...statistics of education. For this purpose, all schools for the instruction of youth were divided into three classes, viz : 1. Universities or colleges....twenty years of age who could not read and write. Of the many substantial benefits of educating the people, it is scarcely necessar j now to speuk ;...

...statistics of education. For this purpose, all schools for the instruction of youth were divided into three classes, viz: 1. Universities or colleges. 2....twenty years of age who could not read and write. Of the many substantial benefits of educating the people, it is scarcely necessary now to speak ; since,...

...statistics of education. For this purpose, all schools for the instruction of youth were divided into three classes, viz : 1. Universities or colleges....twenty years of age who could not read and write. Of the many substantial benefits of educating the people, it is scarcely necessary now to speak; since,...

...statistics of education. For this purpose, all schools for the instruction of youth were divided into three classes, viz : 1. Universities or colleges....twenty years of age who could not read and write. Of the many substantial benefits of educating the people, it is scarcely necessary now to speak ; since,...

...statistics of education. For this purpose, all schools for the instruction of youth were divided into three classes, viz: 1. Universities or colleges. 2....twenty years of age who could not read and write. Of the many substantial benefits of educating the people, it is I scarcely necessary now to speak ;...

...schools 642 ; students attending the same, 16,786. The number of scholars at public charge was 526 ; and the number of white persons, over twenty years of age, who cannot read anJ write, 19,457. Many thriving towns have sprung up, within a few years, in this state,...

..." quarrying stone, 35 In a population of nearly eleven thousand, there were found only thirty-seven persons over twenty years of age who could not read and write, and these were mostly immigrant foreigners. By the foregoing statements, it will be seen that about...

...schools 642 ; students attending the same, 16,786. The number of scholars at public charge was 526 ; and the number of white persons, over twenty years of age, who cannot read and write, 19,457. Many thriving towns have sprung up, within a few years, in this state,...

.... . . '794 « commerce .... 479 " manufactures and trades . . 1,814 " learned professions . . . 359 Number of white persons over twenty years of age who could not read or write ... i 701 Scholars in common schools . . . 1,937 Until very recently lead, copper, shot, and...

...grammar and primary schools, with 284,757 scholars, in the southern states. Also, that there were 208,638 white persons over twenty years of age who could not read and write, or about one in every 22TV of the entire number of persons of that description in the northern states;...