School Science and Mathematics, Volume 15

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Smith & Turton, 1915
 

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Página 29 - The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just and patient But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance. To the man who plays well, the highest stakes are paid, with that sort of overflowing generosity with which the strong shows delight in strength. And one who plays ill is checkmated — without haste, but without remorse.
Página 29 - Yet it is a very plain and elementary truth, that the life, the fortune, and the happiness of every one of us, and, more or less, of those who are connected with us, do depend upon our knowing something of the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than chess. It is a game which has been played for untold ages, every man and woman of us being one of the two players in a game of his or her own. The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules...
Página 29 - Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of every one of us would, one day or other, depend upon his winning or losing a game at chess. Don't you think that we should all consider it to be a primary duty to learn at least the names and the moves of the pieces, to have a notion of a gambit, and a keen eye for all the means of giving and getting out of check? Do you not think that we should look with a disapprobation amounting to scorn upon the father who allowed his son, or the...
Página 833 - Pennsylvania School Journal, Lancaster, Pa. Popular Educator, Boston, Mass. Primary Education, Boston, Mass. School and Home Education, Bloomington, 111. School Bulletin, Syracuse, NY School Century, Oak Park, 111. School Education, Minneapolis, Minn. School Journal, New York City. School News, Taylorville, 111. School Science and Mathematics, Chicago, 111. Sierra Educational News, San Francisco, Calif.
Página 758 - I will simply express my strong belief that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of daily life.
Página 225 - For remember that there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment.
Página 299 - Stellite" type,6 have also found application. The remarkable properties of the pure, metallic, ductile tungsten are, however, continually enlarging its field of application. This material is practically insoluble6 in any of the common acids; its melting point is higher than that of any other metal,' its tensile strength exceeds that of steel; it is para-magnetic; it can be drawn to smaller sizes than any other metal, and its specific gravity is 70 per cent.
Página 112 - The formula states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and altitude.
Página 647 - Training children to a competent and ready use of the dictionary and fixing the habit of consulting it is one of the main duties that the school can perform for the student.
Página 793 - Mathematics in the lower and middle commercial and industrial schools of various countries represented in the International commission on the teaching of mathematics.

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