Through Boyhood to Manhood: A Plea for IdealsLongmans, Green, 1899 - 194 pages |
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... boys of their own to educate , or who are responsible for the education of other peoples ' , will find in this little book a great deal of good advice . " - Glasgow Herald . All parents who have boys at school should read it . Its ...
... boys of their own to educate , or who are responsible for the education of other peoples ' , will find in this little book a great deal of good advice . " - Glasgow Herald . All parents who have boys at school should read it . Its ...
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... boys , as little lads , leave home for a preparatory school , or when , as boys just verging into young manhood , they leave a preparatory school for a public school . As one whose life has been spent in great part among boys in their ...
... boys , as little lads , leave home for a preparatory school , or when , as boys just verging into young manhood , they leave a preparatory school for a public school . As one whose life has been spent in great part among boys in their ...
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... boys ' lives when they send them to school . I wanted to make my point that parents ought not so much to feel that they are " sending a boy to school , " sending him into a new atmosphere , to be under new influences , as that they are ...
... boys ' lives when they send them to school . I wanted to make my point that parents ought not so much to feel that they are " sending a boy to school , " sending him into a new atmosphere , to be under new influences , as that they are ...
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... boys in public schools . The life of a boy in a preparatory school of the best sort is not much different from the ... boys go to a large public school they are gone from us indeed ; the best part of them , the immortal part of them ? Do ...
... boys in public schools . The life of a boy in a preparatory school of the best sort is not much different from the ... boys go to a large public school they are gone from us indeed ; the best part of them , the immortal part of them ? Do ...
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... boys ' formation of character as men ? And what is the influence to which we are thus handing them over ? In sending boys to a preparatory school parents feel to a large extent that there is at the head of the school life there a ...
... boys ' formation of character as men ? And what is the influence to which we are thus handing them over ? In sending boys to a preparatory school parents feel to a large extent that there is at the head of the school life there a ...
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