Records Relating to the Early History of Boston ...

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Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1906
 

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Seite 169 - A parent who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession, whether Mercantile or Mechanical, is under the necessity of giving him a different education from any which our public schools can now furnish. Hence, many children are separated from their parents and sent to private academies in this vicinity, to acquire that instruction which cannot be obtained at the public seminaries.
Seite 168 - ... necessary is devoted to their acquisition. A scholar is admitted at seven, and is dismissed at fourteen years of age; thus, seven years are expended in the acquisition of a degree of knowledge, which, with ordinary diligence and a common capacity, may be easily and perfectly acquired in five. If, then, a boy remain the usual term, a large portion of the time will have been idly, or uselessly expended, as he may have learned all that he has been taught long before its expiration.
Seite 83 - Waggon, truck, carriage or other vehicle shall forfeit and pay the sum of Five Dollars for every such offence.
Seite 169 - The mode of education now adopted, and the branches of knowledge that are taught at our English grammar schools, are not sufficiently extensive nor otherwise calculated to bring the powers of the mind into operation nor to qualify a youth to fill usefully and respectably many of those stations, both public and private, in which he may be placed. A parent who wishes to give a child an education that shall fit him for active life, and shall serve as a foundation for eminence in his profession whether...
Seite 168 - Though the present system of public education, and the munificence with which it is supported, are highly beneficial and honorable to the Town ; yet in the opinion of the Committee, it is susceptible of a greater degree of perfection and usefulness, without materially augmenting the weight of the public burdens. Till recently, our system occupied a middle station : it neither commenced with the rudiments of Education, nor extended to the higher branches of knowledge. This system...
Seite 169 - School, and submit the following as a general outline of a plan for its organization and of the course of studies to be pursued. 1st. That the term of time for pursuing the course of studies proposed be three years.
Seite 169 - That it be required of every candidate, to qualify him for admission, that he be well acquainted with reading, writing, English grammar in all its branches, and arithmetic as far as simple proportion.
Seite 156 - ... in which the orator shall consider the feelings, manners, and principles which led to this great national event, as well as the important and happy effects, whether general or domestic, which already have, and will for ever continue, to flow from this auspicious epoch.
Seite 184 - That the most economical mode is that of almshouses, having the character of workhouses or houses of industry, in which work is provided for every degree of ability in the pauper, and thus the able poor made to provide, partially, at least, for their own support ; and also the support, or at least the comfort, of the impotent poor.
Seite 259 - The people have a right at all times in an orderly and peaceable manner to assemble to consult upon the common good, to give instructions to their representatives, and to request, of either department of the government by petition or remonstrance, redress of their wrongs and grievances.

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