Report of the Superintendent of Public InstructionState Printers., 1868 |
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Adrian College Æneid Agricultural College ALBION COLLEGE Allopathy annual appointed appointed by Hon attendance average Bachelors of Arts Bachelors of Law boys building cent Chemistry common school condition County Superintendents course of study Department duties East Saginaw effort employed entire examinations expenses experience Faculty farm friends funds furnished grade certificates graduates granted Greek Language Homeopathy HOSFORD houses hundred improvement increase Institution Instructors interest Ionia June 24 labor Lake Superior large number lectures Legislature libraries Medicine ment Michigan months Museum nearly Normal School number of students Olivet College parents past Preparatory present President Prof Professor prosperity Public Instruction public schools pupils received Regents salary scholars school districts school officers school-houses Science second grade secure species specimens success summer SUP'T teachers teaching third grade tion Total township Treasurer Union Schools University University Algebra visited Washtenaw whole number winter Ypsilanti
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Page 30 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general...
Page 52 - on the earth there is nothing great but man, and in man, there is nothing great but mind...
Page 143 - Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Page 24 - Knowledge and learning, generally diffused through a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific, and agricultural improvement, and to provide, by law, for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition, as soon as circumstances will permit, shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 37 - June in each year, among the several townships in the county, according to the number of children therein, between the ages of five and twenty years, as shown by the...
Page 38 - ... on account of such fines or equivalents, and not already apportioned, shall be apportioned by the county treasurer, between the first and tenth days of April in each year, among the several townships in the county, according to the number of children therein between the ages of...
Page 37 - ... in criminal proceedings, and all equivalents for exemption from military duty when collected in any county and paid into the county treasury, together with all moneys heretofore collected and paid into said treasury on account of such fines...
Page 272 - Teachers are authorized to require excuses from the parents or guardians of pupils, either in person or by written note, in all cases of absence or tardiness, or of dismissal before the close of school.
Page 40 - Such facts should be given to our youth, especially those just entering upon the active pursuits of life, who are so apt to think that they can find no time for self-culture. But is the little leisure which they have, well improved ? Should the evenings be idled away, because the days must be occupied with business or labor?
Page 20 - The greatest hindrance to the improvement of our schools is the Rate-Bill. It is wrong in principle and mischievous in practice. It is alike the duty and the interest of the State to furnish substantially equal common school privileges to the children of all classes. Self-protection is the right and duty of the government.