...at least the ostentatious bounties conferred on it in Europe. In one state alone, with but 275 000 inhabitants, more than forty thousand pupils are instructed...matriculated at the various colleges and universities, authorized to grant academical degrees; not less than twelve hundred at the medical schools ; several...

...the city of Philadelphia, without counting the private or the charity schools, there are about 5,000 pupils in the commonwealth's seminaries taught reading,...expense to the public of little more than three dollars a-year (13i. 6rf.) to each person." They are establishing high schools (a sort of college) for girls,...