TABLE 34.-COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF PRIVATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS-Cont'd. DIVISION C.-Private schools for both sexes. TABLE 35.-NUMBER AND CLASSIFICATION OF STUDENTS FOR ALL CLASSES OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS. United States. 181, 116,44, 528 8, 179 17, 121, 19, 938 33, 436 12, 904 6, 100, 19, 074 25 5 9 11 18 11 63 32 The detailed tables, viz, 36 and 37, show for the individual schools responding to the inquiries of the Office the particulars involved in the summaries. From an examination of Table 36, Part 1, it will be seen that of the seven largest cities of the United States three, namely, New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia, have no place in the table before us, while one, Baltimore, is represented by high schools for girls only. This omission arises not from the lack of public provision for secondary instruction, but from conditions of the work peculiar to the respective cities. Brooklyn, N. Y., has maintained since 1878 a central school to which pupils are advanced from the grammar grade. In his report for 1886, Hon. Calvin Patterson, superintendent of public instruction in that city, gives the following statistics of the school for the year mentioned: "The courses of study were enlarged in July last by the adoption of a 3 years' lan guage course, and a 2 years' commercial course in place of the 1 year course. The English course remains 2 years as heretofore." Respecting the general scope of the school the superintendent says: "The courses of study now prescribed for the pupils of the Central School do not materially modify the general scope of the work. Pupils completing the language course would not be admitted to the classical course in any college. The committee of the school and the board of education have refused as yet to include among the subjects taught any branches that were not necessary to the proper preparation of the young ladies for teaching and the young men for the every-day affairs of life. It is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when the young people of Brooklyn will be favored with the same educational advantages that are granted to the youth of other cities." New York City maintains a normal college for girls, the statistics of which will be found in Chapter VI of this Report, page 460, and the College of the City of New York, which is tabulated in Chapter IX. The first 2 years in the Normal College are entirely academic, the second 2 partly academic and partly professional. The curriculum includes Latin, French, German, mathematics, extended courses in science and in literature, with music, drawing, and intellectual philosophy considered especially in relation to the art of teaching. Candidates for admission must pass an examination. Philadelphia maintains a central high school for boys and a normal school for girls, which latter is tabulated in Chapter VL The 4 rears course of the Central High School izllades Lotin, German, stú a fine course in drawing, Gr Instestmom this coorwe restit in the Girls Normal S ong is of a pears innation with intending to tesch 125k ze * for law, Mr. G. W. F. ** the chief o fest of the 5 is to give th before graduation, and to smplement t ditional training as instructors of youth nee In addition to the 2 high selinels for maintains a college for bors which is in In the sify of Buste by Mr. P... Disk, of the anterior there are 10 al states that Ish education imates such ad efore us. Baltimore far institutions Best Cities are Is of Boston |