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Aberdeen Aberdeen Burgh Academy ANNUAL GRANT Argyll arithmetic Article average attendance Banff Bank of Scotland Berwick bursaries Calder candidates cent Church of Scotland class subjects Code committee County district Dover House Dumbarton Dumfries Dundee East Calder Edinburgh Edinburgh City Education in Scotland Education Scotland elementary Elgin ended 31st March English Female Fife Forfar Free Church French Geography Glasgow Grammar Greenock Haddington higher class schools higher grade inspection Inspector instruction Inverness Kincardine Kirkcudbright Lanark Landward Latin leaving certificate Linlithgow lower grade managers Mathematics ment merit certificate needlework Number of Scholars Orkney papers Parish or Burgh passed Peebles Per-centage Perth Popu Postal Address presented Public School pupil-teachers pupils Queen's Scholarship Renfrew Roman Catholic Ross Roxburgh School Board Scotch Education Department secondary departments secondary education specific subjects Stage Standard State-aided schools Stirling Street taught teaching tion Total training college Wigtown دو
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Page 183 - Tis easy to resign a toilsome place, But not to manage leisure with a grace ; Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
Page 205 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 186 - O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handiwork of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! — We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking...
Page 186 - The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry : and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more...
Page 54 - The time or times during which any religious observance is practised or instruction in religious subjects is given at any meeting of the school shall be either at the beginning or at the end or at the beginning and the end of such meeting...
Page 79 - Have, as a rule, been employed continuously since the 9th of May 1862, as principal or assistant teacher in elementary schools, or in training colleges.
Page 119 - Teachers cannot act as managers of, or correspondents for, the schools in which they are employed...
Page 223 - Similar polygons may be divided into the same number Of similar triangles, having the same ratio to one another that the polygons have; and the polygons are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
Page 84 - Scrofula, fits, asthma, deafness, great imperfections of the sight or voice, the loss of an eye from constitutional disease, or the loss of an arm or leg, or the permanent disability of either arm or leg, curvature of the spine, hereditary tendency to insanity, or any constitutional infirmity of a disabling nature, is a positive disqualification in candidates for the office of pupilteacher.
Page 125 - ... notice) for failure on the part of the managers to remedy any such defect in the premises as seriously interferes with the efficiency of the school, or to provide proper furniture, books, maps, and other apparatus of elementary instruction.