in the United States in Fifty Years. 



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Table showing the Ratio which the number of College Students, of Students in the 

 Grammar Schools and in the Primary Schools, and the number of the Illiterate in 

 each State, bear to the white population of such State. 



The preceding table shows, that the number of college students 

 amounts to somewhat more than a nine-hundredth part of the white 

 population ; that the scholars of the academies and grammar 

 schools are ten times as numerous as the college students ; that the 

 scholars of the primary schools are near twelve times as numerous 

 as the last ; and that the scholars of every description are equal to 

 just one-seventh of the white population. The relative numbers, 

 distributed in centesimal proportions, would be as follows : 



College students, 0.8 per cent. 



Scholars in grammar schools, 8.1 " 



" primary schools, 91.1 " £ 



100. 



If the free coloured be added to the white population, in con- 

 sideration of that class furnishing a proportion of the scholars in 

 the primary schools, the proportion which each description of scho- 

 lars bears to the free population would be thus reduced, viz : col- 

 lege students, as 1 to 8.90 ; scholars in grammar schools, as 1 to 



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