Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of Instruction ... Including the Journal of Proceedings, Volume 55American Institute of Instruction, 1884 List of members included in each volume, beginning with 1891. |
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... Greek in the Colleges . " ( See Lectures . ) FOURTH DAY . THURSDAY MORNING , JULY 10 . ― The Institute re - assembled at the usual hour , the President in the chair . A business meeting having been announced for the opening hour , Mr. M ...
... Greek in the Colleges . " ( See Lectures . ) FOURTH DAY . THURSDAY MORNING , JULY 10 . ― The Institute re - assembled at the usual hour , the President in the chair . A business meeting having been announced for the opening hour , Mr. M ...
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... Greek and Latin , and says that his position is justified by the great value in education of knowing well . some other cultivated language and literature than one's own , and by the peculiar value of those particular lan- guages and ...
... Greek and Latin , and says that his position is justified by the great value in education of knowing well . some other cultivated language and literature than one's own , and by the peculiar value of those particular lan- guages and ...
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... Greek and the Latin languages have been chosen as the best means of mental discipline , and of producing that important mental habit of making a careful distinction between words and things . The study of the grammar of a language , if ...
... Greek and the Latin languages have been chosen as the best means of mental discipline , and of producing that important mental habit of making a careful distinction between words and things . The study of the grammar of a language , if ...
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... Greek and Roman authors without learning the value of skill in the use of language ; of using no more words than one has ideas to express by them ; of selecting appropriate words ; of putting the right words in the right places , and of ...
... Greek and Roman authors without learning the value of skill in the use of language ; of using no more words than one has ideas to express by them ; of selecting appropriate words ; of putting the right words in the right places , and of ...
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... Greek in the gram- mar or college - fitting schools , and reading and writing in the English schools . Books were scarce . There was the Bible everywhere and always . There was the " Bay State Psalm Book " that sounded the depths of ...
... Greek in the gram- mar or college - fitting schools , and reading and writing in the English schools . Books were scarce . There was the Bible everywhere and always . There was the " Bay State Psalm Book " that sounded the depths of ...
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Página 82 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Página 238 - And Nature, the old nurse, took The child upon her knee, Saying: "Here is a story-book Thy Father has written for thee." "Come wander with me," she said, "Into regions yet untrod, And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God." And he wandered away and away With Nature, the dear old nurse, Who sang to him night and day The rhymes of the universe. And whenever the way seemed long, Or his heart began to fail, She would sing a more wonderful song, Or tell a more marvellous tale.
Página 28 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Página 27 - Ring out the grief that saps the mind, For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind.
Página 162 - Now, the broad shield complete, the artist crowned With his last hand, and poured the ocean round ; In living silver seemed the waves to roll, And beat the buckler's verge, and bound the whole.
Página 21 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound Save his own dashings...
Página 163 - I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Página 69 - I shall confine myself, however, to education in the narrower sense ; the culture which each generation purposely gives to those who are to be its successors, in order to qualify them for at least keeping up, and if possible for raising, the level of improvement which has been attained.
Página 191 - The instruction of the people in every kind of knowledge that can be of use to them in the practice of their moral duties as men, citizens, and Christians, and of their political and civil duties as members of society and freemen...
Página 162 - Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth, across the whole Continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the beautiful description of the ornamental...