...Law of 8 Geo. 1, ch. 1, (Anc. Ch., p. 666,) authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed...

...opinion in all matters connected with our Common School system, is entitled to the highest respect, " the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State." We will not stop to consider what benefits might have resulted from it at the far distant...

...of improvement. " I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed...

...Secretary, said of it : 'I consider the law of 1 789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in this State.' His successors have been no less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element of...

...of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools, ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed...

...Massachusetts, considers the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, as " the most unfortunate law, on the subject of common schools, ever enacted in the State." l I can find no report of this committee. They probably reported favorably to the project...

...of improvement. " I consider the law 0/1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law, on the subject of Common Schools', ever enacted in the State. During the last few years, several towns have abolished their districts, and assumed...

...says Mr. Horace Mann, " the law of 1/89, authorizing " townships to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law on " the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State. During the last " few years, several townships have aholished their districts, and assumed...

...Secretary, said of it : 'I consider the law of 1789, authorizing towns to divide themselves into districts, the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State.' His successors have been no less decided in pronouncing it a deleterious element in...

...that the law of 1789, which authorized the towns in Massachusetts to divide themselves into school districts, was the most unfortunate law on the subject of common schools ever enacted in the State. In 1870 there were fifteen hundred district schools in New York State, with an average...