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Show 1'ilurittlnn la tlie Argentine. i There aro two universities, one at i Buenos Ayres and oueiit Cordoba, which j together counted !Hi:i students in 18!), j and delivered 2;i I diplomas, including 81 doctors of law, S3 doctors of medicine, , and 11 civil engineers. In the wholo j republic there aro sixteen national col-j col-j leges, with a teaching corps of 404 pro-' pro-' fessors and an attendance in 18'j of 2,59!) pupils. In the capital and tho provinces there are thirty-fivo normal j schools, with l'.'.O'.' t pupils of both sexes, j who beeomt) professors and teachers, I chiefly for the primary schools. In Buenos Ayres in 18.il) there were j H5 primary schools, directed by 1,57,4 teachers and attended by 0 1,509 children. In tho provinces there were 2,719 pri-' pri-' mary schools, with a teaching staff of i 4,5:W and an attendance of 205,1H(5. To resume, the results obtained were .1.0(2 i ; primary cehools, (i,10!5 teachers, 2.VJ.(i95 I pupiis, 2,!!7;i primary schooliiouses in tho whole republic. Of these schoolhonses IS.-; are the property of the nation or of j the provinces and 1,888 private prop- j urty. Theodore Child, in Harper's. |