When granted. Jan. 11, 1884 Jan. 13, 1881 Jan. 12, 1883 Jan. do do do do do do do do Medina Academy. Middlebury Academy... Montgomery Academy... Moravia Union School, Acad. Dept. do Before Before Before 1874 11, 1878 Jan. 8, 1879 Jan. 13, 1892 Before 12, 1883 Munro Collegiate Institute.............. Jan. Before 9, 1880 Newark Union School and Academy. Oakwood Seminary (formerly Friends' Acad.).. do do Union School, Acad. Dept. Before Jan. do do 9, 1874 9, 1880 Jan. 13, 1882 Before 1874 Oswego High School.. Jan. 14, 1876 Jan. 13, 1882 Jan. 11, 1884 Before 1874 13, 1881 do do do Ovid Academy. do do do do Jau. do do do do do do do do do do Mount Morris Union School, Acad. Dept. (Free). do do do do do do do do do do and Union School... When granted. Before 1874 Jan. 15, 1875 Jan. 12, 1877 10, 1879 8, 1879 Before 1874 Before 1874 Jan. 11, 1884 Before 1874 Jan. 12, 1877 9. 1880 13, 1882 Jan. 10, 1879 11, 1873 Jan. July Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 9, 1880 Jan. TABLE(Continued). Jan. Jan. Before Jan. Jan. Before Jan. 9, 1880 Jan. 13, 1881 Pulaski Academy.. do do High School. do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do Port Jervis Union School, Acad. Dept (see Deer Park Union Rome Academy. Rushford Union School, Acad. Dept. do do 9, 1880 | Sandy Creek Union School, Acad. Dept. do 13, 1882 do do ao do do do do Randolph Academy (now Chamberlain Inst.)..... Red Creek Union Seminary. do do Rensselaer Oswego Academy (now Mexico Acad. )..... do do do do Rogersville Union Seminary. do do Sanquoit Academy. 12, 1877 9.1880 12, 1843 12, 1883 Schenevus Union School, Acad. Dept... Schoharie Academy... 1874 12, 1877 do Union School, Acad. Dept. do do do Before 1874 Jan. 9, 1830 Before 1874 Jan. 14, 1876 Jan. 13, 1882 Jan. 11, 1884 Before 1874 Before 1874 Jan. 9, 1880 Before 1874 Jan. 8, 1879 Before 1874 Jan. 12, 1877 Before 1874 Jan. 10, 1879 Jan. 13, 1881 Before 1874 Jan. 12, 1877 Jan. 13, 1852 Jan. 12, 1883 Before 1874 Jan. 12, 1877 10, 1879 1874 Before 1874 Jan. 13, 1881 Jan. 11, 1884 Before 1874 Before 1871 Jan. 15, 1875 Jan. 11, 1884 Before 1871 Jan. Before 1874 Before 1874 Jan. 11, 1878 Jan. 15, 1875 Jan. 12, 1877 Jan. 11, 1878 Jan. 10, 1879 Jan. 13. 1881 Jan. 13, 1882 Jan. 12, 1883 Jan. 11, 1884 Before 1874 Jan. 14, 1876 Avon Academy Ball Seminary. Waverly Institute and Union School..... do do Waverly High School. Westchester Union School, No. 3, Acad. Dept. do Academy of Dutchess County.. Albany Female Seminary... Ames Academy TABLE do do do West Hebron Union School, Acad. Dept. Amsterdam Female Seminary. Angelica Academy...... do Whitney's Point Union School, Acad. Dept.. do Wilson Union School, Acad. Dept.... do Union School, Acad. Dept. Astoria Institute. Auburn Female Seminary Augusta Academy.. NAME OF ACADEMIES. Yates Academy. Yates Union School, Acad. Dept. do do do do do Batavia Female Academy Bethany Academy... Black River Lit. and Relig. Inst.. Brockport Collegiate Inst.... Brooklyn Female Academy. Buffalo Lit. and Sci. Acad... Champlain Academy.... Cherry Valley Academy.. Clarkson Academy.. Clermont Academy. Clinton Academy .................... Clinton Seminary. Clover Street Seminary.. Cortlandville Academy De Lancey Institute.. Dundee Academy. East Bloomfield Acad....... Erasmus Hall..... Essex County Academy. Farmers' Hall...... Fayetteville Academy.. Fonda Academy..... Fredonia Academy... Fulton Female Seminary. Gaines Academy.... Galway Academy. Geneseo Academy.. Genoa Academy Gouverneur High School. Greenbush and Schodack Acad. Half Moon Academy...... Hamilton Academy... Hamilton Female Seminary.... Herkimer Academy... Hobart Hall Institute... Hubbardsville Academy.............. do do do do do do do do do Apportionments to extinct and non-reporting Academies. $250 00 930 00 101 00 427 75 25.00 250 00 250 00 285.00 151 00 344 00 94 25 55.00 571 00 858 95 1,000 00 100 00 297 00 465.00 330 00 51.00 36.00 168 41 275.00 574 12 150 00 38 00 823 00 195 00 50.00 115 00 100 00 40.00 68650 230.00 150.00 Amounts granted before and since 1874. $95 38 47 50 38 25 35 75 100 00 164 00 Nassau Academy.... Phipps Union Seminary Princeton Academy. 10 07 150 00 66 70 1,080 00 48 72 68 75 830 00 1,279 00 250 00 85.88 75.00 4.53 771 51 167 00 84 28 253 79 520 50 106 00 87 00 70.77 15 61 24 25 53 18 Jefferson County Institute............ Jonesville Academy.. Monroe Academy Mt. Pleasant Academy........ Rochester Collegiate Inst. Schuylerville Academy.. Total to extinct Academies...... Total. $715 88 274 07 216 70 1,128 72 68 75 830 00 1,529 00 165 41 771 51 251 28 253 79 520 50 356 81 $129,149 30 $705.00 125 00 448 38 118 00 355 00 150 60 250.00 181 40 930 00 87 50 611 00 67 00 375 (0) 263 71 250 (0 987 60 200.00 518 00 758 49 250 00 230 00 50.00 500 60 375 00 66 18 400 00 750 00 500 00 230 00 125.00 543 CO 175 00 142 00 197 16 100 00 256 30 826.00 200 (0 456 00 237 25 150 00 100.00 250.00 179.00 100.00 $29,210 43 From the above deduct $750. 46, returned or not drawn, viz.: Riga returned, 1854, $200; North Salem, 1855, 817: Brookfield, 1856, $175; Geneva W. S., 1863, 816; Medina, 1863, $25; Cherry Valley, 1864, $250; Oneida Seminary, $52.46, and Pompey, $15. Total actually drawn and applied, $157,609.29. *Decrease. Increase Jover repet of previous year. CHAPTER XXVI. INSTRUCTION OF COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS IN THE ACADEMIES OF NEW YORK. [By ALBERT B. WATKINS, Assistant Secretary of the Regents.] The idea of a special education and training for teachers had taken root in Germany in the sixteenth century, and not long afterward had borne fruit in schools established for this purpose. The history of these teachers' seminaries, as they were called, was undoubtedly known to the men whose duty it was to lay the foundations of onr educational system, for in his annual message to the Legislature in 1826, Gov. De Witt Clinton recommends the establishment of "a seminary for the education of teachers in those useful branches of knowledge which are proper to engraft on elementary attainments." 991 1 The importance of providing means for the preparation of Common School teachers was a favorite theme with Governor De Witt Clinton. In his message of 1819, he said: The most durable impressions are derived from the first stages of education; ignorant and vicious preceptors, and injudicious and ill-arranged systems of educa |