Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-02-14
COMMON SCHOOL CONVENTION AT
TOWNSHEND.

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The Convention met at this place on Tues
dav last. and was fully attended both by the
citizens Of the place and gentlemen from
abroad. The President having taken the chair
and Recording Secretary pr, tenn. chosen,
praver was offered by Rev. Mr. Kidder OF Brat
ileboro, and very interesting and able ad-
dress listened TO from Mr. Chamberlin oil East
Brattleboro. The audience was then enter
tanned by some pretty hymns sung by, the ju-
vene choir. The remainder oil the afternoon
was occupied by hearing reports from different
towns on the state OF Common Schools, and in
the discussion Of resolutions.
The evening session was opened by prayer
from Rev Mr. Foster Of Brattleboro, VINO was
succeeded by Mr. Bunnell, Principal Of Towns
bend Academy, in a very lucid and practical
address on the necessity of a more thorough
system of education. The Essay from lady
of the village on Female Education, was not
excelled in interest by any exercise oil the Con-
vention. II was pointed, concise, and appro-
pirate.
Messrs. Brown, Mead and Walker, of Brat
tleboro, gave very interesting account OF the
Common School system adopted in Brattlebo-
ro compared with the one il has displaced
The following resolution and report were unan-
imously adopted and ordered to be printed:
RESOLVED, That the Directors be authorised
and requested to appoint Committee TO rec
ommend a list of School Books TO be used by
the Common Schools Of this County, and that
they present full report on that subject at the
next meeting OF the Association.
REPORT.
The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Directors Of the w. G. e. s. A. Com
mittee 10 recommend suitable and useful Book
for the Teachers of the County, have attended
TO the business assigned them, and beg leave
TO submit the following Report:
The undersigned have no hesitation in rec
ommendnp "The School and the School Mas
ter" as an able and valuable work, well adapt
ed TO instruct, aid and encourage teachers in
the discharge of their important and arduous
duties This Book was written by Alonzo
Potter, ID. d., Professor in Union College,
Schenectady, N. Y, and by George B. Emer-
son, A. NJ, of Boston, Mass, who has been a
successful teacher for twenty-five or thirty
years.
1.-THE School and the School Master" was
originally prepared in compliance with the re-
quest, and al the expense of that munlhcent
friend and patron of Common Schools, the
Hon. James Wadsworth of Genesee, N. r.,
by whom a copy has been gratutously sent TO
each District School in that Siate,-almost
eleven thousand in number-one TO each depu-
" superintendent, one 10 each of the Cover
nors Of the several States, &c. Martin Brim-
mer, ESQ.,, former Mayor Of Boston, caused
an edition of thiriy-6ve hundred copies Of this
work TO be printed sand to be distributed in the
following manner, namely--one copy TO each
of the Public Schools in Massachusetts,, and
one copy TO each Board of experimenting
school committee men,"
Hon. Horace Mann, the talented and eff
cent Secretary Of the Board Of Education IN
Massachusetts, speaks of this work in the iol-
lowing tems:--"The range and compass oil
the subjects embraced in this volume, and the
mastery manner in which they are treated,
commend il to the careful perusal Of every per-
son engaged in the sacred cause Of education,
of every lover Of his country and friend OF
mankind"
The Committee recommend that 1" The
School and the School Master'' be purchased
by every District in this County and placed in
charge OF the Clerk of the District, by him to
be loaned 10 each successive Teacher employ
ed by the District 10 instruct the children
! thereof To each District the expense will he
small, while the advantages that must result
from faithful study OF the Book by Teachers
will be very great.
All which is respectfully submitted by the
committee. ADDISON BROWN,
l.. G. MEAD,
CHS. WALKER.
w. r. RANNEY, President.
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