Excerpt from Twelfth Annual Report of the Board of Education Together With the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Schools, of Rhode Island, January, 1882 Five educational meetings or Teachers Institutes have been held during the year. The interest manifested in them, which in Rhode Island is something phenomenal, has in no wise abated. They give abundant evidence that the success of popular education ln our state is a subject which lies very close to the hearts of all our people. 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.