Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-10-26
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The attention OF Town superintendent,
Teachers. and others interested in the cause OF
popular education in the state Of Vermont il
called to Section 2, Act No. 2, OF the Laws o'
Vermont for the year 1866, which reads as FOL
lows
SECTION 1.-The Board of Education arr
hereby authorized. and it is made their duty, oi
or before July 1867 and on on before said dat,
every fifth wear thereafter, to select a Inst o.
such grammars, biographies, arlihinetics' ms
tories Of this state and the United states PM.
osopbies alnebras. readers and spoilers, moi
exceeding one book of kind III each branch. a.
they shall deem best suited for instruction ant
use in the district schools III tins state III eacl
Of said branches and shall cause the list ~
sclected to be published i'll all the news aper'
published in the State, during the month o
January next following the making OF such sc
lection and also to be inserted III each schuo
register issued after ono year from the MAXIM.
Of such selection which list, 81 selected, shall
be and remain authoritative and inding upol
the Board OF Education, superintendent and
teachers, and during five wears from and nftel
November |, 1868. and each five years thereai
ter; and superntendents ana teachers sha
recommend for use i'll the district schools, a.
new books shall become necessary Tor lhstruc-
ton in the branches named. no other than the
books included in said list so selected and pub
Gshed.
The following il an extract from the Repor
of the Board Of Education, for the year 1867
pages:
Mitchell's First Lessons, Primary, and Inter
mediate Biographies were adopted. for these
reasons in brief: the simplicity and cicarness
of the text, the gradual and constant advance
ment from the primary truths to the higher de
partments OF geographical knowledge, the con
c,scness and completeness OF the definitions
the elegance and accuracy of the maps, the at
tractiveuess of the pictorial illustrations, ant
the uniform method of treating topics that are
similar tn each other. Since the adoption o.
these books the publishers have taken meas
ures to prepare spec al edition OF the lnterin'-
date Geography for use III the sch""is of Yer
mont This edition will contain new quart
map of the State. engraved on cuppcipiatc am
four pages of letter press and questions reiat'
ing to the geography nf Vermont to he prepar
ed by Rev Piiny II. White, 1t is believed thn
this feature, while it is not to increase the cos
of the books. will materially increase its vain'
and the interest with which it will he studied
McNailv's Physical topography. accompanied u,
Monteitl's Lessons I'M Astronomy. was adopted
to he us, 4 III those departments of the s'uti
which are indie ted by their titles. Gny"i
Common school Geography was adopted AZ .
Physical Geography of a grade different nor
McNall,'s.
Inasmuch as there seems to be some nisar-
prehension az to the intention aud design Of u :
Board in recommending the different text-hoo.
in geography, it seems prnpei to state that
NAB tItir iittHtltl To Ifttliiliitiu tht ~ -
Mi.cheG's Geographically all classes which have
hitherto used. or which would otherwise MS
Corners, ard that they did MT design thai
Guyot's Biographies should he used, except h,
pupils who, having passed through MITCHELL
desire to advance to the study of physical geo
graphy by Guyot's method
The publishers Of Mitchcll's New Geographic
sill send agents into every town in the state, tt
supply schools according to the terms annexed
and it is hoped that superntendents will furnish
every facility for the speedy prosecution of theil
business.
JOHN b. PAGE l.. i. WARD,
PLISy II. WHITE, A. j. SANBoRN,
JONATHAN Ross, NJ. CLARKE,
D.. d. GOTHAM,
State Board Of Education.
a. L. RANKIN,
Secretary