Report of the Board of EducationState Board of Education, 1879 - Education |
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... pupils in the public schools at some time in the course of the year was 119,828 , which is a gain of 620 on the registration of the previous year . There was also a decrease in the number of pupils over sixteen years of age . Making ...
... pupils in the public schools at some time in the course of the year was 119,828 , which is a gain of 620 on the registration of the previous year . There was also a decrease in the number of pupils over sixteen years of age . Making ...
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... pupils but for its own protection against the dangers of ignorance . For the prosperity or even the existence of a free , self . governed State there can be no security except in the intel- ligence and morality of its citizens . It may ...
... pupils but for its own protection against the dangers of ignorance . For the prosperity or even the existence of a free , self . governed State there can be no security except in the intel- ligence and morality of its citizens . It may ...
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... pupils in the public schools should not only be taught to read , write and cipher ; they should also be trained to do things with dexterity and skill , to be ingenious in devising means for the accomplishment of desired ends , to ...
... pupils in the public schools should not only be taught to read , write and cipher ; they should also be trained to do things with dexterity and skill , to be ingenious in devising means for the accomplishment of desired ends , to ...
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... pupil should be led fully to believe and keenly to feel that the world does not owe a living to any able - bodied person who is not willing to earn it by some productive toil of brain or hand , and that all dishonesty , whether ...
... pupil should be led fully to believe and keenly to feel that the world does not owe a living to any able - bodied person who is not willing to earn it by some productive toil of brain or hand , and that all dishonesty , whether ...
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... pupils , teachers , books , apparatus and methods of education . In accordance with this law , during the last year I have made eighty - one visits to sixty - three different towns ( not count- ing thirty - six repeated visits to ...
... pupils , teachers , books , apparatus and methods of education . In accordance with this law , during the last year I have made eighty - one visits to sixty - three different towns ( not count- ing thirty - six repeated visits to ...
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Page 247 - An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts " approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
Page 218 - That number of persons sufficient to fill the board who have the highest number of votes shall be elected.
Page 227 - Each school district shall choose, by ballot, at the choice1??' , officers. annual meeting, a committee of not more than three persons, a clerk, who shall be sworn, and a treasurer and collector ; who shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting, and until others are chosen and qualified ; and any resident of the district so chosen, who shall refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the- office, shall pay...
Page 114 - GENTLEMEN : I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation to be present at the Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire, to be holden in Boston, on the seventh instant.
Page 113 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner.stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Page 233 - ... with their respective proportions of any excess of the property of such district over and above its liabilities, as ascertained by the town ; or the difference in the value of the property of the several districts may be adjusted in any other manner agreed upon by the parties in interest.
Page 242 - ... have been kept in all respects according to law the selectmen shall draw an order on the town treasurer in favor of such district for a sum of money sufficient...
Page 221 - If only one is assigned, he shall be called the acting school visitor or superintendent, who shall visit such schools at least twice during each term, once within four weeks after the opening, and again during the four weeks preceding the close, at which visit the schoolhouse and outbuildings...
Page 115 - Clinton a still more inviting place of residence. 3. The officers of this Association shall consist of a President, a Vice-President, a Treasurer, a Secretary, and an Executive Committee of fifteen, six of whom shall be ladies.
Page 229 - ... fix or change the site of a schoolhouse ; but if such twothirds vote cannot be obtained in favor of any site, the school visitors of any town adjoining the town or either of the towns in which such district is, on application of the district, shall, after conferring with the school visitors of the town or towns in which such district is situated, fix the site, and make return to the town clerk of the town in which such site is located ; and shall receive a reasonable compensation for their services...