Word: alphabets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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McAdam (Graham). An Alphabet in Finance...
Daniel Webster was taught the letters of the alphabet by his mother and it is said that, when he had attained his tenth year she prophecied that he would become eminent. The first school house Webster ever entered was built of logs, and his first teacher was William Hoyt. The first time that the great statesman ever saw the Constitution of the United States, it was printed upon a cotton handkerchief, according to a fashion of the time, which he chanced to stumble upon in a country store. The evening of the day on which he thus obtained a copy...
...edition of Cook's Otto's German Grammar has appeared, with various corrections, and the German writing alphabet inserted before the chapter on pronunciation. Prof. Wn. Cook is the editor...
...seldom correct. They are a test of his verbal memory and physical endurance. So wide is the range of study required now even in primary schools that nothing more can be done by the pupil than to commit the text-books to memory; to learn as it were the alphabet, the dictionary, of each science, in the vain hope that in after life he may learn to comprehend it, to speak the language. Without entering upon the vexed question of the higher education for women, we may illustrate our meaning by the schedule of studies offered the other...
...Such a system as the new one proposed for admission requirements," says an exchange, "would let a man graduate at Harvard without ever parsing mensa or looking at a Greek alphabet; a consummation that President Eliot is known to have long devoutly wished...