Author: Massachusetts Board Of Education

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-20

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780483467231

Excerpt from Twenty-First Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Twenty-First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The Board of Education herein submit to the legislature their twenty-first Annual Report. The great interest committed to men supervision has received their vigilant attention during the past year. They have con tinned to hold regular and special meetings, as their' rules and circumstances required. They have, as usual, assigned various affairs to appropriate committees. An executive committee attends to business as exigencies arise between the meetings ofthe Board. A legislative committee confers with the committee on education appointed by the legislature. Examiners are chosen to examine candidates for scholarships, at large, and report to the Board for their final decision. The Board examine the testi monials of all applicants for scholarships in the sections, and in connection with the respective local senators, elect the most suit able candidates. The Board divide themselves into committees, as visitors of the four Normal Schools, whose reports are yearly published with the general report. The Board annually elect the secretary and treasurer, appoint agents under the legislative resolve, also appoint teachers of the Normal Schools, authorize changes and improvements in these schools and the school-houses, and regulate the distribution of appropriations made by the legislature f01 the expenses of these schools. The secretary and treasurer have faithfully discharged the duties of their respective offices, the past year, and we refer to their reports for a full account of their transactions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.