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a cost calculated to make the English ratepayer's mouth 

 water when he compares it with the cost of education 

 per head in this country. The 35,537 children educated 

 in the towns cost somewhat more, a fraction over 

 £1, 3s. 9d. a head. But that was not a very ruinous 

 charge. 



Still, this difference of cost is significant. It shows 

 the superior educational advantages of the towns 

 beginning to display itself. The superiority is more 

 marked when we pass from the primary or elementary 

 school to the secondary schools. Attendance in these 

 secondary schools is not compulsory. Beside these 

 State secondary schools there have been established 

 of recent years a number of High Schools, called by 

 that name (Hoiskoler), the plan of which, like that of 

 our High Schools, is, of course, derived from the Ger- 

 man Hochschule. From schools of this class there 

 were in 1875 only 780 country pupils who received 

 instruction. In the towns, on the other hand, there 

 were 2529 pupils educated at the secondary schools, 

 and 6574 educated at the High Schools — 9103 in all. 

 From this point the superior educational advantages of 

 the towns manifest themselves decisively. Following 

 upon those numbers, we have in the towns 2390 pupils 

 receiving a still higher education, fitting them for entry 

 into the university. 



The University of Norway has its seat at Christiania, 

 and is commonly spoken of as the University of Chris- 

 tiania. It is, it need scarcely be said, a university of 

 the continental pattern, an establishment for the con- 

 ferring of degrees and giving of lectures, not a collec- 

 tion of colleges such as are Oxford and Cambridge. 



