Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Education Department: For the School Year Ending July 31, 1904 It is the first annual report Of the State Education Department established under the educational unification act, and it includes the one hundred and eighteenth annual report Of the University Of the State Of New York. The statistics set forth are for the school year ending August 31, 1004, but information developing since the close of the school year is freely used. A radical departure from the form Of previous reports, both Of the Department Of Public Instruction and of the University Of the State of New York, Will be observed. For the first time in the history of the state it is possible, Officially. To bring together in one place information covering all of the educational activities of the state and to make a comprehensive presentation of the same to the Legislature and to the people. 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.