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Page 101 - one of the visitors of the college. He says: "I effected during my residence in Williamsburg that year, a change in the organization of that institution, by abolishing the grammar school and the two professorships of divinity and oriental languages, and substituting a professorship of law and
Page 182 - Gross anatomy of a typical root; position and origin of secondary roots; hair-zone, cap and growing-point. Specialized and metamorphosed roots. General structure and distribution of the leading tissues of the root. The Flower. Structure of a typical flower, especially of ovule and pollen; functions of the parts. Comparative morphological study of six or more different marked
Page 314 - I will consent to load my constituents with taxes when we can send to our printer and get a wagon load of money, one quire of which will pay for the whole?"
Page 449 - TEACH THE CHILDREN Not to spit; it is rarely necessary. To spit on a slate .floor, or sidewalk, is an abomination. Not to put the fingers into the mouth. Not to pick the nose. Not to wet the finger with saliva in turning the leaves of books. Not to put
Page 449 - sneezing if they are facing another person. Children should be taught that their bodies are their own private possessions, that personal cleanliness is a duty, that the mouth is for eating and speaking, and should not be used as a pocket, and the lips should not take the place of fingers.
Page 183 - Although for convenience of reference, the physiological topics are here grouped together, they should by no means be studied by themselves and apart from anatomy and morphology. On the contrary, they should be taken up along with the study of the structures in which the processes occur, and which they help to explain;
Page 319 - To discover the exceptional man in every department of study whenever and wherever found, and enable him to make the work for which he seems specially designed his life work.
Page 184 - A comprehensive summary of the great natural groups of plants, based upon the thorough study of the structure, reproduction and adaptations to habitat of one or two types from each group, supplemented and extended by more rapid study of other forms in those groups. Where living material
Page 449 - Not to swap apple cores, candy, chewing gum. half-eaten food, whistles or bean blowers, or anything that is habitually put in the mouth. Teach the children to turn the face aside when coughing or sneezing if they are facing another person.
Page 184 - The topics in Ecology, (particularly the first four and in part the fifth) like those in Physiology, are to be studied not by themselves, but along with the structures with which they are most closely connected, as cross-pollination with the flower, dissemination with the seed, etc. The fifth and sixth may most advantageously be studied with