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 POPULATION, EDUCATION

515

Cities

Pop.

Cities Newburg. .

Pop.

Cities

Pop.

Buffalo. .

423,715

27,805

Ogdeusburg.

15,933

Rochester.

218,149

Watertown.

26,730

Ithaca

14,802

Syracuse.

137,249

Kingston. .

25,908

Water vliet.

15,074

Albany. ..

100,253

Mt. Vernon.

30,919

Corning. .

13,730

Troy. ..

76,813

Poughkeepsie

27,936

Horn ell. ,

13,617

Yonkers

79,803

Amsterdam.

31,267

Geneva. .

12,446

Schenectady.

72,826

Cohoes

24,709

Cortland,.

11,504

Utica. .

74,419

Oswego. .

23,868

Little Falls.

12,273

Binghaniton.

48,843

New Rochelle

28,867

Hudson.

11,417

Elmira. ..

37,176

Gloversville.

20,642

N.Tonawonda

11,955

Auburn. .

34,668

Lockport.

17,970

Plattsburg.

11,138

Niagara Falls ,

30,445

Rome. . . Dunkirk. .

20,497 17,221

Olean. ..

14,743

Jamestown

31,29/

In 1909 the death-rate in cities was 16 '3 per 1,000 of population, in rural districts 15 "6 ; in the whole State, 16'1.

The chief churches are Roman Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Pro- testant Episcopal, and Baptist.

Education is compulsory between the ages of 7 and 16 years. In 1910-11 the children enrolled in the public elementary schools numbered 1,318,839, and the number of teachers was 38,622. There were 709 public high schools with 174,337 pupils, and 6,832 teacl.ers. There were 10 public normal schools with 279 teachers, and 6,965 students, and 6 schools of education connected with higher institutions. There were 86 universities, colleges, and professional schools with 4,663 professors and teachers and 36,215 collegiate and graduate students.

The Education Department is under the legislative direction of the Regents and the executive direction of the Commissioner of Education. This Department is quite similar to the Ministries of Education in Europe. It is charged with the general management and supervision of all public schools and of the educational work of the State including the operations of the University of the State of New York. The University is governed and all its corporate powers are exercised by a Board of Regents, whose members are at all times three more than the existing judicial districts ot the State — at present 9 districts and 12 Regents— who exercise legislative functions concerning the educational system of the State and determine its educational policies.

Within the State art many sectarian and non-sectarian colleges. The names, year of foundation, and numbers of instructors and students in all the departments of the chief colleges in 1910-11 were as follows : —

B'ounded

1896 1836 1889 1896 1854 1820 1754 1865 1855 1907 1812 1863

Adelphl Coll., Brooklyn. Alfred Univ., Alfred. Barnard Coll., Manhattan Clarkson Tech. Sch., Potsdam. City of N.Y. Coll., Manhattan Colgate Univ., Hamilton. Columbia Univ., Manhattan. Cornell Univ., Ithaca Elmira College Elmira. Fordham University, NewiYork Hamilton Coll., Clinton. Manhattan College, New York.

Professors, &c.

Students

27

434

37

272

78

547

12

70

150

1,412

44

246

644

5,fc93

627

4,412

16

250

116

508

19

178

14

92

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