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Identifier: worldbookorganiz07oshe (find matches)
Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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and four assistant commissioners, and by countysuperintendents. Public schools are supportedby the state educational fund, and by state,railroad and local taxes. There is a compulsory education law, and in1914 the total school enrolment was 534,511.The illiteracy of the state averages 5.6 percent, the greatest part of which is among for-eign-born whites. Industrial and agriculturalinstruction have been established in both ele-mentary and high schools, a law passed in1913 provides for vocational schools in citiesand counties. Such schools have been estab-lished at Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Ba-yonne, Passaic and Atlantic City. Another ad-vanced step in education has been taken byNew Jersey in the establishment of separateclasses for the education of subnormal pupils. Normal schools at Trenton, Montclair andNewark, the Newark Technical School, indus-trial schools at Hoboken and Trenton, an in-dustrial school for the colored at Bordentownand a school for the deaf at Trenton are main-
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OUTLINE MAP OF NEW JERSEY Showingr boundaries, principal river.s, chiefcities, mineral deposits and the highest point ofland in the state. tained by the state. Of the many privateacademies for boys, several are famous; theseinclude Peddie Institute at Hightstown; Law-renceville School at Lawrenceville; PenningtonSeminary in Mercer County; Blair Academy atBlairstown; Newark Academy at Newark;Bordentown Military Academy at Bordentown.There are also many private seminaries for girls.The most prominent institutions of higher edu-cation are Princeton University at Princeton,ranking among the greatest American univer-sities; Rutgers College at New Brunswick;Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken,There are theological institutions at NewBrunswick, Princeton, Madison and Newark.Up to 1916 New Jersey had no college for thehigher education of women, but in that yearfunds were being raised for the establishmentof a womans college at New Brunswick to beaffiliated with Rutgers College, and to

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