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Juvenile City 



Don Jose Garcia y Garcia, a Cuban educator, intends to establish a children's com- 

 munity to be called "La Ciudad Infantil," or Juvenile City, on a plantation near Ha- 

 bana, where children may live and study under healthful conditions. There are to be 

 study halls and dormitories, shops for carpentry and cabinet-work, an iron foundry, a 

 shoe factory, a clothing factory, and other vocational shops. The Ciudad Infantil is 

 to be an industrial, agricultural, and commercial school which will give an apprenticeship 

 course of eight years, children being admitted at the age of 10. Seiior Garcia has offered 

 to maintain 75 free scholarships for orphans, distributed as follows: 20 for the Province 

 of Habana; IS for Matanzas; and 10 for Pinar del Rio, Santa Clara, Camagiiey, and 

 Oriente, respectively. The agricultural products raised at the school are to be sold in 

 market and the proceeds to be divided as follows: 50 per cent for the funds and neces- 

 sities of the school, and 50 per cent to be divided among the students, each one to be 

 paid according to his earnings, accumulated until the student leaves the school, when 

 the sum is paid over to his parents or guardians. 



Schools 



Schools. — The Boletin Oficial de la Secretaria de Estado published the following 

 statistics : 



The number of schoolhouses open during the school year 1921-22 was 3,337, which 

 contained 6,000 classes. Of these buildings, 200 were owned by the State, 44 by muni- 

 cipalities, and 1,294 by individuals, who loaned them to the Government for school pur- 

 poses, $556,546.26 having been paid for the rent of the remaining 1,799. 



The registration was 344,331 children, 173,418 boys and 170,913 girls, 252,861 of 

 whom were white and 91,470 colored, or an average of 57.39 pupils per class. 



The average daily attendance was 183,672, 53.34 per cent of the total registration. 

 Comparing statistics of the school year 1921-22 with those of 1920-21, the former show 

 an increase of 23,116 pupils in total registration, and 25,485 in average daily attendance. 



The number of teachers employed daily was 6,075, 934 of whom were men and 

 5,141 women; 5,176 white and 899 colored. Seventy-seven traveling teachers were put 

 in charge of 34 sparsely populated districts, where they gave instruction in 187 school 

 centers. Children to the number of 3,639 were registered in these centers. 2,209 being 

 boys and 1,430 girls, 3,266 white and 373 colored — an average of 19 children per center. 



There were also 67 night schools open, with a registration of 6,179 students. 3,673 

 white and 2,506 colored, and an average attendance of 2,055 scholars, or 67.55 per cent 

 of the registration. 



Four classes of primary instruction were also conducted in the prisons of the Repub- 

 lic, with a registration of 499 students, 243 white and 246 colored, and an average 

 attendance of 126 students, or 25.75 per cent of the total registration. 



Special classes were given under the direction of 375 teachers and assistants as 

 follows : 



Teachers Assistants 



Kindergartens 145 145 



Sloyd..... 15 2 



Dressmaking and sewing 39 1 



English 28 11^ 



According to data obtained from the 116 boards of education in the Republic, 416 

 private schools, containing 1,040 rooms, were in session on June 1, 1922, under the direc- 

 tion of 1,166 teachers, 436 of whom were men and 730 women; 1,133 white and 2>3> 

 colored; 699 Cubans and 467 foreigners; 660 laymen and 606 members of religious orders. 

 The total registration in May, 1922, was 27,890 pupils, 14,977 of whom were boys and 

 12,913 girls, 25,660 white and 2,230 colored, while the average attendance was 20,539. 

 {President' s message.) 



