The Addresses and Journal of Proceedings of the National Educational Association, Volume 29James H. Holmes, 1890 |
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... America and England ; and Whereas , The public schools constitute the only medium whereby a uniform sys- tem of amended ... American Philological Society with reference to the practicability of organizing an international conference to ...
... America and England ; and Whereas , The public schools constitute the only medium whereby a uniform sys- tem of amended ... American Philological Society with reference to the practicability of organizing an international conference to ...
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... American Humane Education Society is deserving of our hearty indorsement and sympathy , and that we recommend its literature as fostering the true Christian spirit which is appearing in its higher and completer manifestations in the ...
... American Humane Education Society is deserving of our hearty indorsement and sympathy , and that we recommend its literature as fostering the true Christian spirit which is appearing in its higher and completer manifestations in the ...
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... American institutions and culture . The family consisted of five children , of which he was the youngest , his only ... America as offering better opportunities , and in 1858 he emigrated with his family , settling in LaCrosse county ...
... American institutions and culture . The family consisted of five children , of which he was the youngest , his only ... America as offering better opportunities , and in 1858 he emigrated with his family , settling in LaCrosse county ...
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... American teachers . His work is done ; but he finds himself embarrassed in his old age by debts and mortgages to a vexatious degree . The suggestion has been made , and seconded by many of our best and most influential teachers , to ...
... American teachers . His work is done ; but he finds himself embarrassed in his old age by debts and mortgages to a vexatious degree . The suggestion has been made , and seconded by many of our best and most influential teachers , to ...
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... American institutions . Just as " waters know their own , and draw the brook that springs in yonder height , " so has the spirit of America drawn the spirit Froebel , its own unto itself . It would seem as if a great thought - wave had ...
... American institutions . Just as " waters know their own , and draw the brook that springs in yonder height , " so has the spirit of America drawn the spirit Froebel , its own unto itself . It would seem as if a great thought - wave had ...
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Page 208 - UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 215 - ... 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, in such manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 554 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power ; both angels, and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and joy.
Page 271 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 66 - Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.
Page 323 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 235 - If a teacher, though a genins, would attempt to "prove all things and hold fast to that which is good," he would keep on all through life proving things and would have no time to
Page 440 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administered is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 3 - Trustee shall be elected for one year, one for two years, one for three years, and one for four years, and...
Page 254 - In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces — or rather masks — that have looked out kindly upon one in casual encounters in the streets and highways. I love what Fuller beautifully calls — these