Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-11-05
CT r c u L A r D..

The attention of Town Superintendent
Teachers, and others interesie ed i'll the eau
popular education in the State of Vermont
called to Section 2, Act No. 2, of the Laws
Vermont for the year 1866, which reads az 70 !
lows
SrcTIoN 2-The Board Of Education ar
hereby authorized. and it is made their duty, OF
OF before July /, 1867, and on or before said dat
every fifth year thereafter, to select list d
snch gramnars, biographies, arithmetics, his
tories OF this State and the United States phi |
osophies, algebras, readers and spoilers. no
exceeding one book of a kind III each branch al
they shall deem best suited for instruction an
use in the district schools in this state, in eac !
OF said branches and shall cause the list %
selected to be published in all the newsl aper
published in the State, during the month
January next following the making of such sc
lection and so to be inserted in each schod
register issued after one year from the maxim /
OF such selection /; which list, so selected, sha
be and remain authoritative and hiding upo}
the Board OF Education, superintendent an(
teachers, and during five years from and afteI
November /, 1868, and each five years therea4
ter; and superintendent and teachers sha
recommend for use in the district schools, al
pew books shall become necessary for instruC|
ton in the branches named, no other than tn
books included in said list selected and pull
lished.
The following is an extract from the Report
of the Board of Education, for the year 1854
pages
Mitchels First Lessons, Primary. and Inter
mediate biographies were adopted, for thesI
reasons, III brief; the simplicity and clearnesI
OF the text, the gradual and constant advanced
ment from the primary truths to the higher dt
partments OF geographical knowledge, the cor !
ciseness and completeness of the definitions
the elegance and accuracy Of the maps, the at
tractiveness of the pictorial illustrations, an
the uniform method of treating topics that al
similar to each other. Since the adoption
these books, the publishers have taken meas
ures to prepare special edition OF the Intermt|
date Geography for use in the schools of VclI
mont. This edition will contain new quartz
map of the State. engraved ON copperplate AMI
four pages of letter press and questions, relatI
ing to the geography OF Vermont, to he prepaiI
ed by Rev. Pliny II. White, Ii il believed tina
this feature, while it is not to increase the cos
OF the books, will materially increase its valu
and the interest with which it will be studied
McNallys Physical typography, accompanied bI
Monteith's Lessons inIAstronomv, was adopted
to be us' q In those departments of the stud
which are indie ted by their titles. Guyot
Common School Geography was adopted as
Physical Geography If grade different frOr
McNally's.
Inasmuch az there seems to be some msaI
prehension as to the intention and design of tn
Board in recommending the different xt-book
in geography, il seems proper to state that.
was their intention TO recommend the use II
Miteheli's Biographies by all classes which hay
hitherto used, or which would otherwise us
Cornells, and that they did not design thai
Guyot's Biographies should be used, except bI
pupils who, having passed through Mitchells
desire to advance to the study of physical geo
graphy by Guyot's method. -
The publishers of Mitchells New Geographical
viii send agents into every town in the State, II
supply schools according to the terms annexed
and 1t is hoped that superintendent will furnis |
every facility for the speedy prosecution Of thei
business.
JoHN 3. PAGE l.. +. WARD,
PLINY Ii. WHITE, A. j. SANBoRN,
JONATHAN iiOss, NJ. CLARKE,
ID. d. GoRHAM,
State Board of Education.
A. Il. RANKIN,
Secretary.