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Página 10 - As soon as the circumstances of the State will permit, the Legislature shall provide for the establishment of libraries ; one at least in each township ; and the money which shall be paid by persons as an equivalent for exemption from military duty, and the clear proceeds of all fines assessed in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws, shall be exclusively applied to the support of said libraries.
Página 8 - ... it is further agreed that the parties of the second part shall have the right...
Página 59 - The constitution of the state has been amended by striking out the provision that "No mechanical trade shall be taught to convicts in the state prison of this state. " MINNESOTA. AW GUTRIDGE, ST. PAUL, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. NEW DEVELOPMENTS. Perhaps the most important development of the year has been the increased interest in tuberculosis. Luther Hospital, in St. Paul, has for some years devoted one wing wholly to the use of consumptives. Last...
Página 59 - In the state prisons of this state, except the making of those articles of which the chief supply for the consumption of the country is imported from foreign countries.
Página 59 - A variety of circumstances prevented a majority of the Board from being present during the whole of the minute and thorough examination which preceded the last commencement. So far as it can be reported upon, it was satisfactory. It is not to be expected that in the circumstances in which Students are here collected, the studies of the several classes should be of so advanced a character as those of corresponding classes in older institutions. But in nearly every class the examination gave evidence...
Página 16 - ... ^"they will adopt it as their text book, — and his work is again introduced. By this means the schools are repeatedly supplied with new books, it is true. And this, it may be, was the most that was hoped for, or even desired. But this is an unwise policy. When a series of books is in use in a school they should be continued until a better series can supply their place, — a series, too, that is worth buying. If, however, a committee first determine to introduce a book because it is really...
Página 20 - Institutes is to impart professional instruction; to consider and discuss the best means of interesting and governing children in our Primary Schools, and the most approved and successful methods of imparting instruction in the several branches of etudy ordinarily pursued therein.
Página 9 - ... subject of common schools, it is believed, are such, when faithfully executed, as generally to secure, in a manner highly satisfactory, the great interests of education. The chief obstacles to the realization of all the benefits of our noble school system, are found in the want of punctual attendance on the part of scholars, and deficiency in the qualifications of teachers. To correct the former, rests principally with parents and guardians. The latter is an evil, deplorable in its consequences,...
Página 17 - January, 1850, for the interest which shall have accrued upon the amount thus ascertained to be due up to the first day of July, 1845.
Página 10 - the clear proceeds of all fines assessed in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws, shall be exclusively applied to the support of said libraries." In consequence of a misapplication of these fines, the legislature, in 1844, passed "An act to provide more effectually for the completion and disposition of fines, penalties and forfeitures of recognizances." . Notwithstanding the passage of this act there are 360 townships which have received nothing from this source for libraries, and...

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