Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1872

Overview & Synopsis

The report provides abstracted reports from state, territorial, and city school officers. Information is also given on Indian education, educational conventions and institutes, education of the deaf and dumb, and education of the blind, as well as an annual review of foreign education. Special articles discuss education in the Hawaiian Islands, the value of common-school education for common labor, the relationship between crime and education, the relationship between education and pauperism, and suggestions on art training in American colleges. Statistical tables cover states' and territories' enrollment, attendance, and school duration; city education; normal schools; commercial and business colleges; secondary education institutions; U.S. Military Academy and Naval Academy admissions examinations, U.S. colleges; female colleges; agricultural and scientific, theology, law, medical, dental, and pharmaceutical schools; U.S. libraries; museums; educational benefactions; institutions for the blind and for the deaf and dumb; penitentiaries and jails; reformatories; orphan asylums; patents for school furniture, stationery and writing supplies, equipment, and physical plant features; educational publications; and census-derived statistics.