Excerpt from History of Clay and Norman Counties, Minnesota, Vol. 2: Their People, Industries and InstitutionsYoungsters Were in the Majority Among the Pupils of the Pioneer Schools - The School of Nature - First School in County - Early Rural Schools Roster of Superintendents of Public Instruction - Statistics Relating to the Growth of the Schools - Consolidated Schools - Comparative School Tax School Funds and Apportionment - School Officers and Teachers - State State School System - Hope Academy - Bishop Whipple School - Concordia College and the State Normal School at Moorhead.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.