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English are also compelled to attend school. 

 The cost of education is met mostly by local 

 taxation, supplemented by grants from the 

 state. 



The schools are under the supervision of a 

 superintendent of public instruction, who is 

 appointed by the governor for four years. The 

 local unit of school organization is the school 

 district, which has its own board of education 

 elected by the people. Special measures have 



MI C H I G 



OUTLIM: MAP OF OHIO 



Showing boundaries, navigable rivers, chief cit- 

 ies, international boundary, coal, oil and gas areas 

 and the highest point of lund in the state. 



been taken in this state for the consolidation 

 and centralization of rural schools, in order to 

 the residents in the country the school ad- 

 vantages of those residing in cities. Ohio was 

 among the first states to adopt the township 

 school system, and has carried it to greater 

 success than has any other state. There is now 

 in force a law which standardizes such schools 

 throughout the state. In each township operat- 

 ing unoYr this l:iw all the children attend one 

 school, at a central point, and are conveyed 

 to and from their homes at public expense. 

 Agriculture is a subject taught in all common 

 schools except those situated in city school 

 districts. 



Illiteracy. In 1910 there were 124,774 per- 

 sons ten years of age or over who could not 



read or write ; this represents 3.2 per cent of the 

 total population, as compared with 4.0 per cent 

 in 1900. But among native whites the per- 

 centage of illiteracy was only 1.5 per cent; it 

 was 11.5 per cent among foreign-born whites, 

 and 11.1 per cent among negroes. * 



Universities and Colleges. Ohio has many 

 universities and colleges, though some of them 

 are little more than secondary schools. There 

 are three state universities, situated respec- 

 tively at Columbus, Athens and Oxford. Other 

 institutions are the Northern University at 

 Ada; University of Akron at Akron; Western 

 Reserve University at Cleveland; Ohio Uni- 

 versity at Delaware; Heidelberg University at 

 Tiffin; Otterbein University at Westerville; 

 University of Wooster at Wooster; University 

 of Cincinnati at Cincinnati ; Denison University 

 at Granville ; Findlay College at Findlay ; Ken- 

 yon College at Gambier; Hiram College at Hi- 

 ram; Oberlin College at Oberlin; Wittenberg 

 College at Springfield; Muskingum College at 

 New Concord ; Saint Xavier College at Cincin- 

 nati; and Antioch College at Yellow Springs. 

 Colleges for women are the Oxford College for 

 Women and Western College for Women, both 

 at Oxford, and Lake Erie College at Painesville. 

 All of these institutions are maintained by 

 various religious denominations. Also worthy 

 of mention is the Case School of Applied Sci- 

 ence at Cleveland, one of the best technical 

 schools in the country. 



For the training of teachers the state main- 

 tains normal schools at Akron, Athens, Cleve- 

 land, Columbus, Dayton, Oxford and Toledo. 



Religion. Ohio has an unusually large num- 

 ber of religious sects. The strongest Church is 

 the Roman Catholic, to which about one-third 

 of the whole population belongs. The most 

 numerous of the Protestant sects are the Meth- 

 odists, whose number is about half that of the 

 Roman Catholics. The Presbyterians and thr 

 Lutherans come next, each with about one- 

 third of the number possessed by the Mrth- 

 odists. Other sects, in the order of their nu- 

 merical strength, are the Baptists, Disciples of 

 Christ, United Brethren, Congregational ists, 

 German Evangelicals, Protestant Episcopalians, 

 Christian Scientists and Evangelicals, besides 

 other minor bodies. 



Physical Features. Eastern Ohio is a part of 

 the great Alleghany plateau, while the wo^ 

 part of the state belongs to the prairie region. 

 In general the surface may be described aa an 

 extensive and moderately-undulating plain 

 which has a mean elevation of about 850 



