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GUATEMALA. 
There are also fifty-five private schools, with 1,870 
pupils costing $84,154, of which the Government pays 
$4,944. 
The secondary instruction is given in several high 
schools or academies, of which the most important is the 
Instituto Nacional, Central de Hombres, in the City of 
Guatemala. The spacious buildings, formerly church 
property, well accommodate the physical and chemical 
laboratories, the meteorological observatory (the most 
complete in Central America), the zoological museum, 
mineral cabinet, and lecture-rooms, while within the 
courts is a good zoological garden. Besides the numerous 
class-rooms and offices are commodious dormitories pro¬ 
vided with iron bedsteads and kept in very neat order. 
The corps of instruction consists of a director and twenty- 
seven professors, and in 1883 there were two hundred 
and fifty-three boarders, and one hundred and thirty day 
pupils, with twenty-three pupils in the normal depart¬ 
ment, and eleven free pupils. The day-pupils pay a 
matriculation fee of $10 annually, and $3 for an exam¬ 
ination in each course. The institute costs $19,839.00, 
or $180.75 for each boarder, and $105.30 for each day- 
pupil. I have examined the work of the pupils, and 
found it very creditable, quite equal in many respects 
to that of the boys in the Latin and high schools of 
Boston. The girls are not neglected, although their 
instruction does not proceed to the extravagant lengths 
common in the eastern United States and in England, 
where the endeavor is made to train the female in¬ 
tellect to the standard of the male, and so wholly unfit 
for the privileges of matrimony and maternity the un¬ 
fortunate girls who are subjected to such training. The 
