ACADEMIES. The following tables and remarks show the whole number of Incorporated Academies, and various interesting particulars connected with them, in this state, and subject to the visitorial authority of the Regents of the State University. They are taken from the last Annual Report of the Regents, dated March 1, 1843. CATALOGUE OF THE ACADEMIES REPORTING IN 1843, · With the towns or incorporated villages, and counties in which they are established. Kings. Grammar School of Columbia College,.... City of New-York. New-York. Grammar School of the University of N. Y. Rutgers Female Institute, New-York Inst. for the Deaf and Dumb, Total,.... ........ 5 Second District. do. do. do. do. do. do. Delaware Academy,. Delaware Literary Institute, Greenbush and Schodack Academy, Greenville Academy,. Hudson Academy, Jefferson Academy, Kinderhook Academy, ...... Delhi,. Jefferson, Greene. Delaware. do. Rensselaer. Greene. Columbia. Schoharie. Knoxville Academy, .......... Lansingburgh Academy,. Schenectady Lyceum and Academy, ... Columbia. Knox, Lansingburgh,. ... Rensselaer. Schenectady city,. Schenectady. Schoharie, Schoharie. The whole number of Academies in the foregoing list is 142. Besides these, however, there are 17 others, not included in the list, because their annual reports were not made to the Regents. Those 17 are as follow: In 2d District, Oyster Bay Academy, Piermont Academy, Poughkeepsie Classical School, Poughkeepsie Female Academy, Sullivan County Academy, and White Plains Academy. In 3d District, Schenectady Young Ladies' Seminary, and Clermont Academy. In 4th District, Champlain Academy, Kingsborough Academy, and Moriah Academy. In 5th District, Bridgewater Academy, and Steuben Academy. In 6th District, Avon Academy. In 7th District, Palmyra High School, Yates County Academy and Female Seminary. These 17, with the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and the Grammar Schools of Columbia College, and the New-York University, make the whole number of Academic Schools subject to the Regents, 161; of which, moreover, the Regents incorporated during the year the following 10: Piermont Academy, at Piermont, in Rockland county, March 15, 1842. De Lancey Institute, at Hampton, in Oneida county, April 13, 1842. Binghamton Academy, at Binghamton, in Broome county, August 23, 1842. Yates Academy, at Yates Centre, in Orleans county, August 23, 1842. Champlain Academy, at Champlain, in Clinton county, August 23, 1842. Alfred Academy, at Alfred Centre, in Allegany county, January 31, 1843. Cortlandville Academy, at Cortlandville, in Cortland county, Jan. 31, 1843. Perry Centre Institute, at Perry Centre, in Wyoming county, Jan. 31, 1843. Monroe Academy, at Henrietta, in Monroe county, February 7, 1843. Norwich Academy, at Norwich, in Chenango county, February 14, 1843. The money distributed among the Academies by the Regents from the income of the Literature Fund, is distributed only to such Academies as make the annual reports required by law. The sum thus distributed, in 1842, was $40,000, to each of the eight Districts $5,000, and to the Several Academies in each District, in proportion to the number of their pupils respectively. The following table, which is the summary of a very long detailed statement in the last Annual Report of the Regents, shows the distribution of the above named sums, by districts, with the number of pupils in each district, and other interesting particulars. DISTRIBUTION Of the Public Moneys among the Academies by Districts, &c. The rate per scholar, if the apportionment had been made for the whole state without reference to districts, would have been about $3.55. Of the whole number of students claimed to have pursued classical studies, or the higher English course, 6,278 were males, and 5,056 were females. The following table is interesting as showing both the increase of Academies and an advancing standard of instruction, during the last nine years. COMPARATIVE VIEW Of the number of Academies from which Annual Reports have been received, for the last nine years, with the whole number of students instructed in them, and the number considered as classical students, or students in the higher branches of English education, as stated in said reports. Years in which re No. of Acade- Whole number Number of do. Whole am'nt of A large proportion of the Academies have permanent endowments and fixed capital in lands, buildings, libraries, apparatus, &c. The aggregate amount of this capital belonging to the 142 reporting Academies of 1842-3, is stated in the last report of the Regents to be $1,332,857. The aggregate income of all the reporting Academies, for the last year, was as follows: Revenue from permanent property, Income exclusive of public money.. $21,557 The total number of teachers in 1842-3, was 576, of whom 244 make teaching their permanent profession. The courses of study in most of the Academies are liberal, embracing most of the valuable branches of human knowledge, as the following list will show. Arithmetic and Algebra, in all; Anatomy in one; Architecture in one; Astronomy, in all but 17; Agricultural Chemistry, in one; Botany, in all but 32; Book-keeping, in all male schools but 31; Biblical Antiquities, in 2; Chemistry, in all but 11; Composition, in all, and as often, on an average, as once in two weeks; Conic Sections, in 8; Conchology in-3; U. S. Constitution in 6; Differential and Integral Calculus in 6; Criticism in 23; Drawing in 29; English Grammar in all; Evidences of Christianity in 13; Ecclesiastical History in 7; Civil Engineering" in 3; French, in all but 16; Geography in all; Geology in 38; Geometry, plain, in all but 6; Geometry, analytic, in 7; Ceometry, descriptive, in 2; Greek, in all male Academies but 3; Grecian Antiquities in 6; German in 6; General History, in all but 21; U. S. History, in all but 40; Hebrew in 5; Hydrostatics in 1; Italian in 3; Latin in all male Academies; Elements of Law and the Principal of Statutes in 5; Logic in 53; Levelling in 4; Logarithms in 6; Music, vocal or instrumental, or both, in 24; Mapping in 5; Mechanics in 3; Mensuration in 24; Mineralogy in 22; Mythology in 3; Natural History in 31; Navigation in 11; Natural Theology in 20; Nautical Astronomy in I; Optics in 5; Natural Philosophy in all but 3; Moral Philosophy in all but 67; Intellectual Philosophy in all but 42; Painting in 18; Physiology in 43; Political Economy in 22; Rhetoric in all but 32; Roman Antiquities in 14; Surveying in all male Academies but 20; Spanish in 6; Trigonemetry in 53; Technology in 11; Pædagogies, or the Principles of Teaching in 10. In the Libraries of 139 of the Academies, the whole number of volumes is 49,045, and they are generally increasing, as is also their apparatus. |