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Text Booh Uniformity.
RESULT WHERE BOOKS HAVE TO
STAND ON THEIR OWN MERIT;
At a Convention of School Directors, of
Centre County, held a Bellefonte, Decem
ber 26, 1878, pursuant to the call of H.
Meyer, Esq., County Superintendent, for
the purpose of considering the propriety
of taking measures to secure a uniformity
of the text-books used in the schools of
said county, the following aetiori was
taken, over fifty directors bring present
and nearly all the district in the county
being represented:
COPY OF MINUTES.
Upon motion of C. P. Stotterod, of Snow
Shoe township, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
Wiikrkas: Great expense and waste are
frequently incurred by the present and con
nstatly changing variety of text-books used in
the common schools of Centre county, there
for*?, be it
Resolved, By the representative directors
here in session, that a system of text-books,
suituble, complete and uniform, be adopted in
accordance with the laws of the State
throughout the county.
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amble and resolutions:
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to be either general or local agent, beyond
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standing, their books to be counted ou of the
contest.
Third. The several school hoards of the
county, after examination of the various
hooks which may have been submitted, to
hold a meeting at which each director shall
make out a list of the hooks which he prefers
to have adopted in the county, and send it to
Henry Meyer, Esq., County Superindent, at
Rebersburg, Pa., prior to the first day of
June, 1879, who shall rn,' u / c
several statements so sent, and the books up
on the various branches having tht ighest
number of votes or preference shall be the
series recommended for county uniformity.
The County Superintendent, after having
made the above canvaos as above, to send the
result of the same to each of the papers in the
county for publication.
W. C. Hkinijc, Chairman.
J. C. P. Jones, Secretary.
The following is the result of the votea
of the Directors of Centre county, Pa., on
the uniformity of Text-books in said
county, with the number of votes cast fro
each book, under the foregoing plan and
resolutions:
READERS. No. vote.
for eacsh
New Graded 74
Independent 20
Appleton's 17
New American 12
SPELLERS.
Swinton's 83
New American g
Independent 28
Appleton's 1
Patterson's
Sander's Union
Raub's 1
GEOGRAPHIES.
Swinton's 100
Colton's 14
Mitchell's .. 10
Independent 1
Monteith's 0
HIBTORIES.
Swinton's (?3
Redpath's 5
Barnes' Brief 7
Butler's
Ouackenbos'
Watson's ....
V RITTEN ARITHMETIC.
Robinson's Shorter Course 67
Greenleaf's 14
Brook's
Gilne's *
Boff's 12
N rook's Union
Mew American
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
Milne's
Greenleafs
ALGEBRA.
Robinson's
Greenleafs
COPY BOOKS.
Spencerian 89
Appleton's m
Ellsworth's 10
GRAMMARS.
Kerl's 72
Swinton's 1?
Clark's Brief " i*
Bullion's..... 1
Harvey's 20
Ouackenbos' g
bewsmith's 1
LANGUAGE LESSONS.
Kerl's 6
Clark's I
Harvey's 5
Morton's.. ...) 5
BOOK-KEEPING.
Bryant A Stratum's 44
Folsom's a
Smith's
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Townsend's..