American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 32Office of American Journal of Education, 1882 Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... manner , temper , and in a thousand other minute matters which go towards the formation of habits . Where parents undertake the training of their children there is a special likelihood of imitation , because , in many cases , the latter ...
... manner , temper , and in a thousand other minute matters which go towards the formation of habits . Where parents undertake the training of their children there is a special likelihood of imitation , because , in many cases , the latter ...
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... manner as if ashamed of it , -in any of these cases it would be very much better , so far as children are concerned , that it should not be repeated at all . " Most people , " writes Preceptor , " would laugh at the assertion that grace ...
... manner as if ashamed of it , -in any of these cases it would be very much better , so far as children are concerned , that it should not be repeated at all . " Most people , " writes Preceptor , " would laugh at the assertion that grace ...
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... manner of children . But of course we are not to leave children at a stand , to be children always in thought and language . We must endeavor both to improve their style and to develop their faculty of thought , taking care that the ...
... manner of children . But of course we are not to leave children at a stand , to be children always in thought and language . We must endeavor both to improve their style and to develop their faculty of thought , taking care that the ...
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... manner of assenting . Some , out of a desire to please , will say " Yes , " in answer to the ques- tion , " Do you understand this ? " when , in reality , they do not under- stand it , but only remember it . Therefore , when a child ...
... manner of assenting . Some , out of a desire to please , will say " Yes , " in answer to the ques- tion , " Do you understand this ? " when , in reality , they do not under- stand it , but only remember it . Therefore , when a child ...
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... manner should be free from the preternatural dulness , which makes of a lesson a veritable imprison- ment to a lively boy . A story used to be told of my dear old college tutor , E. M. Cope , how , on one occasion , without changing one ...
... manner should be free from the preternatural dulness , which makes of a lesson a veritable imprison- ment to a lively boy . A story used to be told of my dear old college tutor , E. M. Cope , how , on one occasion , without changing one ...
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Page 285 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 285 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress...
Page 285 - Provided, That in no case shall any State to which land scrip may thus be Issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry...
Page 822 - It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in a regular gradation from township schools to a State University, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all.
Page 511 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 516 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 285 - State to which land scrip may thus be issued be allowed to locate the same within the limits of any other State or of any Territory of the United States, but their assignees may thus locate said land scrip upon any of the unappropriated lands of the United States subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre...
Page 778 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 285 - ... the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated, by each state which mav take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college...
Page 526 - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.