Word: childe
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...divided into three grades - primary, intermediate and collegiate. The baccalaureate degree is usually reached at the age of eighteen, and then follows special instruction for any profession. The daily routine is prescribed by the government and the students are always under the supervision of the instructors. In Germany every child is compelled by law to be instructed by some one appointed and certified by the government. A primary school is established in each parish, in which the instruction is of the most elementary character. Next comes the realschule for commercial, and the gymnasium for more classical education. Certain lines...
...MONDAY.English Readings. Chaucer's Clerk's Tale. Prof. Child. Sever...
...Prof. Child has spent twenty-five years on his collection of Scotch and English ballads which is now being published. Queen Victoria is the first English subscriber to the work...
...with tales of imaginary woe or visions of enjoyment which the donation of a "quarter" or "half" will give. The ingenious devices resorted to are worthy of admiration. At one time an extra dollar is needed to pay the month's rent; again, a pitiful story of a dying child is used to work upon our sympathies. Furthermore, he can suit his conversation to the tastes of his auditors. On Washington's Birthday and Decoration Day he sympathizes with us and bewails the cruelty of the faculty in not giving us a holiday, at the same time hinting that...
...Prof. Child will begin a course of readings on Monday evening, March 12, at Sever...