Excerpt from Reports of the Annual Visiting Committees of the Public Schools: City of Boston; 1847 And inasmuch as it is provided, by an orde of this Board, that our Report, if accepted, shall, together with the Report of the Committee on the Writing Depart ment, be printed and distributed among the citizens, and be thus the Annual Report of the Board, we shall make no further apology for entering upon the whole subject of the condition of the Schools, as fully as our time will allow. 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.