Excerpt from Public Documents of the Legislature of Connecticut, at the May Session, 1865The scrip for one hundred and eighty thousand acres of land received from the United States, has been sold for and that sum invested in government bonds bear ing five per cent. Interest in gold. The avails of the interest in currency has been which has been paid to the Treasurer of Yale College, to be used in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress making the grant.From the reports of the Superintendent of Common Schools and the Board of Trustees of the State N ormal Schools, there is gratifying evidence that the cause of popular education is advancing, and that the school for training teachers is an important part of a complete and thorough system.The average attendance of scholars has been over seventy per cent. Of the enumeration.A larger amount of money has been raised by districts for school purposes than ever before. There is more readiness to improve the condition of school buildings, and to makethe necessary preparation for the comfort of the scholars, and for their higher education.One hundred and thirty-nine pupils from sixty-eight towns, have attended the N ormal School, and over one hundred from that institution have engaged in teaching during the past year.Teachers who have been thus thoroughly educated in the theory of instructing others, and who intend to make teach ing a permanent occupation, are in greater deman'd than others, and command a higher remuneration for their ser vices.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.