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Show American School Children. According to tho report of tho commissioner com-missioner of education for tho fiscal year ondod June 30, 1903, thoro woro In tho United States at that tlmo 22,055,001 children between tho ages of flvo and 18, of whom 18,187,918 wero enrolled In public or prlvato schools or colluges, or In spoclal Institutions In-stitutions of a rnoro or less education-nl education-nl chnrncter. Thus, during the porlod mentioned, more than 22 per cent, of .our entire peoplo wero at school or college, and .holr education cost for that ono year $261,457,025, or $3.15 per capita of population. To-day our educational edu-cational system Is oven Inrgor, and the oxponso of maintaining It greater still. North Amorlcan Ilovlew. |