https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/114966 2026-04-14T05:42:41Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116393 Title: The twenty-sixth annual report of the school committee of the City of Lowell, being for the year ending December 31, 1851 Abstract: The past year commences the second quarter-century of the municipal existence of Lowell. Its school-history forms an important page in its annals. Other parts of the Union have long been familiar with the sudden and rapid growth of populous cities. Lowell has presented the first example in . Massachusetts. While its first planting was watched with a natural solicitude, heightened by ,the peculiar experience of the manufacturing communities of the old world, the actual results developed must be looked for with more than curiosity. These results, for a quarter of a century, are now before us. The contrast of its commencement in 1826, and its termination in 1851, are striking - Then, a population of two thousand three hundred souls ; now, of thirty-four thousand - then, some three hundred and fifty school children ; now, over five thousand four hundred -then, six, generally small, district schools, with as many teachers, kept, for the most part, a few months in the year ; now, a graduated system, from the Primary to the High School, numbering in all sixty schools, kept the entire year, and instructed by one hundred and three teachers - then, an annual appropriation for the support of schools, based upon a valuation of about two hundred thousand dollars, of one thousand dollars, (less than a half-dollar to each individual of the population); now, one, based on a valuation of over nineteen millions, of forty-five thousand five hundred dollars, (exceeding one dollar). When to this is added, that, within the space of nineteen years, a sum, amounting to over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, has been expended in the erection of spacious and convenient school-houses, we possess a concise summary of the important items, from which may be in part estimated the liberality and efficiency of the public endowments for popular education in our city... [Excerpt] 1852-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116387 Title: Thirty-sixth report of the British and Foreign School Society Abstract: Rules and Regulations for the Government of the Institution; I. This Institution shall be designated "The Institution for promoting the Education of the Labouring and Manufacturing Classes of Society of every religious persuasion ; " and for the purpose of making manifest the extent of its objects, the title of the Society shall be "The British and Foreign School Society."; II. This Institution shall consist of a Patron, Vice-Patrons, President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Secretaries, Life and Annual Members : together with such officers as may be deemed necessary for conducting the affairs of the Institution... [Excerpt] 1841-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116374 Title: The first annual report of the Catholic Poor School Committee, established in the Year of Grace, 1847 Abstract: In presenting to their supporters and the Catholic public the first Annual Report of their proceedings, the Catholic Poor-School Committee are able to refer with satisfaction to the results of the past year's exertions in favour of the education of the poor. The warm support so undeviatingly accorded by the Right Rev. the Vicars Apostolic, and the generous manner in which the Bishops' call has been responded to throughout the whole of England and Wales, animate the Committee with confidence in the ulti1n:ate success of their work,-the enormous extent of which they would not conceal from them selves or others,-while the grateful expressions of so many of the Clergy, to whom in various ways the Committee have been able to afford help, are an evidence that, much as there remains to do, something has already been done. Nor could it be otherwise ; for is not the Comittee under the special patronage of our Blessed Lady? Mater admirabilis, monstra te esse matrem! ... [Excerpt] Description: Includes appendix with address of the Vicars Apostolic. 1848-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/116118 Title: Observations on the Queen's colleges, Ireland Abstract: The Queen's Colleges are, it seems, about to be opened immediately. Lord John has, in his place in the House of Commons, declared this as the resolution of the Government, and the declaration has been since confirmed by notices to that effect in the newspapers.; This determination has been come to, notwithstanding the alrnost unanimous opposition of the Irish Catholic Bishops to these institutions as at present constituted ; notwithstanding the all but universal disapprobation of them by the Irish Priesthood, and in utter contempt of the sentence of condemnation passed on them more than once by the holy successor of St. Peter. In the face of all this the British Government are determined to commence them-induced thereto, I presume, by the support which they expect from the Irish Catholic laity... [Excerpt] 1849-01-01T00:00:00Z