New International Yearbook: A Compendium of the World's Progress

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1914

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Page 89 - district" shall be held to mean Federal reserve district; the term "reserve bank" shall be held to mean Federal reserve bank. Federal Reserve Districts SEC. 2. As soon as practicable, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Agriculture and the Comptroller of the Currency, acting as "The Reserve Bank Organization Committee...
Page 222 - II. 3. The problem of revision of the course of study, the establishment of agencies for training teachers, and other administrative details to be worked out by this board and its experts. 4. The State Agricultural College to receive a larger proportion of the generous annual appropriation to the state from the federal government and to be developed along lines calculated to make a fruitful connection between the Agricultural College and the industries of farming, dairying, gardening, stock and poultry...
Page 221 - Whereas, the average daily attendance at the public schools of this district has increased from 10,387 in 1902, to 23,712 in 1912, and the annual disbursements have increased during the same period from $420,879.61 to $2,490,477.28; and " Whereas, it is of the utmost importance that the public schools should be kept at the highest point of efficiency, it is hereby declared to be the sense of this meeting that a full and complete survey be made of the public school system of this district, comprising:...
Page 171 - Investigation to determine what would be reasonable class rates throughout the territory lying north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers and east of the Mississippi River and the west bank of Lake Michigan.
Page 221 - The compulsory attendance service is inefficient: it emphasizes police functions rather than preventive measures, and the staff needs reorganization on a functional basis. The recognized advantages of intermediate schools in relieving congestion have not led to the further establishment of such schools, and no attempt has been made to realize the exceptional educational opportunities these schools afford ; promotions and nonpromotions are not studied so as to yield a real basis for a maximum rate...
Page 221 - ... non-promotions are not studied so as to yield a real basis for a maximum rate of promotion; part-time classes should be abolished; the estimated need of teachers for elementary schools and for high schools is not based on indisputable and well-organized data. The provision for industrial education is so meager as to be almost negligible; neither industrial nor commercial education is so maintained as to secure the necessary effective co-operation of industry and commerce, and co-operative and...
Page 312 - That this House is not justified in giving its consent to this Bill until it has been submitted to the judgment of the country.
Page 355 - Second, it must see that every inmate of every public Institution receives proper care; that the public funds are properly expended; that the institutions are properly conducted and the management is protected from unjust criticism.
Page 222 - Whereas, a similar doubt prevails among many friends of higher education regarding the adequacy of the return which the state is getting from its appropriations in aid thereof, and Whereas, His Excellency, the Governor, has recommended in a recent message the appointment of a commission to investigate and report on these matters : Therefore, it is hereby Resolved by the Senate and...
Page 221 - ... reorganization in respect to its administration by the Board of Education and the supervisory staff; and in respect to its general system of supervision. The Board of Education needs a clear conception of its functions, and should come to close quarters with its work.

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