Connecticut School Document, Issues 1-13

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State Department of Education., 1913 - Education
 

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Page 14 - tis spring. The gay green grass comes creeping So soft beneath their feet ; The frogs begin to ripple A music clear and sweet. And buttercups are coming, And scarlet columbine ; And in the sunny meadows The dandelions shine. And just as many daisies As their soft hands can hold The little ones may gather, All fair in white and gold. Here blows the warm red clover, There peeps the violet blue ; O happy little children, God made them all for you ! Celia Thaxter.
Page 15 - There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in a tree — He's singing to you! he's singing to me! And what does he say, little girl, little boy? "Oh, the world's running over with joy! Don't you hear, don't you see? Hush ! look ! in my tree I'm as happy as happy can be.
Page 13 - The alder by the river Shakes out her powdery curls. The willow buds in silver For little boys and girls. The little birds fly over, And oh, how sweet they sing! To tell the happy children That once again 'tis spring.
Page 1 - He who plants a tree, He plants love; Tents of coolness spreading out above Wayfarers he may not live to see, Gifts that grow are best; Hands that bless are blest; Plant: Life does the rest!
Page 24 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 16 - The state board of education may at all times maintain, in any of the normal schools, one student, selected on the basis of scholarship and general fitness, from each town in the state having a valuation...
Page 33 - A line which joins the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to half of it.
Page 5 - The beams and siding, all parts that be; We plant the house when we plant the tree. What do we plant...
Page 4 - America." Joy for the sturdy trees! Fanned by each fragrant breeze, Lovely they stand! The song birds o'er them trill, They shade each tinkling rill, They crowd each swelling hill, Lowly or grand. Plant them by stream and way, Plant where the children play And toilers rest, In every verdant vale, On every sunny swale, Whether to grow or fail, — God knoweth best.
Page 5 - ... of such schools, and shall annually make to the governor a report of the condition of...

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