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Page 97 - SALUTE TO THE FLAG. We give our heads and our hearts to our country. One country, one language, one flag.
Page 109 - We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners.
Page 100 - ... rejoice. Here was an act that crowned the whole culture of his life. All the past, the free boyhood in the woods, the free youth upon the farm, the free manhood in the honorable citizen's employments — all his freedom gathered and completed itself in this. And as the swarthy multitudes came in ragged, and tired, and hungry, and ignorant, but free forever from anything but the memorial scars of the fetters and the...
Page 13 - The purpose of the original law giving state aid to high schools in Wisconsin was to encourage the development of township or rural high schools. But as few took advantage of it, the second class of high school districts in towns and villages received the major portion of the appropriation. Approved schools are entitled to receive from the general fund of the state, annually, one-half the amount actually expended for instruction therein. No school may receive more than $500. The total amount appropriated...
Page 62 - ... as far as practicable any delinquent child shall be treated, not as a criminal, but as misdirected and misguided, and needing aid, encouragement, help and assistance.
Page 103 - We are a republic whereof one man is as good as another before the law. Under such a form of government it is of the greatest importance that all should be possessed of education and intelligence enough to cast a vote with a right understanding of its meaning.
Page 19 - The directors or controllers of every district receiving aid in accordance with section four of this act shall employ for said high school at least one teacher legally certified to teach bookkeeping, civics, general history, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, including plane surveying, rhetoric, English literature. Latin, including Caesar, Virgil and Cicero, and the elements of physics, chemistry, including the chemistry of soils, botany, geology and zoology, including entomology, and no teacher shall...
Page 158 - ... special branch for the teaching of which a certificate is desired, some general education and culture will be required, as a certificate cannot be granted on account of proficiency in one subject only. 4. Subjects. The holder of a special certificate will be authorized to teach the branch specified, in any public school in the state for a period of five years. Section 2631.
Page 100 - WE cannot all be Washingtons, And have our birthdays celebrated ; But we can love the things he loved, And we can hate the things he hated. He loved the truth, he hated lies; He minded what his mother taught him, And every day he tried to do The simple duties that it brought him.
Page 13 - each free high school shall offer at least a twelve weeks' course of instruction each year in the theory and art of teaching; in the organization, management, and course of study of ungraded schools; and in the duties of citizens in the organization and administration of local school systems. Such a course of instruction shall be open to all students...