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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.

STATZ OIHO

Tables of school expenditure in the Southern States, classified by race...

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Some notes on the medieval universities of Scotland in relation to their continental models..

CHAPTER II.-EDUCATION IN AUSTRALASIA.

Population and leading industries of the five divisions of Australia..

The systems of public education..

Education in New Zealand..

Tasmania

CHAPTER III.-EDUCATION IN BELGIUM.

Brief conspectus of the educational system..

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Changes effected by successive laws....

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City of Brussels-inquiry into the character of the clothing, nourishment, and lodging accom-

modations of the pupils of the communal schools...

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Recent changes in the curriculum of secondary schools..

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Technical and industrial schools...

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Report on the grading and promotion of pupils, by John T. Prince, agent of Massachusetts State

board of education..

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CHAPTER VIII.-THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMON SCHOOL IN THE WESTERN STATES

CHAPTER IX.-THE ROYAL NORMAL COLLEGE FOR THE BLIND, LONDON, WITH INCIDENTS

IN THE LIFE OF ITS FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, DR. F. J. CAMPBELL, A NATIVE OF

TENNESSEE, U. S. A.

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CHAPTER X.-MINOR MENTAL ABNORMALITIES IN CHILDREN AS OCCASIONED BY CERTAIN ER-

RONEOUS SCHOOL METHODS...

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The need of action for the amelioration of the condition of the colored race.......

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CHAPTER XI-MISCELLANEOUS EDUCATIONAL TOPICS-Continued.

Address of President McKinley at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Thaddeus Stevens's defense of the Pennsylvania free-school system..

Education in Bulgaria......

Consolidation of schools; the Kingsville (Ohio) plan

The new requirements for admission to the University of Illinois

The Brookline Education Society and its work..

Our School Work; address by Edwin P. Seaver, of Boston.

Address of Abram S. Hewitt at the dedication of the new site of Columbia University.

Speech of J. L. M. Curry before the legislature of Georgia..

Hubert Anson Newton.....

Memorial service in honor of Dr. E. A. Sheldon..

Rev. Samuel Knox..

Andrew J. Rickoff

School seats...

Addresses of Bishop Spalding, of Peoria:

The American patriot ..

The university and the teacher

The university: A nursery of the higher life..

State universities; address by President James B. Angell, of the University of Michigan

The school system of Cuba.....

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CHAPTER XII.-THE STUDY OF ART AND LITERATURE IN SCHOOLS.

Why art and literature ought to be studied in elementary schools.

Beauty in art v. beauty in nature...

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The educational value of the tragic as compared with the comic in literature and art

The æsthetic element in education

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CHAPTER XIII.-THE WESTERN LITERARY INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE OF PROFESSIONAL

TEACHERS.

Account of the origin of the school..

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Addresses and papers.

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CHAPTER XIV. THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY AT ANNAPOLIS-ITS ORGANI-

ZATION AND METHODS OF TRAINING.

CHAPTER XV.-NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXT-BOOKS ON ARITHMETIC.

Report of Prof. F. Torraca, director of primary and normal instruction..