Excerpt from Sixteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Forty-First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Schools, of Rhode Island, January, 1886 To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island: The Board of Education, in presenting their Sixteenth Annual Report, are gratified in being able to state that our schools are gradually gaining in influence and power. In comparing their present condition with the past, they are confident that, through the earnest and indefatigable labors of our State Commissioner and the increasing influence of our Normal School, they are making commendable pro gress and improvement. 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.