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Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Education, 1874-1875: Together With the Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board; January, 1876 Gentlemen - It gives me much pleasure to report that dur ing the year 187 5, every city in the State whose population of ten thousand and upwards imposed on it compliance with the law of 187 0 in maintaining free industrial drawing classes, has established such classes. With regard to the success of these classes, it must be remem bered that the difficulties which hindered their practical useful ness in the first few years are not altogether removed even now, ' and the absence of suitable and well-equipped class-rooms for different branches of study, with experienced and accomplished teachers to give instruction, is clearly discernible in many cities. Gradually, however, one after another of the localities most alive to the needs of industrial education are providing them selves with rooms properly lighted and arranged, and with examples for study well chosen and for the time sufficient; and through the action of the Normal art-school, it will not be long before teachers will be available capable of taking charge of the various branches of art-education which are generally taught in an art-school. The development of art-education in the Stato cannot go on faster than the development of public opinion which originates and sustains it; but there can be no question that the annual exhibitions of drawings from the free evening drawing classes of the State have rapidly matured public opinion on the subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.