AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS for the REPRODUCTION OF MANUSCRIPTS, LIÉGE, AUGUST 21-23, 1905. BY CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, U. S. DELEGATE Compulsory attendance and child-labor laws.. Consolidation of schools and transportation of pupils. Free text-books and supplies.. Temperance instruction in the public schools. Sunday-school statistics of North America.. List of educational periodicals... Religious exercises in public schools.. Corporal punishment in city public schools.. Requirements as to vaccination of school children. Length of service of city teachers. Teachers' pensions in Germany. Total population, school population, and adult male population. Density of population, urban population, nativity and race classification, value of manufac- tures, illiteracy, and relations of the adult male, and of the school population.... REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF EDUCATION, Washington, D. C., December 5, 1906. SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith the Annual Report of this Office for the year ending June 30, 1905. The statistical tables and chapters of general educational information contained in this report were prepared under the direction of my distinguished predecessor, the Honorable William T. Harris, LL.D. It has seemed best to present the material which he had brought together for this report with the least possible alteration. The appropriation, however, which was made near the close of his term of service, for the printing and binding of this report-namely, the sum of $20,000 (34 Stat. L., p. 760)—is less, by more than onethird, than the amount which has been expended for this purpose each year for the past eight years. It has accordingly been necessary to reduce by one-half the number of pages in the report as originally planned by Commissioner Harris. The statistical tables are presented in full, the necessary reduction having been made by the omission of certain chapters of general educational information. STATISTICS OF STATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. The enrollment in the institutions commonly grouped together as constituting the main body of our educational system-that is, in schools and colleges, public and private-during the year 1904-5 was 18,160,475, an increase of 263,585 pupils as compared with the previous year. Of this number there were enrolled in public institutions supported by taxation and funds belonging to States and municipalities 16,596,503 as compared with 16,379,443, reported for the previous year. Adding to this number the enrollment of various special schools, public and private, amounting to 727,371, we have a VII grand total of 18,887,846. The several items entering into this grand total are presented in the following table: Enrollment in schools and colleges and in special schools in the United States, 1904–5. The following table gives a summary of the total expenditures for education in the United States for the year 1904-5, in comparison with the total of public expenditure for all purposes: Federal, State, and local expenditures for all purposes and expenditures for schools and other institutions of learning in the United States, 1904–5. Total disbursements by the United States Government.. Estimated expenditure by the States...... Estimated expenditure by minor civil divisions.. Total public expenditure... State expenditure for common schools (elementary and secondary)................ estimated)...... Expenditure for universities and colleges.. $720, 105, 498 125, 000, 000 600, 000, 000 1, 445, 105, 498 291, 616, 660 21, 258, 228 41, 775, 101 It will be seen that there was expended for education a sum equal to more than one-half of the cost of the National Government; and that of the total expenditure for public purposes of all the States, counties, cities, towns, etc., two-fifths (40.2 per cent) was expended |