Report of the School Committee for the Year 1899-1900: Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Public Schools : Historical Addresses and Reports |
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Page 171 - ... set before him in the examination paper. The treatment of these topics is designed to test the candidate's power of clear and accurate expression, and will call for only a general knowledge of the substance of the books.
Page 170 - ... putting questions into equations, and the reduction of equations; the ordinary methods of elimination, and the solution of both numerical and literal equations of the first and second degrees, with one or more unknown quantities, and of problems leading to snch equations.) (6) Plane geometry.
Page 72 - Reading both Prose and Verse with propriety and accuracy, and a General Knowledge of English Grammar and Composition : Also writing a good hand according to the most approved Rules, and Arithmetic through all the previous Rules, and Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, including Tare and Tret, Fellowship, Exchange, Interest, &c. The books to be used in carrying on the above Instruction are Alden's Spelling Book, 1st and 2nd part, the Young Ladies...
Page 170 - Exponents and the Extraction of Roots ; Putting Questions into Equations, and the Reduction of Equations; the ordinary Methods of Elimination, and the solution of both numerical and literal Equations of the First and Second Degrees, with one or...
Page 2 - Annual Meeting of the Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America will be held in Detroit, Michigan, August 9, 10, and n, 1898. The " Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Establishment of the Michigan State Board of Health " will be in progress at the above named time.
Page 58 - That each primary school shall be under the care of a principal, and one assistant teacher, and the rudiments of an English education shall be taught therein. That each grammar and writing school shall be under the care of a master, and at least two female assistant teachers, or one male assistant teacher, at the discretion of the school committee ; and the ordinary branches of an English education shall be taught therein. That the high school shall be under the care of a preceptor, and one or more...
Page 258 - Brown : 1768. Laid before the town by the committee, but a number of the inhabitants (what is most surprising and remarkable, the plan of a free school, supported by a tax, was rejected by the poorer sort of the people), being strangely led away not to see their own as well as the public...
Page 56 - ... with the small sum which the instructors receive, it is difficult to procure and retain the services of competent persons to fill the station. But let the schools be made so numerous that the scholars may receive as much attention as they do in the private schools, and let the salaries be so large as to induce men of equal ability to take charge of them, and that which is now considered as a tax, would then be viewed as an alleviation of one of the heaviest burdens put upon the middling classes.
Page 42 - The Publick Schools are established for the general benefit of the community; And all children, of both sexes, having attained the age of six years, shall be received therein and faithfully instructed, without preference or partiality. The Instruction shall be uniform in the several schools, and shall consist of spelling, Reading, the use of Capital letters and Punctuation, Writing, English Grammar & Arithmetick. The Pronunciation shall be uniform in the several schools & the standard shall be the...
Page 43 - The Scholars shall be excused from attending the schools on Saturdays, on Christmas day, on the 4th day of July, on public Fasts and Thanksgiving, on the last Monday in April, on the day of Regimental Training; on the day succeeding each quarterly visitation and during the whole of Commencement Week. But on no other days shall the Preceptors dismiss the Schools without permission obtained from the Town Council. As Discipline and Good Government are absolutely necessary to improvement it is indispensible...