Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Dedham

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The Committee, 1893 - Public schools
 

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Page 16 - The riches of the Commonwealth Are free, strong minds, and hearts of health; And more to her than gold or grain, The cunning hand and cultured brain.
Page 12 - HIGH in the heavens, eternal God, Thy goodness in full glory shines ; Thy truth shall break through every cloud That veils and darkens thy designs.
Page 46 - It is a melancholy truth, that, among the variety of actions which men are daily liable to commit, no less than a hundred and sixty have been declared, by act of parliament, to be felonies without benefit of clergy ; or, in other words, to be worthy of instant death.
Page 21 - Dedham" for the use of the school "from this present day unto the last day of the Eight month which shalbe in ye (yeare 1650." This was a six years use of the land and plainly implies that the school had already begun its work. In 1648 a school house was resolved to be built; it was planned by the Select men ; was erected in the Spring of 1649; and the builder, John Thurston, was paid by a Rate eleven pounds and three pence. A feoffee for the school was chosen in 1648 soon after, and because of,...
Page 7 - And farther did risolue & consent testefying it by voate to rayse the some of Twenty pounds p annu : towards the maintaining of a Schoole mr to keep a free Schoole in our sd Towne...
Page 19 - The sd Inhabitants takeing into Consideration the great necesities of providing some means for the Education of the youth in or sd Towne did with an unanimous consent declare by voate their willingness to promote that worke promising to put too their hands to provide maintenance for a Free Schoole in our said Towne.
Page 20 - Chosen by themselues to imploy the sd 2Q£ and the land aforesd to be improued for the vse of the said Schoole: that as the profits shall arise from ye sd land euery man may be proportionably abated of his some of the sd...

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