The North-western Monthly: A Magazine Devoted to University Extension and to the Problems of Education, Volume 81897 - Education |
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... called one afternoon at a sixth - grade room and asked the children to select several from their num- ber to compose a spelling club . Immediately after the selection I took the club to a school of the same grade in another building ...
... called one afternoon at a sixth - grade room and asked the children to select several from their num- ber to compose a spelling club . Immediately after the selection I took the club to a school of the same grade in another building ...
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... called them , were our " abnormals , " - that is , those whose brains were unstable , uncertain , and erratic , and whose scholarship was the lowest . Those who were weak mentally , whose moral natures were weak or warped , and those ...
... called them , were our " abnormals , " - that is , those whose brains were unstable , uncertain , and erratic , and whose scholarship was the lowest . Those who were weak mentally , whose moral natures were weak or warped , and those ...
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... called a system , —was a re- vival of the Greek education of the body . Under a mistaken notion among educators , the training of the body sank to its lowest ebb , to be revived by the German teacher , Gutsmuths ( 1759 ) , who may be ...
... called a system , —was a re- vival of the Greek education of the body . Under a mistaken notion among educators , the training of the body sank to its lowest ebb , to be revived by the German teacher , Gutsmuths ( 1759 ) , who may be ...
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... called attention to the fact that women had bodies as well as men , and that their muscles were made for use , and that an all - round and all - sided use . About the same time the pedestrian craze took possession of the public , and ...
... called attention to the fact that women had bodies as well as men , and that their muscles were made for use , and that an all - round and all - sided use . About the same time the pedestrian craze took possession of the public , and ...
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... called who took to physical culture , has died slowly , but surely , until to - day physical culture , both for girls and boys , is on a strong footing ; is recognized as a serious part of education , and is gradually working itself ...
... called who took to physical culture , has died slowly , but surely , until to - day physical culture , both for girls and boys , is on a strong footing ; is recognized as a serious part of education , and is gradually working itself ...
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Page 512 - Resolved, that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 284 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 286 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary " The motion for postponing was seconded by Mr.
Page 154 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 512 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 511 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 222 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Page 222 - Britain ; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, had, hath, and of right ought to have, full Power and Authority to make Laws and Statutes of sufficient Force and Validity to bind the Colonies and People of America, Subjects of the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases whatsoever.
Page 462 - I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races...
Page 405 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and -thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.