Annual Report, Volume 38

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Page 100 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged...
Page 138 - ... the names of the days of the week, the names of the months, the names of...
Page 100 - No person shall be eligible for election as a member of the Board of Examiners who is a teacher in any of the public or private schools of the city.
Page 136 - They shall be taught, by means of objects, to perform mental and slate exercises in the four fundamental rules, to amounts not exceeding ten.
Page 128 - Whenever any new text-book is adopted by the Board, to the exclusion of another already in use, it shall be obligatory on the publisher, or his agent, to exchange the former for a period of two months without cost to those pupils who have been provided with the latter; and it shall be the duty of the Principals to see that this condition is fulfilled.
Page 128 - Fifty copies of every book, atlas or other production, and six copies of every extended map, sought by any author, publisher or agent to be introduced into the Common Schools, must be donated to the Board before the same shall be referred to the Text-Book Committee; and all such presentations shall lie on the table one month, for examination, before the final action of the Board.
Page 131 - Teachers are required, for the preservation of the health of themselves and pupils, to give particular attention to the ventilating and warming of their rooms, and always to ventilate, except in summer, by lowering the upper sash of the windows, and on no account to suffer the children to sit in draughts of cold air; and, as a general rule, to cause all the windows to be opened for the free admission of air at recess, and at no time to raise the temperature of the room higher than 65 degrees Fahrenheit.
Page 141 - They shall be taught to name and explain the punctuation marks in their Reading Lessons. PENMANSHIP. They shall be taught to write with a pen, neatly and legibly, words and sentences, from copy and at dictation. DRAWING. They shall take the course laid down in their Tablets.
Page 126 - been the sickness of the pupil, or necessary attendance upon a sick member of the family, or death in the family of the pupil —in either of such cases the absence shall "be excused, and so noted by the letter e after the sign of notification made as above.
Page 113 - He shall ascertain, from time to time, whether the School Districts be so divided as to afford equal and uniform advantages to all parts of the city, and report to the Board such changes in the boundaries as may seem likely in any way to improve their classification, promote their convenience, or lessen the expenses of the schools without prejudice to their objects.

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