Summary of the statistics of Table 93, showing number of colored students receiving normal, secondary, or collegiate instruction. These 9,824 pupils were taught by 445 teachers, an average of 22.1 pupils to each instructor. The value of the property used in connection with the instruction of these pupils was $2,978,450, a per capita of $303. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. Of the several classes of institutions for the education of the colored race, only the schools for theological instruction are present in sufficient number to warrant comment. The amount of work done by schools of law and medicine falls far short of that of normal and theological schools. The course in a majority of the theological institutions may be described as simple, being confined to the study of the Bible and church history, while in the case of the recently reorganized Richmond Theological Seminary of the American Baptist Houre Mission Society, a systematic and thorough study of theology, including instruction in Greek and Hebrew, obtains, and the same remark holds good of the Gammon School of Theology, controlled by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, and formerly of Clark University. As remarked above, many of these schools are only departments of institutions that offer in addition, normal, secondary, or collegiate instruction, sometimes all three, thus affording to theological students an opportunity of removing the impediments to their studies, following from inadequate knowledge of the elements of learning. For ministers already in the pulpit one year courses are in some instances provided. TABLE 94.—Statistics of professional schools for the colored race for 1886-87; from replies to inquiries by the Bureau of Education. a To this is to be added forty-six students in secondary institutions and fifty-three in colleges principally in the Northern and Western States, making in all 9,923. TABLE 94.-Statistics of professional schools for the colored race, etc.-Continued. The colored pupils of the schools for these classes, being either taught with the white pupils or forming a department of a white school, it is impossible to distinguish with precision the number of teachers employed in instructing colored children. Two of the deaf graduates of the North Carolina Institution are teaching in schools in other States and three blind graduates are ministers of the gospel and one is a music teacher. TABLE 95.-Statistics of colored pupils in schools for special classes, for 1886–87; from replies to inquiries by the Bureau of Education. CHAPTER XV. NOTEWORTHY GIFTS AND BEQUESTS TO EDUCATION. The entire amount received by each school, college, or other institution of learning, as reported to this Bureau, will be found, with the other particulars relating thereto, elsewhere in this Report. The table here presented contains only those gifts and bequests that amounted to $500 or more. It does not include anonymous benefactions; nor those made by or to church societies or by aid organizations of any kind. The purposes of the table are, briefly, to place on record the names of the chief benefactors to schools and colleges, and to show the several objects for which their generosity has been excited. Of the 209 gifts and bequests here tabulated, 25 represented $50,000 or more; 72 were sums between $5,000 and $19,000; and 112 were sums less than $5,000. 882 |