Excerpt from Annual Report of the Superintendent: December, 1913 And lastly, this city was one of the first to abandon the political form of school control and to place the direction of the schools in the hands of men and women whose sole interest is to serve the children of the city. This was completely effected in 1906 by the election at large of a nonpartisan school committee of five. Since that time the progress of the schools has been by leaps and bounds, so that there is scarcely a phase of educational activity that is not in operation in this city at the present time. Thus it comes about that the present school system in this city is one of the most complex in the United States though many of the educational activities are so recently begun as to be in the infant stage of development. It is partly the business of this report to give an inventory of these newer activities and to discuss the steps that should be taken to develop them. Such a report is valuable chiefly to those who make it, like stock-taking in a store. It compels close scrutiny of all depart ments, appraisal of values, and determination of immediate needs. It is not intended that anything in the report should be critical in a fault-finding sense. Only constructive suggestions are worthy of a place in any account of this great system of schools. 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.