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Page 14 - The opinion expressed in one report, which the author cites from a very reputable source, is, that, "if the public money were withheld, two-thirds of the schools would be closed, not because the people are not abundantly able to maintain them, but on account of a want of interest."* And, in the Chicago report, the same fact is illustrated by the frivolousness of the excuses that are rendered for tardiness, which in some respects is worse, both for teacher and pupil, than absence: "had to run on an...