St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1868-10-09
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Tse attention Of Town superintondcut. Teachers sno
other. int res'ed of popular ducation in
the State Of Vermont, is c.led Section .. Ac: No. ,
OF the Laws of Vermont fO the year 1896 which read.
follows:
Lotion , The board 0: Education are hereby lu-
thorized, and i ia nsdr then du,y, before july
1861 snd before every nth year there
af cr t" selcc list of ,uch gr INN rs. Iph
srithmetcs, histric- of this STATE and ited At
PHILOSOPHERS, algebTas readers md spoilers, xceed-
ing one book Q. \ kind in each br nch, they all
deem best suited for instruction snd in the dstrc;
schools in hi state N ZACH OF said branches and shall
cause the liz selected TO be Published in all TIE
wrpspers put hed in the state during he month Of
January next fol owi ng he making o. such sec ion
and also TO be inserted in each school register
after one from the max my OF gu, hicu
t selected, shall be sud rrmsl authoritative and
bin ling upoa the board of Educion sup rintendeut,
and teach, for sud during five yeas and after
November 1855 sud esch 1--WE yesr. tber ate. M
sup erinte den and tea hers shall recommend for u-e
in the district schools, books shall become nee
-sry for instructo in he branches named, other
than The book including in said .t 80 selected and
published.
The following Is extract from the report Of the
Board of Educs;ion for the year 1867, pages
Mhchells Flint L. ssons, Primary, and informed ale
Geograp ie adopted, for these reasons in br +
the simpi and cl of the text the gradn snd
cons ant advancement from the pr mary hs TO the
higher Departments of geograph cal knowledge, the
conciseness and completeness Of definitions,
of tine pictorial illust a'ions and uniform me hcd of
treating topics that similar each other. since
ADOPTION OF tnese the publishers have
measures to prepare special ed ion he ntermedi-
ate Geography in the schools of Vermont Thi-
ed ton will contain guar map of the state, en-
gaved copperpate; and four pIgcs of letter press
and questio rl ing TO the togrsphy Of Vermont
be prepa ed by Rev. rliuy II. White 1t is believed
that tn feature. while s the cost OF
the books IL materially inccas value md the in
with which il Wi. be studied McNallys Physi-
al Geography, a comp nied Monteiths Lesson in As
tronomy, adopted TO be used in those departments
Of the study which indicated by thei titles iuyots
Common School Geography adopted A. a PhvsicaI
Geogrsphy of grad different from McSally's
1nasmuch there seems to be nisapps ehensiou
SIS to the intention and design OF the Board in recon-
m ndinS the differ mt 'cxbooks in Geography tsee-
proper to ate that ii the Intention to recommend
'hr of Mitchell Biographies by oil classes which
have hitherto used which would 9th,
nsils and that they did not design thst Guy,t Geo
graphes should be std Except by pupils who, having
PASSED through MITCHELL desire advance 10 the
study of physical geography by Guyot's method.
The publishers Of hitchtll- New Biographies will
sem agents into every town in the State supply
schools according the annexed and is hoped
that supesintcnGcn- will furnish every facility for the
speedy prosecution of their business
JouS 3. PAGE l. F. WARD
PrISl II. WHITE, A. j. WHITE
JONATHAN Ross, NJ CLARK
ID. GOKHA1,