School Documents [of The] Boston Public SchoolsBoston Public Schools., 1894 |
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3d Asst 4th Asst Agassiz amount annual increase appropriation Arts High School Average number Average whole number Board of Supervisors BOYS AND GIRLS cent Charlestown City Council cost course of study death-rate DISTRICT BOYS divisions Dorchester East Boston elementary employed ENDING AUGUST 31 Entitled erected exercise expenditures furnished grades Grammar Schools Greatest whole number gymnastics height Horace Mann School Hugh O'Brien Hygiene instruction Janitors Kindergartens Latin School Manual Training Schools Mary Massachusetts maximum Mechanic Arts High Military Drill mittee needed Normal School number of pupils physical training Physiology practice present Primary School-house PRIMARY SCHOOLS Principal PROBATION public schools recommend regular teachers repairs requested rooms Roxbury High Roxbury High School School Board school buildings School Committee seats SECT Spectacle Island street stuttering Sub-Master Superintendent supplies teaching TERM ENDING AUGUST text-books tion Total Washington Allston West Roxbury whole number belonging
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Página 8 - The secondary schools of the United States, taken as a whole, do not exist for the purpose of preparing boys and girls for colleges.
Página 11 - ... no such pupil shall be withdrawn from such institutions or schools except with the consent of the proper authorities thereof or of the governor...
Página 8 - ... repealed, and the following substituted therefor : Section 6. The school committee shall have full power and authority to order to be made on the school buildings any additions, alterations and repairs for school purposes, which it deems to be necessary ; to provide temporary accommodations for school purposes ; to select, bond and purchase the land required for school buildings and their yards...
Página 8 - Only an insignificant percentage of the graduates of these schools go to colleges or scientific schools. Their main function is to prepare for the duties of life that small proportion of all the children in the country — a proportion small in number, but very important to the welfare of the nation — who show themselves able to profit by an education prolonged to the eighteenth year, and whose parents are able to support them while they remain so long at school.
Página 5 - The recommendations of this report will draw the attention of great numbers of teachers to the question of educational values, and this will lead to a better understanding of what the pupil should study to gain the most from his work in school. In this respect I consider this the most important educational document ever published in this country.
Página 33 - Of this army each cell is a soldier, an organ a brigade, the central nervous system headquarters and field telegraph, tbe alimentary and circulatory system the commissariat. Losses are made good by recruits born in camp, and the life of the individual is a campaign, conducted successfully for a number of years, but with certain defeat in the long run.
Página 66 - ... trained. The results which should be secured by such a system are briefly these : easy and graceful carriage of the head and limbs ; a broad, deep, and capacious chest, in which the heart and lungs, developed to their normal size and strength, shall have free, full, and regular play ; square shoulders ; a straight back ; fully developed...
Página 12 - That nothing herein contained shall be held to prevent the voluntary payment of the whole or any part of such sums by the parents or guardians of said pupils.
Página 36 - We have seen that the effects of exercise upon a single muscle are chiefly two. On the one hand, there results a general condition which may be termed the heightened health of the neuromuscular machine, which state of health involves the attainment and maintenance of a normal degree of size, strength, and working power in its structural parts ; and on the other hand, a more complex and special effect, viz. the acquisition or organization by its neural parts, of proper habits as regards the origination,...
Página 9 - In order that any successful graduate of a good secondary school should be free to present himself at the gates of the college or scientific school of his choice, it is necessary that the colleges and scientific schools of the country should accept for admission to appropriate courses of their instruction the attainments of any youth who has passed creditably through a good secondary school course, no matter to what group of subjects he may have mainly devoted himself in the secondary school.