Note 536 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks
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The controversy related to Public School Number 5. The Public School Society was organized in 1805 and gradually extended its activities until 1853, when it gave its buildings and property to the City Board of Education. See Bourne, William Oland, History of the Public School Society of the City of New York (New York, 1870), p. 324 et seq.