Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . and superintendents $42,580,853 119,303,512 For all other purposes • • ? • • 36,113,815 Total expenditures $69,107,612 $187,320,602 Expenditure per capita of population L75 Total expenditure per pupil To these grand totals must be added the million and more in attendance atprivat
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . and superintendents $42,580,853 119,303,512 For all other purposes • • ? • • 36,113,815 Total expenditures $69,107,612 $187,320,602 Expenditure per capita of population L75 Total expenditure per pupil To these grand totals must be added the million and more in attendance atprivate schools throughout the country, and the rapidly increasing number(now 217,763) of those who receive higher instruction, in universities andprofessional and normal schools. This makes for the United States a grandtotal of ,093 pupils and students of all grades in public and privateschools. The growth during the last generation has been most statistical table gives an opportunity for comparison with the year 524 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX CENTURY 1870-71, — the span of a generation, — and it has been estimated thatwithin this period the average total amount of schooling has increased years to years. In other words, the amount of education which. SCIIOOLHOUSE, SLEEPY HOLLOW. N. Y.(Courtesy of The School Journal, New York.) each one felt able to afford has increased almost one half. Such is the mag-nificent result which has grown out of the isolated village schools of ourNew England ancestors, fostered by the democratic desire for intelligencefound all over the country. Equally great has been the change in the spirit of the school. In theearly days the schools were very crude. Population was scattered, and sincethe children could not go as far to school as their elders did to church, thenumber of schoolhouses was very great. They were usually put up by thepeople of the neighborhood with little pretense at adornment. The averageschoo
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