DENVER AS A EDUCATIONAL CENTRE

"A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family."
- Rev. Thomas Scott.

     Denver is noted for the excellence of its public school system and of its public school buildings.

     Within the city limits of Denver are fifty primary or grade schools with an aggregate average daily attendance of 22,000 pupils, whose studies are supervised by 400 teachers. Such school buildings and sites represent in value $2,500,000. Included in the above are twenty kindergartens with over 1,000 pupils:

     Three large high schools, representing a cash value of $500,000, dispense learning to 2,100 young men and women, employing over fifty teachers; and in addition there is the Manual Training High School, which cost $90,000, and has 365 pupils and fifteen teachers. There are in Denver two free public libraries with 70,000 volumes.

     The local private school list comprises the following:

Above: High School, District No. One

     There is also a Law School in connection with the Denver University. 

Readily accessible to Denver students are:

•  The State University at Boulder. 
   
• The State School of Mines at Golden. 
   
• The State Agricultural College at Fort Collins. 
   
• The State Normal School at Greeley. 
   
• Colorado College at Colorado Springs.

     "There are thousands of young men and women in the United States, outside of the Rocky Mountain region, ambitious to pursue higher and professional studies, who are prevented by the climatic conditions where they reside. In Colorado a very large percentage of them would regain their health and at the same time be able to complete their education." --President James H. Baker, Colorado State University.

     "Colorado is a fine State for a student. The climatic conditions are exceedingly favorable to study. It is the experience of both students and teachers that a larger amount of work can be accomplished in a given time here than at the lower altitudes. Many students break down elsewhere, but find themselves able to carry on their work in Colorado with perfect health. "---Chancellor Wm. F. McDowell, University of Denver.

High School, District No. 17