...assisting our endeavours, — ' " It -is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint, &c."* Bequests also were left in the early times of the colonies, for " gospel"...

...assisting our endeavours, — " It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint, &c."* Bequests also were left in the early times of the colonies, for " gospel...

...who bad the work In charge.— Fierce'a History qf Harvard University. a little later, an enactment " to the end that learning may not be buried in the...one to teach all children to write and read ; and where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, they shall set up a Grammer school,...

...Lord assisting our endeavors: — It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint teachers," etc. What has wrought the great social changes in nations from savage...

...increased them to the mmber of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach all children to vrite and read ; and when any town shall increase to the number of i hundred families, they shall set up a grammar school." Great, however, as these differences were,...

...of a system of local schools which is still the glory of America. " Every township," it was enacted, "after the Lord hath increased them to the number...and when any town shall increase to the number of a hundred families, they shall set up a grammar school." Great, however, as these differences were,...

...the New England Puritans for general education. In 1647 m Massachusetts it was provided by law that every township, "after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write...

...the New England Puritans for general education. In 1647 in Massachusetts it was provided by law that every township, "after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write...

...therefore ordered by this court and authority thereof, That every township within this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town, to teach all such children, as shall resort to him, to...

...taught for in the adjoining towns." In the same act of the General Court it was "further ordered that when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youths...