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UNITED STATES : — MASSACHUSETTS

population. Divorces were granted for desertion, adultery, cruel and abusive treatment, intoxication, imprisonment, impotency and non-support.

The infant mortality rate in 1919 was 88'5 per 1,000 live births. The maternal mortality rate in 1919 for diseases caused by pregnancy and confinement was 6 '9 per 1,000 confinements, or women at risk.

The " corrected death rate " (excluding deaths of non-residents) for the City of Boston in 1919 (based on the population of 747,628 on July 1, 1919) was 13 '09 as compared with a corresponding "corrected death rate" in 1918 of 2010.

The principal religious bodies are the Roman Catholics and Protestants. The leading Protestant bodies are Congregationalists, Baptists, Methodist- Episcopalian, Protestant-Episcopalian, Unitarians, Presbyterians, Universal- ists, and Christian Scientists.

Instruction. — There is a State Department of Education. School attend- ance is compulsory for children from 7 to 14 years of age. For the school year ending June 30, 1920, the total expenditure was 36,614,623 dollars, and the number of teachers required for the public schools was 20,114, the total number of pupils enrolled was 618,828, and the average attendance was 516,871. The 250 public high schools had 3,921 teachers and 88,628 pupils. There are 10 State normal schools with a total enrolment for the school year, 1920-21, of 2,053 pupils and 181 teachers. In 1915 the Legislature passed an Act establishing a Department of University Extension, and to provide for educational extension courses under the direction of the Board of Education. Student enrolment between January 1, 1916, and December], 1920: in classes, 43,455 ; in correspondence courses, 13,102; total, 56,557. Number of students who have completed courses, 17,406.

Within the State there are 17 colleges and universities, of which 14 are non-sectarian and 3 are sectarian (2 Catholic and 1 Methodist). Of these 17 institutions, 5 are exclusively for women. Data for these institutions as of November. 1920, are: —

Year of origin

163C. 1793 1325 1837 1843 1850 18(31

1863 1863 1865 1869 1870 1871 1882 1887 1899 1902

Name and Location of College

Harvard University, 1 Cambridge Williams College, Williamstown

Amherst College, Amherst

Mount Holyoke College.3 South Hadley. College of the Holv Cross, Worcester

Tufts College, 4 Mediord

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4 Cam- bridge

Massachusetts Agricultural College,* Amherst.

Boston College, Newton

Worcester Polj technic, Worcester

Boston University,* Boston. . ..

Wellesley College, 3 Wellesley.

Smith College,3 Northampton. . ..

Radclitt'o College, s Cambridge. . ..

Clark University, 4 Worcester. . ..

Simmons Colletre,* Boston

Clark College, 7 Worcester ■

Professors

and other

Students

Instructors

891 s

4,667 2

55

574

55

503

104

787

37

724

413

2,128

337

3,436

98

847

88

752

60

559

418

8,024

135

1,551

184

1,940

133

623

27«

255

126

1,848

30

200

1 Radclifi'e College for women is affiliated with, but is not legally a part of, Harvard University.

2 Not including students in Radcliffe College, nor students in the summer school.

3 For women only. * For men and women.

& Includes Instructors in Harvard University ottering instruction to students in Radcliffe College.

t> Some of these professors and instructors also offer instruction to students in Clark College. 7 Included in Clark University.