Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of WisconsinThe Department, 1874 |
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1st dist 2d dist academies adopted Amount expended annual report August 31 average Beloit College certificates child College committee common school county superintendents course of study Dane department per annum duties Eau Claire EDWARD SEARING ending August 31 Estimated cash value examination expense favor Fond du Lac free high school furnish graduated grammar Grant Green illiteracy institution interest Janesville JOHN BASCOM Kenosha La Crosse large number Latin legislature Madison Manitowoc ment Milwaukee Mineral Point Normal School Number of children number of days number of school Number of students Oconto Oshkosh parent Platteville Portage preparatory department present President Prof public schools pupils Racine Rates of tuition Robinson salaries scholars school districts school fund school houses school officers school system secure Sheboygan taught teaching term text-books tion Total number town township system uniformity University W. H. Chandler Waukesha Waukesha county weeks Whole number Wisconsin
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Page 83 - The object of the University of Idaho shall be to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of the various branches of learning connected with scientific, industrial, and professional pursuits...
Page 112 - ... 3. Upon the presentation of such certificate to the president of a normal school, the candidate shall be examined, under the direction of said president, in branches required by law for a third grade certificate, except History and Theory and Practice of Teaching, and if found qualified to enter the normal school in respect to learning, he may be admitted, after furnishing such evidence as the president may require, of good health and good moral character, and after subscribing...
Page 83 - The University shall be open to female as well as male students, under such regulations and restrictions as the Board of Regents may deem proper; and all able-bodied male students of the* university, in whatever college, shall receive instruction and discipline in military tactics, the requisite arms for which shall be furnished by the state.
Page 112 - State. 4. No person shall be entitled to a diploma who has not been a member of the school in which such diploma is granted at least one year, nor who is less than nineteen years of age...
Page 193 - The committee on resolutions reported the following, which were adopted : "Resolved^ That...
Page 83 - The college of letters shall be co-existent with the college of arts, and shall embrace a liberal course of instruction in language, literature and philosophy, together with such courses, or parts of courses, in the college of arts, as the regents of the University shall prescribe.
Page 191 - Wilde in behalf of the committee to whom was referred so much of the President's message as relates to the subject of a national uni1Ex.
Page xiv - Outside the independent cities, the number of schools with two departments is 151, a decrease of 17 ; but the number with three or more departments is 142, or 44 more than last year. Attention is again called to the fact that graded schools could be much more extensively introduced in the rural districts, under the town-system. Estimating the cities to embrace 217 graded schools, or one for each school-house reported, the whole number in the State is 410, an increase of 25.
Page xlvi - ... 6. Books furnished by the town or city are much more carefully used, and better kept than when owned by the children. It might at first be supposed that this would not be so, but uniformly it is found to be true ; there being four parties interested in the preservation of these books — School Officers, Teachers, Parents and Children. Small books used in the lower grades by young children must...
Page 87 - ... no instruction either sectarian in religion or partisan in politics shall ever be allowed in any department of the university, and no sectarian or partisan test shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of the university, or in the admission of students thereto, or for any purpose whatever.