three tables remaining to public and private kindergartens in all cities having a population of 4,000 or more. It will be noted that there are 587 cities of the first class and 589 of the second, and that these had a combined population, according to the Twelfth Census, of 28,124,407, or 37.3 per cent of the entire population. It will be noted that the number of cities having a population of 8,000 or more has been increased by 7, and the cities and towns having a population between 4,000 and 8,000 by 130, since the last report. Summary of statistics of cities containing over 8,000 inhabitants, showing increase from previous year. Charts exhibited by the Bureau at St. Louis.--Chapter XXIII (pp. 1137-1184) presents the statistics contained on the wall charts of the exhibit of the Bureau at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. Most of the charts included comparative statistics extending over different epochs. Among them were the following: Benefactions to different classes of institutions during the year 1902. The following table shows the increase of these institutions from 1865 to 1903: Colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts endowed by national land grants—Increase in institutions, professors, and students. PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES. The following tables show the sex of students in the various professional schools, and the number of students at three different epochs from 1880 to 1902: Sex of students in professional and allied schools, 1902. Professional education in the United States-Growth in twenty-two years, 1880–1902. The following table shows that the students in the first year of the high-school course equal in number the entire number of students in the second and third years taken together. It shows, moreover, that the number of students enrolled in the fourth year is less than onethird of the number enrolled in the first year's work. Number secondary students in public and private high schools, 1901-2..... 655,301 43 per cent in first year. 26 per cent in second year. 18 per cent in third year. 13 per cent in fourth year. 281, 780 170, 378 117,954 85, 189 ILLITERATE NEGROES OF VOTING AGE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. The following table shows two epochs, 1870 and 1900, and the percentage of the colored males of voting age who could read and write at each epoch. The increase in Alabama has been from 7 per cent to 40.5 per cent in the thirty years, and the increase in Georgia has been even greater, namely from 6.9 per cent to 43.6 per cent. In some other States the increase is even greater. Improvement in the education of negroes in the former slave States-Proportion of colored males of voting age who could read and write in 1870 and in 1900. The figures of 1870 are those of the first census taken after emancipation. It will be noted that the States bordering on the free States of the North showed by that census the largest proportion of males able to read and write, and with few exceptions the same may be remarked of the later statistics. UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES AND THEIR RELIGIOUS CONTROL. Per cent of the total number of colleges and universities under the control of the different religious denominations: 1902. The figures show about 70 per cent of all the higher institutions in the country (638 all told) to be under the control of religious. denominations, while the remaining 30 per cent are nonsectarian and about equally divided between those under public and those under private control. Many of the sectarian colleges for men were designed primarily to prepare young men for the ministry, but beyond this they now differ little from other colleges of corresponding grade except as to the matter of maintenance. Sectarian colleges are usually supported by some unit of church administration, but in many of the stronger denominational institutions large endowments place them beyond the necessity of regular appeal to such sources. GRADUATES OF PUBLIC NORMAL SCHOOLS. The comparison of the numbers in public normal schools at three epochs from 1880 to 1902 shows the increasing capacity of these schools to supply the needs for professionally trained teachers. Besides the public normal schools there are many private normal schools, and also normal training departments, in nearly 800 public and private high schools and in more than 200 of the colleges and universities. The number of well-trained teachers graduating each year amounts to about 15,000. AMOUNT OF PROPERTY EXPENDED FOR EVERY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS OF TRUE VALUE OF PROPERTY BY THE LARGEST CITY IN EACH OF THE STATES. The first column shows the expenditure for all purposes, police and the courts, sewers, etc. The second column shows the number of dollars expended for schools. The figures given in this table were deduced from statistics collected by the Bureau of Labor for the year 1902. It registers fairly what cach city named is relatively doing for education. It will be noted that the sums named are strictly for maintenance and operation, all items of capital outlay being excluded. All of which is respectfully submitted. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. W. T. HARRIS, Commissioner. |