This summary indicates that States maintain 70 normal schools, with 650 instructors, and 17,698 students; counties, 3, with 15 instructors and 422 students; cities, 8 normal schools with 81 instructors and 1,659 students; and all other agencies, 56 normal schools, with 283 teachers and 9,328 students. We see what diverse policy prevails in the different States and territories in respect to this branch of instruction. TABLE III.-Summary of statistics of normal schools-Continued.

a Sex not reported in all cases.

From four of these schools no statistics have been received.

In this table we have the distribution of the normal schools among the several States, the number of students of both sexes; the number of graduates in the last year; the number who engaged in teaching, and the aids possessed by these institutions in the way of libraries.

TABLE III.-Summary of statistics of normal schools-Concluded..

Here are presented some interesting special facts in regard to our normal schools which it was not possible to include in the previous tables. The deficiency of the several institutions in these particulars demands the most careful attention from the friends of education. This is an interesting showing of these particulars, yet we caùnot describe here how unwillingly some and how liberally others of these appropria

tions have been made. When twenty times this amount is bestowed and wisely expended on the training of teachers in the several States and Territories many of our most serious school problems will be solved and some of the most threatening evils of ignorance will be averted without further trouble.

Tougaloo University and State Normal School, Tougaloo, Miss
Southeast Missouri State Normal School, Cape Girardeau, Mo..
Normal department of Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo..
North Missouri State Normal School, Kirksville, Mo
Normal School, St. Louis, Mo

State Normal School, District No. 2, Warrensburg, Mo
Nebraska State Normal School, Peru, Nebr..

New Hampshire State Normal School, Plymouth, N. HI
State Normal School, Trenton, N. J.....
New York State Normal School, Albany, N. Y.
State Normal School, Buffalo, N. Y

State Normal and Training School, Cortland, N. Y
State Normal and Training School, Fredonia, N. Y
State Normal and Training School, Geneseo, N. Y.
Female Normal College, New York, N. Y........
Oswego State Normal and Training School, Oswego, N. Y
State Normal and Training School, Potsdam, N. Y...
Northwestern State Normal School, Edinboro', Pa
Keystone State Normal School, Kutztown, Pa

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a Exclusive of appropriations for permanent objects.
c City appropriation. d $500 of this were from the city.

Kindergärten-number of institutions, instructors, and pupils for 1873, 1874, and 1875.

The increase in the number of these very interesting institutions is extremely gratifying. Miss E. P. Peabody, the great expounder of Fröbel's principles and methods, is finding many warm and able coadjutors in various parts of the country. Eminent educators, who at first doubted or opposed, are now cordial supporters. They see in Fröbel's Kindergarten a promise of aid in correcting the evils so long common in dealing with the earliest years of human life. No school officer, no mother, no teacher, should be satisfied without this simple but charming method of instruction for the child. I am surprised that the managers of a single orphan asylum should suffer their children to be deprived of its benefits.

Following is a comparative summary of the number of institutions for secondary instruction making returns from 1871 to 1875, inclusive: