Word: council
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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This latter was assisted by a council of thirty members, chosen from the high functionaries of the University, professors and others. All France was divided into Academies, under the immediate supervision of a Rector, and a council over which he presided...
...This council was charged with the "surveillance" of the schools, and other institutions of instruction in its own district. Each department had also its inspector and council...
...council is differently constituted, the church element being now represented as well as the laity. Nevertheless, the system itself has undergone no essential change since the year 1808, when Napoleon I. instituted it. Now that we have become acquainted with the organization of the University, and the relation to it of the different branches of public instruction, let us examine the instruction itself, which, as you know, divides itself into three departments, - primary, secondary, and superior instruction. In my next letter I shall speak of the first degree of instruction, - the Primary schools...