Annual Report on the Condition and Improvement of the Common Schools and Educational Interests of the State of WisconsinDepartment of Public Instruction, 1858 - Education |
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... Michigan . This State took the lead in the West , in estab- lishing libraries for Schools . They were at first District Li- braries , but in 1843 , we find them changed into Township Li- braries . The sum of $ 25 is by law annually set ...
... Michigan . This State took the lead in the West , in estab- lishing libraries for Schools . They were at first District Li- braries , but in 1843 , we find them changed into Township Li- braries . The sum of $ 25 is by law annually set ...
Page 74
... Michigan , possessing an aggregate of over 200,000 volumes , or an average of 400 volumes to each library . From the large amount of money appropriated to this purpose , it would seem that there should have been a much larger number of ...
... Michigan , possessing an aggregate of over 200,000 volumes , or an average of 400 volumes to each library . From the large amount of money appropriated to this purpose , it would seem that there should have been a much larger number of ...
Page 79
... Michigan , the 332,000 in the School Libraries of Ohio , and the 370,000 in the Township Libraries of Indiana - making altogether over nine hundred thousand volumes , all engaged in a work of love , intelligence , virtue and happiness ...
... Michigan , the 332,000 in the School Libraries of Ohio , and the 370,000 in the Township Libraries of Indiana - making altogether over nine hundred thousand volumes , all engaged in a work of love , intelligence , virtue and happiness ...
Page 80
... Michigan , Ohio and Indiana , we should have far larger libraries , and their benefits far more generally diffused ; for every town in the State , the poor as well as the rich , would have its proportionate share . As in the olden time ...
... Michigan , Ohio and Indiana , we should have far larger libraries , and their benefits far more generally diffused ; for every town in the State , the poor as well as the rich , would have its proportionate share . As in the olden time ...
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... Michigan , some district officer might be permitted to draw from the Township Library , every three months , the number to which his district would be entitled , and then loan them under proper regulations , to the people of his ...
... Michigan , some district officer might be permitted to draw from the Township Library , every three months , the number to which his district would be entitled , and then loan them under proper regulations , to the people of his ...
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acre Amount Library fines Amount of money amount of Wages annually attended School Average amount braries Caledonia Children over 20 cited City Common Schools Counties and Towns Creek Dell Prairie Diamond Bluff ding in Town District Libraries dollars Eau Claire Erin Prairie Farmington Fayette Female Teacher Fond du Lac Green Lake Grove HENRY BARNARD Highest valuation Houses in Joint Hustisford Jefferson Joint Libraries Juneau Kewaunee Legislature Lowest valuation maining unexpended Male Children residing Male Teachers Marcellon mind money raised money received Month paid months Schools moral Names of Counties Normal Schools Packwaukee paid to Male Prairie Public Instruction raised by tax residing in Town Sch'l School Districts School Fund School House Sites School Libraries Sheboygan Sheboygan Falls Shullsburg TABLE taught tax and expended teach tion Total valuation Township Libraries V.-continued valuation of School Volumes loaned Wages per month Watertown City Whitestown Wisconsin y'rs of age
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Page 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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Page 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.