Report of the Commissioner of Education, Volume 1

United States. Office of Education

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - Education

Contents

• Enrollment in schools and colleges: ix
• Number of pupils in all grades of public and private schools: xvi
• Education in Great Britain and Ireland: xxii
• American universities: xxix
• The public schools of West Virginia and other Southern States: xxxvii
• Physical training: xlvii
• The Catholic parochial schools of the United States: lvii
• STATISTICS OF STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS: lxxvii
• Average daily attendance: lxxxv
• School moneys received: xcii
• VACATION SCHOOLS PLAYGROUNDS AND SETTLEMENTS By HENRY: 1
• VACATION SCHOOLS: 3
• Attendance: 9
• Activities of school playgrounds: 16
• Social conditions in the playground: 22
• Activities of school playgrounds: 24
• Reference books: 28
• History of the settlements movement: 31
• Activities of settlements: 34
• Permanence of settlements: 37
• GRANT COLLEGES: 39
• Maryland: 45
• Massachusetts: 54
• Michigan: 67
• Minnesota: 74
• Mississippi: 83
• Montana: 100
• Nevada: 109
• New Jersey: 119
• New Mexico: 127
• New York: 133
• North Carolina: 139
• ED 19031 1: 145
• North Dakota: 148
• Oklahoma: 161
• Oregon: 168
• Pennsylvania: 174
• South Carolina: 181
• South Dakota: 187
• Tennessee: 193
• Vermont: 202
• Washington: 210
• Wisconsin: 217
• EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND 1903: 227
• Present outlook continued opposition to the law of 1902: 234
• Criticism of the law by Doctor Macnamara James Bryce and others: 241
• Retrospective tables: 247
• Secondary and technical education: 253
• Education in Ireland: 262
• EDUCATION IN LONDON UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LONDON: 273
• Subjects of instruction: 280
• Compulsory school attendance: 286
• AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES BY CHARLES F THWING LL D: 293
• Ecclesiastical private and public foundations: 299
• Education of women: 306
• Relation of the university to government and society: 312
• NOTICES OF SOME EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS ON EDUCATION 15531574: 319
• Sir Nicholas Bacon 18101579: 327
• Gulielmus Gratarolus 15101562: 334
• References: 338
• T Blundeville translator: 342
• CHAPTER VII: 351
• The conference for education in the South and the Southern and General Education boards: 359
• Development of the aims of the conference: 365
• Defining its methods of operation: 373
• Survey of the conference as it is today: 384
• THE FINAL ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM: 391
• Notes on the superintendents reports: 398
• Establishment of the common school in Maryland: 405
• Influence of the city of Baltimore on education in Maryland: 419
• Delaware: 453
• CHAPTER X: 463
• J L M CURRY AND HIS SERVICES TO EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH: 521
• Education in the Southern States an address by Hon J L M Curry: 548
• From the Revolution to the civil war: 558
• Current movements and problems: 564
• Page: 585
• The primary schools: 594
• The official programme of moral instruction in the primary schools: 601
• National industrial schools: 617
• CONSULAR REPORTS ON EDUCATION: 623
• Industrial schools in Germany: 631
• Trade schools in Germany: 637
• Mr Moseleys industrial inquiry: 647
• Commercial and industrial education in England: 653
• Educational system of Liberia: 660
• CHAPTER XV: 669
• CHAPTER XVI: 689
• CHAPTER XVII: 721
• PUBLIC SOCIETY AND SCHOOL LIBRARIES: 759
• Public society and school libraries in the United States of 1000 volumes and over in 1903: 780
• 6603: 1008
• MANUAL INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED: 1019
• Teacher of tool work: 1026
• Drawing and domestic science: 1032
• Suggestions and warnings: 1040
• The dignity and worth of engineering: 1046
• Local circumstances a determining factor in the conduct of schools: 1052
• Influence of high schools in promoting coeducation: 1054
• Progress of coeducation in colleges and universities: 1063
• 1225288: 1067
• Women in graduate and professional departments: 1071
• THE CATHOLIC PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS OF THE UNITED STATES By: 1079
• A growing demand for the religious element in education: 1085
• 31: 1090
• Perfecting the parochial system: 1091
• Catholic teachers institutes: 1098
• Introductory: 1104
• General object: 1110
• Control of State normal schools: 1132
• Universities and collegestheir religious control: 1138
• 83: 1139
• Development of American college coursessubjects offered at periods named: 1145
• III: 1149
• Colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: 1151
• Secondary education in the United States: 1157
• Commercial education in the United States: 1158
• Amount of schooling received by each individualpublic school income and expenditure: 1165
• Education in Alaska: 1171
• Graduates of public normal schools: 1177
• Secondary school course approved by committee of ten: 1183
• EDUCATIONAL DIRECTORY: 1189
• Presidents of colleges for men and of coeducational colleges of liberal arts: 1201
• Presidents of colleges for women: 1207
• Principals of private normal schools: 1214

Popular passages

Page 154 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...

Page 108 - No portion of said fund, nor the interest thereon, shall be applied, directly or indirectly, under any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings.

Page 148 - ... for the establishment and maintenance of a system of public schools which shall be open to all children of the state of North Dakota and free from sectarian control.

Page 107 - ... on crops of different kinds; the adaptation and value of grasses and forage plants; the composition and digestibility of the different kinds of food for domestic animals; the scientific and economic questions involved in the production of butter and cheese; and such other researches or experiments bearing directly on the agricultural industry of the United States as may in each case be deemed advisable, having due regard to the varying conditions and needs of the respective States or Territories.

Page 115 - Territory shall be twenty-five thousand dollars, to be applied only to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language, and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science, with special reference to their applications in the industries of life, and to the facilities for such instruction...

Page 203 - Congress, according to the census of 1860, for the "endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, ... in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life.

Page 39 - A general diffusion of the advantages of education being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people; to promote this important object, the Legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty to require the several towns to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public schools...

Page 83 - A general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, the Legislature shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.

Page 112 - That in order to aid in acquiring and diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects connected with agriculture, and to promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principles and applications of agricultural science...

Page 107 - ... to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and water; the chemical composition of manures, natural or artificial...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Report of the Commissioner of Education, Volume 1
• Author: United States. Office of Education
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905
• Original from: Princeton University
• Digitized: Mar 18, 2008