Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Wisconsin

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Department of Public Instruction, 1872 - Education

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Page 159 - State. 4. No person shall be entitled to a diploma, who has not been a member of the school in which such diploma is granted, at least one year, nor who is less than nineteen years of age...
Page 171 - AFTERNOON SESSION. The Association met at 2 o'clock. Dr. Frost, of Charleston, SC, offered the following resolution, which was adopted: — Resolved, That the thanks of this Association are due to the retiring officers, for the zealous and efficient manner in which their duties have been performed ; to our late President, for the courtesy and ability with which he has presided over our deliberations ; to all the officers, for their attention to the laborious duties of their stations — not excepting...
Page 126 - Each person so nominated, shall receive a certificate setting forth his name, age, health and character, and a duplicate of such certificate shall be immediately sent by mail by the Superintendent to the Secretary of the Board.
Page 42 - ... the proportion of school-attending children to the whole population is as one to five ; while in the half-Protestant and half-Catholic cantons it is as one to seven ; and in the chiefly Catholic cantons as one to nine. Parents are compelled to send their children to school, or have them privately taught, from the age of five to that of eight years ; subsequent education is encouraged, but not compulsory. Parental neglect may be punished by fine, and, in some cases, by imprisonment. In every district...
Page 27 - Each county having a population of two thousand inhabitants or over, as shown by the last state or federal census, may establish a high school on the conditions and in the manner hereinafter prescribed, for the purpose of affording better educational facilities for pupils more advanced than those attending district schools, and for persons desiring to fit themselves for the vocation of teaching.
Page 27 - And for the expense connected with the assessment and collection of the taxes provided by this Act there is hereby appropriated the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be...
Page 158 - Schools, and in case vacancies exist in the representation to which any Assembly district is entitled, such vacancies may be filled by the President and Secretary of the Board of Regents. 2. Candidates for admission shall be nominated by the...
Page 69 - force or pressure of vapor " expresses the weight of moisture in the air, by indicating in inches the height of a column of mercury that is sustained by it. " Relative humidity " shows the percentage of complete saturation existing at the time when the observation is made. Latitude, 43° 5
Page 172 - Duty of Sending Children to School" he insists that it is both the right and the duty of the state to enact laws compelling parents to send their children to school.
Page 79 - Union sentiments than though they had been captured. It affords me much pleasure to be able to testify to the uniform steadiness and good conduct of both officers and men during the battle, and I respectfully refer to the...

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