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Page 319 - Nor is it a plea for a temporary enlargement of the school program appropriate merely to the period of the war. It is a plea for a realization in public education of the new emphasis which the war has given to the ideals of democracy and to the broader conceptions of national life.
Page 178 - Marcy trail. The fording of the river threw the hounds off for a time; she knew by their uncertain yelping, up and down the opposite bank, that she had a little respite ; she used it, however, to push on until the baying was faint in her ears, and then she dropped exhausted upon the ground.
Page 172 - You need a coal range in winter for kitchen warmth and for continuous hot-water supply, but in summer when you want a cool kitchen and less hot water, a gas range is better.
Page 178 - The courage of the panting fugitive was not gone : she was game to the tip of her high-bred ears. But the fearful pace at which she had just been going told on her. Her legs trembled, and her heart beat like a trip-hammer. She slowed her speed perforce, bat still fled industriously up the right bank of the stream.
Page 218 - ... pressure might be suggested as a reason for the unsatisfactory results, only thirty minutes daily having been devoted to arithmetic. The second school, however, gave forty-eight, while the third gave seventy-five. This certainly seems to indicate that a radical defect in the quality of instruction can not be offset by an increase in quantity. "If we now turn our attention from the three schools just mentioned and direct it to three near the top — Schools 2, 3 and 4, City I — we find the conditions...
Page 91 - There is thus a double movement in all reflection : a inductive movement from the given partial and confused data to a suggested comprehensive (or inclusive) entire situation ; and back from this suggested whole — which as suggested is a meaning, an idea — to the particular facts, so as to connect these with one another and with additional facts to which the suggestion has directed attention.
Page 182 - People hear with the eyes ears nose mouth The correct word is ears, because it makes the truest sentence. In each of the sentences below you have four choices for the last word. Only one of them is correct. In each sentence draw a line under the one of these four words which makes the truest sentence. If you cannot be sure, guess. The two samples are already marked as they should be. [ People hear with the eyes...
Page 74 - I should like to go away and have a good time on a farm. I should like to watch the men plowing the fields and planting corn, wheat, and oats and other things planted on farms. Next Saturday I will go to the Pioneer meeting if nothing happens so that I cannot go. I should like to go swimming but it is not warm enough and I would catch a bad cold. I should like to go to my aunts and drive the horses, I do not drive without some older person with me, so I cannot go very often. I should like to see...
Page 157 - ... performed ; (5) In selecting suitable men for various army duties or for special training in colleges or technical schools; (6) In the early formation of training groups within regiment or battery in order that each man may receive instruction and drill according to his ability to profit thereby; (7) In the early recognition of the mentally slow as contrasted with the stubborn or disobedient; (8) In the discovery of men whose low grade intelligence renders them either a burden or a menace to...
Page 168 - You will be given eight minutes to find the answers to as many of these addition examples as possible. Write the answers on this paper directly underneath the examples. You are not expected to be able to do them all. You will be marked .for both speed and accuracy, but it is more important to have your answers right than to try a great many examples.