Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers, Volume 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895 |
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... appointed by the judges of the superior court , and in New Orleans , where they are in part appointed by the governor of the State and in part elected by the city council . 1 All of these schemes come from efforts to take the schools ...
... appointed by the judges of the superior court , and in New Orleans , where they are in part appointed by the governor of the State and in part elected by the city council . 1 All of these schemes come from efforts to take the schools ...
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... appointed by the school visitors of the latter city , while all the trustees vote for the corresponding officer in ... appoint them . It has been only within the last few months that the local trustees were overthrown in New York City ...
... appointed by the school visitors of the latter city , while all the trustees vote for the corresponding officer in ... appoint them . It has been only within the last few months that the local trustees were overthrown in New York City ...
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... appointed a supervising principal , who is to all intents and purposes the superintendent in the ordinary sense of the term , while the superintendent , officially so called and elected as such by the people , is but little more than ...
... appointed a supervising principal , who is to all intents and purposes the superintendent in the ordinary sense of the term , while the superintendent , officially so called and elected as such by the people , is but little more than ...
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... appointed in his city for the last twenty years . And nominally his duties include neither . This , if literally true , is exceptional , but it is natural and proper that the man who directs the work of the teachers and is to a great ...
... appointed in his city for the last twenty years . And nominally his duties include neither . This , if literally true , is exceptional , but it is natural and proper that the man who directs the work of the teachers and is to a great ...
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... appointed by the county board of supervisors and who was amenable to the rules and regula- tions of the State superintendent . But his powers and duties were not such as to give him any authority over the schools , and his influence in ...
... appointed by the county board of supervisors and who was amenable to the rules and regula- tions of the State superintendent . But his powers and duties were not such as to give him any authority over the schools , and his influence in ...
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Page 246 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: and all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Page 178 - ... if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week ; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.
Page 178 - My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts ; but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive.
Page 315 - Knowledge and learning generally diffused through a community being essential to the preservation of a free government, and spreading the opportunities and advantages of education through the various parts of the country being highly conducive to promote this end. it shall be the duty...
Page 202 - India during the second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century.
Page 245 - The fund for the support of free schools, and all money, stock, and other property, which may hereafter be appropriated for that purpose, or received into the treasury under the provision of any law heretofore passed to augment the said fund, shall be securely invested, and remain a perpetual fund ; and the income thereof, except so much as it may be judged expedient to apply to an increase of the capital, shall be annually appropriated to the support of public...
Page 318 - AD 1841; and all estates of deceased persons who may have died without leaving a will, or heir, and also such per cent, as may be granted by Congress on the sale of lands in this State, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which, together with all the rents of the unsold lands, and such other means as the Legislature may provide, shall be • inviolably appropriated to the support of Common Schools throughout the State.
Page 534 - ... and may receive, hold, and manage, any devise, bequest, or donation for the establishment, increase, or maintenance of a public library within the same.
Page 567 - They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected to the credit of the library fund...
Page 540 - ... trustees for one year, onethird for two years and one-third for three years, and thereafter onethird the number annually for the term of three years. No person shall be ineligible to serve upon said board of trustees by reason of sex. Such board of trustees shall be elected by ballot, and shall organize annually by the choice of a chairman and secretary from their own number...