LLEGES FOR WOMEN.

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, organized 1837
Sophia Smith College, organized 1872
Wellesley College, organized 1874

THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.

Andover Theological Seminary, organized 1808
Boston University School of Theology, organized 1847
Divinity School of Harvard University, organized 1816
Episcopal Theological School, organized 1867
Tufts College Divinity School, organized 1867
Newton Theological Institution, organized 1825
New Church Theological School, organized 1866

LAW SCHOOLS.

Boston University School of Law, organized 1872
Law School of Harvard University, organized 1817

SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.

Boston University School of Medicine, organized 1869
Harvard Medical School, organized 1782
New England Female Medical College, organized 1850
Boston Dental College, organized 1868
Dental School Harvard College, organized 1867
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, organized 1823

THE SCHOOLS OF SCIENCE.

Massachusetts Agricultural College, organized 1867
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, organized 1861
Lawrence Scientific School, organized 1848
Worcester County Free Institute of Industrial
Science, organized 1868

While Massachusetts is a model state in all her educational interests,
we do not forget that there are 75,635 persons in the state who cannot
read, and 92,980 persons who cannot write, but of the 990,160 native
white persons of ten years and upwards only 6,933 are unable to write,
being seven-tenths of one per cent., the lowest ratio of any state.
Arkansas, per cent, being 25.0; Alabama, 24.7; Georgia, 22.9; Kentucky,
22.0; No. Carolina, 31.0; So. Carolina, 21.9; Tenn., 27.3; West
Virginia, 18.2; Connecticut, 5.5; Illinois, 5.9; New Hampshire 5;
Pennsylvania, 6.7; New York, 5.3.

There are 15,416 colored persons in the state, of 10 years and upwards;
of this number 2,322 are unable to write, but from 10 to 14 years of
age, both inclusive, these being 1,504, but 31 persons are reported as
unable to write, or 2.1 per cent. South Carolina out of a colored
population of 75,981 between the same ages, reports 57,072 persons as
unable to write or 74.1 per cent. There are 1,886 colored persons in the
state between the a