TABLE 44.-Statistics of private high schools, endowed academies, seminaries, and

other private secondary schools for the scholastic year 1901-2-Continued.

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CHAPTER XL.

MANUAL AND INDUSTRIAL TRAINING.

References to recent Reports of the United States Commissioner of Education, in which this subject has been treated or statistics published: Annual Report for 1888-89, pages 411-428, 1362-1367; 1889– 1890, pages 1148, 1209-1212, 1351-1356; 1891-92, page 1197; 1892-93, pages 186, 188, 560-575; 1893-94, pages 877-949, 2093-2169; 1894-95, page 2170; 1895-96, pages 989-992, 1001-1152, 1321-1329, 1510-1521 (column 8); 1896-97, pages 193-197, 699-703, 2211-2222 (column 8), 2279-2294; 1897-98, pages 141, 194, 723, 2370-2382 (column 8), 2419-2410; 1898-99, pages 26, 83, 179–189, 208-209, 853-863, 1355–1361, 1442, 1448, 1525–1536 (column 8), 2139-2162: 1899-1900, pages 329, 875, 1811-1821 (column 8), 2437-2467, 2505; 1900-1901, pages 216, 217, 1510, 1961, 2231-2268, 2342, 2372.

The number of schools devoted chiefly to manual and industrial training reporting to this Office for the scholastic year ending June, 1902, was 163, an increase of 10 schools over the preceding year. The number of different pupils in these schools receiving manual or industrial training was 49,269. The expenditures of these schools (not including the Indian schools) for the pay of teachers, for materials, for new tools and repairs, and for incidentals amounted to $1,118,406, an increase of $295,342 over the preceding year. These items are given in detail, by States, in Tables 3 to 5 of this chapter.

Included in the list of manual training schools are 39 schools for the industrial training of Indian children. The 163 schools had 1,559 teachers of manual training— 941 men and 618 women. The number of boys receiving training was 29,183 and the number of girls 20,086.

Table 6 gives in detail the statistics of the 124 manual and industrial training schools other than the Indian schools.

The statistics of the 39 Indian schools are given in Table 7.

The branches of manual training, or the trades taught, and the number of pupils in each branch, so far as reported for the individual schools mentioned in Tables 6 and 7, are shown in Table 8.

It has been found impracticable to ascertain each year the number of pupils receiving manual or industrial training in schools not chiefly devoted to such training. Statisties of this character were collected in 1893-94 and printed in the Report of this Bureau for that year, pages 2093–2169.

A reference to chapter 43 of the present volume will show that most of the schools for the negroes offer manual and industrial training. Statistics of manual training in reform schools are given in chapter 44, and similar statistics for schools for the defective classes in chapter 45.

Table 1 shows the number of cities of 8,000 inhabitants and over in whose public schools manual training has been given since 1890. In that year it was given in 37 cities; in 1894, in 95 cities; in 1896, in 121 cities; in 1898, in 146 cities; in 1900, in 169 cities, and in 1902, in 270 cities. Table 2 gives a list of the 270 cities in whose public schools manual training (other than drawing) was given in 1901-2, and indicates the grades in each city system in which such instruction was given.

TABLE 1.-Number of cities of 8,000 population and over in each State in which manual training was given in the years indicated.