Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and Educational Interests of the State of WisconsinDepartment of Public Instruction, 1858 |
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... proper , and strictly within the province of the Legislature , to elevate this standard if they thought the best interests of education re- quired it . I should much rather suggest a six month's school , instead of four , but I feel for ...
... proper , and strictly within the province of the Legislature , to elevate this standard if they thought the best interests of education re- quired it . I should much rather suggest a six month's school , instead of four , but I feel for ...
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... proper , after deducting the amount set apart for Normal School purposes , amounted , on the 1st of October last , to $ 2,845,846 34 - considerably less than the year prece- ding , owing to the diversion from the Fund of $ 261,598 54 to ...
... proper , after deducting the amount set apart for Normal School purposes , amounted , on the 1st of October last , to $ 2,845,846 34 - considerably less than the year prece- ding , owing to the diversion from the Fund of $ 261,598 54 to ...
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... proper application of the trust for the sole purpose of constructing and maintaining a canal from Rock River to Milwaukee . From various causes , not necessary here to notice , the Canal Company , after four years ' efforts ...
... proper application of the trust for the sole purpose of constructing and maintaining a canal from Rock River to Milwaukee . From various causes , not necessary here to notice , the Canal Company , after four years ' efforts ...
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... proper , as already stated , .... School Sections unsold , 381 , or 243,840 acres ,. Selected Lands unsold , 8,000 acres ,, Five per cent . due from General Gov'm't up to Jan. 1 , 1859 , say Five per cent . due from General Government ...
... proper , as already stated , .... School Sections unsold , 381 , or 243,840 acres ,. Selected Lands unsold , 8,000 acres ,, Five per cent . due from General Gov'm't up to Jan. 1 , 1859 , say Five per cent . due from General Government ...
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... proper and plentiful supply of food for thought ought early to be supplied . " Seldom , very seldom , " remarks an observing writer , " does one who is fond of reading , and who therefore employs his leis- ure moments in this delightful ...
... proper and plentiful supply of food for thought ought early to be supplied . " Seldom , very seldom , " remarks an observing writer , " does one who is fond of reading , and who therefore employs his leis- ure moments in this delightful ...
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Academies acre Amount Library fines Amount of money amount of Wages annually attended School Average Average amount better Board cent character Children cited City Common Schools Counties and Towns Creek District Libraries dollars duty equal expended experience Female Teacher give Government Grant Green Grove half hand HORACE MANN hundred important improvement increase Institutes instruction interest Joint knowledge labor lands Legislature less Male Teachers matter means Michigan mind money raised money received months Schools moral Names of Counties nature never Normal object persons practical Prairie present proper pupils raised by tax reading regard result says School Fund School House School Libraries secure Spring success Superintendent TABLE taught tax and expended teach thousand tion Township University valuation volumes Wages Wages per month whole Wisconsin
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Página 240 - ... it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success...
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Página 27 - RELIGION, MORALITY and KNOWLEDGE, being necessary to good government, and the happiness of mankind, SCHOOLS, AND THE MEANS OF EDUCATION, SHALL BE FOREVER ENCOURAGED.