CHAPTER X 



THE EDUCATIONAL AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATION 

 OF NEW YORK 



The educational system of New York is unique in 

 its organization. Tts administration and supervision 

 centers in the University of the State of New York 

 which touches every educational institution in the 

 State from tlie smallest rural school to the great uni- 

 versities. lil)raries, and research museums. Withont 

 grounds, faculties or students in the sense in which 

 those terms are commonly applied to the modern 

 university, nevertheless it has all these in the in- 

 stitutions that come directly or indirectly under its 

 supervision. In practical governmental parlance it 

 is a Department of Education. 



Througli its various officers, the University of the 

 State of New York encourages and expands the edu- 

 cational service of the State from the foundation of 

 reading, writing and arithmetic to the cultural and 

 vocational sul)jects that help each individual more 

 readily to find his or her place in the work of the 

 world, and at the same time secure something of that 

 " hread and butter utility " of which each mature 

 person must take account. It coordinates the various 

 grades and phases of instruction and makes them an 



unified whole through which the pupil passes for- 



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