Manual Training Magazine, Volume 1University of Chicago Press, 1900 |
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Page 32 - Fresh pearls to their enamel gave, And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me. I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Page 32 - I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; He sings the song, but it cheers not now, For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye.
Page 57 - We are students of words : we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.
Page 117 - To that his wistful eye Turns, while he hears his mother's lullaby; His hoarded cents he gladly gives to get it, Then leaves no stone unturned till he can whet it; And in the education of the lad No little part that implement hath had.
Page 173 - Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful!
Page 225 - Licenses to teach shall be issued by the city superintendent of schools for a period of one year, which may be renewed without examination in case the work of the holder is satisfactory to the [borough] city superintendent for two successive years. At the close of the third year of continuous, successful service, the city superintendent may make the license permanent.
Page 117 - The Yankee boy, before he's sent to school. Well knows the mysteries of that magic tool, The pocketknife.
Page 116 - The new education is earnestly advocated by men who have lost none of their appreciation of the supreme value of the literary and classical disciplines. But these disciplines have their limitations and are not fitted to all. The new system, which is not altogether new, ' ' teaches that neither the eye nor the hand nor the head can dispense with mutual cooperation and aid.
Page 21 - Defectives), with subjects as follows: athletics and calesthenics, mechanical drawing, molding, sloyd, chipping, and filing; each subject one and one half hours per day, five days per week. "Here begins a phenomenal change. The first month of his assignment he made a perfect record, and was restored to the second grade. From this time on there was a sustained effort to improve. The influence of intelligent, systematic, and entertaining employment, based upon principles fundamentally correct, began...
Page 151 - THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE AND DOMESTIC ECONOMY, is THERE ANY USEFUL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE WHICH CAN BE TAUGHT OUTSIDE THE EXISTING AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS, TO FARMERS* BOYS AND GIRLS, EITHER IN EXISTING SCHOOLS, OR IN SCHOOLS TO BE SPECIALLY ORGANIZED FOR SUCH WORK?