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Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School to the Common Council of the City of Chicago: For the Year Ending March 31, 1865
The Board Of Guardians of the Chicago Reform School respectfully present the accompanying Report of George W. Perkins, Superintendent, for the year ending March 31st, 1865, to which we refer you for detail in every department, confident that it will repay a careful perusal, and that you will agree with us that Righteousness exalteth a nation, but Sin is a reproach to any people. During the past year we have erected a comfortable brick dwelling house for the Superintendent and Assistants. We have also made some changes to further carry out our former plan of family depart ments, keeping the small and ignorant in crime or mischief from older and more corrupt boys. Additional buildings are, however, needed, before we can hope to Work as success fully as is desirable upon this plan. The progress in the School Department of the Institution is believed to be greater than ever before. It is a matter of surprise that, where free public schools are SO numerous and SO well conducted as they are in Chicago, SO many boys are entirely without education when they enter the Reform School, a number not even having a knowledge Of the alphabet. 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.
