Education in the U. S.

The report for 1893, recently issued by W. T. Harris, United States Commissioner of Education, gives some interesting statistics on education in this country. The whole number of scholars in the schools and colleges, public and private, was 15,083,630, or 22.5 per cent of the entire population. The public enrolment numbered 13,510,719. There were 2812 public high schools, and 1434 private high schools and academies. The universities numbered 451, of which number 310 were for both sexes. Colleges for women alone numbered 143. The equipment of these institutions were valued at $128,872,801, endowment funds $98,095,705, yearly income $17,671,550, and benefactions $6,715,138.