REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
General statement of the work of the office, with a list of its publications during the
year, v-ix; the census in its relations to education, with tables and diagrams, ix-
xliii; summary of school age, population, enrolment, attendance, &c., xliii, xliv ;
summary of the teachers employed in the public schools and their average monthly
salaries, xlv, xlvi; summary of annual income and expenditure for public schools,
xlvii, xlviii; summary of per capita expenditure, xlix, 1; statistical generalization by
years and topics, with remarks, l-liv; the district system, liv, lv; qualifications and
appointment of teachers, lvi-lviii; school supervision, lviii-lx; courses of study, lx-
lxiii; tables of illiteracy among minors from the census of 1880, lxiii-lxix; summary
of the educational condition of the States and Territories, lxix-lxxxi; comparative
statistics of education in the South, with figures respecting the education of the
colored race and remarks, lxxx1-lxxxix; Peabody fund, xc, xci; summary of school sta-
tistics of cities, xcii-cvii; school accommodation and attendance in cities, cviii-cx;
illiteracy in cities, cxi-cxiii; city primary schools, cxiv; city schools of higher grade,
cxiv, cxv; evening and special schools in cities, cxv, cxvi; city school finances,
moral and physical training, cxvi; summary of normal school statistics, cxvii-
cxxii; appropriations for normal schools, with remarks, cxxiii-cxxvii; comparative
requirements for admission to normal and to professional schools, cxxvii, cxxviii;
courses of study in normal schools at home and abroad, cxxviii-cxxxi; teach-
ers' institutes, cxxxi, cxxxii; normal training in the colleges, cxxxii, cxxxiii; sum-
mary of statistics of commercial and business colleges, cxxxiii, cxxxiv; summary
of statistics of Kindergärten, cxxxv; public schools and Kindergärten, cxxxvi,
xxxvii; normal Kindergarten instruction, cxxxvii, cxxxviii; essential needs of a
Kindergarten, cxxxviii; summary of statistics of pupils receiving secondary in-
struction, with remarks, cxxxviii-exly; summary of statistics of preparatory
schools, cxlvi, cxlvii; summary of statistics of institutions for the superior educa-
tion of women, with remarks, exlvii-clii; summary of statistics of universities
and colleges, with a summary of college entrance examinations, preparatory depart-
ments, and remarks, clii-clx; hygiene in college, growth of Yale College, clxi;
elective systems, clxi-clxiii; variations in college attendance, clxiii-clxv; schools
of political science, clxv, clxvi; summary of statistics of schools of science,
with remarks, clxvi-clxx; physics and chemistry, clxx-clxxii; instruction in
mechanical engineering, clxxii-clxxviii; manual training schools, clxxviii, clxxix;
industrial school for miners and mechanics, clxxix, clxxx; Royal Agricultural High
School of Berlin, clxxx-clxxxii; summary of statistics of schools of theology,
clxxxii-clxxxiv; summary of statistics of schools of law, with remarks, clxxxiv-
clxxxviii; summary of statistics of schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy,
clxxxviii-cxci; courses preparatory to the study of medicine, cxci, cxcii; entrance
examinations to medical schools, excii, exciii; character and progress of medical
instruction, exciii-cxcv; summary of statistics of degrees conferred, cxcv-cc;
summary of statistics of public libraries, cci; library management, ccii, cciii;
libraries and schools, ceiii, ceiv; catalogues and indexes, cciv; summary of
statistics of training schools for nurses, with remarks, ccv, cevi; statistics of
defective classes in the United States, cevi-ccviii; summary of statistics
of institutions for the deaf and dumb, ccix, ccx; day schools for deaf-mutes,
ccxi, ccxii; literary and industrial instruction for deaf-mutes, ccxii-ccxiv; National
Deaf-Mute College, ccxiv, ccxv; summary of statistics of schools for the blind, ccxv;
sketch of the history of schools for the blind, ccxvi, ccxvii; printing for the blind,
ccxvii, ccxviii; instruction of the blind, ccxviii, cexix; summary of statistics of
schools for the feeble-minded, ccxix; classification and instruction of the feeble-
minded, ccxx, ccxxi; causes of idiocy, ccxxi; summary of statistics of reform
schools, with remarks, cexxii-ccxxiv; reformatory system of Michigan, ccxxiv,
ccxxv; the family system in reform schools, ccxxv; New Jersey State Reform
School, ccxxv, ccxxvi; institutions for the reformation of girls, ccxxvi-ccxxix;
summary of statistics of orphan homes and asylums, ccxxix-ccxxxi; summary of
educational benefactions, with remarks, ccxxxi-ccxxxiii; summary of educational
publications, ccxxxiii; summary of patents for improvements in school furniture,
ccxxxiv, CCXXXV; education in foreign countries, ccxxxv-cclxxvi; recommendations,
cclxxvi, cclxxvii