EDL CATIONAL 1NSTITI.TIONS. Chicago lie- a carefully planned system of public-school educa tion. ln 1847 there were four schoolhouse; in Chic-ago, built at a cost of 1 brick buildings with an assembly-room and four classrooms on each floor. The educational de partment in 1902 COMprised 15 high schools, nr eluting English high and manual training schools. and 2:33 (dementary schools, besides a normal school, a reformatory school, a parental school. and institutions for the deaf. The course 01 elementary instruction inclines to the English public school and the Continental ( and gym nasium ) syStelliA wherein Latin is offered at an early period. The study of is introduced as an elective in the grammar grades on account of the large number of Germans in the eity's population. Manual training is provided for boys of the seventh and eighth grammar grades, and household training—cooking and sewing— tor girls of the same classes. The programme is purely elective for those who are not candidate; for graduation.
The schocd year of 1900-01 closed a decade of remarkable growth. During this period the school population increased from 329.790 to 620.516, or 90 per emit.; while the attendance in the private and parochial schools only increased from 61.91(i to 84.7:37, or 36 per cent. --It a total expenditure of $S,S55,000 there were erected 103 new buildings. The number of teachers increased from 3,300 to 5,951, or 80 per cent.
The higher educational institutions are the University of Chicago (q.v.) Saint Ignatius'. College ( Roman Catholic•) : the Northwestern University (\lethodist Episcopal). at I;Vanstoll. Whose professional schools. excepting the Gar rett Biblical Institute. are in Chic-ago. The Chi cago (Congregational). Chicago Lutheran, Corinick (Presbyterian), and Western (Prot estant Episcopal). are theological seminaries.
There are several medieal schools, the most prom inent of which are the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Bush, the flom•opathic, the Ilahne mann, and the Rennet; several schools of law; also dental colleges. colleges of pharmaey, train ing-schools for nurses. and a veterinary college, art schools. and schools of music. In the collie:I lion:II work of the city, a prominent place is (Je •mied by the Art Institute, the numerous classes 14 V, arc as free as practicable, and are at tended by 1000 or more students. Its Art School. which is self-supporting, otters one of the most complete •ourses in America; besides the usual branches of art, prospective and mechanical draw ing. ceramics, and the modeling of ornament. are taught by a large stair of professors. There are a year's traveling scholarship in the department of drawing and painting, and two annual scholar ships for women. The library and gallery of the museum, as well as the lectures, are open to all students. The fee is from $.5.00 to 825.00 for a term of 12 weeks. The Armour Institute of eehnulogy, similar in scope to the Pratt and Drexel Institutes. has been (-lila rged since its inception in 1s93 to include, besides manual and technical training. various courses in engineer ing. architecture, and science, leading to the gree of B.S. The Lewis institute, opened in 1S9ti, is an institution for the practical training of poor young men. The Chicago :Wien:cum is a private philanthropic institution. maintaining daily and nightly sessions for a considerable part of the year, to which students are admitted at any time on payment of a nominal tuition fee. It has also a library and reading-room.