Year: 1867

snce upon echools. The people will then
he a law unto themselves5 snd truant Of.
hcers viii cost more than their services
will be worth. What 10 wanted to Ris6
new life aud wise direction to our country
schools is a judicious system Of school slecs
tioueering-a corps Of able and faithful
school recruiting oflicers-.thO creation and
perpetuation of healthy school revivaiism."
And to this end the report advocates thor.
ough supervision by county superintend4
ents, and graduation wherever practicable,


BUSINESS coLLEeEs.


Regarding these Institutions the Cons
missioner makes the following remarkst


The large number aud the rapid increase
OF the commercial schools, or business col.
legcs, in the State, entiue them to recogni-
tion among the educational institutions that
exercise an influence on the public school
effort. The influence OF these institutions
is felt in the public schools more directly
than that OF any other class Of technical
schools in the State, because Of The large
number Of boys they induce to leave the
public schools before having been properly
prepared to enter upon a course of studies
adapted specially to any particular profes.
sion or occupation. That these schools
have been established because of popular
want is very EVIDENT and that they are do
ing valuable work for the business inters
eats of the community is quite evident slso
| But the lack of any standard of qualitca-
| tions for admission to these business
schools, the early age at which boys are
! admitted, the haste with which their course
of instruction is completed aud the ssstis
rance given them, whom their diplomas arc
granted, that they are thoroughly prepared
to engage in commercial pursdte-thess
are Ill manifest defects in the management
of these schools.


1t is certainly safe to say that one-third
to ono.hOlf of the boys who graduate from
the commercial schools of the country are
Injured rather than benefited by their at
tendance on those institutions.


MILITARY DRILL IN sCHoots.


The proposition on the part of our states
men and men of military education and ex-
perience, to introduce the school of the
soldier into our common schools, commands
the consideration of all good oitizens. 1t is
thought, by some whose opinions are en-
titled to great respect, to be tho only prao.
tical solution of very difficult question.
1t s said that the State cannot command
tho time of the youth after the age of
eighteen, but up to that period the youth
are, to very considerable extent, subject
to the control of tho school authorities, aud
that moro important use cannot be made
of this control than that which looks to tho
physical development of the young men,
such as will secure the protection Of our
flag and the armed support of the RepublicG


There can be but little doubt that if any
possible plan can be matured by which We
may carry into our common schools an eff
icient system Of military drill, that the Stats
of Ohio could in few years call into tho
field all effective army of two hundred thou
sand men. and would find in the improved
health of onr people an ample reward fer
the expense aud trouble.


| FREE COLLEGRS.


Much attention ia given to a considera.
tion of the college system OF the State, and
the desirahleness Of suppementiug the
present school system with system of ~eli
endowed high schools and State Univers.