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

REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1904.

VOLUME 1.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

Lill A3 1703/04

V.S

THE UNITED STATES

BUREAU OF EDUCATION,

Created as a Department March 2, 1867.

Made an Office of the Interior Department July 1, 1869.

COMMISSIONERS.

HENRY BARNARD, LL. D.,

March 14, 1867, to March 15, 1870.

JOHN EATON, PH. D., LL. D.,
March 16, 1870, to August 5, 1886.
NATHANIEL H. R. DAWSON, L. H. D.,

August 6, 1886, to September 3, 1889.

WILLIAM T. HARRIS, PH. D., LL. D.,

September 12, 1889, to date.

ELJUT ON DEFT.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1.

THE COMMISSIONER'S INTRODUCTION.

Enrollment in schools and colleges....

Number of pupils in all grades of public and private schools.

Average amount of schooling per inhabitant..

Universities, colleges, and technological schools.

Agricultural and mechanical colleges..

Secondary schools.

City school systems..

Normal schools....

Length of service of teachers.

Pensions for university professors..

Teachers' salaries....

Education at the St. Louis Exposition.

Statistics of growth..

Education in England.

Education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Higher education in England..

Education in Sweden....

The work and influence of Hampton.

Temperance instruction in the public schools..

Juvenile criminality in Germany..

Schools and reindeer stations of Alaska

Appropriations for the Bureau of Education since its establishment

.STATISTICS OF STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS.

Total population, school population, and adult male population..

School ages and State school censuses..

Enrollment of pupils......

Average daily attendance.

Length of school term..

Teachers....

School moneys received.

School expenditures.

Permanent school funds..

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION

CHAPTER I.-EDUCATION IN CANADA, AUSTRALIA, AND NEW ZEALAND.

Outline of the Canadian systems of public instruction..

Brief account of the Australian federation..

The systems of public education...

New South Wales..

Queensland....

South Australia and Victoria.

Western Australia..

New Zealand.

CHAPTER II.

STATISTICS OF GROWTH. BY FRANZ BOAS AND CLARK WISSLER.

Page.

CHAPTER III.-REGULATIONS RELATING TO PENSIONS AND INSURANCE IN ALL GERMAN UNIVERSITIES.

Contents

The universities of Prussia..

The Emperor William University of Strassburg

The Royal Bavarian universities

General development of the university faculties.

Helps toward development..

Some of the hindrances..

Concluding words.

Page.

CHAPTER VI.-THE WORK AND INFLUENCE OF HAMPTON.

Meeting of the Armstrong Association in New York City, February 12, 1904.

Address of Mr. Andrew Carnegie..

Address of President Charles W. Eliot.

Address of Dr. H. B. Frissell..

Address of Dr. Booker T. Washington..

CHAPTER V.-THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. BY JOHN W. HOYT, LL. D.

Preface.....

519

520

Origin of the University of Paris-causes..

When the university began..

524

How the university began..

CHAPTER VII.-TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

Page.

581

Report on temperance physiology and hygiene in the schools of Connecticut..

Report of the New York State central committee as to the results of the study of physiology and

hygiene, being a reply to the State science teachers' association....

The battle against alcohol in the United States....

Temperance instruction in Prussia....

Report on temperance instruction in western Massachusetts.

CHAPTER VIII.

NOTICES OF SOME EARLY ENGLISH WRITERS ON EDUCATION, 1578-1603. BY PROF. FOSTER

WATSON......

JUVENILE CRIMINALITY IN GERMANY

CHAPTER IX.

CHAPTER X.

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY OF THE HLINGIT LANGUAGE OF SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. BY

WILLIAM A. KELLY AND FRANCES H. WILLARD.

CHAPTER XI.—THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF Sweden.

General observations on the country..

Popular education........

Secondary education.

Higher education...

Technical education..

Swedish gymnastics..

CHAPTER XII.-EDUCATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, 1903.

Information on education in Great Britain in previous Reports.

Summary of current educational statistics of Great Britain and Ireland.

Elementary education in England..

System of public education in Scotland.

Education in Ireland..

Investigations relating to physical training and physical deterioration in Great Britain.......

CHAPTER XIII.-HIGHER EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AS AFFECTED BY THE LAW OF 1902.

The law of 1902 in its relation to higher education

Regulations for secondary schools issued by the board of education for 1905..

Action of local authorities in respect to higher education..

Secondary education...

CHAPTER XIV.-EDUCATION AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION.

Contents..

Introduction...

Education at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, by George E. Gay.

The lessons of the exposition, by Howard J. Rogers, chief of the department of education...

The educational exhibit at St. Louis, by Anna Tolman Smith, member of the jury of awards...

Arizona..

California, by Robert Furlong, director......

Colorado, by Helen L. Grenfell, State superintendent of public instruction, and James B. Ragan,

director....

Connecticut, by C. D. Hine, secretary of State board of education.......

Illinois, by Alfred Bayliss, State superintendent of public instruction.

Indiana, by W. A. Millis, director.

Indian Territory, by John D. Benedict, superintendent.

Kansas, by John Macdonald, director..

Massachusetts, by George H. Martin and George E. Gay.

Miss.ssippi, by T. L. Trawick..

Missouri, by G. V. Buchanan, superintendent.

Nebraska, by Erwin Ilinckley Barbour.

New Jersey, by S. R. Morse, director....

New Mexico, by M. W. Porterfield, commissioner..

New York, by De Lancy M. Ellis, director.......

North Dakota, by W. L. Stockwell, State superintendent of schools...

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