Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers

United States. Bureau of Education

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887 - Education

Contents

• Remarks upon the tables: 21
• Table of facts relating to chief State school officers Table: 47
• Summaries of city reports: 221
• Summary by States of school statistics of cities and towns containing 5000: 239
• 40: 297
• TRAINING OF TEACHERS: 305
• Course of instruction Connecticut Normal and Training School: 311
• Fronch normal schools: 317
• Statistics of private normal schools Table 19: 328
• Kindergarten training schools: 334
• Statistics of kindergarten training schools Table 23: 355
• General statistical summary of pupils receiving secondary instruction Table: 362
• Statistics of preparatory schools and departments Table 29: 426
• SUPERIOR AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION: 437
• Statistics of institutions for tbe superior instruction of women Table 32: 444
• UNIVERSITI ES AND COLLEGESgeneral views: 459
• General view of the relative number of classical and scientific students Tablo: 466
• Summary of statistics of colleges and universities Table 38: 490
• SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE: 520
• PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION: 534
• SCHOOLS OF LAW: 545
• Statistics of schools of medicine dentistry and pharmacy Table 52: 551
• Summary of State laws regulating the practice of medicine: 561
• Statistical summary of all degrees conferred Table 53: 570
• Degrees conferred by universities colleges and scientific schools Table 54: 576
• Degrees conferred by professional schools not connected with universities: 590
• Summary of statistics of schools of industrial and inanual training Table 57: 596
• Statistics of manualtraining schools Table 59: 603
• Statistics of colleges and schools of military instruction Table 61: 609
• Summary of statistics of training schools for nurses Table 64: 625
• EDUCATION OF SPECIAL CLASSES: 632
• EDUCATION OF THE BLINDreports of institutions: 640
• EDUCATION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: 646
• Statistics of institutions for the instruction of the colored race Table 18: 652
• Summary by States of the statistics of all Indian schools Table 82: 658
• Statistics of gifts and legacies to educational institutions Table 84: 664
• Edacational publications: 677
• Educational periodicals: 709
• Additional public libraries of 1000 volumes and upwards Table 86: 716
• Foreign educational statistics: 725
• Comparative statistics of elementary education in seven foreign cities Table: 731
• Distribution of the hours of study at Eton Table 93: 737
• The promotion of higher political education: 743
• Schools in Alaska: 750

Popular passages

Page 198 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this State, for the support of...

Page 123 - 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 199 - The Legislature shall provide by law for the establishment of district schools, which shall be as nearly uniform as practicable, and such schools shall be free and without charge for tuition to all children between the ages of four and twenty years, and no sectarian instruction shall be allowed therein.

Page 205 - The object of the University of Idaho shall be to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of learning connected with scientific, industrial, and professional pursuits...

Page 152 - State, in proportion to the number of children resident therein between the ages of four and twenty years.

Page 58 - State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all the rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools throughout the State.

Page 199 - State by forfeiture or escheat, and all moneys •which may be paid as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws, and all...

Page 145 - ... the clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures and of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal or military laws of the State...

Page 160 - To the support and maintenance of common schools in each school district, and the purchase of suitable libraries and apparatus therefor.

Page 135 - State, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers
• Author: United States. Bureau of Education
• Contributor: United States. Department of the Interior
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1887
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Nov 16, 2006