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REPORT

OHIO STATE
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY,

COLUREUS.

OF THE

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

FOR

THE YEAR 1896-97.

1.S. Bureau of education.

VOLUME 1.

CONTAINING PART I.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.

1898.

II

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.

Conspectus of the State system of education, or University of France..

Department of superior instruction....

Department of secondary instruction..

Department of primary instruction..

Municipal boarding schools

Curriculum

Social class of the students.

Movement for adult education....

Reform of the baccalaureate (citations from articles by M. Boutmy).

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