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Show PROGRESS IN PORTO RICO. "Porto rtlco, two )ears ni,o did not have a slnglo schoolhouse, Spain In four hundred )ears erected not one" flo says Prof M O Ilrumhaugh In thc Congregntlonallst Today more thnn fifty fiist class brlik, stone nnd mn-ireto mn-ireto buildings ore In use ns schools The sites were donated by the municipalities, munici-palities, and nro usually an acre In extent ex-tent llesldes the school studies, the pupils In tvent)-two of thc schools cultivate cul-tivate the roll of the site on which tho schrnls stand, and In this way over twelve hundred of the attendants arc learning the prnctlcil iiiltlvntlon of crops. Tho poor I iople of the Island nio making unusual sacrifices to eiluc.Uo their children, no compulsion, by law oi otherwise, Is provided or needed the nttcndonio being hlkher In pcuentogo than In any State of this Union outside of .Massachusetts One huiidud and lwent)-slx Ainirluiu trnchera nro teaching tho Ilngllsh language In the schools, and through their Instruction tho nntlve teachers have all learned English and nearl) every teaihcr In tho Island speaks nnd teaches Kngllah The pupils In the schools number foity Ihousind, nnd they nre rcpresvnted ns eager to lenm The municipalities devote de-vote not less than ten nor more than twenty per cent of their total revenues to tho schools, the nverage being six-tien six-tien per cent The legislature also Mitid the schools JlOinon In 1DO0-1S0I nnd .01.000 In IiOl-lDO.' besides J15 000 to mnnlnln unlive joung men nn 1 women wom-en In schools In Ihe United States so that till) ma) return full-edged tench-ire, tench-ire, their nttendnnco being nt chosen normal schools It Is n good record of piogitss nnd with tho spirit munlfist-ed munlfist-ed Iorlo Hlro Is sure to buorno one of tho bilghtest and richest of the dependencies de-pendencies of the United Htntes. |
