Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the City of WashingtonBoard of Trustees of Public Schools, 1888 - Education |
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... rooms aud with the aid of the same ap- paratus , all the classes in the natural sciences , for example ; and so it is with the in- structors in language , in mathematics , and in each of the other subjects taught . It is . consequently ...
... rooms aud with the aid of the same ap- paratus , all the classes in the natural sciences , for example ; and so it is with the in- structors in language , in mathematics , and in each of the other subjects taught . It is . consequently ...
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... rooms , with low ceilings and no ventila- tion , not school - rooms to be shared by two sets of pupils , one in the forenoon , the other in the afternoon . These are not inducements ; these are barriers ; these ill compare with the ...
... rooms , with low ceilings and no ventila- tion , not school - rooms to be shared by two sets of pupils , one in the forenoon , the other in the afternoon . These are not inducements ; these are barriers ; these ill compare with the ...
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... rooms as also with the variation of activities secured by the industrial processes of our schools , I still believe that more should be done for the physical welfare of the girls attending school . I may mention here also that basement ...
... rooms as also with the variation of activities secured by the industrial processes of our schools , I still believe that more should be done for the physical welfare of the girls attending school . I may mention here also that basement ...
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... rooms inadequately provided for by the appropriation for new buildings , that it was impossible to do what we had ... room , suited to the purposes of the work in the room and graded to the capacities of the children who attend , before ...
... rooms inadequately provided for by the appropriation for new buildings , that it was impossible to do what we had ... room , suited to the purposes of the work in the room and graded to the capacities of the children who attend , before ...
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... room and teaches all the girls of the school . The time given is , in the school of carpentry , two lessons a week of ... rooms , involving the cost of fuel and pay of janitors . To this must be added also the cost of materials . ENTIRE ...
... room and teaches all the girls of the school . The time given is , in the school of carpentry , two lessons a week of ... rooms , involving the cost of fuel and pay of janitors . To this must be added also the cost of materials . ENTIRE ...
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Anacostia annum average enrollment Average number Board of Trustees boys Brightwood cent child colored Committee on Teachers cooking school corporal punishment Cost per pupil District of Columbia drawing Eighth division ending June 30 English estimated on average exercises Fifth forms Fourth division geography girls given Grammar schools Grand total half-day schools increase instruction June 30 lessons manual training ment methods Normal School northwest number of pupils number of schools Number of teachers physical culture practice schools present Primary schools Public Schools pupil estimated pupils enrolled reading respectfully rooms salary school buildings school year ending school-room Second grade seventh and eighth Seventh division sewing six divisions sixth division Special teachers streets Superintendent supervising principal TABLE take effect tardiness taught Teachers and Janitors teachers employed teaching text-book third division Third grade tion Washington High School White Whole enrollment Whole number
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Page 74 - That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress 421 of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Page 79 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 74 - We are convinced policy and justice require that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.
Page 82 - 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 68 - ... being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains, Pocahontas, the king's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death: whereat the emperor was contented he should live to make him hatchets, and her bells, beads, and copper; for they thought him as well of all occupations as themselves.
Page 75 - Ammunition to be supplied in the same way. 11. That a constitution for the new state be formed by the members of the association previous to their commencing the settlement, two-thirds of the associators present at a meeting duly notified for that purpose agreeing therein. The total exclusion of slavery from the state to form an essential and irrevocable part of the constitution.
Page 75 - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 70 - Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere.
Page 64 - I see one vast confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main,— and I see one people, and one language, and one law, and one faith, and, over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
Page 82 - There shall be reserved the lot No. 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said township...