The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-17
Western Schools.


Of Brownell Hall some weeks ago was
cause for general congratulation. With
Mount st. Marys and the Academy of
the Sacred Heart on Park Place this
gives Omaha three Of the finest girls
boarding schools in the west AS west
perienced educators to be superior to
those OF the east 1t follows that these
Omaha institutions rank among the
highest, where our people can give
their daughters an education at home,
inferior to none in the accomplishments
and useful duties Of life.
The Academy Of the Sacred Heart Is
SO we'll known in Omaha and the west
it is supererogation to speak of its good
work. and the thorough, efficient train
ing it gives. Its pupils are received on
equal terms and soon become one fam
lily. where love and kindness rule Each
is watched with loving care by the rev.
erend mother superior and her assist
ants. all Of whom are selected bv the
order for their superior mental at
tainments. culture and refinement. AS
is well known, the order is the wealth.
lest In the Catholic church. None can
enter 1t but those who possess the high
est education and accomplishments.
1t is devoted to teaching as
vocation. It's graduates rank
among the highest in Europe and the
United States. It's pupils and grad
yates receive the same advantages in
Omaha they receive in New York, st.
Louis and Paris. The order is world
wide in It's work. having schools in all
the we'll known continents. New Zea-
land and Australia.
We select this home school for no.
tice, because Of its excellence. and for
the reason that as 1t is an exemplar OF
the best education in the west, there
is no reason why our girls should ta
exiled from home In some inferior
eastern school with more pretenslons
and less merit.
Pre-eminent in this work Of educa.
ton Nebraska stands. and next to Ne
braska, Iowa, for the general
intelligence Of the people. In the pro-
portion Of teachers to the population
Iowa 10 first among six representative
states of the east and the west.
Taking these in the order named,
Iowa ranks one teacher to sixty-eight
persons; Nebraska, one to ninety-flve:
Kansas, one to 100; New York, one to
152; Massachusetts,. one to 1877: Con-
necticut, one to 173 persons. Yet with
this disparity between Iowa, Nebraska,
Massachusetts, and Connecticut. in
the instructors Of the young. the west
has been looked upon as inferior to
Massachusetts and Connecticut.
This showing Is from the last nation
al census and represents the teachers
In the public. private and parochial
schools.
In the five grand divisions Of the
country the west again shows its SUI
periority. These are:
/ North Atlantic division. includes
New England, New York, ETC.. teacher
to 1853 persons.
South Atlantic division. 1 teacher to
1856 persons.
North Central division. includes Me-
braska. Iowa and Kansas, teacher to
119 persons.
South Central division. includes Ken
lucky, etc. ! teacher to 1856 persons.
Western division. includes California,
ETC.. teacher to 165 persons.
In the Massachusetts and Connecticut
division the average public school
teachers receive 1910 per annum. IN
the wild and woody" division, compris-
ing Colorado. Wyoming and other
states. the teachers receive $427 per an
mum on the average.
These western states seek to educate
all Of their boys and girls alike ana
have no exotics like those OF the east,
where they are taught semi-treason,
and to look with contempt on the prin-
lciples of American institutions s
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