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... room . This I am firmly convinced is positively injurious to health , and results in but little , if any , good professionally . The teachers of Iowa are loyal and uncomplaining . Though they are annually contributing about $ 50,000 in ...
... room . This I am firmly convinced is positively injurious to health , and results in but little , if any , good professionally . The teachers of Iowa are loyal and uncomplaining . Though they are annually contributing about $ 50,000 in ...
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... rooms in graded schools , 5,766 ; first class certificates issued , 2,917 ; number of persons holding state certifi- cates , and diplomas , 1,285 ; total 4,242 . This is 1,564 less than the required number of teachers to fill the rooms ...
... rooms in graded schools , 5,766 ; first class certificates issued , 2,917 ; number of persons holding state certifi- cates , and diplomas , 1,285 ; total 4,242 . This is 1,564 less than the required number of teachers to fill the rooms ...
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... as follows : WASHINGTON No. 3. - School has closed and pupils transported to Otter- ville where they have a two - room building . The experiment proved very satisfactory , and in my judgment No. 3 would not 48 [ No. 14 REPORT OF THE.
... as follows : WASHINGTON No. 3. - School has closed and pupils transported to Otter- ville where they have a two - room building . The experiment proved very satisfactory , and in my judgment No. 3 would not 48 [ No. 14 REPORT OF THE.
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... room . The classes being fewer and classification better , enables the teacher to care for more pupils , to concentrate her forces and make better preparation for her work . More individual work can be done . After the first expense ...
... room . The classes being fewer and classification better , enables the teacher to care for more pupils , to concentrate her forces and make better preparation for her work . More individual work can be done . After the first expense ...
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... room were dispensed with , and the net saving above the cost of transportation was $ 50 a month . The patrons can see and estimate the merits of the system The plan is working well and there is no thought of opening Wood- bury school ...
... room were dispensed with , and the net saving above the cost of transportation was $ 50 a month . The patrons can see and estimate the merits of the system The plan is working well and there is no thought of opening Wood- bury school ...
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Page 382 - State which may take and claim the benefit of this act, to the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 123 - Association," for the full period of twenty years, the purpose and objects of which are to elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States...
Page 242 - The work should comprise, in addition to the elementary course, the reading of about 400 pages of moderately difficult prose and poetry, with constant practice in giving, sometimes orally and sometimes in writing, paraphrases, abstracts, or reproductions from memory of selected portions of the matter read; also grammatical drill upon the less usual strong verbs, the use of articles, cases, auxiliaries of all kinds, tenses and modes (with special reference to the infinitive and subjunctive), and likewise...
Page 244 - French easy variations upon the texts read ; (3) frequent abstracts, sometimes oral and sometimes written, of portions of the text already read; (4) writing French from dictation; (5) continued drill upon the rudiments of grammar, with constant application in the construction of sentences ; (6) mastery of the forms and use of pronouns, pronominal adjectives, of all but the rare irregular verb forms, and of the simpler uses of the conditional and subjunctive.
Page 240 - The memorizing and frequent repetition of easy colloquial sentences. 3. Drill upon the rudiments of grammar, that is, upon the inflection of the articles, of such nouns as belong to the language of every-day life, of adjectives, pronouns, weak verbs and the more usual strong verbs; also upon the use of the more common prepositions, the simpler uses of the modal auxiliaries, and the elementary rules of syntax and word -order.
Page 382 - That there be granted to the several States, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, an amount of public land, to be apportioned to each State a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each Senator and Representative in Congress to which the States are respectively entitled by the apportionment under the census of eighteen hundred and sixty: Provided, That no mineral lands shall be selected or purchased under the provisions of this act.
Page 456 - If we could push ajar the gates of life, And stand within, and all God's workings see, We could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to-day. Then be content, poor heart ! God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold ; We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart ; Time will reveal the calyxes of gold.
Page 241 - Einer muss heiraten. It is recommended, however, that not more than one of these plays be read. The narrative style should predominate.. A good selection of reading matter for the second year would be Andersen's Marchen, or Bilderbuch, or Leander's Traumereien, to the extent of say forty pages.
Page 454 - Also, that to him, more than to any other man, is due the credit of having perfected the method (method of comparison) by the use of which alone biological science has advanced so rapidly in modern times.
Page 241 - THE INSTRUCTION. At the end of the intermediate course the pupil should be able to read at sight German prose of ordinary difficulty, whether recent or classical; to put into German a connected passage of simple English, paraphrased from a given text in German; to answer any grammatical questions relating to usual forms and essential principles of the language, including syntax and...