Excerpt from Report Upon the Educational Statistics of the City of Washington, and of the Proceedings of the Educational Convention: With the Lectures of R. M. Smith and G. B. Emerson at the Smithsonian Institution, December 17, 18 and 19, 1857 The results of the canvass show that the whole number of children in the city between the ages of five and eighteen, is in private schools in public schools in no school The per cent. In private schools 30 1-10 in public schools 22 4-10, and in no school 472 per cent. 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.