t into the world single handed, with true paternal
solicitude she provides them with the charmed society of 80,123 swine,
thus hand in hand Massachusetts' pork and beans stride up and down the
earth, supremely content in the joyous ecstasy of their Puritan conceit.
While Massachusetts has well known agricultural tendencies, and her
Agricultural college is one of the most important factors in her system
of practical instruction, it cannot be claimed that she is a controlling
element in the agricultural interests of the country. Of all her
influences for good, perhaps her educational interests would command the
greater prominence. She has ever regarded the instruction of her youth
as one of her most sacred trusts, and in all the details of her public
school system she ranks second to no state in the Union.

In the various departments of technical instruction, she has a national
reputation. Her colleges and universities so richly endowed secure the
highest attainable advantages. These privileges supplemented by the free
public libraries of the state, place possibilities within the reach of
every young man or young woman, the value of which cannot be
approximated by human estimate.

Six of the leading states are thus classified:--

Public School Sittings School
Schools. State. Buildings. Provided. Property.

6,604 Mass. 3,343 319,749 $21,660,392
15,203 Ill. 11,880 694,106 15,876,572
11,623 Ind. 9,679 437,050 11,907,541
18,615 N.Y. 11,927 763,817 31,235,401
16,473 Ohio 12,224 676,664 21,643,515
18,618 Penn. 12,857 961,074 25,919,397

The following institutions for higher education have about $5,000,000
invested in grounds and buildings, about $9,000,000 in endowments,
yielding an annual income of about $1,000,000, having about 4,000
students and about 400,000 volumes in libraries, Universities and
Colleges.

UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES.

Amherst College, organized 1821
Boston College, organized 1864
Boston University, organized 1872
College of the Holy Cross, organized 1843
Tufts College, organized 1852
Harvard College, organized 1636
Williams College, organized 1793

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