Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the German-English Independent School of Indianapolis: Our Old School Frederick Stein, the father of the author of these pages, who had been elect ed the City Clerk Of our city only a short while before, aided in this movement and may have had some weight with the councilmen owing to prestige attendant upon being the first of his party, the newly-born Republican party, to attain to that Office. An editorial in the Freie Presse of December 11, 1856, after compliment ing the City Council ...
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Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the German-English Independent School of Indianapolis: Our Old School Frederick Stein, the father of the author of these pages, who had been elect ed the City Clerk Of our city only a short while before, aided in this movement and may have had some weight with the councilmen owing to prestige attendant upon being the first of his party, the newly-born Republican party, to attain to that Office. An editorial in the Freie Presse of December 11, 1856, after compliment ing the City Council for its action, closed by saying, May the public schools and public education prosper forever. This language would indicate that the Germans of that day were not nar row or even particularistic; they wanted their children to have the widest possible scope of learning along elementary lines; they wanted German taught their Off spring alongside the English language, and were overjoyed when the City Council favored action looking to an accomplishment of their wishes in this regard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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