Report of the Superintendent of Public InstructionState Printers., 1896 - Education |
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... persons is 50 per cent less than the average number of arrests of the same class of persons for the corresponding months ... person . In my opinion the rigid enforcement of the truant law , together with the mainte- nance of the ungraded ...
... persons is 50 per cent less than the average number of arrests of the same class of persons for the corresponding months ... person . In my opinion the rigid enforcement of the truant law , together with the mainte- nance of the ungraded ...
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... person who holds it . EXAMINATIONS FOR CITY TEACHERS . Most cities and villages have complied with the law requiring certain examination of city teachers or of applicants for positions in city schools . Few indeed fail to see the ...
... person who holds it . EXAMINATIONS FOR CITY TEACHERS . Most cities and villages have complied with the law requiring certain examination of city teachers or of applicants for positions in city schools . Few indeed fail to see the ...
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... person who is to be a citizen of the Republic . A review of other branches of earlier years would also save humiliation of high school graduates at teachers ' examinations , and fit such graduates better to teach the topics of ...
... person who is to be a citizen of the Republic . A review of other branches of earlier years would also save humiliation of high school graduates at teachers ' examinations , and fit such graduates better to teach the topics of ...
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... Persons are received into them from all parts of the State , and many who were a public charge to the counties have been cured and restored to lives of activity . The Department of Engineering has been organized , and instruction is ...
... Persons are received into them from all parts of the State , and many who were a public charge to the counties have been cured and restored to lives of activity . The Department of Engineering has been organized , and instruction is ...
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... persons of very moderate means can obtain here a good education . ) The graduating classes number now a little over 700 students , more than those of any other American University . Harvard University alone has more students . The ...
... persons of very moderate means can obtain here a good education . ) The graduating classes number now a little over 700 students , more than those of any other American University . Harvard University alone has more students . The ...
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Page 299 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 325 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Page 315 - Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not 'seems.' 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black...
Page 316 - And how did Garrick speak the soliloquy last night? — Oh, against all rule, my Lord, — most ungrammatically! betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case and gender, he made a breach thus, — stopping, as if the point wanted settling; and betwixt the nominative case., which your lordship knows should govern the verb, he suspended his voice in the epilogue a dozen times, three seconds and three fifths by a stop-watch, my Lord, each time.
Page 330 - King of two hands, he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 55 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 330 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play ! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own ! We sped the time with stories old, Wrought puzzles out, and riddles told, Or stammered from our school-book lore " The Chief of Gambia's golden shore.
Page 315 - Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief, That can denote me truly: These, indeed, seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within, which passeth show; These, but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 29 - GREAT nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last.
Page 298 - The areas of two similar polygons are to each other as the squares of any two homologous sides.