The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-13
EDUCATIONAL MATTERS,
The Annual Report 0f the Com
missioner Of Education.
Increased Attendance in the Schools
of the Country.

The report Of the National Commissioner
of Education for 1880, just issued, in addi-
ton to the account Of educational affairs
fof the year, furnishes valuable figures for
comparison with the first year of the proceed
ing decade The work Of the 0fficg has in
creased considerably, as shown by the fact
that, Willie in 1871 there were but 200f edu-
cational institutions and systems in cores
pondence with it, in 1889 there We're 1921
such. From the statistics reported it ap-
pears that in 1871 twenty-nine States re-
ported school population of 1852, 969 while
in 1880 the thirty eight States and eight Ter
ritories reported total of Is, 536, 2S0 The
number enrolled in the public schools,
twenty eight States only reporting for 1871,
was G, 80 iUS5, While for $50 it was 9, isl 3 l,
all the States and Territories reporting this
item. Twenty-Five States reported the num-
beT in daily attendance III 1871 as 3, 661, 139,
while i'll 1850 tfiirty-f0Iir States and eight
Territories reported it as 5,S05,34 IL
twenty-six States the total humber of teach-
erswas given as $50, 635 in 1871, and in all the
States and Territories as 2S2, 6 in 1880, d.
vided IL the former case into &C, $40 men and
103,743 women and in the latter into 116 II
men and 157, 657 women; only twenty-four
OUab2S reporting Un6 U6dCH0TS SePdIdb0lN Ill
the first year, and thirty-fiye States and
eight Territories in the latter.
The total public school income reported IN
ISL by thirty States was $64,59 ;919, while
in 16S0-all the States and Territories reports
ihg-it Was $S3, 940, 239; with all expenditure
in 1871 by tweiity-f6uf States OF $751; 1T9; 220,
and in 1890 by all the States and Teri tories
of $50, 032, $685. or an expenditure for each
child of school age varying from SO cents in
Alabama to $l4 81 in Massachusetts,, and for
each one in average attendance from 50 81
in North Carolina to S r. 35 in California. The
permanent school fund reported in 1871 by
nineteen States was $41 ;466, 754 and that OF
1880 was 1922, SIS; $3.50 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 as follows.
From 1855 to June 30, 1880:
For public and common schools, esti
mated .................... .67, $685. 19
For Summaries or universities, esti-
For 1s Agricultural and mechanical col i0''-'
leges. ......................... 100000
Total ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ii, $3.50, 43s
The number of pt1pi1s reported in private
schools in 1871 was 1928, 10 in fourteen
States, and in 1880, in twenty one States and
four Territories, it was 56S;130
Of normal schools or schools for prepaT-
inc teachers there has been steady in
crease during the decade, there being sixty
five reported in 1871, with AS instructors
and 10 922 students, and 220 in 1880, with
1,466 instructors and 43,0U students, of
whom 903 and ., 723 respectively were in 106
public normals, and 563 and IL, 1874 respect
lively were in ia private schools. The num-
Der of graduates in those supported by the
55s -
Considerable advance is sh0wnin the inSti-
buttons for the higher Instruction of Womerl;
there being Sc OF these reported in 1871,
with 1913 teachers and II, AL pupils and 227
in 1880 with 2, 34J teachers, % 7SJ students,
251 595 volumes in the libraries; grounds,
buildings and apparatus valued at $3.50, 500,
and an income of 800, 331. The Commits
stone. Gays that progress is marked and sat-
is actory; that in 1870 the Michigan Univer-
sity and the Illinois industrial University
were opened to women in 1872 CC~uell and
the University of Vermont, in 1873 Boston
University; that Smith and Wellesley Col=
leges were organized in 1875 and that in 1879
the Harvard Annex for Women went into
operation
Agricultural colleges or schools Of science
have increased fIom forty-one in 1871, with
303 instructors and 1908 students to
Military and Naval Academies, in 1880, with
9E3 instructors and II ,5S4 students
Ninety-four schools of theology were re-
ported in 1871, with 800 teachers and 3, 204
Students They increased during the decade
to 142, with 633 instructors and 5, 242 students
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 129 instruct Ors and l, 722
students; in 1880 the number was forty-eght
with 800 instructors and 3, 1874 students.
Schools of medicine have increa ed during
the decade from 81, with $50 instructors and
7,045 students, to ~, with $50 instructors
and II, 0O6 students The number OF "regu-
lar" schools in 1871 was 81; in 1880 it was y;
pathlc, in 1871, 6; in 1880, II; of denCa, in
1871, 8; in 1889, 16; of Pharmaceutical, in
1871, 16; in 1880, a.
Schools for the blind number 30 and have
532 instructors and other emp Dyes, with
2,032 pupils There have been 9,3n inmates
of the e institutions since opening.
A sumn-ary of institutions for the deaf and
dumb shows that there were 81 reported,
with Ais instructors go being seJni-mu e I,
and 667 under instruction the whole num-
Der who have received instruction beng 20
504
Of schools for feeble-rAinded youth there
were IL in 1889, reporting 4S3 instructors and
other employees, and ,29S inmates, with to-
tai of ,936 dismissed improved since their
opening.
The amount of benefactions for education
al purposes during the year 1880 reached the
important figure of $5,513, sol. This SUN
was distributed among the different institu-
tionc nc follows.