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Show Education In the Argentine. There are two universities, one at Buenos Ay res and one at Cordoba, which together counted 993 students in 1S89, and delivered 234 diplomas, including 81 doctors of law, 85 doctors of medicine, and 11 civil engineers. In the whole 1 republic there are sixteen national colleges, col-leges, with a teaching corps of 404 professors pro-fessors aud an attendance in 1889 of 2,599 pupils. In the capital and the1 provinces there are thirty-five normal , schools, with 12,034 pupils of both sexes, j who become professors and teachers, 1 chiefly for the primary schools. In Buenos Ayres in 1889 there were1 285 primary schools, directed by 1,571; teachers and attended by 54,509 children. ! In the provinces there were 2,719 pri-j mary schools, with a teaching staff of 4.532 and an attendance of 205,186. To j resume, the results obtained were 3.042 primary schools, 6,103 teachers, 259,095 pupils, 2,373 primary schoolhonses in the whole republic. Of these sehoolhonses 1 485 are the property of the nation or of the provinces and 1,888 private prop-1 erty. Theodore Child, in Harper's. I |