. The earth and its inhabitants ... ign is rapidly being paid off. Public instruction, although in theory gratuitous and obligatory, is never-theless much neglected. In 1890 scarcely more than a sixtieth of the whole 396 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. Bolivian population was receiving even elementary instruction. On the other handthere are no less than five universities, with a collective staff of 83 professors inthe three faculties of law, medicine and theology, and a total attendance of nearly1,400 students, besides 16 secondary schools or colleges with over 2,000 are exclusiv
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ign is rapidly being paid off. Public instruction, although in theory gratuitous and obligatory, is never-theless much neglected. In 1890 scarcely more than a sixtieth of the whole 396 SOUTH AMERICA—THE ANDES REGIONS. Bolivian population was receiving even elementary instruction. On the other handthere are no less than five universities, with a collective staff of 83 professors inthe three faculties of law, medicine and theology, and a total attendance of nearly1,400 students, besides 16 secondary schools or colleges with over 2,000 are exclusive of a military school with a staff of nine professors maintainedby the government, which also contributes about £10,000 to the yearly support ofthe public primary schools. Bolivia is divided into eight administrative departments, which are officiallycalled provinces, and which, with their estimated areas and populations accordingto various official returns between the years 1880 and 1888, will be found tabulatedin the CHAPTER IX.
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