The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 16Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock H.H. Metcalf, 1894 - New Hampshire |
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Page 374 - WHEN we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. As you drop the seed, as you plant the sapling; your left hand hardly knows what your right hand is doing. But Nature knows, and in due time the Power that sees and works in secret will reward you openly.
Page 218 - The recommendations of this report will draw the attention of great numbers of teachers to the question of educational values, and this will lead to a better understanding of what the pupil should study to gain the most from his work in school. In this respect I consider this the most important educational document ever published in this country.
Page 218 - Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low, — an excellent thing in woman.
Page 436 - XV & XVI. The Charles Men, by Verner von Heidenstam. Tales from the exploits of Charles XII, translated by CHARLES WHARTON STORK, with an Introduction by FREDRIK BOOK.
Page 219 - He should learn to estimate by the eye, and to measure with some degree, of accuracy, lengths, angular magnitudes, and areas ; to make accurate, plans from his own measurements and estimates ; and to make models of simple geometrical solids. The whole work in concrete geometry will connect itself on the one side with the work in arithmetic, and on the other with elementary instruction in physics. With the study of arithmetic is therefore to be intimately associated the study of algebraic signs and...
Page 205 - The effect of this measure was such, that at the last of the action, when the Alabama would have made off, she was near five miles from the shore, and had the action continued from the first in parallel lines, with her head in shore, the line of jurisdiction would no doubt have been reached. The firing of the Alabama from the first was rapid and wild; toward the close of the action her firing became better.
Page 219 - ... to win from it the kind of mental training it is fitted to supply; they put the different principal subjects on an approximate equality so far as time-allotment is concerned; they omit all short information courses; and they make sufficiently continuous the instruction in each of the main lines, namely, language, science, history and mathematics.
Page 205 - Kearsarge was immediately steamed ahead and laid across her bows for raking. The white flag was still flying, and our fire was again reserved. Shortly after this her boats were seen to be lowering, and an officer in one of them came alongside and informed us the ship had surrendered and was fast sinking. In twenty minutes from this time the Alabama went down.
Page 203 - Admiral at Cherbourg, assured him that in the event of an action occurring with the Alabama the position of the ships should be so far off shore that no question could be advanced about the line of jurisdiction.
Page 205 - I had endeavored, with a port helm, to close in with the Alabama ; but it was not until just before the close of the action, that we were in position to use grape.