YEARS. YEARS. Appropriations made to Academies and rate of Distribution per Scholar since the adoption of a uniform rate of Distribution throughout the State. Academies reporting. *The report presented in this year was for only two-thirds of a year. Appropriated by Regents from Literature Fund. reporting. Academies CHAPTER XXII. STATISTICS OF ATTENDANCE AT ACADEMIES. In 1788, the Regents reported 79 students in the two Academies then existing, and in 1789, 150 students at the time of visitation. In Amount. Amount.. 1790, the number of academies was 3; in 1791, it was 5; in 1792, it was 7; and in 1793 and 1794 it was 10 at the date of reports, but some of these had but just been incorporated, and no statement of attendance was given. The report of 1795 was much more extended than those of previous years, and had it been sustained in this manner, we might date from this period the beginning of very satisfactory returns. The statement of attendance was however fragmentary and defective for some years after, but enables us to present the following tables, in which the years are those to which the reports refer, and preceding those in which the reports to the Legislature were made. Several changes have been made in the headings of the classifica tion of attendance, which will render it proper to divide the whole series into periods, having common resemblance, as follows: (I) Period during which the Apportionment was based upon the Total number attending. Probably the number attending during the year. The other returns are generally those of students attending in the term in which the report is made, but of this there is uncertainty. (II) Period during which the Apportionment was made upon the number of Students pursuing Classical or Higher English Studies throughout the State. (III.) Period during which the Apportionment was made upon the number of students pursuing Classical or Higher English Studies by Senatorial Districts. (IV.) Period during which the Apportionment was made upon the number of Students pursuing Classical or Higher English Studies throughout the State, as shown by the Reports made by Trustees of Academies. |