Thirty-seventh (Forty-eighth-Fiftieth, Fifty-second, Fifty-fifth) annual report |
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1.-East side 24 CLASS ROOM 360 Average attendance 384 Average 5th 5th admitted ginning Allegheny City Anna Annie avenue average number belonging at Average belonging at end BOARD OF DIRECTORS Books and Stationery BOYS Catharine street Charles City CLASS ROOM 20 CLOSET CLOSET CLOSET HALL Committee corner Cost per Pupil DIRECTORS OF PUBLIC Emma Ex S Ex Fannie fourth assistant George George W Germantown GIRLS GRAMMAR SCHOOL Green street HALL CLASS Hancock Henry James Jefferson John Joseph June 30 Kate Lincoln Lizzie Locust Street Maggie Mahanoy City Manayunk Martha Mary Meetings held Monroe month Morris Mount Vernon Normal School North Second street North-Western number of pupils PRIMARY SCHOOL Principal Printing and Petty Public Schools Report Ringgold Salaries of Teachers Sallie Samuel Sarah School Houses Schuylkill second assistant SECONDARY SCHOOL South third assistant Thomas Twelfth UNCLASSIFIED SCHOOL Washington whole number William William H Zane Street
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Página 64 - I AM old and blind! Men point at me as smitten by God's frown; Afflicted and deserted of my kind, Yet I am not cast down. I am weak, yet strong; I murmur not that I no longer see; Poor, old, and helpless, I the more belong, Father Supreme! to thee.
Página 65 - Is leaning toward me; and its holy light Shines in upon my lonely dwelling-place, — And there is no more night, On my bended knee I recognize thy purpose clearly shown : My vision thou hast dimmed, that I may see Thyself — thyself alone...
Página 65 - When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes; When airs from Paradise refresh my brow. The earth in darkness lies. In a purer clime My being fills with rapture — waves of thought Roll in upon my spirit — strains sublime Break over me unsought Give me now my lyre; I feel the stirrings of a gift divine: Within my bosom glows unearthly fire, Lit by no skill of mine.
Página 70 - ... language but his own, and hardly competent to write English correctly, to do a simple sum, or stumble through an easy proposition of Euclid, a total stranger to the laws which govern the physical world, and to its structure, with an eye and hand unpractised in drawing, and without knowing a note of music, with an uncultivated mind and no taste for reading or observation, his intellectual education must certainly be accounted a failure, though there may be no fault to find with his principles,...
Página 65 - I have nought to fear ; This darkness is the shadow of Thy wing, Beneath it I am almost sacred — here Can come no evil thing. " Oh ! I seem to stand Trembling where foot of mortal ne'er hath been, Wrapped in the radiance of Thy sinless land, Which eye hath never seen. " Visions come and go ; Shapes of resplendent beauty round me throng; From angels' lips I seem to hear the flow Of soft and holy song.
Página 7 - The controllers of the public schools of the first school district of Pennsylvania...
Página 319 - The stated meetings of the Board shall be held on the second Tuesday of each month, at 3 o'clock, PM Special Meetings.
Página 65 - When heaven is opening on my sightless eyes, When airs from paradise refresh my brow, — That earth in darkness lies. In a purer clime, My being fills with rapture ! waves of thought Roll in upon my spirit ! strains sublime Break over me unsought. Give me now my lyre ! I feel the stirrings of a gift divine ; Within my bosom glows unearthly fire, Lit by no skill of mine.
Página 69 - If a youth, after four or five years spent at school, quits it at nineteen, unable to construe an easy bit of Latin or Greek without the help of a dictionary, or to write Latin grammatically, almost ignorant of geography and of the history of his own country, unacquainted with any modern language but his own, and hardly competent to write English correctly, to do a simple sum, or stumble through an easy proposition of Euclid, a total stranger to the laws which govern the physical world, and to its...
Página 63 - ... no sort of resemblance to the Greeks of the days of Homer, or the Italians of the age of Dante; but are very much such people, we suppose, as the modern traders of Manchester, Liverpool, or Glasgow. They have all a little Latin whipped into them in their youth; and read Shakespeare, Pope and Milton, as well as bad English novels, in their days of courtship and leisure.