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Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year With Accompanying Papers, 1908, Vol. 1 Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the Annual Report of this Office for the year ended June 30, 1907. Some of the causes of delay which in recent years have hindered the prompt issuance of the reports of this Office are now happily removed, and it is hoped that these reports may for the most part come into the hands of those who wish to use them within a twelvemonth following the close of the year to which they relate. In particular, the action of the Congress in providing by an urgent deficiency appropriation for the publication of the report of this year as soon as it should be ready for the printer will be heartily welcomed by all of those to whom an early publication ยก9 a matter of practical concern. The arrangement of the present report does not differ greatly from that of its immediate predecessors, except in one important particular. The statistical portion is compressed by the omission of the detailed statistics of secondary schools, which have occupied ordinarily from 250 to 300 pages. The summaries of the statistics of secondary schools are still presented in full, the omitted portion being only that which gives particular information concerning each school separately. As a matter of general convenience these details are omitted from the annual report. The question as to publishing them separately in an issue of the Bulletin of tho Bureau of Education is now under consideration. This compression of the statistical matter contained in the report has made it possible to bring all of that matter into the compass of the second volume. As a matter of convenience, accordingly, the general survey and analysis of the statistical tables, which has usually formed a part of the Commissioner's introduction, will form in this report a special introductory chapter in the second volume. The preparation of such an analytic survey and summary of the statistics of the year has been committed to the hands of Prof. Edward L. Thorndike, of Teachers College, Columbia University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
