Through Boyhood to Manhood: A Plea for IdealsLongmans, Green, 1899 - 194 pages |
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... harm , con- tentedly to consent to circumstances in public- school life which must inevitably lead to a state of things where sin and evil can exist unchecked ? Because the life of our public schools is such that by this life a man may ...
... harm , con- tentedly to consent to circumstances in public- school life which must inevitably lead to a state of things where sin and evil can exist unchecked ? Because the life of our public schools is such that by this life a man may ...
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... harm . It is right , it is necessary , if we are right in our estimate of the manly character , that boys should at a comparatively early age be thrown upon their own resources ; that they should be taught to face the battle of life to ...
... harm . It is right , it is necessary , if we are right in our estimate of the manly character , that boys should at a comparatively early age be thrown upon their own resources ; that they should be taught to face the battle of life to ...
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... harmful manner " . But why is there this danger , why is it that one shrinks from altogether approving schools where re- ligion and religious matters are put first and foremost ? If one were to bring up one's son to the age of fourteen ...
... harmful manner " . But why is there this danger , why is it that one shrinks from altogether approving schools where re- ligion and religious matters are put first and foremost ? If one were to bring up one's son to the age of fourteen ...
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... harmful to their natures ; yet there are not sufficient of these parents and men of experience to outweigh those who do not think upon the matter at all , or who give it so slight a consideration that they get no farther than the ...
... harmful to their natures ; yet there are not sufficient of these parents and men of experience to outweigh those who do not think upon the matter at all , or who give it so slight a consideration that they get no farther than the ...
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... harm . They are about the only natural taste that is allowed to be good for children to indulge in , and why , when the indulgence in them is so harmful ? In dealing with little children , I think the habit grows up of letting them eat ...
... harm . They are about the only natural taste that is allowed to be good for children to indulge in , and why , when the indulgence in them is so harmful ? In dealing with little children , I think the habit grows up of letting them eat ...
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