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Page 90 - Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an
Page 245 - No history or other book shall be adopted for use or be used in any district school, city school, vocational school or high school which falsifies the facts regarding the war of independence, or the war of 1812, or which defames our nation's founders, or misrepresents the ideals and causes for which they struggled and sacrificed, or which contains propaganda favorable to any foreign government.
Page 137 - ... the great and fundamental facts of Nature and the laws of her operation." It has opened out the heavens to depths beyond imagination, weighed remote suns and analyzed them by light which left them before the dawn of history. It has moved the earth from the center of the universe to its proper place within the cosmos. It has extended the horizon of the mind until its sweep includes the...
Page 187 - Hitherto, the schools have done nothing with the view of developing children, like young trees, from the growing impulse of their own roots, but only with that of hanging them over with twigs broken off elsewhere. They teach youth to adorn themselves with others' feathers, like the crow in ^Esop's fables.
Page 243 - OF centennial sermons and Fourth-of-July orations, whether professedly such or in the guise of history, there are more than enough. It is due to our fathers and ourselves, it is due to truth and philosophy, to present for once, on the historic stage, the founders of our American nation unbedaubed with patriotic rouge, wrapped up in no fine-spun cloaks of excuses and apology, without stilts, buskins, tinsel, or bedizzenment, in their own proper persons, often rude, hard, narrow, superstitious, and...
Page 338 - It ain't the guns nor armament, nor funds that they can pay, But the close cooperation that makes them win the day; It ain't the individual, nor the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork of every bloomin
Page 159 - The articles were chosen to convey something of the idea of library work in schools, its reason for being, points of contact with modern education...
Page 174 - The one great idea which is best adapted to unify the course is that of the functional relation. The concept of a variable and of the dependence of one variable upon another is of fundamental importance to everyone. It is true that the general and abstract form of these concepts can become significant to the pupil only as a result of very considerable mathematical experience and training. There is...
Page 52 - Thoughtless, superficial, weak, even wicked men and women occasionally secure places of power and influence in our social system and probably will continue to do so for some time to come.
Page 90 - DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine ; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine ; But might I of Jove's nectar sup I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honoring thee, As giving it a hope that there It could not withered be. But thou thereon did'st only breathe And sent'st it back to me : Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.