The Public Statutes of Massachusetts Relating to Public Instruction ... 1888 |
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12 Allen applied appoint apportioned appropriated approval attend school blank forms board of education by-laws certificate chap chapter child CHILDREN UNDER FIFTEEN cities and towns city or town clerk committed Commonwealth county truant schools court Cush deem duty election Emory Washburn employed employment exceeding excluded expense fifty dollars forfeit not less governor Hampden County hereby authorized high school Horace Mann School Horatio G hundred dollars income institutions instruction Legislature maintain Massachusetts School Fund mercantile establishment mittee neglect Normal Art School normal schools paid parent or guardian Penalty Plymouth counties preceding section prescribe public schools Public Statutes pupils purpose receive required by law reside Resolved returns scholarships school committee school district school registers school-house secretary SECT selectmen senatorial districts Suffolk support of schools taught teachers term thereof tion town or city treasurer truant officers tuition vacancy vote William Claflin Worcester WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
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Page 30 - ... to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 5 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufacture, and a natural history of the country...
Page 12 - Iward and to the general court; shall visit, as often as his other duties will permit, different parts of the Commonwealth for the purpose of arousing and guiding public sentiment in relation to the practical interests of education ; shall collect In his office such school books, apparatus, maps and charts as can be obtained without expense to the Commonwealth...
Page 3 - ... to take account from time to time of their parents and masters, and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country...
Page 52 - ... in the public schools ; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
Page 56 - No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment within this State. It shall be the duty of every person employing children to keep a register, in which shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence...
Page 57 - ... (Signature of father, mother, guardian or custodian.) (Town or city and date.) Then personally appeared before me the above-named [name of person signing] , and made oath that the foregoing certificate by [him or her] signed is true to the best of [his or her] knowledge and belief. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of [name of child...
Page 4 - It being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times by persuading from the use of tongues, that so at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded by false glosses of saintseeming deceivers, that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors...
Page 4 - Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors — " 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...
Page 55 - No license shall be granted for a theatrical exhibition or public show in which children under fifteen years of age are employed as...