Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1884 - Digital images |
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... be devised which would be better adapted than any of our existing systems to agricultural communities , where the population is unaccustomed to mechanical pursuits ? Fourth question . - What is the practical value of The programme.
... be devised which would be better adapted than any of our existing systems to agricultural communities , where the population is unaccustomed to mechanical pursuits ? Fourth question . - What is the practical value of The programme.
Page 66
... better fostered . As in the learned professions boards of examiners and committees on character are acknowledged to be of importance , so , it is submitted , the establishment of shorthand societies , whose certificates shall carry a ...
... better fostered . As in the learned professions boards of examiners and committees on character are acknowledged to be of importance , so , it is submitted , the establishment of shorthand societies , whose certificates shall carry a ...
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... better helpes for the ease of the said arte : the order of orthographie , most brieflie set down , for the speedie writing of true English : the key of kalygraphie , open- ing the readie way to write faire : in briefe rules deliuered ...
... better helpes for the ease of the said arte : the order of orthographie , most brieflie set down , for the speedie writing of true English : the key of kalygraphie , open- ing the readie way to write faire : in briefe rules deliuered ...
Page 190
... better conditions , will , it is hoped , show a more favorable result in 1890 . The statistics respecting the native white illiterates of 1880 presented in Table 20 confirm this hope to some extent . The local school activity in the ...
... better conditions , will , it is hoped , show a more favorable result in 1890 . The statistics respecting the native white illiterates of 1880 presented in Table 20 confirm this hope to some extent . The local school activity in the ...
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... better education of the female sex shown in the last four tables disap- pears in these . The white women of both enumerations were more illit- erate than the white men . There was a manifest improvement in this respect , however ...
... better education of the female sex shown in the last four tables disap- pears in these . The white women of both enumerations were more illit- erate than the white men . There was a manifest improvement in this respect , however ...
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Page 484 - If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Page 321 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amid the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
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Page 133 - The Pointed Prayer Book, being the Book of Common Prayer with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in Churches.
Page 484 - A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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