Identifier: reportofpublicsc00fort_1 (find matches)
Title: Report of the public schools of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with announcements for ... and the rules and regulations, and the course of study
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Fort Wayne (Ind.). Board of School Trustees
Subjects: Public schools Education
Publisher: (Fort Wayne, Ind. : By order of the Board)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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mong-the teachers has been encouraged with marked results; the schoolhas been constantly held up as an institution for the development ofthe pupil, and not for the personal advantage or aggrandizementof any one; and teachers have been encouraged in the reading ofprofessional literature and attendance upon educational meetings.The general support given by the teachers, as a body, to all plansfor increasing the efficiency of the schools has been one of the mostpleasing features of the time covered by this report, and to thissupport must be attributed in great part any success which mavhave marked the efforts to advance the standard of public schooleducation in the city. With the Board, as it is, in harmony with all plans for the im-provement of the schools, a teaching force earnest, receptive, andprogressive, we may confidently look forward to still greater ad-vances in the future in all that makes for the best interests of theschools. Respectfully submitted, J. N. STUDY,Superintendent.
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REPORT —OF- PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1901 BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES, ALLEN HAMILTON,EUGENE B. SMITH,W. W. ROCKHILL, President.Secretary.Treasurer. LIBRARY COMMITTEE. REV. SAMUEL WAGENHALS, Chairman,MRS. S. C. HOFFMAN. COL. R. S. ROBERTSON. MRS. D. N. FOSTER. MR. JOHN H. JACOBS. MRS. C. B. WOODWORTH. MR. W. P. BREEN. MISS KATHARINE HAMILTON, Secretary. LIBRARIAN. MISS MARGARET M. COLERICK.MISS JENNIE L. EVANS, ....MISS SARAH L. STURGIS, ....MISS NANCY McLACHLAN, First Assistant.Second Assistant.Night Assistant. Report of Public Schools, Fort Wayne, Ind. 107 HISTORICAL SKETCH. In 1881 the legislature of Indiana passed a bill for the establish-ment of public libraries in all cities of the state having a populationof ten thousand or more inhabitants, to be under the care and man-agement of the Board of School Trustees and to be supported by atax not exceeding one-third of a mill on each dollar o^f taxableproperty assessed for taxation in such cities in each year.

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