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Volume 1 begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and includes state school-system statistics. Chapter I covers education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Chapter II presents children's growth statistics collected in Worcester, Mass., Toronto, Ontario, and Milwaukee. Chapter III addresses German university pension and insurance beneficiary regulations. Chapter IV presents a digest of school laws on governance, teachers, and schools for each state except Florida, Idaho, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Chapter V discusses the University of Paris during the Middle Ages. Chapter VI presents the proceedings of an Armstrong Association meeting on the work and influence of Hampton Institute, including a letter from former U.S. president Grover Cleveland and addresses by Andrew Carnegie, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, Hampton principal H.B. Frissell, and Booker T. Washington. Chapter VII addresses public school temperance instruction and the liquor question, with reports from Connecticut, New York State, and Massachusetts, as well as information on Prussian temperance instruction. Chapter VIII presents early English writers' notices on education from 1578 to 1603. Subsequent chapters address German juvenile criminality; Southeastern Alaska's Hlingit language grammar and vocabulary; the Swedish education system; British and Irish education in 1903; and English higher education, i.e., secondary, technical, and evening schools, and the 1902 law requiring councils to support schools higher than elementary schools. Chapters XIV and XV cover education at the St. Louis Exposition, including state and territorial and educational institution exhibits. Chapter XVI discusses the final establishment of the American common school system in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia between 1863 and 1900. Chapter XVII reprints the Alaskan-education general agent's 1890 preliminary report and 1892 report on introducing domestic reindeer into Alaska. Chapter XVIII offers "A Definition of Civilization," the Indian Industrial School commencement address by W.T. Harris, and papers by Harris on "Art Education the True Industrial Education" and "The Intellectual Value of Tool Work." Chapter XIX is a list of U.S. education periodicals. Chapter XX is a directory of chief state school officers, city superintendents, college presidents, pedagogy professors and university and college pedagogy department heads, and normal-school principals. [For Volume 2, see ED620501.]

This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98, containing Part I. The volume begins with the Commissioner's Introduction and Statistics of State Common School Systems. Part I covers the topics: (1) History of the German School System; (2) Summer Schools in England, Scotland, France, and Switzerland; (3) Education in Great Britain and Ireland; (4) Education in Canada; (5) Systems of Public Education in Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania; (6) Education in Central Europe; (7) Means for Spreading Hygienic Knowledge Among the People; (8) Report on European Textile Schools; (9) The International Congress on Technical Education; (10) Education in India; (11) Organization and Reconstruction of State Systems of Common School Education in the North Atlantic States from 1830 to 1865; (12) Physical Training; (13) Notes on the History of Foreign Influence upon Education in the United States; (14) Status of Woman from the Educational and Industrial Standpoint; (15) The Public School and the Public Library; (16) Education in France; (17) Notes on the History of American Text-books on Arithmetic; (18) The Teaching of Astronomy in the Primary and Secondary Schools and in the University; (19) Digest of Laws Relating to Text-books, Their Selection and Supply; (20) Education in Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines; (21) Experimental Study of Children, including Anthropometrical and Psychophysical Measurements of Washington School Children; (22) Education in the Argentine Republic, Uruguay, and Brazil; (23) Dental Education in the United States; and (24) Educational Directory. [For "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1897-98. Volume 2. Containing Parts II and III," see ED622138.]