Download or read book Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City and County of New York, for the Year Ending December 31, 1858 (Classic Reprint) written by New York Board of Education and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Education of the City and County of New York, for the Year Ending December 31, 1858 That the branch of public instruction intrusted to their supervision, has been, during the year just ended, eminently successful, both as it respects the numbers who have attended and the instruction which they have received. The number on register in the male departments was while the average attendance for the term was In the female departments the register number was with an average attendance of The whole number, therefore, to whom instruction was afforded, for a greater or lesser period, was nearly and of these more than received constant attention. The largest attendance of pupils was during the first half of the term, after which, in consequence of the revival of busi ness, there was a general falling off, which seriously affected the average for the term. Notwithstanding all this, the number taught is equal, if not greater, than at any former period, if we except the last year. 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.