Excerpt from School Document No. 3-1926, Boston Public Schools: Catalogue, the Teachers College of the City of Boston, 1925-1926 After two years, however, it was found that girls fresh from the grammar schools were not fit candidates for normal training. In 1854 the School Committee, therefore, with a View to adapting the school to the double purpose of giving the students high school and normal instruction, caused the introduction of a few additional branches of study, and a Slight alteration in the arrangement of the course and called it the Girls' High and Normal School. 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.