for Indian children, 1906-7-Continued. 70 0 $132,705 $1,000 $110, 205 $22, 320 $3,000 $300 $100 $135,725 24 3, 135 25 5,680 26 85,000 25,000 80,000 16,000 15,000 10,000 8,000 129,000 27 28 3,250 29 19,000 30 48, 205 31 17,560 32 900 33 34 54, 780 35 36 8885 37 CHAPTER XXVIII. [Containing Tables 148-151.] COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS SCHOOLS. The number of commercial and business schools reporting to this Bureau in 1907 was 445-a loss of 32 schools since 1906. The schools embraced in this class do not include those institutions having commercial departments which are elsewhere classified as colleges, normal schools, or academies. The 445 schools reported 2,856 instructors-1,720 men and 1,136 women- as shown in Table 148. These schools had 137,364 students-75,589 males and 61,775 females. This was a gain of 7,279 in enrollment, with a smaller number of schools reporting. In 1890 the business schools reported 78,929 students; in 1895 the number was 96,135; in 1900 the number was only 91,549, although the following year showed a large increase. The high-water mark was reached in 1905, when the commercial and business schools reported 146,086 students. It is believed that the organization of public business high schools and commercial departments and courses in public high schools has had the effect of checking the growth of commercial schools as private enterprises. However, it is well known that there are hundreds. of small private business schools which do not report to this Bureau. Table 149 shows that 423 of the business schools had 96,100 students in the day courses-50,670 men and 45,430 women. There were 32,643 students in the night courses of 304 schools. Of these students, 19,806 were men and 12,837 were women. The average attendance on the day schools was 39,687, and on the night schools 14,524. As shown in Table 150, there were 57,271 students in the commercial courses of 376 schools-38,846 men and 18,425 women. These schools reported 15,328 graduates from the commercial course-9,821 men and 5,507 women. In 171 schools there were 25,828 students in English courses-14,424 men and 11,404 women. Table 151 shows that 367 of the business schools had 53,991 students in amanuensis courses-19,846 men and 34,145 women. There 1117 |