American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 27Office of American Journal of Education, 1877 - Education Vol. 17-24 include the circulars, reports and documents issued by the editor as commissioner of education (vol. 18 is the American year-book and register for 1869; v. 19, Special report on education in the District of Columbia). |
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... institution , and indicating the most prominent means by which it was to be attained . It does not appear that this device was ever engraved , or used ; though it has the merit of being more comprehensive , and more simple , than the ...
... institution , and indicating the most prominent means by which it was to be attained . It does not appear that this device was ever engraved , or used ; though it has the merit of being more comprehensive , and more simple , than the ...
Page 155
... institution of so high a character , and therefore that such an institution was not intended . But till that question is settled , the argument bears with the same force the other way . If the donors , by a gram- mar school ...
... institution of so high a character , and therefore that such an institution was not intended . But till that question is settled , the argument bears with the same force the other way . If the donors , by a gram- mar school ...
Page 195
... institution of schools ( essential though this undoubtedly is ) , but a question of principles and methods- in brief , of philosophy . It is with regret that I find myself constrained by want of time to make here only a passing allusion ...
... institution of schools ( essential though this undoubtedly is ) , but a question of principles and methods- in brief , of philosophy . It is with regret that I find myself constrained by want of time to make here only a passing allusion ...
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... institution of this Chair , by providing professional instruc- tion for teachers , not only directly benefits the schools of the country , but it increases the importance of the teaching body . It gives it an aca- demic standing . It ...
... institution of this Chair , by providing professional instruc- tion for teachers , not only directly benefits the schools of the country , but it increases the importance of the teaching body . It gives it an aca- demic standing . It ...
Page 254
... institution for teaching , on the largest scale , all the branches of the sciences of experi- ment and observation ... institutions of the same kind , in the more highly scientific character of its teaching , both experimental and ...
... institution for teaching , on the largest scale , all the branches of the sciences of experi- ment and observation ... institutions of the same kind , in the more highly scientific character of its teaching , both experimental and ...
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Page 526 - ... all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion...
Page 523 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 64 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people...
Page 524 - ... and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And, for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. The foregoing Declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and signed by the following members...
Page 408 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 429 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 598 - I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever; but, as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce.
Page 460 - In happy climes where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of art by nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true: In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where nature guides and virtue rules, 10 Where men shall not impose for truth and sense The pedantry of courts and schools...
Page 193 - JMD MEIKLEJOHN, MA, Professor of the Theory, History, and Practice of Education in the University of St Andrews. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
Page 601 - My desire is, that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.