...of 1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 Geo. 1, ch. 1, (Anc. Ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...

...district system. It was not without due consideration that my predecessor, in his Tenth Report, said : " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State." The justness of the above observation is illustrated every day by the evils which are forcing themselves...

...indulged, it is some consolation to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...

...to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...

...improvement. ". I consider the, law 0/1789, authorizing tenons to divide themselves into district«, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...

...to reflect that they, too, will be harnessed to the car of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...subject of Common Schools', ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed the administration...

...Massachusetts, considers the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, as " the most unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, ever enacted in the State." l I can find no report of this committee. They probably reported favorably to the project ; for, Feb....

...law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into school districts, Horace Mann " considers the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in this State." This feature in our schools is being abolished in many towns deeply interested in the...

...1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 George I., chap. 1, (Anc. ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, over enacted in the State." It should ever be remembered, however, that the Act of 1789 was innocent...

...clogged the progress of educational improvement in the towns where it has been suffered to remain. Reason and fact alike condemn it as a fruitful source of...less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element in the system. Dr. Sears, who devoted the greater part of an able report to the exposition of its evils,...