Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-11-02
CT r c u L A r .

The attention Of Town Superintendent
Teachers, and others interested in the cause d
popular education in the State of Vermont
called to Section 2, Act No. 2, of the Laws
Vermont for the year 1866, which reads as 70
lows:
SECTION 2.-The Board of Education al
hereby authorized, and it is made their duty @
or before July /, 1867 and on or before said dat
every fifth year thereafter, to select list
such grammars Biographies, aritbmetics, hi
tories OF this State and the United States, phi U
osophies, agebras, readers and spoilers, nc
exceeding one book of n kind in each branch,
they shall deem best suited for instruction AM
use in the district schools in this State in cac
OF said branches and shall cause the list
selected to be published in oil the newsI apei
published in the state, during the month
January next following the making of such 81
lection and also to be inserted in each schod
register issued after one year from the maxim
OF such selection ; which list, 80 selected sha
be and remain authoritative and binding upo
the Board OF Education, superintendents an
teachers, and during five years from and aft |
November l, 1868, and each five years thereal
ter and superintendents and teachers sha
recommend for use in the district schools, d
new books shall become necessary for instru(J
ton in the branches named, no other than TIL
books included in said list so selected and pull
lished
The following is an extract from the RepoiI
of the Board Of Education, for the year 1861
pages:
Mtchcll's First Lessons, Primary, and Intel
mediate Biographies were adopted for thesl
reasons, in brief; the simplicity and clearned
OF the text, the gradual and constant advanced
ment from the primary truths to the higher id
partments of geographical knowledge, the coi|
ciseness and completeness of the definitionl
the elegance and accuracy of the maps, the al
Effectiveness of the pictorial illustrations AM
method pf trpa tbat N
similar to each other. Since the adoption d
| these books. the publishers have taken mead
ures to prepare special edition OF the Intermd
date Geography for use i'll the schools of Vel
mont. This edition will contain new quart
map of the State. engraved on copperpate AM
four pages OF letter press and questions, relat
ing to the geography of Vermont, to be prepaI
ed by Rev. Pliny H. White. 1t is believed thd
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
| McNally's Physical geography, accompanied b
Monteiths Lessons inl Astronomy, was adopted
to be used in those departments of the stud
which are indicated by their titles. Guyot
Common School Geography was adopted as
Physical Geography If q grade different frol
McNally's.
Inasmuch as there seems to BIO some misaL
prehension as to the intention and design of tn
Board in recommending tho different text book
in geography, it seems proper to state that
was their intention to recommend the use
Mitchelrs Biographies by all classes which hav
| hitherto used, or which would otherwise us
Cornell's, and that they did not design tina
Guyot's Biographies should be used, except b
pupils who, having passed through Nitchell's
desire to advance to the study of physical geo
graphy by Guyot's method.
The publishers of Mitchells New Geographic
will send agents into every town in the State, t
supply schools according to the terms annexed
and it is hoped that superintendent will furnis
every facility for the speedy prosecution of the
business.
JOHN b. PAGE l.. +. WARD,
PLINY II. WHITE, A. j. SANBoRN,
| JONATHAN Ross, NJ. CLARKE,
d. d. GoRHAM,
| State Board of Education.
A. f. RANKIN,
Secretary