New-York tribune., 1907-01-23
DIR. DRAPER'S REPORT.
Marked ActiUity and Progress Sho1cn
an Departments WOrk.

Albany Jan 22-The third annual report of DR..
Andrew S. Draper. the Commissioners of Eudcation.
transmitted to the Legislature to-day. shows
marked activity and progress in the work of the
department. Public education I'm New York con
stantly augments its resources extends IT'S facli-
ties and improves it's methods of administration.
Results are in the increase of attendance upon
It's institutions in the erection and betterment or
buildings in additional equipmet. in the number
of teachers employed and the appreciation Of their
fitness and recompense. and In the efficiency or
all the agencies which promote the welfare and use
fulness of a generous and enlightened educational
system. 1t is evident from the report that much
OF what has been accomplished is to be referred
the reorganization effected three years ago which
embraces the coordination of the three divisions
elementary. secondary and hgher-under the pres
ent executive head with legislative functions vest
ed in the Regents which has compelled harmony In
educational councils and with enlarged jurisdiction
presented opportunities for freer scope of ample
powers. Unihcation is being amply Justified by It's
record.
The following are the leading statistics of the
year: Tho amount expended for elementary schools
was SO SS3551 g. an increase of $4SS.si9 "a; for
teachers salaries. S52O954 90 increase OF $2l26-
1856 o. for buildings sites repairs etc. SS3l5624 OS
of 23s O5s &c. and for school libraries.
s2O23s5 g. increase Of S9409 6 The average cost
pupil was $ss 30 increase Of s. s.. OF children
of school age, 1s22.414 were in attendance at the
schools. The compulsory education law has been
administered with frmness. There were employed
IN the public elementary schools S5,olS teachtTs'
with average weekly salary OF $50 o. There were
81 training classes with 194 students enrolled. and
IS cities maintained training schools with 1495 stu
dents. The number of students In the normal
schools sSs7 with 600 graduates. their cost Of
maintenance and betterments being s522. .29S 90.
The total amount expended for secondary schools
was $S4.s3 %, increase OF s625,4n So Improve
ments of sites and buildings and the erection Of
new high schools cost S2l07OO3 GO. a decrease of
s333a "a The value Of grounds and buildings for
public secondary schools is $13G97.7S2 There
672 public secondary schools and liz private schools
under the visitation and inspection OF the depart
ment.
The colleges advance steadily. The increase in
the teaching force of the colleges universities and
professional schools was 122. the number in the
various faculties being 3SSS, In attendance on all
the undergraduate departments there were S25d
students. The property possessed by these insti-
tutions Is valued SS2eOS4t Their total receipts
were Sl87T.757 and their expenditures $176sS. 49,
both items being respectively. increases of nearly
100000 over the previous year. The university
Convocation. in its speakers and proceedings Was
Among the special things accomplished during
the year the almost universal adoption OF the new
the character Of tho work IN the elementary grades
and closer inspection OF these grades. ths re-
striction Of the apportonment OF state academic
funds 10 schools taking the state academic exemi-
onS Soard e conssng of ocers Of the Depart
ment and teachers or supervising ohlcers repre-
senting the colleges. the secondary ana the ete-
mentary schools to prepare question papers I1a or
combinations plan which cannot ran 10
have reaching and beneficial results; the bring
ing about Of radical transformation IN courses or
study IN the secondary schools with cuTrtculuTns
much more coherent and stable: the wider out
reach OF the Division OF Visual Instruction; the
putting into operation OF the new scheme OF study
In the State Normal College with the liberal ap-
preparation for It's needs, and. perhaps more than
all the legislation Of 1906, which provided Tor the
building in which the Department OF Educatlon
including the state library and the museum. VIII
within a few years be housed. The site has been
selected considerable OF the property located upon
II has been purchased viii be condemned, and
the splendid structure viii soon be in the process
Of erection. This must be regarded as a signal
achievement for the department and one which II
ls certain would never have come to pass except
as an outcome Of the Cnihcation act
The state library contains S35929 volumes. the ac-
cessions OF the year being l4lS3 volumes; OF these
6l53 gifts. The law library has 7s56t volumes
an Increase OF 27s9; and the medical library In
cIudea l63a0 volumes. Of which ll6I have been
added since the last report The library school con-
t!nued its regular with forty-four students
in attendance. The division Of science has during
the year given special attention to the development
OF iron ores OF the state. and OF noteworthy I'M
portance has been the economic work in entomology
for the protecton ag tCuturai interests against
the invasIons OF destructive insects.
Commissioner Draper makes comprehensive
treatment OF public libraries and their extension his
special feature in repoTt which VIII MI a large