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 NEW YOKK (CITY) 401 higher grades upon the application of the trus- tees of the ward. German is taught as a part of the regular course in all the grades of the grammar schools in any ward, when in the opinion of the trustees a sufficient number of parents or guardians desire it. Instruction in vocal music is given in the primary grades. Evening schools are opened during the autumn and winter for those whose ages or avocations prevent them from attending the day schools. There is also an evening high school for males, in which Latin, modern languages, and the higher English branches are taught. The nor- mal college is intended especially for the train- ing of teachers for the common schools, and only pupils of the female grammar schools who have completed the studies of the first grade are admitted. The faculty consists of five pro- fessors, viz. : of intellectual philosophy, Latin and English, physics and chemistry, French and German, and natural science. Each professor has the requisite number of assistants, and there are also a lady superintendent and teachers of music, drawing, mathematics, history, methods of teaching, calisthenics, and penmanship. The course comprises six grades, occupying three years. A model school is connected with the college. Saturday sessions are held for those employed in the common schools. The separate colored normal school has been discontinued. At the close of 1874 the United States sloop of war St. Mary's was placed at the disposal of the board of education by the government for the establishment of a nautical school. Boys in the public schools who manifest a desire to follow a seafaring life are to be admitted. A number of corporate schools connected with asylums and charitable institutions have, under various acts of the legislature, been entitled to a share of the school moneys, and subject to the supervision of the board of education. The following table is for the year 1873 : GRADE. Number of schools. Number of teachers. fl tli Normal college 1 88 1468 816 Model primary school 1 7 412 256 Saturday normal school Colored normal school Grammar schools 1 1 95 1 1,014 483 14 61,681 344 9 32822 Primary schools and depart- ments 93 1193 129 569 56395 Colored schools (5 grammar and 4 primary) 9 43 2,184 813 Total day schools 201 2,296 195,711 91,455 Evening schools 27 850 17,728 8128 Evening high school Colored evening schools .... 1 8 25 8 1,406 421 '902 130 Total evening schools 81 383 19,550 9,160 Total public schools 223 2,679 215,261 100,615 Corporate schools 17 21,192 8,780 Aggregate. . . 249 2.679 236,543 109.395 GRADE. i 1 ~224 87 So gs 1 teachers. No. of female teachers. ll < | No. of school buildings. | Accommoda- tion!. Day schools Evening " Total pub- lic schools.. Corporate schools . . . Aggregate 2,574 227 208,313 21,358 97,625 9,170 124 128,759 261 43 426 8 2,801 74 229,671 22,689 106,795 8,612 124 43 128,759 13,888 804 429 2,875 252,360 115,407 167 142,642 Included with those of the normal college. Besides those enumerated there were 192 teach- ers of special branches. The teachers in the evening schools are nearly all taken from among those of the day schools. The total expendi- tures during the year named amounted to $3,479,011, of which $2,392,829 35 was for salaries of teachers and janitors, $79,562 20 for salaries of employees of the board of education, superintendents, &c., $44,847 72 for rent of school premises, $181,645 96 for supplies for the schools (books, stationery, &c.), $100,261 58 for fuel, $26,558 65 for gas, $96,285 27 for apportionment for corporate schools, $271,589 65 for erecting and furnishing new buildings, and the rest for miscellaneous purposes. The value of school buildings belonging to the city was $5,647,000 ; of lots, $3,045,000. The num- ber of schools, attendance, &c., in 1874, inclu- ding the new wards, were as follows : Fifteen of the public school buildings were rented. The evening schools are held in the day school buildings. Many of the buildings are lofty and elegant structures, finely arranged for school purposes. The normal college, at 69th street and 4th avenue, completed in 1873, is unsurpassed in -its accommodations and ap- Sliances by any similar edifice in the country. . b is in the secular Gothic style, with a lofty and massive Victoria tower; is 300 ft. long, 125 ft. wide on 4th avenue, 78 ft. wide in the rear, and 70 ft. high. It contains 30 recitation rooms, three large lecture rooms, a calistheni- um, a library, six retiring rooms for instruc- tors, president's offices, and a main hall capable of seating 1,600. Each recitation room con- tains seats for 48, and each lecture room for 144 persons. The entire cost of the building was $350,000, and of the furniture and other appliances about $40,000. The model school in the rear, fronting Lexington avenue, accom- modates 900 pupils. The college of the city of New York occupies a handsome edifice at 23d street and Lexington avenue, 125 by 80 ft. and four stories high. It was organized as the free academy in 1848, empowered to confer degrees in 1854, and incorporated as a college in 1866. It is under the control of a board of trustees, consisting of its president and the members of the board of education ex officiis, and is supported by the city. Students are admitted who have passed the highest grade of the grammar schools. The full course com-
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