Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-10-29

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Statements have heeu made which ars enfiF
" unuarrants,i, and inlicruasly e1tzsAgsr
:. respecting the profts made On seheel-tsook
. he Publishers q teHi-books extensively u-r
no douht make sod pratt cat q thslr bus
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v Il pfufis, which mskcs the busincss = 90
:. one. But b. that - Il may. the Board has =
V eurc,l from an the Publishers Il the heoks o
4 the new list. excepting Robert s Davis 4 ca
r the publishers q Grcnlcars Alechra, write
I contracts 10 furnish the prrscfibod teHi-hook.
J. for ave years % cone. ~ rates far more favOra
1 be % dealers and purchasers than thuse uhic
/ have bcen paid in years past. The new list IN
0 der this management viii save the State thou
sands 81 dollars pr annum over the Old one
As 10 the per cent said 10 be paid by publisher
20 authors,-anothsr inyidious charge aEains
the Sccrciary-it Is a-ccrtained that from tv,
to ten per cent. on sale i the rate alloued ~
copyright. What j. the amount ofeopyrighi
paid BY the publishers to the author Of french's
Ariihmcties or Of ether books on the list. We
aIe not informed. Every textbook upon our
table was paying oopyrightio somebody. Why
IL shoald be an objection 10 book that Il paid
/ copyright to a Citizen q this State, instead Of
some one out q the State. is not clear in our
minds.
THE PETITION or roWN SUPERINTENDENT.
There was laid upon our table document pur-
porting to be a petition signed by large num-
Der Of town superintendcnts against q change
Of Arithme;ics. That document received n re-
spectful attention. But when the matter was
examined into n little more closely, Il was found
that some Of the signers were not supcrintend-
enis. that several had in other communications
to the Board advised a change, and that the pc
tition, 20 called, vas not a spontaneous express
sion Of opinion, but that had been worked Up by
the agent and in the interest Of Greenlears
Arithmetics. We therefore thought it not en-
titled to very much consideration.
TIE TEACHERS OPINION OF GEEKNLKlE
II has been said that Greenleaf's wen. exclud-
cd from the Arithmeties on which the teachers
consulted were asked to give their opinion. On
that point the following was submitted.
"The undersigned, in giving to the Board Of
their views on the subject of Arith- |
metics, intended TO express their preference for
French's over all those understood to be COM
pettors, including Greenlcars, now in use +"
Signed by all but one Of those who recon-
nended French's Arithmetic.
rRENCH's ARITuNErfcs M OTHER STATES.
The Board endeayored to decide between the
conflicting claims of textbooks by personal ex-
animation Of the books, and not by external
estimony in their favor Still We found our
elves confirmed in our opinion Of french's
rithmetcs by learning thar they had been so
nrgcly adopted elsewhere. From the list Of
'laccs in which they are used, we will mention ,
he cities of New York, Philadelphia, New Ha- ,
EN-, Pittsburg, indianapolis and San Francisco;
he Normal schools in Maine and New Hamp- i
hire, those at Buffalo and Fredonia, N. Y Leba- /,
on Ohio, and the Illinois Normal University;
he entire state Of Nebraska by official adoption
lr five years; one-half of the schools Of Indi- I
ma and large number Of the cities and towns !
Maine and New Hampshire and numbers of |
Their schools in all pan Is of the country.
UNDUE INFLUENCE OF THE SECRETARY.
Any one who will read again the names Of
he Inc nhers of the Board can see whether they 5
re men likely to be swervcd by what has beSn 9
iphOniously termed "the undue influence" Of
III htNlNAhil hbnbluNt HiitilCt Ill tue meet | q
gs of the Board and out Of them. msy have n
zen the most polite way Of influencing the
GARD. 1t probably was. At any rate it was
lie only influence exerted. Neither directly or u
directly, neither personally nor by agents, II
d the Secretary approach any member of the o
GARD on the question Further than this AT Il
s instance, the publishers of his arithmetics I
stained from sending any agents into this G
Id. When the publishers Of the competing b.
oks declined to send copies for examination ~
the teachers consulted, the Secretary, at his IN
IN expense purchased and forwarded the nee IN
sary copies. DR.. French was not present on al
y occasion when the subject of arithmetics 4,
Is under discussion, or when the vote was taken.
AUTHORITATIVE AND BINDING" Ii,
An anonymous circular issued in the interest tr
Greeneafs Arithmetcs and scattered broad in
st throughout the State, informs the public es
ut the action of the Board is advisory, not n,
npusory. The Legislature was not so short v,
,hted as to enact a measure of so great i'm ~,
rtance % the schools, and still leave them 10 be
eyed on by book agents. The law explicitly ~, W.
'lares that the list "shal be and remain au :, va
'rtatiye and binding upon the Boa rd of Ed NV
alton, superintendent and teachers shall rec III
mend for use, MS new backs shall become nee
AIRY for instruction in the branches named. &C
other than the books included in the said ne
/. The assersion that Judge Steele consid- tic
'd the action of the Board merely advisory, M,
cOniounded. AT the last meeting of the III,
ard, which he attended, he expressed great in
Iignation at the hlsehood which attributed dr
n an opinion to him. He did say that n en-,
pill might demand to betaught from any book 9P'
the prescribed list, and that the law wonld Pi''
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