Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, of the State of New-York, Volume 29Department of Public Instruction, 1883 - Education |
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Academic Department Academy Albany amount appointed average attendance average daily attendance better board of education City commissioner district common schools condition Cortland December December 19 district libraries duties ending September 30 examination expenses favors Fredonia Geneseo grade certificates held Hoose hundred improvement institute interest James Johonnot January January 24 labor Lantry Legislature Lewis county library money license Lowville methods of teaching Miss NEIL GILMOUR Normal and Training normal schools November November 18 number of children number of pupils number of teachers October Ogdensburg Oswego Potsdam practical present primary principal Professor Public Instruction public money public schools received repairs respectfully submit Schoharie county school buildings School Commissioner school districts school-houses school-room September 30 session submit the following Superintendent of Public supervision T. J. Morgan taught teachers employed term text-books third grade tion Total towns Training School trustees Union School visits wages whole number
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Page 29 - Local boards. There shall continue to be a local board of each of said state normal schools, consisting of not less than three nor more than thirteen persons and the members 'thereof shall hold their offices until removed by the concurrent action of the chancellor of the university and the commissioner of education.
Page 328 - And let us not be weary in well-doing ; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Page 29 - It shall be the duty of such board to make and establish, and from time to time to alter and amend, such rules and regulations for the government of such schools under their charge, respectively, as they shall deem best, which shall be subject to the approval of the commissioner of education.
Page 46 - Commissioner may, by an order under his hand and seal, which order shall be recorded in his office, remove such school officer from his office.
Page 30 - ... of such local boards or any of their officers; and the acts of said commissioner of education in the premises shall be as valid and binding as if done by a competent local board or its officers, or with their co-operation.
Page 356 - ... phenomena, the animals that inhabit it, the vegetables that clothe it with verdure, and the minerals under its surface ; the physiology and the intellectual powers of man ; the laws of mechanics and their practical uses • those of chemistry and their application to the arts, the principles of moral and political economy; the history of nations, and especially that of our own country; the progress and triumph of the democratic principle in the governments on this continent, and the prospects...
Page 37 - In the construction of a statute, every part of it must be viewed in connection with the whole, so as to make all its parts harmonize if practicable, and give a sensible and intelligent effect to each.
Page 356 - Henceforth no citizen, who shall have improved the advantages offered by our common schools and the district libraries, will be without some scientific knowledge of the earth, its physical condition and its phenomena, the animals that inhabit it, the vegetables that clothe it with verdure, and the minerals under its surface ; the physiology and the intellectual powers of man; the laws of mechanics and their practical uses; those of chemistry...
Page 29 - Education, and subject to his approval and in the form which he directs, a report to the Legislature on the first day of January in each year, showing the condition of the school under their charge during the year...
Page 335 - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.