| Sir Charles Lyell - 1845 - 354 halaman
...to be read in all, and is actually read in nearly all the schools ; but the law prohibits the use of books " calculated to favour the tenets of any particular sect of Christians." Parents and guardians are expected to teach their own children, or to procure them to be taught, what... | |
| Robert W. Russell - 1848 - 326 halaman
...to be read in all, and is actually read in nearly all the schools; but the law prohibits the use of books calculated to favour the tenets of any particular sect of Christians. In Boston alone, £30,000 per year is paid for public instruction. He speaks highly of the universities... | |
| Massachusetts - 1856 - 516 halaman
...furnished at expense of city or town. 1 . The school committee of each town and city in this Commonwealth shall require the daily reading of some portion of the Bible in the common English version, and shall direct what other books shall be used in the public schools. Slat. 1855, c. 410. 2. Physiology... | |
| 1856 - 732 halaman
...asked for in this essay but what the school laws allow and require. The law of Massachusetts requires the " daily reading of some portion of the Bible, in the common English version," in every common school in the Commonwealth. This is the teacher's text-book in morals. And teachers... | |
| Massachusetts - 1860 - 1158 halaman
...regulation and discipline of the schools, and the habits and proficiency of the scholars therein. SECT. 27. The school committee shall require the daily reading...shall never direct any school books calculated to favor the tenets of any particular sect of Christians to be purchased or used in any of the town schools.... | |
| 1862 - 396 halaman
...Schools ; A Bill concerning Religious Services in Public Schools. Be it enacted, tec. : — Sect. 1. The school committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of the Bible without written note or oral comment, in the public schools, but they shall require no scholar to read... | |
| Lynn (Mass.). City Council - 1865 - 248 halaman
...service, the Mayor and Aldermen shall, after one week's public notice, elect a new board by ballot. 2. The School Committee shall require the daily reading...portion of the Bible in the common English version, in the public schools. 3. They arc to furnish the Assessors with the names of all scholars supplied... | |
| James Fraser (bp. of Manchester.) - 1866 - 480 halaman
...religion our country depends on them for its true national greatness" (Ibid. p. 144). Provisions J " The school committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of against secta- " the Bible in the common English version, but shall never direct any school nanism.... | |
| Michael McN. Walsh - 1867 - 180 halaman
...however, to require the use of the Bible in the public schools; in fact, since the statute of 1855, "the daily reading of some portion of the Bible, in the common English version," is made obligatory. As Connecticut claims the honor of having established the first free school on... | |
| 1870 - 672 halaman
...calculated to favour the tenets of any particular sect of Christians shall be used," also required " the daily reading of some portion of the Bible in the common English version." American schools, then, are unsectarian, but are not secular. The daily exercises of tho school commence... | |
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