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DIAGRAM 8.-Showing what per cent of the total population was enrolled as college students during

each year since 1872.

68-888/

1889-90

1890-91

1891-92

1892-93

1893-94

1894-95

1895-96

1896-97

1897-98

1898-99

1899-00

10-0061

1901-02

1902-03

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a Including unpaid principal due on contracts for purchase of school lands.
Some local funds; amount not known.

Riparian lands; amount not determined.

d Approximately.

To be limited to $1,000,000 by constitutional amendment of 1902.

Half the Western and Atlantic R. R. and some stock of the Georgia R. R.
Oyster lands; amount not known.

Constitutional minimum price $10 per acre.

In 1901-2.

* Value at last report.

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INTRODUCTORY—THE CHILDREN OF THE POOR IN OUR GREAT CITIES.

In order to understand the movement for vacation schools and playgrounds in

America, it is necessary to understand the conditions out of which this movement

has grown.

Few people, perhaps, have fully realized how artificial child life has become in

our great cities. The change from country to village, from village to city, and

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