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inhabitants qualified by law to vote when lawfully assembled at a special meeting, shall have power to transact the same business, as at the first and each annual meeting, except to choose

THE following is the law in relation to Dis-district officers and to vote a tax.

trict Meetings, and should be carefully read by every voter in the State:

DISTRICT MEETINGS.

SEC. 9. The annual meeting of each school district shall be held on the last Monday of September, in each year; the hour of such meeting shall be six o'clock in the afternoon, unless otherwise provided by a vote of the district, duly recorded, at the last previous annual meeting.

SEC. 10. No annual meeting shall be deemed illegal for want of due notice, unless it shall appear that the omission to give such notice was willful and fraudulent.

SEC. 13. Whenever the time for holding an annual meeting in any district for the election of district officers shall pass without such election being held, the clerk, or in case of his absence, either the director or treasurer last elected. within twenty days after the time of holding such meeting shall have passed, may notify a special meeting for such election in the manner prescribed in the twelfth and twentyninth sections of this chapter; but if such meeting shall not be notified within twenty days as aforesaid, the town superintendent may order any taxable inhabitant of such district to notify such meeting in the manner provided in this chapter for the formation of a new district; and the officers chosen at such special meeting shall hold their offices untill the time for holding the next annual meeting.

SEC. 11. The inhabitants qualified by law to vote at a school district meeting, when assembled at the first and each annual meeting in their district, shall have power1st. To appoint a chairman for the time be-meeting for building, hiring or purchasing a ing. 2nd. To adjourn from time to time, as occa-hundred dollars, unless the town superintension may require.

3rd. To choose a director, treasurer and clerk.

4th. To designate a site for a district school

house.

SEC. 14. No tax to be voted by a district school house, shall exceed the sum of three

dent of the town in which the school house is to be situated, shall certify in writing his opinion that a larger sum ought to be raised, and shall specify the sum, in which case a sum not exceeding the sum so specified may be raised; 5th. To vote such tax on the taxable prop-and in districts composed of parts of several erty of the district, as the meeting shall deem towns, the certificate of a major part of the sufficient to purchase or lease a suitable site superintendents of said towns shall be necesfor a school house, and to build, hire, or pur- sary for such purpose. chase such school house, and to keep in repair and furnish the same with the necessary fuel and appendages.

6th. To vote a tax on the taxable property of the district, of such sum as the meeting shall deem proper, for the pay of teachers' wages in the district.

SEC. 15. The qualified voters, at each annual meeting, may determine the length of time a school shall be taught in their district the then ensuing year, which shall not be less than three months, and whether such school shall be taught by a male or female teacher, or both, and whether the school moneys, to which the district is entitled from the common school fund and from the town, shall be applied to

7th. To authorize and direct the sale of any school house, site or property belonging to the district, when the same shall no longer be need-the support of the summer or winter term of ful for the use of the district. the school, or a certain portion to each; but if Sth. To impose such tax as may be necessa-such matters shall not be determined at the ry to discharge any debts or liabilities of the annual meeting, the district board shall have district lawfully incurred. power, aud it shall be their duty, to determine the same.

9th. To vote a tax not exceeding twenty dollars in any one year, for the purchase of globes, black-boards, outline maps, or any apparatus for illustrating the principles of agriculture, chemistry, or the mechanic arts.

We hope every person who reads the above will seriously reflect upon the influence he may exert in favor of education, at the District meeting. If you are rich, go and advocate such a tax as will ensure a good school in your District during the year. It will enhance the value of property far around it; the healthful 11th. To alter, repeal and modify their pro-streams of influence flowing from it, will make ceedings, as occasion may require.

10th. To give such direction and make such provision as may be deemed necessary in relation to the prosecution or defence of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested.

SEC. 12. Special district meetings may be the neighborhood a desirable place of settlecalled by the clerk, or in his absence by the di- ment. Indeed, a good school pays. If you rector or treasurer, on the written request of are poor, don't vote against a school tax. any five legal voters of the district, and the well object to having the sunlight and the air,

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because they are free." Education is the ishing, and is realizing the hopes of its foundbirthright of all-see that all have it. ers. The Board of Trustees comprises the fol

Let all remember, that a poor school is allowing names, well known as those of laways a dear school. It will not do to compare borers and eminent pioneers in the advancethe present with the past. Do not expect to ment of education in Ohio: employ a teacher "for ten dollars a month, and Cyrus M'Neely, Hopedale; Asa D. Lord, Columbus: John Hancock, Cincinnati; Hon. board around." That day has passed. The John A. Bingham, Cadiz: Lorin Andrews, mechanic who formerly received but one dol-Gambier; Hon. Ephraim Clark, Cadiz; Geo. lar per day, now receives two. Salaries have K. Jenkins, Mt. Pleasant; M. F. Cowdery, increased also. You must pay for a good Sandusky City; Ezra Cattell, Harrisville; school, and you can't obtain it for less than the James Taggart, Hopedale; T. W. Harvey, market price. Most cheap things are spurious articles.

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Massillon.

Officers of the Board.-John Ogden, President; Asa D. Lord, Secretary; Geo. K. Jenkins, Treasurer.

tice of teaching; Edwin Regal, Principal of Academic Department, and Teacher of Music; and teacher in the Normal School; Edwin S. Betsey M. Cowlcs, Principal of Model School, DeLany, teacher in the secondary department; Beattie B. DeLany, teacher in the primary department.

The Catalogue contains the names of 80 gentlemen, and 34 ladies; making an aggregate of 114 students in the Normal department. We take much pleasure in copying the following further items of information regarding this promising institution:

Do not go to the school meeting to find fault with the old officers. If a change is desirable,mal School, and lecturer in theory and pracInstructors,-John Ogden, Principal of Normake it; but if they have done well, by all means retain them. They receive nothing for their services; and if they are good officers, and are willing to serve during another year, re-elect them. Such a mark of confidence from you will encourage them. Do not attend the District meting to lay ripe" to secure the appointment of some relative or friend as a teacher. It is always unfortunate for a teacher to have rel: tives or old acquaintances ia the Let employing in. If he is shrewd, be History,--The history of the 'Noy Norwill hesitate about engaging to teach a school? Nchool is perhaps familiar to most of the of which a relative is an officer. Besides, the reserly for the e lab'. friends of education in the State. schol is a spered thing-eurred be the had an in. titution hsd leng be if that would touch it for a el h¡urpose. ombo ah add upon tin, cứng I alert--attend the D'e rist me. sting, by altillo, with a p pwation of nemly a mTien Male su efort to induce your neigh-tution in the State for the exizer juga en hoot age, witi cut a single i stiing te hersie the halni Coties gar

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1ors to do the same. So that no spirit of discord is al wed to enter: pour oil upon the troubled water<; forget all of the past, excep: the good; vote a liberal tax; see that the school house is in good order. If the fen.e and out-hours need repairing, instruct the! Board to have it done in Hat ly. See tha the Loue is ventilated and lealthy. Talk of the conditions of a good school. If you Lav a thought you wish to res at, en body it in alis encrusted its f I resolation, so that the sense of the mectin 12th, 175, and eloved wrth 124, 1826. may be a "erained, and it any rve to guidejan. eneance of al out 70 i 122 Evo gepertHicet men of integrity, good jady, Fine 6, the Tomal Fund, al about 15 in men' & vl ability, sa school ofbas. Let the Model School, meeting be Larmonious, carnest and beneficial.

31ities of reang and training this ures of ieru power.

Out of this niceersity, and to meet these

pressing wants, sprang into existence tic MNeely Normal School of Ohi

It is like the recult of the benevolenec 11 Tentory rise ei fio izdividual lose teme It en, and the liberality ned zeti or the “C1% state Teachers' Arcosden," under puspices it boz been cihel, and to which

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NORMAL SCHOOL OF OHIO.

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The sceond term. of 12 weeks, cornrenced

April 8th, with nearly the same number, though of a more advanced grade of pupils, rearly all being teachers, and closed June 27th. Thus far the institution seems to have met with gen

We notice that this School, under the con-eral favor; and, under the blessing of Divine

Providence, it bids fair to meet the expecta

trol of the Ohio Teachers' Association, is flour-tions of its friends,

Organization.—The institution at present weeks. The first term of ten weeks, will open embraces two general divisions, viz., the "Nor- with a grand Normal Institute of two weeks, mal School," and the Model School." The on the 25th of August next, and will close on fir is divided into the Normal or Professional, the 31st of October.

and the academic department: the second, ir-¦ The second terza will commence November to the secondary and primary departments. 11th, and continue eighteen weeks, with an inNormal Department.-Tuis is designed er-terval of one week during the holidays; and pressly for teachers. The exercises consist, will close March 12th, 1857.

first, of thorough, practical, and searching re- The third term, of twelve weeks, will comviews of the branches usually taught in commence April 6th, and will close June 25th, ia on schools, high schools and academies; se- 1857.

con, of daily lectures on the "Theory and Literary Society.-The Lorin Andrew SociePractice" of teaching, in which the laws of ty, founded at the commencement of the second mented growth and developtaent, and the best Session of the school, is a cre-lit to the institumodes of teaching and school government, will tim, and affords a good opportunity to young be made special topies of investigation and men and women to improve the a-elves in comstay: alchir 1, of experime its and practice po ition, declamation and debating. in the “Mold School," in which each pupil of, Builday and Location.--The Normal School the a ivance i elas in the Normal department, building is a large two-storied frame building, will be expected to spea 1 from three-fourths to erected in the form of an Egyptian cross, loone hour or day, for the purpose of testing the rated in one of the most beautiful, picturesque, various theories, and of acquiring that actual and healthy rural districts in Ohio. It will ! experieure and skill, without which the best accommodate some 300 pupils. The village of theoris may be usele, s. Text-books on "The-, Hopedale, in which it is located, is a town of ory and Practice" will also be studied by this some 150 or 200 inhabitants, of the most quiet class. and orderly character. It is situated 21 miles Acalate Departme.t.-This department in- from the Steubenville and Indiana Rail-oad, cludes there who are not sufficiently advanced IS miles from Steubenville, 24 from Wheeling, to enter upon the professional course, and those with which it is connoted by a plank road, who may wish to pursue an academic course and 8 from Cadiz: hence casy of access from only. The course in this department will in-most parts of the State. clude the studies usually pursued in our high Pomphrey Hall.-A neat and commodious schools and academies; but special reference boarding hali has been erected, within a short will be had to proficiency and thoroughness in distance of the Normal School building, at an expense of some $5000, with a design, on the The Model School. This is the Village part of its generous proprietor, Mrs. Eliza School, placed, by a vote of the district, under Hogg, of Cadiz, to furnish board to young lathe control of the Normal School. It includes dies at the very lowest possible rates. It will two departments, the primary and secondary, accommodate some 30 or 40 pupils.

the common branches.

corresponding very nearly to these grades in our "Union Schools."

The instruction in these departments is of an experimental character, and thorough; the more so from the fact of its being experimental.

It is conducted in part by the Normal pupils, under the eye of one of the Principals, for the express purpose of illustrating and testing the various modes of teaching.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.

All acquainted with the history of educational progress for the last twenty years, know how much is due to Teachers' Institutes. We

would urge friends of education to exert themGraduation.-Diplomas will be awarded to selves to have them held in all parts of the those who complete the course, or its equiva State. The teachers ought to assemble, study lent, and who are known to have acquired skill |

in teaching. Certificates of proficiency will be the best methods of teaching, discuss educagranted to those who attend an entire term or tional topics and feel that interest, that enthuimore, and who give good evidence of ability siasm, so essential to a proper performance of to govern and teach.

Litrary and Apparatus.-The institution duty. School Boards will do well to encourage has a library of 1600 volumes, chiefly miscel- teachers to attend the Institute by every praclaneous and professional works, and large ad-ticable means. We subjoin a programme of a ditions are being made from time to time. Teachers' Institute, which may be altered as circumstances may require.

A very good chemical and philosophical apparatus belongs to the institution, and it is expected that this will be increased, as our necessities may require.

We would remark however, that it will be Terms and Vacations.-The school year conwell to appoint a Chairman, a Secretary and a sists of 40 weeks, divided into three sessions, Finance Committee, previous to adopting a -one of ten, one of eighteen, and one of twelve programme. We could also suggest that the

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arrangement of the programine be left to the The Convention was a good Oculist. Conductor, who should be an experienced skimmed a scale off the eye with surprising teacher. The following programme contem-facility. It snapped out a beam or a mote as plates a session of five days. if it were boys' play. Certain eyes, affected

Monday, P. M.-At 2 o'clock, Devotional with a squinting towards conecitedness, lost Exercises; from 2: 12 to 3, Familiar Address much of their obliquity. Certain eyes too that from the Conductor; from 3: 10 to 4, Arithmetic; from 4: 10 to 5, Elocutionary Drill. couldn't, without discoloring goggles, see by Tuesday, A. M.-At 9 o'clock, Roll. Devo- any body else's lights, renewed their strength. tional Exercises; from 9: 12 to 10, ElocutionThe Convention did good grind-stone work. ary Drill; from 10: 10 to 11: Arithmetic: It pointed Effort. It whetted ambition. It from 11: 10 to 12, Geography. P. M.-At 2 o'clock, Roll, Singing; from 2: 12 to 3, Gram-gave the good blade of Forensic ability a hair mar: from 3: 10 to 4, Arithmetic; from 4: 10 splitting nicety. It gave an edge and brill:to 5. Reading. aney to Purpose and generous Impulse. The Wednesday, A. M.-At 9 o'clock, Roll. D.votional Exercises; from 9: 12 to 10, locu-weapons of school government, kindness, taste, tionary Drill; from 10: 10 to 11. Arithmetic ; industry, energy, ingenuity were taken down from 11: 10 to 12, Geography. P. M.-At 2 examined, polished, tempered. o'clock, Roll, Singing: from 2: 12 to 3. Grammar: from 3: 10 to 4, Arithmetie; from 4; 10 to 5, Rending.

Teachers of Wisconsin, say to your State Association: Live forever! In it is a fountain of Thurday, A. M.-At 9 o'clock, Roll, Devo-Unction and Power free to all. Attend it.-tional Exercises: from 9: 12 to 10, Elocution-Better is it for Courage and Vim than to feed ary Drill: from 10: 10 to 11, Gravinar; from

11: 10 to 12, Geography. P. M.-At 2 o'clock, on gun-powder. Let it be your Mecca. Let Roll, Singing: from 2: 12 to 3. Spelling: it be your Thanksgiving day, wherein the sout from 3: 10 to 4, Grammar; from 4: 10 to 5, may delight itself in fatness.

Reading.

What a Yalensian said to their Allumni

Friday, A. M.-At 9 o'clock, Roll, Devotional Exercises; from 9: 12 to 10, Elocu- meeting may be said more abundantly of our tionary Drill: from 10: 10 to 11, Grammar: annual gathering: who goes there gets greased; from 11: 10 to 12, Geography. P. M.-At 2

o'clock, Roll, Singing; from 2: 12 to 3, Writ- and will run smoother for a year.

ing from 3: 10 to 4, Arithmetic; from 4: 10 to 5, Reading.

Saturday, A. M.-At 9 o'clock, Roll, Devotional Exercises: from 9: 12 to 10, Grammar: from 10: 10 to 11, History; from 11: 10 to 12, Miscellaneous Exercises.

A Lecture each evening, from 7 o'clock to 8;| and from 8 to 9, Discussions.

THE STATE ASSOCIATION.

D. J. H.

KINDNESS IN THE SCHOOL ROOM.

To hope in the Rod is savage. To exchang the Rod for Ridicule is to take king Stork fo king Log. To reserve the Rod only to be used as an act of genuine philanthropy is wisethat makes the Rod like Aaron's, to blossom.

Kindness is seldom a matter of unmitigate sweetness. Genuine kindness is genuine phi lanthropy, and genuine philanthropy, like ger uine therapeutics, must, occasionally, try actur cautery. There is a Pill kindness and a Pluit,.

None left empty-handed. Good was done. Fires were kindled. He who came care-worn and dispirited, returned brave, and kind and hopeful. He had caught a glimpse of the broadness, and the deepness, and the un- Pudding kindness, neither is just the thing if

fathomable richness of this begrimed and injured thing, Humanity.

fill a school room with bee-hive pleasantnessboth have much wax, little bec-bread and le.! honey.

There is a kindness in genuine deeds and

The Convention had excellent tough Building Brawn. Friends of Education if you encounter opposition in the erection of Common kindness in glowing, words-one is the king School temples, invite the Convention to hold ness of love, the other the kindness of el an annual meeting at your place, if it dont quence, the latter often abuses, the former strengthen the feeble knees of taxation, if it often abused. dont revolutionize public sentiment-crawl into the iron cage of Despair.

My subject is on the wing, it skips from sce to scene. Sympathy kindness I take to

different from Pill kindness or Plum Pudding Teachers of the Public Schools are invited to kindness: different from Love kindness or Elo-be present. quence kindness-it never wastes its fragrance on the desert air. Somcholy about something is always by to snuff it greedily and cheerily. But, look out, the kindness of cympathy has a bad neighbor Puling Sertimentality.

D. J. H.

We have received CORNFL'S HIGH SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY; DAVIES' UNIVERSITY ARITHMETIC; SANDERS' HIGH SCHOOL READER: and LOOMIS' GEOLOGY, which we hope to notied particularly in a future number.

ITEMS.

MILTON ACADEMY.-This Academy, under the charge of A. C. SPICER, A. M., is occupyBoard of Instruction consists of A. C. SPICER, ing an important position in our State. The Principal and Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences: Rey, M. MONTAGUE. Professor of Languages; Mrs. S. M. SPICER, Preceptress and Teacher of Modern Languages; Mrs. R. II. WHITFORD, Teacher of Painting; Miss S. E. SHIPPY, Teacher of Music; Miss E. E. CURTISS, Assistant.

The number in attendance, during the year, was 212. With a healthy location, an able corps of Teachers, moderate expenses, and good regulations, we feel confident that this

WE underct.ad that a Fem le Semitay will be opened at Madison, under the charge of Mr. J. C. PICKARD, formerly of Jack

Tuc Evergreen City Times contains an Institution must be prosperous as well as ureaccount of a pleasant School Pic-air, ut Gibbs-ful. Cile, Mies S. McCOLLOM, Teacher. The exercles were cod. po, itisa, d 1 x p'lon, Mud gues,. and pic-aicing. Ab mt 2017 no were in ac tendance, and the occasion seems to have been in a gayrete. Rev. P. Work, of' aldies you the people in an appr Remarks were also made by

others.

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Ts Whiterte Cretty speaks ap Ir vindy of the Public Shed of Whitewater. DA. HINDRICKSON, PA; J. The schoo

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Mr. D. J. il LMES has resign 2) je. Mp of the "lhd Word school, in this city. Mr. Holmes Las shown rare ability la a terelor, and will command success. The et wiles of a' be teachers a scelted with him will ace pary him.

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sensiting of eng it a, de ataction,jed of the Union Sel, el of Beloit.

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Wn under tnd that the following Pezoftere,aiks, that "the shot droughout 'thoa is in ciretation, and that it will be pre

cer un lor a cou se of god training and efkat tuition."

The Executive C. rumittee of the Boar 1, of Vorkelbte of Tinois have of ered a 1 rcbe debt model of a High Sd Lease. This we regard . a step forward.

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med to the a ext 1.yjelature:

"To the Honoralie Senate and Assembly of the State of Wisconsin :

The under gned, citizens and leg: voters of the town of in the county of Wis., pray your lon rably body to pass a Zaw by which the funds of the St te Laiver y ll be epitsbly distributed amon; the se der, charted "Pery and Univer IP. 2hite, marking tie, banches c2 the st 1, 15 far dant atengely; to d. tat.”

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of Dorchester, his native town, for the purpose of purchasing a library for the High School.

RICHARD S. WILLIS is to deliver a

cation of the youth of Wiseon in.
"And as in duty bound, your petitioners will
ever pray."

MR. PEET, lately of Amherst College,

course of lectures on Music before the Board has been appointed Principal of the Union

of Education of the city of New York. The School, in Oshkosh.

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