Excerpt from Galesburg Public Schools: Their History and Work; 1861-1911 Thus this work has been prepared in response to a local demand, and the constant endeavor has been not only to pre serve the worth - while facts of the past half-century but to present them in such a way that they may be readily servicea ble to the coming generations. That part which contains The Work of the Schools has been prepared in the same manner regardless of the merits or demerits of the work, though the writer is conscious that it has many of the latter. However. If the schools are to be intelligently and progressively con ducted in the future, a knowledge of their condition present and past is necessary. It is hoped, therefore, that this record of the Galesburg Public Schools may find among the citizens many readers, as the best interests of the schools are safe only in the keeping of those who have an intelligent knowledge of their mission and their work. 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.

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