Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Education, Together With the Seventeenth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, 1854As required by the Act of 1837, c. 241, the Board of Educa tion proceed, in this their Seventeenth Annual Report, to lay before the Legislature the record of their operations and observa tions during the past year.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.