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1. Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of Knox College......
2. Report of the Board of Management of Knox College,
1872, 1873
3. Report of the Senate of Knox College, 1872, 1873
4. Report of the Board of Examiners of the Western Section...
5. Report of the Committee on College Buildings
6. Financial Report of Knox College, 1872, 1873
CHAPTER XI. PROCEEDINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT WITH THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION, 1873
I. The Chief Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General Mowat
II. Attorney-General Mowat to the Chief Superintendent of Education
III. The Chief Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General
Mowat
IV. The Chief Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General
CHAPTER XII. PETITION OF THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO THE HOUSE OF
ASSEMBLY ON THE ARBITRARY ACTION OF THE GOVERNMENT IN
REGARD TO IT, 1873
I. Draft of Bill to Amend the Public and High School Laws of On-
tario in Regard to the Council of Public Instruction.
Attorney-General Mowat
CHAPTER XIII.
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By
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DRAFT OF A SCHOOL ACT RELATING TO THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION, PROPOSED BY ATTORNEY-GENERAL MOWAT ON
CONSULTATION WITH THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCA-
TION, 1873
I. The Deputy Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General
II. Attorney-General Mowat to the Chief Superintendent of Educa-
III. Attorney-General Mowat to J. George Hodgins
IV. Attorney-General Mowat to J. George Hodgins
V. Attorney-General Mowat to J. George Hodgins
CHAPTER XIV. PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, 1873......
CHAPTER XV. INEQUALITY OF THE SALARIES OF THE OFFICERS OF THE EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT, COMPARED WITH THOSE OF THE OTHER DEPART-
MENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT, 1873
I. The Chief Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General
tion
CHAPTER XVI. RETURN TO AN ADDRESS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, 1873
I. The Provincial Treasurer to the Chief Superintendent of Educa-
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II. The Chief Superintendent of Education to the Deputy Superin-
tendent
III. Attorney-General Mowat to the Deputy Superintendent of Educa-
129
IV. The Deputy Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General
V. J. George Hodgins to Doctor Ryerson
130
VI. The Deputy Superintendent of Education to Attorney-General
1. Normal Schools in the State of New York
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2. Facilities for Granting Certificates of Qualification to
Teachers. Number Granted in 1872
VII. From the Chief Superintendent of Education to the Provincial
Secretary
132
1. Schedule of the Result of the Examination of Public School
Teachers, 1873
2. Teachers' Institutes as a Temporary Substitute for Normal
School Training
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(1) Report of the Proceedings of a Teachers' Institute at
Brantford, held by Doctor J. H. Sangster
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CHAPTER XVII
PROGRAMME FOR THE EXAMINATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS;
AND GENERAL REGULATIONS IN REGARD TO THEIR DUTIES...
I. Conditions Required of Candidates for Certificates of Qualification
as Public School Teachers
II. Value and Duration of Various Grades of Teachers' Certificates....
III. Minimum Qualifications Required for Teachers' Third Class Cer-
tificates
IV. Minimum Qualification for Teachers' Second Class Certificates...
1. Additional for Teachers, who desire Special Certificates for
Teaching Agriculture
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V. Minimum Qualifications Required for Teachers' First Class Pro-
vincial Certificates
VI. Time of Holding Examinations, and General Remarks on the Sub-
ject
CHAPTER XVIII. THIRD CLASS TEACHERS CAN ONLY BE ASSISTANTS IN PUBLIC
SCHOOLS IN SPECIAL CASES
I. No Payment is Legal to Unqualified Teachers
CHAFTER XIX. THE PRESENT CONDITION OF THE GRAMMAR, OR HIGH SCHOOLS...
I. Our Common Interest in the Prosperity of High and Public
'III. Character of the Efforts made in later years to Sustain the High
Schools
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IV. Other Steps taken to Increase the Grants to Individual High
V. Objections to the High School Programme
VI. Objections to the Number of Teachers in each High School......
VII. Ample Provision now made by the Legislature for the Support of
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High Schools
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VIII. The True Place of the High Schools in our National System of
Education
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IX. Vast Difference in the Rates of Grants to High and Public
X. Inexpediency of Allowing High Schools alone to Admit Pupils to
the Schools
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XI. Illustrative Report of Mr. James A. McLellan, LL.B., Inspector,
on Individual High Schools
XII. Illustrative Report of the Reverend J G. W. MacKenzie, M.A.,
Inspector, on Individual High Schools
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XIII. The Chief Superintendent of Education on Preparatory Classes in
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XIV. Unjust Criticisms on the Apportionment to High Schools, and on
the Education Office Administration
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1. Suggestions for the Improvement of High Schools
2. Payment by Results to be Equitably Distributed
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CHAPTER XX.
REORGANIZATION OF HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTES......
I. Circular to High School Boards in Ontario, 1873
II. Circular to the Inspector of High Schools
III. Revised General Regulations for the Organization, Government
and Discipline, of High Schools and Collegiate Institutes
1. Terms, Hours of Daily Teaching, Holidays and Vacations.
2. Religious and Moral Instruction in the High Schools and
Collegiate Institutes
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3. Opening and Closing Exercises of Each Day
4. Weekly Religious Instruction by the Clergy of each Per-
suasion
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5. Duties of High School Inspectors
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6. High School Accommodations
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7. Powers and Duties of Head Masters and Teachers of High
Schools and Collegiate Institutes
8. Duties of Pupils of High Schools and Collegiate Institutes.
9. Admission of Pupils to the High Schools
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10. Subjects of Examination for Admission of Pupils to High
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(1) Extracts from the Programme of Course of Study in
the Public Schools to the Fourth Class
172
11. Explanatory Memorandum on the Programmes of Study
for High Schools and Collegiate Institutes
12. Legal Decision of the Court of Common Pleas on an Assess-
ment for a High School
173
13. Appeal of the Chief Superintendent of Education to the
Government against an Order-in-Council, Rescinding the
Regulation for the Admission of Pupils to the High Schools.
(NOTE. Decision; the Regulations are to be Revised.)
14. Inferior Qualifications of Canadidates for Admission to
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CHAPTER XXI. RETURN TO THE LEGISLATURE ON THE SELECTION OF A SITE FOR AN
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOR ONTARIO, 1873
I. Letter from the Commissioner of Agriculture, Authorizing the
Reverend W. F. Clarke to make a Report on the Subject.
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II. Report of the Reverend W. F. Clarke on Agricultural Education in
the United States to the Commissioner of Agriculture...
1. The Massachusetts' Agricultural College at Amherst
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2. Course of Study in this College
3. The Michigan Agricultural College, near Lansing
4. Select Course of Study in this College
5. Means of Illustration to be used in the College
6. The Agricultural Department, Washington
7. Suggestions as to the Establishment of an Agricultural
College for Ontario, by the Reverend W. F. Clarke.........
8. Report on Farms at Guelph, by the Reverend W. F. Clarke
9. An Agricultural College for Ontario by the President of the
Agricultural Association
10. Remarks on the same subject by Messieurs John Gibson, H.
P. Crosby, M.P.P., Captain Milne and the Honourable
David Reesor
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CHAPTER XXII.
APPORTIONMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE SCHOOL GRANT TO THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS OF ONTARIO, 1873
I. To Cities, Towns and Villages
II. To the Counties and Outlying Districts
CHAPTER XXIII. IMPROVED SCHOOL HOUSE ACCOMMODATION, 1873....
I. English Hints on Planning a School House
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II. Plan for Remodelling an, Old-style, School House.....
III. Evils of Over-crowded Schools
POWERS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TRUS-
TEES IN RURAL SECTIONS
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I. The Necessary and Discretionary Powers of Public School Trustees.
II. Public School Trustees Positive Duties
III. Education Returns for the House of Assembly
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CHAPTER XXV.
ADDRESS TO THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION FROM THE
OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT AND THE NORMAL AND MODEL
SCHOOLS, ON HIS 70TH BIRTH-DAY, 24TH MARCH, 1873.........
I. Address from the Officers of the Education Department
II. Address from the Normal and Model Schools
III. Reply by the Chief Superintendent of Education
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CHAPTER XXVI.
VALEDICTORY BY THE EDITOR OF THE CANADIAN FREEMAN TO THE
CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, 1873
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CHAPTER XXVII.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONTARIO TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION, 1873......
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I. President Daniel Wilson's Address
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1. The Position of Science in Education
II. Discussion on Various Topics by Members of the Association
1. School Organization
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2. Euclid as a Text Book
3. Common Sense of Logic, by the Reverend Doctor McCaul...
4. Allowance to Superannuated Teachers
7 Address to the Association by Professor Goldwin Smith
8. Township Boards of School Trustees Versus School Section
Boards of Trustees
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9. Prize by Honourable G. W. Ross for an Essay on the Neces-
sity of Rural Schools
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10. Representation on the Council of Public Instruction...
11. Evils of Irregular Attendance at School
12. Proceedings of the High School Section of the Association.
13. Best Method of Teaching Geography and Arithmetic
14. Visit to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb at Belleville.
CHAPTER XXVIII. REPORT OF THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FOR
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CHAPTER XXIX. REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOR THE YEAR 1873.
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CHAPTER XXX. REPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL SCIENCE FOR THE YEAR 1873.
CHAPTER XXI. REPORT AND SUGGESTIONS TO THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDU-
CATION, WITH RESPECT TO THE HIGH SCHOOLS AND COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTES FOR THE YEAR 1873; by James A. McLellan,
LL.D., J. M. Buchan, M.A., and S. Arthur Marling, M.A.,
Inspectors
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CHAPTER XXXII. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NORMAL MODEL HIGH AND PUBLIC
SCHOOLS IN ONTARIO FOR THE YEAR 1873 BY THE CHIEF SUPER-
INTENDENT OF EDUCATION
I. Receipts and Expenditures of Public School Moneys
II. School Population, Ages of Pupils attending Public School,-their
Average Attendance
III. Number of Pupils in the Different Branches of Instruction
IV. Religious Denominations, Certificates and Annual Salaries, of Pub-
lic School Teachers
V. School Sections and School Houses, School Visits and Lectures;
School Examinations and Recitations,-Giving of Prizes,
Time of Keeping the Schools Open. Prayers and the Ten
Commandments
VI. Roman Catholic Separate Schools
VII. High Schools, Receipts and Expenditures, Pupils' Fees
VIII. Pupils in the Various Branches, and Miscellaneous Information
(1) Condition for Establishing High Schools
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XIII. Summary of the Maps. Apparatus and prize Books Supplied to
the Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, during the year
1873
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(1) Table Shewing the Value of Articles sent out from the
Educational Depository during the years 1851 to 1873,
inclusive
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(2) Book Imports into Ontario and Quebec during the
years 1850-1873
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(3) The General Question Practically Discussed
(4) Practice, and Opinions of United States Educationists
in Regard to an Educational Depository
(5) Cautions and Warnings of United States Educationists.
(6) Steps taken by the Education Department to Supply the
Schools with Books, Maps and Apparatus
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XIV. Superannuated and Worn-out Teachers of Public Schools
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(1) Official Regulations in Regard to the Superannuated
Teachers' Fund
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XV. Educational Summary for the year 1873
XVI. General Statistical Abstract of the Progress of Education in On-
XVIII. Report of the Inspectors of High Schools for 1893
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XIX. Extracts from the Reports of Inspectors of the Public Schools...
CHAPTER XXXIII. ESTIMATES FOR THE EDUCATIONAL DEPOSITORY SERVICE OF 1874.
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I. The Treasury Accountant to the Chief Superintendent of Educa-
II. The Chief Superintendent of Education to the Provincial Treas-
urer
III. The Chief Superintendent of Education to the Provincial Treas-