Annual Report, Volume 34

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Page 79 - ... ecstasy. I ceased playing, and it instantly disappeared again. This experiment I repeated frequently with the same success, observing that it was always differently affected, as the music varied from the slow and plaintive to the brisk and lively. It finally went off, and all my art could not entice it to return.
Page 66 - Resolved, That so much of the regulations on the course of study and text-books in the intermediate and district schools (page 213, annual report), as reads as follows: 'The opening exercises in every department shall commence by reading a portion of the Bible by or under the direction of the teacher, and appropriate singing by the pupils,
Page 63 - Board, at least three days before the monthly meeting, a certificate of good moral character, together with a declaration that they are eighteen years of age, (or seventeen, if graduates from the High Schools, or with similar attainments), and that they design to teach in the Public Schools of Cincinnati, if found qualified. Candidates are requested to leave their address, and a statement of any experience they may have had in teaching. Candidates shall be examined in the absence of all spectators,...
Page 76 - From this proposition it is evident, that the square described on the difference of two lines is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the lines respectively, minus twice the rectangle contained by the lines.
Page 50 - Whenever any new text-book is adopted by the Board, to the exclusion of another already in use, it shall be obligatory on the publisher, or his agent, to exchange the former for a period of two months without cost to those pupils who have been provided with the latter; and it shall be the duty of the Principals to see that this condition is fulfilled.
Page 67 - GRADE B. Studies. — Reading, embracing spelling, defining, vocal culture, declamation, and analysis of words ; object lessons ; mental and written arithmetic ; geography ; English grammar, with exercises in the use of language ; United States history (maps shall be drawn, either as a whole, or in groups, of the countries studied by the pupils) ; drawing ; physics and composition ; music and penmanship under the teachers of those branches ; German, if desired by parents or guardians.
Page 73 - Singer ; to read by letters and syllables the songs therein, and answer question;based upon them. Moral instruction must be given in all the grades by their respective teachers, in such a manner as may be prescribed by the principals. Grammar shall be taught practically in all the grades, in connection with composition...
Page 84 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 66 - Scriptures as their parents or guardians may prefer, provided that such preference of any version, except the one now in use, be communicated by the parents...
Page 69 - Spelling. — Pupils shall be taught to write at dictation, and to spell by sound any sentence in their reading lessons, or similar familiar sentences, and to write sentences from their object lessons.

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