REPORT

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1904.

VOLUME 1.

WASHINGTON:

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

THE UNITED STATES

A3 1903/04

BUREAU OF EDUCATION,

Created as a Department March 2, 1867.

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

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

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

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

Contents..

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

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

559

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

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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..

581

588

602

Temperance instruction in Prussia.....

625

Report on temperance instruction in western Massachusetts.

630

CHAPTER VIII.

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

WATSON..

CHAPTER IX.

JUVENILE CRIMINALITY IN GERMANY

633

703

CHAPTER X.

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

WILLIAM A. KELLY AND FRANCES H. WILLARD..

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...

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

828

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

The law of 1902 in its relation to higher education.....

833

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

Action of local authorities in respect to higher education..

Secondary education..

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

865

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.....

871

875

884

California, by Robert Furlong, director....

886

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

director...

890

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

894

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

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

930