Report Concerning the Public Schools, Volumes 11-15The Schools, 1882 |
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1st assistant 2d assistant 2d asst 2D TERM 4th assistant 4th asst ance the whole Anna arithmetic attendance the whole Average attendance Average number belonging B. R. Heisler BOYS cent city the present COMMITTEE Copy Book corporal punishment Dictation exercises E. G. Shortlidge Emma ENDING PRIMARY SCHOOL examination February Gawthrop GIRLS Grammar and Primary grammar grade Grammar School half-days of school High and Grammar High School Classes Hoffecker July 31 Kate lessons Miss Annie Miss Mary Miss Sallie MONTH ENDING PRIMARY Number admitt'd Number admitted Number expelled Number of applicants Number of half-days number of pupils number of seats Number of teachers Number of vacant Number perfect Number suspended Number transferred Number withdrawn perfect in attendance present school Principal Public Schools pupils belonging pupils enrolled reading recitation rooms Samuel F SCHOOL HOUSE September Shaw-Backus spelling tardiness teaching Total number vacant seats whole month whole number enrolled Willey WILMINGTON write
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Pagina 44 - Our mother, while she turned her wheel Or run the new-knit stocking-heel, Told how the Indian hordes came down At midnight on Cocheco town, And how her own great-uncle bore His cruel scalp-mark to fourscore. Recalling, in her fitting phrase, So rich and picturesque and free, (The common unrhymed poetry Of simple life and country ways,) The story of her early days...
Pagina 63 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Pagina 44 - I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools ; you can do much with them, but you are helpless without them.
Pagina 53 - That the leading object of the study of English grammar is to teach the correct use of English is, in my view, an error...
Pagina 63 - Nay, in some far-away and yet undreamt-of hour, I can even imagine that England may cast all thoughts of possessive wealth back to the barbaric nations among whom they first arose; and that, while the sands of the Indus and adamant of Golconda may yet stiffen the housings of the charger, and flash from the turban of the slave, she, as a Christian mother, may at last attain to the virtues and 46 the treasures of a Heathen one, and be able to lead forth her Sons, saying, — "These are My Jewels.
Pagina 61 - The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner. 'The...
Pagina 48 - The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading ; every man that tries it finds it so.
Pagina 43 - ABSENTEEISM. 1. In school the absence of a pupil entails absolute loss of opportunity which can never be recovered. The day, with all the possible advantages it offers at the beginning, can neither be recalled nor repeated when past. 2. The boy who learns to feel that he may neglect his duties, as a scholar, for trivial causes, for causes equally trivial will neglect his business when a man. 3. The absence of a pupil from school to-day makes the loss of lessons to-morrow inevitable, because he does...
Pagina 50 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
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