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DEPARTMENT OF
, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE JUN 1 71957 LIBRANY
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Compositions in School,
CONTENTS.
VOLUME SEVEN.
A Domestic Scene...."The King's English,"
A Plea for Amusement and Physical Culture,
Knowledge and Education,
Chock-Full of Teeter....Schools in Winter
The Yankee Aladdin
The World Harvest....Motives,
What a Spider Can Do,
Partiality,
Address at Baltimore,
A Teacher's Views,
Newspapers and Education,
Forbidden Fruit,
Physical Culture........My First Teacher,
The Reward,
Physical Culture in Amherst College,
Heat from the Stars,
Government of Children,
Pull it up by the Roots.
New Statesmen....The Selfish Pool,
Aphorisms.-Daily Food for Teachers,
The Use of English Classical Literature,
Schools, 38....Learning,....Sketch of Pekin,
Duty of all Men to Labor for the Public Good,
Snow Storm in the Olden Time,
"As thy Days so shall thy Strength Be,
The Secret Revealed,
Absenteeism....Genius of Energy,
Mechanics....Examination in Rhetoric,
Rules for Good Habits,
Dedication Poem of O. Warwick School House
The Fall of Table Rock,
Home Sermon,-Pure Conversation,
Sleep a Necessity,
History,
Strike the Knot...."Back to the Wilderness,"
The Power of the Hutian Features,
What Constitutes Fitness for the Teacher's
Work?
Bean Gymnastics....Writing,
Let it Go,
Questions on Sea Terms and Phrases,
Good Habits Indispensable,
An Extract from an Unpublished Poem, enti-
tled, The Golden Era,
Intellectual Education,
About Teaching Reading,
Education of Royal Children,
The Smack in School,....The Great Problem,
The Passing Cloud....Reading,....I and J,
The Child at Play,
Samples of Fine English,
The Income of a Chinese Schoolmaster,
The Importance of the Dictionary in the
School-Room,
All's for the Best....The New Equine Philo-
sophy,
An Extract from the Illinois School Report,
Not Ashamed of Ridicule,
The Three Homes,
Why do Books continue to be Written?
The City by the Sea.
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68 The Ragged Schools of England,
69 The Teacher's True Mission,
70 The Way the English Bring Up Children,
71A Chapter on Quacks, 198....War Terms,
72 Robin Gray....The Valley of the Nile,
Hints for Those who Need Them,
73 The Right of Secession, 204....Exhibitions,
74 Recollections of a Schoolmaster,
76 Physical Constitution of the Sun,
76 Patriotism, 225.....The Greatest Navigable
77 Stream of the Old World,
79 Aunt Bethia's School,
81 The New England Schools, 229....Order,
82 School-Rooms Should be Attractive.
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85 Compromise, 233....The Habit of Neatness,
Things, 233....Take Care of Little Things,
97 Physical Education, 236....The True Thing, 239
Queries and Replies, 238....The Race of Life, 244
99 The Sewing Machine,
240
100 To Clear the Eye of Dust,
102 School Goes Wrong,-Where's the Blame?
104 The Lily of the Field,
242
104 The Common School Teacher,
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