E.—Statistics showing the number of students receiving a classical education.

The catalogues of nine colleges in the United States, viz, Yale, Harvard, Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Trinity, Lafayette, and Princeton, show that the average number in the senior classes between 1870-1876 was 63; between 1877-1882, 72. This reckoning excludes students in the scientific courses.

Between 1870 and 1882 the number of institutions in which a high classical education is offered increased amain; and the reports of the Commissioner of Education show that there were in 1872, 13,836 male students in these courses; in 1882, 16,504.