Excerpt from Sixty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Sixty-Ninth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board, 1904-1905; January, 1906 In the death of Dr. George H. Conley, which took place at his home in Brookline, on Dec. 20, 1905, the Board has' been called upon to mourn a second time within the year the loss of one of its most experienced members. Dr. Conley was appointed a member of the Board by Gov. Wil liam E. Russell in 1893, to succeed the Rev. A. A. Miner. His scholarship, his experience and his personal qualities had made him prominent in educational circles, and amply justified his selection. All of these gifts, personal and professional, he placed at the service of the State, and for nearly thirteen years bore his part in the administrative work of the Board. During the whole period of his service he was a member of the Board of Visitors of the State Normal School at Framingham and of the State Normal Art School in Boston. It was due to his efforts that working relations were established between the art school and the public schools of Boston, by which the students of the school were given Opportunity to observe and practice in the public schools, and a way Opened for the graduates to become regular teachers. On the establishment of the school at Lowell he was made chairman of the Board of Visitors. This position was especially congenial to him, because Lowell had been his early home and the scene of his earliest professional success, and he gave to the new school his fullest sympathy and support. In the annual report of the Board, written by him in 1900, he dealt in a broad and wise way with the normal schools, the elective system in high schools, the relation of the high schools to the col leges, manual training. In the high schools, and the personal rela tion of the teacher to the pupil. This report attracted wide atten tion, from the importance of the subjects treated and the general soundness of. The views expressed. He was judicious, tactful and impartial in dealing with many delicate problems which it became his duty to solve. In his death the State has lost a gifted citizen and a valued public servant, and the Board a useful and companionable member. 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.