EDUCATION. Connecticut has always been one of the leading States in educational matters. From the earliest colonial period primary educa tion was provided for at the public expense, and the establishment of Yale University in 1701 afforded opportunities for higher instruction. For more than a decade before 1901 the school term exceeded 180 days, although the average for the whole country is only 134 days. Almost five sixths of the school population attend the public schools, and in 1900, 94 per cent. of all children between the ages of four and sixteen were regis tered in some school. The expense of education per registered student was $17.58. For the twenty-five-year period 1875-99 the school ex penditure was drawn from the following sources: permanent funds. 7.8 per cent; State taxation, 14 per cent.; local taxation, 67.7 per cent.; and other sources, 10.5 per cent. There were 4079 public-school teachers, of which hut 9 per cent. were males. There are 77 public high schools and three normal schools. School districts not having high schools must pay the tuition for such students as may wish to attend the high school of some other school district. The admin
istration is vested in a hoard of education. or town committee, or board of school visitors, while the general educational supervision of the State is in the hands of a State Board of Education.
There is no State university. The chief higher educational institutions are Yale University, non-sectarian, though historically affiliated with the Congregationalists; Wesleyan University (Methodist Episcopal), at Middletown, for both sexes; Trinity College (Protestant Episcopal), at hart ford. SchTds of icience, law, art, and medicine form departments of Yale University. The Congregationalists have divinity schools at New Ilaven and Hartford; the Protestant Epis copalians. one at and the Baptists, a literary institute at Sullicld. There are an agri cultural college at Mansfield and training schools for nurses at Hartford and New Haven.