Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-11-04
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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 d
Vermont for the year 1866 which reads as foil
lows
SFcTioN 2.-The Board Of Education ard
hereby authorized. and it is made their duty, %
or before July l. 1867 aiad on or before said datl
every fifth year thereafter, to select q list o.
such Glamniars, biographies, arithmetics, his|
tories of this State and the United states, phil
! osophes, algcbras, readers and spoilers, mol
exceeding one book OF u kind III each branch, al
they shall deem best suited for instruction and
use in the district schools in this State, in eac1
| o: said branches and shall cause the list 81
selected to be published IN all the newsl aper|
published in the State, during the month a
January next following the making of such SCI
lection and also to be inserted i'll each schooI
register issued after one year from the maxim
OF such selection which list, so selected, sha \
be and remain authoritative and hiding upo1
the Board or Education, superintendent and
teachers, and dnring five years from and aftc|
November ! 1865, and each five years thereaA
ter; and superntendents and teachers shall
recommend for use III the district schools, al
new books shall become necessary for instrud
ton in the branches named, no other than th|
books included III said list so selected and pull
lished.
The following is an extract from the Report
of the Board of Education, for the year 1864
pages:
Mitchell's First Lessons, Primary, and Intci|
mediate Biographies were adopted. for thesI
reasons in brief; the simplicity and ccarnes|
OF the text, the gradual and constant advanced
ment from the primary truths to the higher do
partments o geographical knowledge, the corl
essences and completeness of The definitions
the elegance and accuracy Of the maps, the all
tractiveness OF the pictorial illustrations, and
the uniform method of treating topics that ar|
similar to each other. Since the adoption Il
these books, the publishers have taken meas
nies to prepare IL spec a edition OF the lntcrmtI
date Geography for use in the schools of Ven
mont. This edition viii contain n new quartz
map OF the State. engraved on copperplate and
lour pages of letter press and questions, re.atl
ing to the geography OF Vermont to he prcpait
ed by Rev Pny II. White, 1t is believed thai
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 [
McNaily's Physical Il geography, accompanied bl
MOntcith's LESSONS inIAstlonomy, Was adopted,
10 be us III those departments of the studJ
Which are indie ted by their titles. Guyot'I
Common school Geography was adopted as
Physical Geography Il grade different troi |
McNally's.
Inasmuch aa there seems to be some miJap
prehension as to The intention and design Of IN
Board i'll recommending the different text book
in geography, it seems proper to state that d
was their intention to recommend the use d
Nitchcli'a Biographies by all classes which hay
hitherto used, or which would otherwise us
Colnell's, and that they did not design tina
Guyots Biographies should be used, except bI
pupils who, having passed through Mtcholls
desire to advance to the study of physical geo
grophy by Guyots method.
The publishers of Mitchell's New Geographical
viii send agents into every town in the State, t
supply schools according to the terms annexed
and 1t is hoped that superntondents will furnis
every facility for the speedy prosecution of thei
business.
JOHN Il. PAGE l.. +. WARD,
pLINY III. WHITE, A. j. SANBoRN,
JONATHAN lioss, NJ, CLARKE,
ID. II. GoRnAM,
State Board OF Education
A. L. RANKIN,
Secretary.