...1789, the germ of which may be found in the Province Law of 8 George I., chap. 1, (Anc. ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts,...unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, over enacted in the State." It should ever be remembered, however, that the Act of 1789 was innocent...

...verdict against it. Horace Mann, at the close of his long term of service as Secretary, said of it : "I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to...of Common Schools, ever enacted. in the State." His successors have been no less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element of the system. Dr. Sears,...

...verdict against it. Horace Mann, at the close of his long term of service as Secretary, said of it : 'I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to...of common schools ever enacted in the State.' His successors have been no less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element in the system. Dr. Sears,...

...His labours are fatiguing, and perplexing, and wearing both to mind and body, and he districts, was " the most unfortunate law on the subject of common " schools ever enacted by the State." It is only the high public spirit which animates the larger proportion of the Massachusetts...

...experience. The first Secretary of the Board of Education, Horace Mann, said : " I consider the law authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law on the subject of education ever enacted in the State." Dr. Sears, his successor, the present able agent of the Peabody...

...with all his might to overthrow the mischievous arrangement of separate districts, of which he said: "I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to...the most unfortunate law on the subject of common school« ever enacted in the State." His whole contention was to gather up this wide, extended, shapeless...

...administration. Horace Maun declared "the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into school districts, the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State." And Secretary Dickinson declares that " in every section of the country education had found this law...

...of 1789, which authorized the towns in Massachusetts to divide themselves into school districts, was the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State. In 1870 there were fifteen hundred district schools in New York State, with an average daily attendance...

...First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, Horace Mann, says in his 10th annual report: " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide...subject of common schools ever enacted in the state." Massachusetts afterwards enacted a permissive law (from which our own is copied), allowing towns to...

...Horace Mann, in his 10th Annual Report as Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, says:—" I consider the law of 1789 authorizing towns to divide...subject of common schools ever enacted in the State." And then proceeds to verify the above general statement in the following language:—"In undistricted...