Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Town Officers of Dublin, N. H: For the Year Ending Feb; 15, 1895 One of the most important subjects taught in our schools, but one which has not received its share of attention. Is language or composi tion. To express one's self grammatically, elegantly, and with pre cision, should be the ambition of all. The average scholar needs a great amount of practice in composition work to become familiar with its fundamental rules. With this end in view, a uniform plan of work was adopted for the fall terms. The older scholars were to write historical essays, upon the settlement of New England, includ ing that of New Hampshire and Dublin. Letter-writing, in all its forms, by all the scholars, was included in the plan of work. The results were pleasing and satisfactory. Lt showed that the writing schools of the past year had had a good effect upon the penmanship of the scholars, among whom there are perhaps a dozen, who may, with practice, become expert penmen. It is not sufficient, however, that our writing be fine, but that what we have to say is correctly written and properly arranged. There have been a number of applications from scholars, for books to be used through the vacations. Although the Board favor the practice of study between terms, it was not thought best to establish the precedent of loaning books, unless there was to be some regular plan of instruction. A bible, dictionary, arithmetic, geography and grammar should be found among the books in every home. Every year the opinion grows stronger in town, that there are serious draw backs ih furnishing free text-books in our schools. Before the law was passed our scholars were generally well supplied with books of their own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.