Excerpt from The World Book, Vol. 3 of 8: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture; Crown Point-Gloucester City While Americans were occupying the island (1898-1902) the school system was reorganized, and by 1907 census returns showed that sixty nine per cent of the people could read. Pri mary education is free and compulsory. In 1914 over pupils were enrolled in nearly public schools, but the average attendance was but a little over half that number. There is a university at Havana, attended by over pupils, and the ...
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Excerpt from The World Book, Vol. 3 of 8: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture; Crown Point-Gloucester City While Americans were occupying the island (1898-1902) the school system was reorganized, and by 1907 census returns showed that sixty nine per cent of the people could read. Pri mary education is free and compulsory. In 1914 over pupils were enrolled in nearly public schools, but the average attendance was but a little over half that number. There is a university at Havana, attended by over pupils, and the liberal arts and sciences, medicine, pharmacy and law are taught. Commerce and Principal Cities. The most important cities of Cuba are seaports. Havana, the capital, on the northwest coast, is the chief port and the tobacco center of the republic. Ships from all parts of the world enter its harbor. It has few wharves, but this condition is of financial advantage-to those who make a business of removing cargoes. Ships anchor 06 shore and cargoes are removed by lighters. It has been estimated that it costs as much to bring a ton of freight to shore at Havana as to ship it all the way from Liverpool. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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