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... American literature is the most fit instrument to this end . I have preferred to postulate what is inescapa- ble , that American literature of some sort our schools will have ; and my plea calls us away from the cheap , commonplace ...
... American literature is the most fit instrument to this end . I have preferred to postulate what is inescapa- ble , that American literature of some sort our schools will have ; and my plea calls us away from the cheap , commonplace ...
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... American boy in strength of constitution , intelligence , or endurance ; on the contrary , he is not so large a boy as the American , on an average , and he is not so well fed . A brief examination of these two pro- grammes side by side ...
... American boy in strength of constitution , intelligence , or endurance ; on the contrary , he is not so large a boy as the American , on an average , and he is not so well fed . A brief examination of these two pro- grammes side by side ...
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... American schools ; but the mother tongue does not yet hold anything like the place in American schools which French holds in the French schools . In the French lycées , geometry comes be- fore algebra , and with the help of draw- ing is ...
... American schools ; but the mother tongue does not yet hold anything like the place in American schools which French holds in the French schools . In the French lycées , geometry comes be- fore algebra , and with the help of draw- ing is ...
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AfterSuppers of the King | 89 |
Browning Courtship | 99 |
Eve of Independence | 131 |
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