The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . of recreation. Tlic number and char-acter of its public schools and establishments for higher learning, itspublic libraries, and its literary and .scientific institutions, give facili-ties for education and culture not excelled if equaled by those of anyother city of its size in America. All this and much more can besaid. With a valuation of over one hundred millions, its debt of fivemillions seems not formidable in consideration of the many and greatbenefits and improvements secured and enjoyed. And unless pro-phetic visio
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . of recreation. Tlic number and char-acter of its public schools and establishments for higher learning, itspublic libraries, and its literary and .scientific institutions, give facili-ties for education and culture not excelled if equaled by those of anyother city of its size in America. All this and much more can besaid. With a valuation of over one hundred millions, its debt of fivemillions seems not formidable in consideration of the many and greatbenefits and improvements secured and enjoyed. And unless pro-phetic vision discloses future universal ruin, nothing darkens the localprospect of the half centurv to come, or indicates that the onwardmarch will in anv degree be slackened or brought to a sudden stop. In the following chapters the various institutions, forces and influ-ences which are active and prominent in our city of to-day, are treatedin detail by able and well-known writers, whose names are sufficientevidence of the reliability and value of the information they D EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. By F. Cakk(.ili,, A. ^1.,*Superintendent of Public Schools. |T may be affirmed without danger of contradiction that no citv inAmerica can claim to rival Worcester in the number and varietyof its general educational institutions. The following enumeration ofthese institutions will be of interest: Classical High School, EnglishHigh School, forty-five grammar and primary schools and ten suburbanschools, Worcester Academy, Holy Cross College, Highland MilitaryAcademy, W^orcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester vState NormalSchool, Clark University, other private schools and business colleges. The great Public Library and the beautiful Art Museum shouldperhaps be added to the list, and the museum of Natural Historyand the museum of The Worcester vSociety of Antiquity, under theirpresent efficient management, may fairly be counted as at educational institutions. Near
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