The Elementary School Teacher, Volume 13University of Chicago Press, 1913 - Education |
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Page 67 - SWING How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do! Up in the air and over the wall, Till I can see so wide, Rivers and trees and cattle and all Over the countryside — Till I look down on the garden green, Down on the roof so brown — Up in the air I go flying again, Up in the air and down!
Page 445 - That the selectmen of every town in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see, first, that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws, upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein...
Page 448 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 512 - Jackson parks, six miles south of the center of Chicago. Electric cars, elevated trains, and the Illinois Central suburban service reach all railway stations. The University Year is divided into quarters: the Autumn (October to December); the Winter (January to March); the Spring (April to the middle of June); the Summer (middle of June to August). Students are admitted at the opening of each quarter; graduation exercises are held at the close of each quarter. Admission to Colleges and Schools. —...
Page 122 - Washington and this Department. Beginning four years ago with a few gardens on the Department grounds and a little improvement work around a single school, the movement has grown until this year 700 children have gardens on the Department grounds, 124 school...
Page 21 - The Reader will observe that the Author has inserted under all those Rules, where it was proper, Examples with Blanks for his Practice. This was a Principal End to the Undertaking ; that such persons as were desirous thereof might have a comprehensive Collection of all the best Rules in the Art of Numbering, with Examples wrought by themselves. And that nothing might be wanting to favour this Design, the Impression is made upon several of the best sorts of Paper. This method is entirely new, * *...