Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-11-13

than three dollars per capita: that ono
state maintains its schools 1874 davs
in the year, and another only SO: that
one state pays its teachers $65 per
month, and another only $2S; that ono
state enrolls over 80 per cent. of its
school population, and another less
than IS per cent
In the year under consideration 453
are classed as colleges of liberal arts,
Al as schools of technology, and 122
as institutions admitting women only.
OF the SAB so-called B. A. colleges, 327
are open to both men and women and
131 to men only, while exactly half Of
the "A so-called B. S. colleges are open
to men and women. All in all 22,613
instructors were employed, of whom
1921 were men and 1892 women.
OF the students in 1904-5, 92,161
were men, an increase of 6,155 over
the previous year, and 34,243 were
women, gain Of 1920; 1880 men
and 26,739 women were enrolled in
universities and colleges for men and
for both sexes: 6,305 students attend
ed the IS colleges for women men,
toned above, and 1871 men and 1,19S
women were registered in schools Of
technology; 6.935 resident graduate
students were reported by 229 differ
ent institutions, 1904 being women.
The total value Of property pos
sessed by the institutions for higher
education amounts to $514,840,412,
gain of almost $50,0OO,OOO over tho
amount for the preceding year. Tho
endowment funds have increased to
1884,, 791,2 39, and the remainder repre-
sents the value of the material equip
ment used for instruction purposes.
There are Al institutions that have
endowment funds of over $1,000,OOO
, each, of which number "a are in the
north Atlantic division, ten in the
north central division, three in the
south central division, and two each
| in the south Atlantic and western d.
| visions.
The institutions had an aggregate
income of $41,775,101, an increase of
almost $1.500.000 over that for the
year previous, 36.9 per cent. being de-
rived from tuition and other fees, 23.e
per cent. from state appropriations,
6.9 per cent from federal appropria-
tons, and nine per cent. from mis-
cellaneous sources. The benefactions
for the year amounted to $16,678,952,
divided among $50 institutions. The
institutions reporting gifts of over st..
100000 are Harvard, Yale and Colum-
bia, Harvard leading with $2.33O,428.
When the civil government replaced
the military in 1900 in Porto Rico
there had been an attendance Of 90
1O3 pupils out of an enrolment of 28.-
969, the number of children of school
age being in 1899 over $4,000. BY
1904 the school population had in
creased to 393,7s6, the total enroll
ment to 61.16S, and the average daily
attendance to 41.798.
| There were 1913 schools and 1904
teachers, of whom 139 were Ameri-
cans. The report further says that the
language Of instruction remains Span
ish, although English is taught in
every graded school.
| uc dOCOuuI VI SuUCdtlOQ IN the
Philippines is mainly confined to the
American school system, since no re-
ports Of the Spanish schools or of
the ancient university of Santo Tomas.
at Manila, have been received. Tables
show that the annual expenditure Of
, the insular government for the bu-
reau Of education increased from
$233, AL in 1901 to $1,244,O96 in 1904.
In July, 1904. 263,974 pupils were en-
rolled, the total number of children
between six and IA years Of age being
reckoned at 100000.
During the period under review,
there we're 700 American teachers for
the $50 municipalities and over 5000
Filipino teachers, the latter being en-
gagged and paid by the municipalities.
These Filipino teachers have been in
dustriously trained, at first by the
American teachers individually, and
afterward In normal institutes.