Course of Study, Baltimore County, Maryland, Public Schools, Grades I-VIII

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Warwick & York, Incorporated, 1919 - Education - 698 pages

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Page 344 - Play up! Play up! and play the game!" The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that broke; — The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks, "Play up! Play up! and play the game!
Page 489 - With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 344 - Play up! play up! and play the game! " This is the word that year by year, While in her place the School is set, Every one of her sons must hear, And none that hears it dare forget. This they all with a joyful mind Bear through life like a torch in flame, And falling fling to the host behind — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 497 - The magnificent valley of the Mississippi is ours, with all its fountains, springs, and floods ; and woe to the statesman who shall undertake to surrender one drop of its water, one inch of its soil to any foreign power.
Page 478 - I am fully sensible of the consequences of discovery and capture in such a situation.
Page 492 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it sprang upon its feet.
Page 480 - Cornwallis led a country dance; The like was never seen, sir, — Much retrograde and much advance. And all with General Greene, sir. They rambled up and rambled down, Joined hands, then off they ran, sir, Our General Greene to Charlestown, The Earl to Wilmington, sir. Greene in the South then danced a set And got a mighty name, sir; Cornwallis jigged with young Fayette, But suffered in his fame, sir.
Page 492 - re much in a pet, And hundreds of houses will be to be let ; Our streets, that were just in a way to look clever, Will now be neglected and nasty as ever ; Again we must fret at the Dutchified gutters And pebble-stone pavements, that wear out our trotters. My master looks dull, and his spirits are sinking, From morning till night he is smoking and thinking, Laments the expense...
Page 326 - Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.
Page 69 - Reading, writing, drawing, manual training, musical technic, foreign tongues and their pronunciation, the manipulation of numbers and of geometrical elements, and many kinds of skill have now their golden hour, and if it passes unimproved, all these can never be acquired later without a heavy handicap of disadvantage and loss.

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