People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — No More Starts in Boston Schools. [ARTICLE]

No More Starts in Boston Schools.

Slate and slate pencils have been bams le I from Boston schools by ofiical d.ctnm. Tic I.gut-gray mark on the only sightly darkened slate surface is pronounc i I very trying to the eye, aud the operation of erasing, us most often practiced bv children, is not only uncleanly, but unwholesome as well. So the slates nave gone, and piper.an I pencils have come.