Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . the number of enrolled pupilswas 152,483. The school buildings number 253, which were val-ued, with their equipment, at $9,967,513, and were the property ofthe city. The total expenditure of the educational department forthe year 1891-92 was $4,089,814, or $ per pupil. There hasbeen an increase, during the last five years, of 126 schools;$6,282,713 in the value of the equipment, and $2,965,298 in theexpenditure. Visitors interested in the work of education arealways courteously
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . the number of enrolled pupilswas 152,483. The school buildings number 253, which were val-ued, with their equipment, at $9,967,513, and were the property ofthe city. The total expenditure of the educational department forthe year 1891-92 was $4,089,814, or $ per pupil. There hasbeen an increase, during the last five years, of 126 schools;$6,282,713 in the value of the equipment, and $2,965,298 in theexpenditure. Visitors interested in the work of education arealways courteously received at the public schools. The Union College of Law, 80 and 82 Dearborn Street, isgoverned by a beard of management representing .the Northwest-ern University, with the government of which it is very intimatelyrelated. The course of study extends over two years, the fees, (119) I20 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. payable in advance, being- $75 per year. The college diplomaadmits to the bar of Illinois, provided the student has taken thefull course of two years. The students number about one hundredand College of Physicians and Surgeons, cor, West Harrison and Honore Streets. The medical colleges are seven in number. Several of them,notably the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the RushMedical College (both adjoining Cook County Hospital), arehandsome and commodious buildings. The former, a very fineexample of the. Queen Anne style of architecture, consists of fourstories and basement, surmounted by a tower 100 feet in two fronts of the building, on Harrison and Honore streets, ED UCA TIONA L INS TITU TIONS. 21 are of Lemont limestone, elaborately carved. The Rush MedicalCollege is an equally beautiful building, in every respect befittingso important an institution. There are about 2,000 studentsreceiving instruction in medicine and surgery in the medicalschools of Chicago, of M^hom about one-fourth attend the Hahne-mann and Homoeopathic colleges.
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