Excerpt from Accounts of the Selectmen, and Report of the Superintending School Committee, of the Town of Rye: For the Financial Year Ending March 1st, 1876 I believe our schools should be graded or classed, and the way our pupils should advance from class to class should be by a thorough examination then each of the scholars would have a motive for which to strive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.