 754, and that OF
1880 was sl2,, SIS, $50 This fund is composed
principally of the proceeds of grants and
reservations of land to the States and Terri
tories respectively, made by the United
States, and which are stated by Mr. Thomas
Donaldson, in his valuable work. The Pub
lie Domain" to be az follows
From 1855 to June 30, 1880:
For public and common schools, esti-
mated OF, S93,9l9
For seminaries or universities, est
For agricultural and mechanical col
leges. $500, 900
Total II, $50, 80
The number of pupils reported in private
schools in 1871 was 32S,1 10 in fourteen
States, and in 1880, in twenty-one States and
four Territories, it was SOS, 1870.
OF normal schools, or schools for prepar-
ing teachers, there has been a steady in
crease during the decade, there being sixty
five reported IN 1871, with AS instructors
and 1872 students, and DO in 1889, with
,466 instructors and 1907 students, of
whom S03 and y, 723 respectively were in 106
public normals, and 563 and 1884 respect
lively were in III private schools The num-
Der of graduates in those supported by the
public funds was 2, 9i3; IL the private ones
Considerable advance il shown In the insti-
tutions for the higher instruction of women,
there being ! 80 OF these reported in 1871,
with 1853 teachers and II, All pupils, and 2S1
in 1880, with 2,34J teachers, -. 1So students,
psi SO volumes in the libraries; grounds,
buildings and apparatus valued ut 50, $40. eGp
and an income OF s790,33l. The Commits
sioner says that progress il marked and sat-
is actory; that in 1870 the Michigan Univer-
sity and the Illinois industrial University
were opened to women, IL 1879 Cornell and
the University OF Vermont, in 1913 Boston
University; that Smith and Wellesley Col
leges were organized in 1873 and that in 1879
the Harvard Annex for Women went into
oIU.1iion-
Agricultural colleges or schools of science
have increased Il ON forty in 1871. with
SOB instructors and 1905 students, TO
eighty-three, including the United States
Military and Naval Academies, in 1880, with
953 instructors and IL ,5Sl students.
Nnety-fOuT schools of theology were re-
ported in 1871, with 1863 teachers and 3,20t
students. They increased during the decade
10 Will p)O
trained in the tenets of twenty denomi-
nations, three of the schools being unsec-
tartan
In law the number OF schools was
thirty in 1871 with 100 instructors and 722
students in 1880 the number was forty eight,
with ~ instructors and 3, lA students
Schools of medicine have increased during
the decade from 81, with 80 instructors and
7,045 students, To l2a, with Go instructors
and IA, 006 students The number of -regu-
lar" schools in 1871 was 81; in 1880 it was 72;
of eclectic, IN 1871, 4; IN 1880, q; homeo-
pathIc, in 1871, g; in 1880, -; of dental, in
1871, 8; in 1880, 10; OF pharmaceutical, in
1871, l6; in 1880, H.
Schools for the blind number 30, and have
532 instructors and other employees, with
2,032 pupils There have been 9,37l inmates
OF thee institutions since opening.
A summary of institutions for the deaf and
dumb shows that there were IS reported,
with AIS instructors 80 beng semi mutei,
and G,6,7 under nstruct ton the whole num-
Der who have received instruction beng 20
54.
of schools for feeble-minded youth there
were l3 in 1881, reporting 4S} instructors and
other employees, and ,2!S inmates with n to-
tai of $50 dismissed improved since their
opening
The amount of bcnefactions for education
al purposes during the wear $50 reached the
important figure of s5,5l3,50l. This sum
was distributed among the different institu-
tons TX follows:
Universities and colleges. So ST.