Excerpt from Tenth and Eleventh Annual Reports of the General Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of West Virginia: For the Years 1873 and 1874 The following sum maries of the school work in the State for the two years respectively, ending August 31st, 1873, and August 31st, 1874, exhibit such constant and healthy increase in our schools and school work generally, as will be very gratifying to the friends of our free school system, and also relieve such as were doubtful of its ultimate success of any further unfavorable apprehension on that subject. 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.