OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1883-'84.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1885.

CONTENTS.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER of EducatION

General statement of the work of the Office, with a list of its publications during the

year, v-vii; summary of institutions, instructors, and students, viii-x; summary

of school age, population, enrolment, attendance, &c., x-xiii; legal school ages in

the several States and Territories, xiv, xv; summary of the teachers employed in

the public schools and their average monthly salaries, xvi-xviii; summary of an-

nual income and expenditure for public schools, xix-xxii; summary of per capita

expenditure for public schools, xxiii-xxvi; generalization of statistics by years

and by topics, with remarks, xxvii-xxxi; school inspection, xxxi-xxxiv; union of

districts and the township system, xxxiv; course of study and classification in un-

graded schools, xxxiv¬xxxvii; needs of sparsely settled districts, xxxvii, xxxviii;

the teaching force in the public schools of the United States, xxxviii-xl; rural

school-houses, xl-xli; summary of the educational condition of the Union, xli-lii;

education in the South, liii-Ixii; Peabody fund, lxiii, lxiv; John F. Slater fund,

lxiv, lxv; summary of school statistics of cities, with remarks, lxvi-lxxxvii; in.

struction in primary and grammar grades in city schools, lxxxvii-xcli; methods of

teaching reading and history, xcii, xciii; industrial schools, xciv-xovi; the recess

question, xovi-xcviii; summary of normal school statistics, with remarks, xcix-

oxii; abstract of recent correspondence about the salaries of normal school prin-

cipals, cxii, cxiii; pedagogics in universities and colleges, cxiii-cxvii; summary of

statistics of commercial and business colleges, with remarks, cxvii-cxix; summary

of statistics of Kindergärten, with remarks, cxix-cxxiii; the Kindergarten and

the public school system, cxxiii, cxxiv; Kindergarten meeting at Madison, cxxiv;

summary of statistics of institutions for secondary (including preparatory) in-

struction, with remarks, cxxV-CXXXV; summary of statistics of institutions for

the superior instruction of women, with remarks, cxxxv-cxxxix; Harvard exam-

ination for women, cxxxix, cxl; associations devoted to the higher education of

women, cxl, cxli; coeducation, cxli-cxliii; higher education of women abroad, cxliii-

cxlvi; summary of statisties of universities and colleges, with remarks, cxlvi-clviii;

electives, clviii-clx; summary of persons engaged in agriculture and in manu-

facturing, mechanical, and mining industries in 1880, clx; summary of statistics of

schools of science, with remarks, clxi-clxvii; summary of statistics of theological

schools, with remarke, clxviii-clxx; summary of statistics of law schools, with re-

marks, clxx-clxxii; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and

pharmacy, with remarks, clxxii-clxxvi; résumé of census statistics of clergymen,

lawyers, physicians and surgeons, dentists, and particularly of pharmacists, clxxvi,

clxxvii; summary of statistics of degrees conferred, clxxviii-clxxxiii; summary of

statistics of additional public libraries for 1883-'84, with remarks, clxxxiii, clxxxiv;

summary of statistics of training schools for nurses, clxxxiv, clxxxv; summary of

statistics of institutions for the deaf and dumb, clxxxvi, clxxxvii; summary of sta-

tistics of schools for the blind, clxxxviii; summary of statistics of schools for

feeble-minded youth, clxxxix; summary of statistics of reform schools, cxc, exci;

summary of statistics of homes and asylums for orphan or dependent children,

infant asylums, and industrial schools, cxcii, cxciii; remarks on summaries of Tables

XVIII-XXII, inclusive, cxciv; summary of statistics of benefactions, by States, for

18 months ending June 30, 1884, with remarks, cxcv-cxcviii; education in foreign

countries, excviii-cclxviii; school hygiene, cclxix; International Exposition at

New Orleans, cclxix, cclxx; recommendations, cclxx, cclxxi.

ABSTRACTS.......

Abstracts of the official reports of the school officers of States, Territories, and

cities, with other additional information.

Educational associations and conventions

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