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THE MAGNITUDE
OE AMERICAN
SCHOOLS
The schools of our country present a tremendous opportunity for business in all kinds of musical instruments and equipment, and
for music teachers and band and orchestra leaders and conductors.
Presto Music Times has done some careful research in relation to public and private schools and colleges and universities in the
United States for the year 1940. We do not have the space available to print a complete chart of school statistics. However we shall
present the various classifications of schools and give the national totals for these classifications with regard to the number of schools,
teachers, and students.
College College Normal
Colleges Teachers Students Schools
1,425
120,000
l,. r )OO,OO0
247
Normal Normal
Senior
School
School
High
Touchers Students Schools
11,508
145,467
22,000
Junior
High
Schools
High
High
School
School
Teachers Students
3,300
2f>0,000
A STUDY OE COLLEGES IS
6,500.000
Grade
226,000
Grade
Grade Private and Private and Private and
Scl 1 School
Catholic
Catholic
Catholic
Teachers Students Schools
Schools
Schools
675.000
22 400.000
KUO0
100.000
2 500,000
IMPORTANT
Colleges
College lead
1,500,000
120,000
1,425
Total
900,000
85,000
218
Men
600,000
35,000
279
Women
928
Coed
It is interesting to note the statistical rea
states with respect to colleges.
Students
Teachers
Colleges
State
87,215
7,425
96
California
87,772
6,270
90
Illinois
173,255
83
13,179
New York
54.898
4,241
79
Texas
71,182
84
7,977
Pennsylvania
54,439
Ohio
64
5,007
50
6,315
50,439
Massachusetts
Note:
If any of our readers would like the complete statis-
tics for any State or States we shall be glad to furnish them.
•—Editor.
CHIMES! CHIMES! CHIMES!
CHIMES MAKES IDEAL
MEMORIALS \
The article "Concerning Chimes" written by J. C. Bachrodt
which appeared in the September issue of Presto Music Times
attracted a great amount of attention and brought a number of
fine complimentary letters. Mr. Bachrodt is to be congratulated
on the composition of the article. The firm of J. C. Deagan, Inc.
furnished the pictures which were interesting both for their
beauty and their descriptiveness. We are proud to know that
the largest and finest manufacturer of bells and chimes is in our
country. The scope of Deagan sales is international and their
product is world famous.
Chimes of various kinds make magnificent and lasting me-
morials. The custom of giving memorials is increasing and offers
an ever enlarging opportunity for Music Merchants to garner
some real business.
Churches, Colleges, Patriotic and Fraternal Institutions, large
buildings, and also many individual houses and persons are all
good prospects for chimes. Here is a field that the music mer-
chants can cultivate with a great deal of profit.
PAGE EIGHT
RECORDS AND
EDUCATION
Minneapolis, Sept. 30—Phonograph records are an indis-
pensable teaching aid in modern schools and colleges, the Paul A.
Schmitt Music Clinic here was told by Paul Thornton of the RCA
Victor Educational Department.
Mr. Thornton, who has recently joined the RCA Victor staff,
conducted a series of two lectures daily before the 500 teachers
and music advisors attending the five-day convention. He il-
lustrated his course with a new RCA Victrola and selected Victor
records.
"Records are needed in schools not only for music and music
appreciation courses" he said, "but also as standards of excellence
and models for the school band, chorus, and orchestra. RCA
Victor has a complete list of such teaching aids in its catalogs".
Mr. Thornton stated that his activity was but an example of
the work of the educational department in Camden in promoting
the wider use of records in schools. Most schools are enthusiastic,
he said, as soon as a dealer points out the wide range of record-
ings made especially for school use and explains their possi-
bilities.
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