...functions of the Office of Education and the areas we attempt to service. When we undertake to collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and territories, that is a very big order, and we are not filling it. We are simply...

...interests. In 1867 a national bureau of education was established " for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and...information respecting the organization and management of school systems and methods of teaching as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment...

...purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of educating in the several states and territories, and of diffusing...schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school...

...facts as shall show the condition and progress oí education in the several States and territories, diffusing such information respecting the organization...schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school...

...and facts showing the condition and progress of education in the United States, and to disseminate such information respecting the organization and management...schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school...

...Department of Education and charged it with broad responsibilities including: ", . . collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and territories, diffusing such information respecting the organization and management...

...Department of Education and charged it with broad responsibilities including: * * * collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and territories, diffusing such information respecting the organization and management...

...the Department of Education and charged it with broad responsibilities, including: Collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and territories, diffusing such information respecting the organization and management...

...Department of Education and charged it with broad responsibilities including: “. . .coflecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and territories, diffusing such information respecting the organization and management...

...established the first department of education, the Federal government's role was to collect and diffuse "such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several states and territories." At that time "diffusing" applied to the "diffusing of such Information...