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Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board In answer to the demands of law, the Board of Education respectfully submit their Twenty-Third Annual Report to the legislature. To all the interests committed to their care during the year, the Board have designed to be practically faithful, according to the requirements of the statutes of the Commonwealth. In the discussion of important subjects, in the arrangement and division of labor, they have appropriated time, and the results of much critical observation for the attainment of larger benefits than have previously been realized in the preparation of mind for the responsible positions it is to occupy in the service of the State. The assurance they have from many sources, that they have wisely and judiciously deliberated, is their abundant reward. Normal Schools. These institutions, having more particularly the direction and supervision of the Board than other departments of the great system of education, occupying as never before the attention of the State, are sustaining the reputation they have previously earned, and exhibiting increased evidence of the wisdom of those through whose influence they were founded, and of the liberality by which they have been sustained and encouraged. 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.