Excerpt from The Public Schools of Philadelphia: Historical, Biographical, Statistical We believe that the method adopted, of giving the history of the schools under differ ent classifications, is a wise one. In the general history of the First School District of Pennsylvania, which follows the introduction, we have not gone into detail concerning the history of individual schools, but have re served such for subsequent chapters. 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.