Word: appointment
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...general the advisability of the proposed contests, it was voted to send delegates. Messrs. Dyer of '74, Richmond of '74, and Warren of '75 were accordingly elected, and provision was made that, in case of the disability of any delegate to attend the convention, he should have power to appoint a substitute. In conclusion, it was voted that the delegates should be sent on the understanding that the college should not be bound, by the fact of the representation, to enter the contest...
Fathers have nothing to do with the teachers that the government allots them. The communes have no supervision over him. All that is asked of them is to pay him. If the commune does not appoint its schoolmaster, has it, at least, the right to supervise the instruction that he gives? O, that would be an enormity! Does a peasant know anything about education? It is indeed his child who is to be educated, but the state knows better than the father what is for the child's interest. The state is more than a father to us. And thus...