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REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
FOR
THE YEAR 1889-90.
[Whole Number 199
VOLUME 2.
CONTAINING PARTS II AND III.
WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
EDUCATION DEN
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
PART II.
CHAPTER I.-CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS.
Introductory remarks
Relative importance of city school systems (Table 1)...
Comparison of city and country schools (Tables 2 and 3)
Comparative statistics for four years of all cities reported (Table 4)....
Comparative statistics of attendance, teachers, accommodations (Table 5).
Comparative statistics of school property and expenditures (Table 6)..
Number and population, by States, of cities of over 4,000 inhabitants (Table 7)..
Explanation of the foregoing table
Summary by States of school enrollment and attendance in cities and villages of over 4,000 in-
habitants (Table 8)
Summary of superintendents, teachers, property, and expenditures (Table 9).
Summary of public high schools (Table 10).
Summary of public evening schools (Table 11).
CHAPTER II-SALARIES OF TEACHERS IN CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Annual salaries of teachers in 69 of the principal cities of the United States.
Detailed statement of salaries paid in Baltimore, St. Louis, Boston, New Orleans, and Cincinnati
each year since the establishment of public schools in those cities.....
CHAPTER III.-SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Historical sketch, text-books, course of study, topical outline of study, standard of enforcement,
duties of school boards, etc.....
Effects of alcohol on the system, and the method of teaching them, by Prof. A. C. Boyden..
The legislation effected..
Reports of school officials on the enforcement of the law
Report of State Agent George H. Martin upon results in Massachusetss
Objections to scientific temperance instruction stated
Answers to some false notions....
Questions on physiology and hygiene, alcoholic drinks, and narcotics
CHAPTER IV.-HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
General statement, new institutions
Summary of statistics
Courses of study for A. B. degree in fifteen institutions
CHAPTER V.-COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES OF THE UNITED STATES.
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CHAPTER VI.-LENGTH OF COLLEGE CURRICULUM.
Introduction, average age of freshmen
Increased requirements for graduation
Average age of freshmen at Harvard...
Remarks and opinions of prominent educators
CHAPTER VII.-GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS OF UNIVERSITIES.
Organization.....
Growth of graduate work in eighteen years..
Medicine:
CHAPTER VIII.-UNIVERSITY AND SCHOOL EXTENSION.
Definition and description.
Origin and history
The movement in Scotland and Ireland.
In the United States....
CHAPTER IX.-DIAGRAMS OF PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.
Comparative diagrams illustrating the statistics of professional education during the decade,
1881-90...
CHAPTER X.-CURRICULA OF PROFESSIONAE SCHOOLS.
Requirements for admission
Matriculates having degrees in letters or science..
Changes in the medical curriculum during the decade.
Text-book work
Practical work..
Preparatory medical schools...
Distribution of the studies in the course..
How the standard of the medical profession may be advanced...
Theology:
Introduction.............
Requisites for admission
Courses of studies....
Changes during the decade..
Law
Schools and colleges of applied science:
Requirements for admission...
Civil engineering.....
Mechanical engineering
Mining engineering...
Electrical engineering.
Architecture
Chemistry
Agriculture
Biology......
Instruction in the art of teaching...
CHAPTER XI.-STATISTICS OF PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION.
Summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc
Summary of statistics of schools of theology..
Of schools of law
Of colleges endowed with the national land grant....
Of technological schools not endowed with the national land grant.........
Income and property of the colleges endowed with the national land grant
Income and property of the colleges not endowed with the national land grant.
Summary of statistics of public normal schools..
Finances and property of public normal schools.
Statistics of private normal schools..
Summary of degrees conferred by professional schools..
Statistics of schools of medicine
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