EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. The organization of the public school system is thorough and com plete. A large number of the handsome school houses of the city were built from the income of a fund given by a former citizen, John Me Donogh, %%Ilia now amounts to about $800,000. The city makes such appropriations for the pub lic schools as it thinks proper, but it cannot appropriate less than eight-tenths of a mill for any one year. Besides this appropriation it re ceives its share of the current school fund col lected by the State. There are no 'mixed' schools. The number of public schools for whites is GI, and for negroes 12. The number of teachers is S00 white and colored, The total enrollment for 1!)02 was 31,205. of whom 26.133 were white and 5072 \Vert. colon.d. The public school system consists of one normal. three high, 68 grammar and primary. IS kindergarten. one teachers' prac tice school, and one teachers' kindergarten train ing school. These schools occupy 69 buildings, 32 of which were erected by the city, 2S by the eommissioners of the McDonogli fund, and two donated. The total cost of maintaining the schools per annum is $510.573. The estimated expenditure for each pupil is $16.30. Free in
struction is also given to young children by six kindergartens, supported partly by churches and partly by private funds. The number of private schools in the city is 145 for whites and 14 for negroes. Among the most prominent colleges may be mentioned the College of the Immaculate Conception (established by the Jesuit Fathers in 1847) ; the Soul6 Commercial and Literary In stitute (established 1850) ; Spencer's Business College and Institute of Shorthand (established 1,07) ; the Blake Institute; and the Home Insti tute (established in 1883), The last-named in stitution, besides its regular work. conducts a free night school, in which instruction is given to nearly 1300 men and boys. For the education of the colored youth there are four universities, or more properly colleges: Leland University (1870), Straight University (1870), New Or leans University (1873), and the Southern Uni versity (1881). Only the last of these is sup ported by the funds of the State. For the whites there is only one university, the Tulane Univer sity of Louisiana (q.v.), with the 11. Sophie New comb :Memorial College for Women.