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tions; (2) the miscellaneous schools (of cookery, music, oratory and 

 various special arts), the business schools, the orphan asylums and 

 other benevolent institutions are founded and supported as private 

 institutions. Of the remaining educational institutions, some are 

 public, some private. The percentage of attendance of pupils and 

 students, as calculated from the table given on page viii of Vol. I. of 

 the Eeport of the U. S. Commissioner of Education printed in 1907 

 (from which are taken also the general data given above, and which 

 will hereafter be referred to simply as U. S. Eeport), is as follows : 



Percentage Percentage 



in Publie in Private 



Kind of Institution Institutions Institutions 



Schools for the deaf 95 + 4 + 



Schools for the feeble-minded 95 + 4 + 



Elementary schools (primary and grammar) 92 + 7 + 



Normal schools 83 + 16 + 



Secondary schools (high schools and academies) . . 79 + 10 + 



Colleges and universities 33 + 66 + 



Professional schools 17 + 82 + 



It will be seen that the state is doing in a tolerably complete manner 

 what it has evidently assumed is its duty, in all but two of the classes 

 of institutions to which it gives any attention whatever. But in the 

 case of the professional schools and the colleges and universities the 

 state is merely dabbling in the matter, leaving so great a proportion 

 of the work to private enterprise that of the youth being educated in 

 such institutions seventy-four per cent, are receiving such education 

 through private munificence. If our postal system, or our system of 

 criminal reformation and punishment, were carried on partly by the 

 state, partly by private enterprise, we should regard it as a very curious 

 condition of things, and should cast about us for a remedy. But as yet 

 we fail to observe the anomaly in this very important matter of public 

 education. 



Let us now take up the subject from the point of the comparative 

 number of public and private institutions, rather than from that of the 

 total attendance of students, and confine our examination to one of the 

 two kinds of institutions of which the state controls but an insignifi- 

 cant proportion. We may classify the colleges and universities con- 

 veniently through the aid of tables 29, p. 578; 32, p. 636 and 34, 

 p. 640 of the U. S. Eeport. All institutions classed as schools of 

 technology (table 36, p. 650) are omitted from this consideration, even 



though their official title is sometimes " College of ." (It 



may be stated in passing that according to this table the national 

 government is responsible for 2 and the states for 34 of these institu- 

 tions. The source of support or the founder of the remaining 8 is 

 not specified and has not been investigated.) These statistics may be 



