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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... elected by the people , serve without pay , and have full legal power to establish , maintain , and con- trol free public schools for all children of school age in the limits of the city . Each year they make estimates in detail of the ...
... elected by the people , serve without pay , and have full legal power to establish , maintain , and con- trol free public schools for all children of school age in the limits of the city . Each year they make estimates in detail of the ...
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... elected from the city at large and not as representatives of any particular locality . In other places the mayor of the city appoints the board , often with the advice and con- sent of the council . But , alas for human devices ...
... elected from the city at large and not as representatives of any particular locality . In other places the mayor of the city appoints the board , often with the advice and con- sent of the council . But , alas for human devices ...
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... elected each year for three years at a special election . In the twenty years that the system has been in operation it has been unusually successful . The policies of the board have been subjected to no sudden deleterious changes , and ...
... elected each year for three years at a special election . In the twenty years that the system has been in operation it has been unusually successful . The policies of the board have been subjected to no sudden deleterious changes , and ...
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... elected by the people of each of the twelve wards , and when the primary school committee was abolished the general committee was increased to 72 , or 6 members from each ward . With the annexation of more territory to the city the ...
... elected by the people of each of the twelve wards , and when the primary school committee was abolished the general committee was increased to 72 , or 6 members from each ward . With the annexation of more territory to the city the ...
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... elected by the school board , but in San Francisco , Buffalo , and some other cities he is a city officer and is elected at a popular election . A man must be a good politician as well as a good educator to succeed in obtaining office ...
... elected by the school board , but in San Francisco , Buffalo , and some other cities he is a city officer and is elected at a popular election . A man must be a good politician as well as a good educator to succeed in obtaining office ...
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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...