. Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system . l provisions of the State. In this endeavor hewas ably assisted by the intelligent and practical aid rendered himby Rev. C. Cornforth and Mrs. E. E. Hutter, who, as Inspectors, werealready acquainted with the workings and details of the schools; andin regard to the clerical work of the Department, he was relievedfrom the perplexity incident to a new bureau by the assistance ofexperienced clerks. During the annual vacation following the assumption o
. Pennsylvania's soldiers' orphan schools, giving a brief account of the origin of the late civil war, the rise and progress of the orhpan system . l provisions of the State. In this endeavor hewas ably assisted by the intelligent and practical aid rendered himby Rev. C. Cornforth and Mrs. E. E. Hutter, who, as Inspectors, werealready acquainted with the workings and details of the schools; andin regard to the clerical work of the Department, he was relievedfrom the perplexity incident to a new bureau by the assistance ofexperienced clerks. During the annual vacation following the assumption of the Super-intendency of the orphans, Dr. Wickersham caused orders of ad-mission to be issued to all the children whose applications were onfile in the Department, amounting in all to nearly five hundred, someof which had been awaiting action for several years. He also decidedthat in the future all children making proper application should atonce be assigned to suitable institutions. The Legislature of 1871had also removed the restriction which kept the orphans under eightyears of age from the schools. This generous policy of the Super- 138. Pennsylvanias soldiers orphan schools. 139 intendent and the State, white it silenced complaints of an unjustdiscrimination, which admitted some and rejected others no less needyand deserving, kept the number of children in the schools fromdiminishing. During the year ending May 31, 1872, the wholenumber receiving aid from the system was four thousand three hun-dred and twenty-five; and there were left in the charge of the State,after all discharges, three thousand five hundred and twenty-seven. In order to learn the wants of these schools, better to becomeacquainted with those having immediate charge of the children, andto secure uniformity of action, Superintendent Wickersham called ameeting of the Principals, who met in the rooms of the Department,at Harrisburg, on the 7th of September, 1871. After a few explana-tory remarks by the Supe
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